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Changes to the Board

3rd May 2013 07:00

RNS Number : 9233D
Sepura PLC
03 May 2013
 



Sepura PLC

 

 

("Sepura", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

 

Changes to the Board

 

 

Sepura, a global leader in the design, development and supply of TETRA digital communications solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment, subject to shareholder approval, of Nigel Smith and Gordon Stuart as independent Non-Executive Directors with effect from the Company's forthcoming Annual General Meeting. Resolutions for their appointments will be put to shareholders at the Annual General Meeting which is scheduled to be held on 22 July 2013.

 

Nigel Smith is a highly experienced executive with deep technology sector expertise. He is currently Chairman of Spikes Cavell, a data analytics business focused on the public sector in the UK and USA. Prior to that, he was in HM Treasury as Permanent Secretary, Board Member and Chief Executive of the Office of Government Commerce, an independent office of HM Treasury, responsible for Government Procurement, Major Projects and the central Property Estate. He is still actively involved with government as an adviser, serving on the Cabinet Office Major Projects Review Group. His previous experience includes senior board roles at major industrial and engineering businesses, including Invensys plc, Charter Group plc and TI Group plc. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Sellafield Ltd, the nuclear decommissioning and processing site managed by Nuclear Management Partners Amec, URS and Areva on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

 

Gordon Stuart will bring his detailed understanding of quoted technology businesses to Sepura's Board. He is currently Chief Financial Officer of TMF Group, a leading global provider of high value outsourced business services. Previously, following six years at McKinsey & Co, he held senior positions with a number of highly successful UK listed businesses, serving as Group Finance Director of London Bridge Software plc and thereafter Xansa plc. He then became Chief Financial Officer of recruitment process outsourcing firm, Alexander Mann Solutions. He also served as a Non-Executive Director of Intec Telecom Systems PLC.

 

The Company also announces that, contemporaneously, independent Non-Executive Directors Tony Illsley and David Tilston will be retiring from the Board at the Annual General Meeting, having each served two consecutive three year terms in those roles.

 

John Hughes, Chairman of Sepura, said: "We are greatly appreciative to Tony and David for their substantial and valuable contributions and service to Sepura over the past six years, in their roles both as Directors and as Chairmen of our Remuneration and Audit Committees respectively. We extend to them every good wish for the future. I am delighted that Nigel and Gordon have agreed to join the Board of the Company. Their complementary knowledge and expertise will be of enormous value to Sepura, helping us continue our growth strategy."

 

The Company confirms that there is no further information required to be disclosed pursuant to the United Kingdom Listing Authority Listing Rule 9.6.13 R.

 

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For further information please contact:

 

Sepura plc

Gordon Watling, Chief Executive Officer

Steve Chamberlain, Chief Financial Officer

Peter Connor, Investor Relations

 

+44 (0) 12 2387 6000

Pelham Bell Pottinger

Olly Scott

Charles Goodwin

 

+44 (0) 20 7861 3232

 

 

Notes to Editors

 

About Sepura

 

Sepura is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) products and systems developed specifically for critical communications applications. The Group's customers span the emergency services, transport, utilities, extractive industries and other commercial sectors. Sepura is also a market leader in the supply of surveillance and other specialist TETRA radios and accessories.

 

The Company offers one of the broadest ranges of TETRA products available and is often first to deliver innovative products and features to its markets. The recent acquisition of specialist TETRA infrastructure systems supplier, 3T, enhances Sepura's capability through the addition of powerful and easy-to-deploy systems.

 

Founded in the UK in 2002, Sepura has expanded rapidly across the world and is now a market leader in over 30 countries, with a network of regional partners that sell, and provide local support for, its market-leading products.

 

Based in Cambridge, England and with over 300 employees, Sepura was admitted to the Official List of the London Stock Exchange on 3 August 2007.

 

www.sepura.com

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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