Dr Paul Golby
Chairman, Chairman of Nomination Committee
Paul Golby was appointed Non-Executive Chairman to the Board of AEA Technology plc on 24 September 2009. Paul joined the Board in August 2003 is a member of the Audit Committee and is Chairman of the Nomination Committee. He has been, since 2002, Chief Executive of E.ON UK plc, one of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers, which he joined in 1998. He is an Executive Committee member of E.ON AG, its parent company. After training as a mechanical engineer, he had a series of management appointments with Dunlop and BTR before becoming an Executive Director of Clayhithe plc. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Energy Institute.
Andrew McCree
CEO
Andrew McCree was appointed CEO in April 2005. He was first appointed to the Board in November 2000 as Director for Corporate Affairs and Human Resources, and subsequently Group Managing Director. He has held a number of senior posts in AEA and before that in UKAEA, which he joined in 1991. His earlier career was with BP Exploration.
Alice Cummings
CFO
Alice Cummings was appointed to the Board as CFO in October 2006 having previously been Deputy Group Finance Director. She also has responsibility for legacies and risk management. She has held a number of senior posts in AEA since joining in 1995 including Finance Director Environment, Deputy Managing Director and Chief Accountant. Her previous career was with South West Water plc after having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse.
Mike Nigro
COO and President of US Operations
Mike Nigro was appointed to the Board on completion of the acquisition of PPC in August 2008 where he had served as Chief Executive Officer. Mike has 25 years of experience building and managing environmental consulting firms working in the Federal, commercial and international markets. He commenced his career with Planning Research Corporation of which he became president prior to it being acquired by Tetratech where he became Executive Vice President responsible for the management and operation of the company’s global Resource Management Group.
Gwen Ventris
COO Europe
Gwen Ventris was appointed COO Europe in May 2009 having been first appointed to the Board as Group Director, Enterprise Development in October 2008. Gwen has 25 years experience in the field of business transformation; specialising in performance driven change, human capital management and organisation learning, with significant international experience having worked in Europe, Asia and the US. Gwen was one of a small executive team working with Sprint Nextel in the US to set up Sprint Enterprise Mobility and before this was a founding director and senior executive on the board of Syntegra, BT Group’s highly successful global consulting and systems integration business, which she helped build into a globally operating enterprise. Prior to joining BT, Gwen spent several years in IT consultancy, commencing her career with the American multinational, Texas Instruments.
Rodney Westhead
Chairman of Audit Committee, Chairman of Remuneration Committe, Senior Independent Director
Rodney Westhead, Non-Executive Director, was initially appointed to the Board in August 2003. He chairs the Audit Committee, the Remuneration Committee, is the Senior Independent Director and is a member of the Nomination Committee. From 1996 until his retirement in 2005, he was Chief Executive of Ricardo plc, a leading automotive engineering consulting company. He is the Senior Independent Director of Mouchel Group plc, a former Chairman of Carter and Carter (in administration), Chairman of Clean Air Power and a Director of Transense Technologies plc. An accountant by profession, he was a partner with Grant Thornton, including Managing Partner of their London office, before moving to Ricardo plc in 1992 as the Group Finance Director.
Lord Lewis Moonie stood down from the Board in July 2009. Dr Bernard Bulkin and Dr Leslie Atkinson stood down in September 2009.