Board
David Parker, Chief Executive Officer |
Dr Parker joined the Group in 2002 and has been the Chief Executive Officer since this time.
He is the former president and chief executive officer of Marconi Optical Components ("MOC"). Under his leadership, MOC was sold to Bookham Technology in February 2002.
Prior to this, Dr Parker was vice president general manager of Agilent Technologies’ Ipswich components operation and a corporate vice president of Agilent. During his tenure, this business unit became the market leader in the supply of high performance networking components.
In previous roles, Dr Parker has gained experience in manufacturing and research and development and business development.
Dr Parker serves as a non-executive director on the board of Zinwave, Inc. and was formerly a member of the supervisory board of Xignal Technologies AG.
He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1997. Dr Parker has a Ph.D from Imperial College, University of London and a BSc from the University of Leeds.
David Holloway, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary |
David Holloway joined the Group as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary, on 29th September 2007. Prior to joining the Group his career includes senior finance positions in multi-national, manufacturing and engineering businesses, including IMI Plc, Williams Holdings Plc and BF Goodrich Inc.
At IMI Plc, he was Divisional Finance Director of the £350M turnover Polypipe Group of companies, which was successfully sold to a private equity buyer and included a subsequent £200M high yield bond fund-raising for the acquirer.
His experience encompasses technology based businesses, serving aero-space, defence and industrial sectors, together with a £20M turnover, FMCG manufacturing business, experiencing rapid expansion and which was successfully exited via trade sale.
He has also held the position of Finance Director of two fully listed Plc’s, operating in the engineering and IT sectors.
David is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, having qualified with PwC, and is a graduate, BSc ( Econ), from the University of Wales, Swansea.
Peter Bokelmann, Non-Executive Director |
Steffen Scholz, Non-Executive Director |
Dr. Lars Gruenert, Non-Executive Director |
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