Board of Directors and Officers

Sir David Brown, FREng CEng, Chairman

Sir David Brown was appointed to the Board of DRS as a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman in August 2008.  He graduated in electrical engineering in 1972 and worked for Motorola from 1991 to 2008 first as Director of UK Operations and later as Chairman of the UK Company. He is currently senior independent director of Ceres Power Holdings plc and a non-executive director of Domino Printing Sciences plc. Sir David is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute.  He was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, President of the Chartered Quality Institute, President of the Federation of the Electronics Industry and President of the Association for Science Education. He was knighted in 2001 for services to British Industry.

Tony Lee, BSc, MPhil, Chief Executive Officer

Tony Lee joined the company in March 1997 as Technical Director, having previously been European Technical Director for Dolch Computer Systems.   He has worked in the electronics and computer industry for more than twenty five years.   In the late 1980s he was Head of Research and Development for Epson and was involved in a number of international projects developing printing, communications, image scanning and recognition technologies.   He was appointed to the Board in September 1997 and appointed CEO in March 2001.

Mark Tebbutt, ACMA, Finance Director

Mark Tebbutt qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1984.  He gained a broad operational knowledge of financial management with Bass and Grand Met before joining Misys as the Financial Director for two of the subsidiaries.  Thereafter, he held an operational role for six years in Stanley Works and joined DRS in 2001 as head of finance.  Mark was appointed Finance Director in March 2002 and Company Secretary in March 2003.

Chris Batterham, FCA, MA, Senior Independent non-Executive Director

Chris Batterham was appointed as a non-Executive Director in September 2005.  Chris qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen.  He was Finance Director of Unipalm plc, the first internet company to IPO and stayed with the company for five years following its takeover by UUnet.  More recently, he was CFO of Searchspace Group until 2005 and is currently a Non-Executive Director of SDL plc, The Risk Advisory Group Ltd, Iomart plc and The Sporting Exchange Group Limited (Betfair).  He has also served on the Boards of Staffware plc, DBS Management plc and The Invesco Techmark Enterprise Trust plc.  Chris brings a wealth of experience in the strategic development of companies within the IT sector.

Ann Limb, PhD, MA, non-Executive Director

Ann Limb was appointed to the Board of DRS as a non-Executive Director in March 2003.  A modern linguist and teacher by profession, she worked extensively in further education for 25 years spending over half her career as Principal and Chief Executive, firstly at Milton Keynes College and then Cambridge Regional College.  Between 2001 and 2004, Ann was Group Chief Executive of the University for Industry, the government’s national e-learning and e-services flagship responsible for the operation of Learndirect and UK On-line.  Ann currently works as an educational advisor to government and serves on boards of a number of other companies, charities and public bodies.  She is founder and Chair of the Helena Kennedy Foundation for social justice.

Rt. Hon. Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty, non-Executive Director

Neil Kinnock was appointed as a non-Executive Director of DRS in March 2005.  An Industrial Relations and History Graduate, he taught industrial and trade union studies before being elected Member of Parliament for Bedwellty and Islwyn in 1970.  In 1979 he was appointed Labour’s Chief Opposition Spokesperson on Education and was elected Leader of the Labour Party in 1983, a position he held until 1992.  He was appointed to the European Commission in 1995, with the Transport portfolio to 1999 and then as Vice President 1999-2004.  He was appointed to the Peerage in January 2005 and has been Chairman of the British Council since 2004.

Sally Hopwood, BSc, Company Secretary

After studying economics and history at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sally retrained as a solicitor qualifying in 1990. She joined Argos as Company Solicitor in 1992 and since leaving Argos in 1998, has held various corporate and commercial legal roles, working both in private practice and in-house in the banking and retailing sectors. She joined DRS in 2005 as Legal and Contracts Manager and was appointed Company Secretary of the UK subsidiary companies in 2006 and Company Secretary for DRS Group in December 2007.