The Infonic plc Board.
Responsibilities of the Board of Directors
The Group is controlled and managed by the Board of Directors, which comprises three executive and three non-executive directors. The Non-Executive Chairman, Rob Lowe, is responsible for the running of the Board; Mark Thompson, Chief Executive, is responsible for running the Group's business and implementing the Group's strategy as formulated by the Board. The Board is also responsible for other matters including acquisition policy, approval of major capital expenditures, review of financial and operating performance and delivering shareholder value. Each of the non-executive directors is independent of management and contributes to the functioning of the Board, assuring that no one individual or group dominates the Board's decision making process. The Board has a formal schedule of matters specifically reserved to it and normally meets on a monthly basis.
Robert Lowe
Non-executive ChairmanRobert Lowe brings 33 years of varied business experience to Infonic, with over 20 years directly involved in the IT industry. He is also non-executive director of Delling plc, an AIM quoted company. In the early 1990's Lowe was deputy CEO of Superscape plc and involved in the successful floatation of that company's shares on the London Stock Exchange. He opened the US office of Superscape in Palo Alto, California, and served as president of the North American operation. Prior to Superscape, Lowe was international vice president of Intersolv and Division President at Micro Focus.
Mark Thompson
Chief Executive OfficerThompson has over 20 years business experience mainly in IT related industries and professional practices. Before founding Infonic, Thompson was chief financial officer and founder member of Eyestorm Media, and a senior manager at Getty Images and Accenture. At Accenture Thompson was engagement financial manager for the largest technology change project in the financial services practice at that time, worth some $110 million. Thompson is a lawyer who then trained as an accountant and became involved in corporate finance and taxation with FTSE 100 companies, initially with Coopers & Lybrand and then United Biscuits and Amersham International.
Dan Wajzner
Chief Technology OfficerWajzner has over 17 years' experience in IT, coupled with 8 years' business and technical consulting and project management experience across a broad range of industry sectors for employers including ITIM Associates, Sybase Professional Services and the OASiS Group. He has won and delivered projects at a senior level for clients such as: the House of Commons, Marks and Spencer, Punch Pub Company, Littlewoods Home Shopping, National Lotteries Charities Board, Swiss Bank Corporation, C.E. Health, Hypotheken Bank, Royal London Insurance, Lombard Bank, Continental Can Company, CGUI, Quintus and BT.
Dawson Buck
Non-executive directorBefore joining ANGLE Technology in 2000, Dawson was CEO of Automated Security Holdings plc one of Europe's leading electronic security companies, responsible for turnover of £450m and 3000 employees. He was Founder and CEO of Automatic Loss Prevention Limited (one of the largest CCTV and electronic article surveillance business in Europe), which he led from inception in 1981 to its sale for $252 million in 1992. From 1992 to 1995 he continued as a non-executive director with Automated Security Holdings plc whilst taking up a full time appointment as senior vice president of Sensormatic Electronics Corporation and was responsible for Sensormatic International the European arm of the Sensormatic Electronics Corporation. During that time Sensormatic acquired its largest European competitor Knogo and set up a European manufacturing facility in Ireland. He has formulated, programmed and planned total restructuring of £400M business. He has held positions both in the USA and Europe as an officer and Director of publicly quoted companies.
Matthew Bagley
Chief Financial OfficerPrior to joining Infonic in May 2008, Matthew Bagley was the European Finance Director of IT hardware manufacturer ViewSonic Corporation. At ViewSonic Bagley was responsible for the Financial Management of 14 offices across EMEA generating over $374 million in annual sales. Prior to ViewSonic, Bagley spent nine years at PricewaterhouseCoopers providing a range of financial consultancy services to blue chip companies. For four of those years Bagley worked in the United States. Bagley is a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
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David Ure
Non-executive DirectorDavid Ure has retired from Reuters where he was on the Board of Directors and was responsible for group strategy, marketing and new business development. David worked across all facets of Reuters' operations during his time with the organisation. He was responsible for Reuters' acquisition of Teknekron and the public offering of TIBCO Software, and he led the project resulting in the creation of Radianz, the Reuters/Equant joint venture to develop a financial market extranet. In addition to his role on the Reuters Board, David was Chairman of Radianz and served as a non-executive Director on the Boards of TIBCO Software, WebEx and Woolwich Bank. He is currently Chairman of Iris Financial Solutions, and has recently retired as a non-executive Director of Blackwell Publishing, Independent Television News (ITN) and Neteconomy.
The Infonic Board of Directors delegates specific responsibilities to committees of the members of the board. See the detail of these responsibilities and the composition of these committees.