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 and became Chairman in May 2009. 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 Motorola Limited. He is currently senior independent Director of Ceres Power Holdings plc, a non-Executive Director of Domino Printing Sciences plc and a non-Executive Director of BSI. Sir David is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute and a Companion of the Chartered Management 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 thirty 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 Chief Executive Officer 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 its 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alison Reed, non-Executive Director

Alison Reed was appointed to the Board of DRS as non-Executive Director on 1st January 2011. Alison was appointed the Company's senior independent director on 25th May 2011. Previous experience includes 21 years with Marks and Spencer plc, ultimately as Chief Financial Officer; Chief Financial officer of Standard Life plc with responsibility for the flotation and  non-executive director of HSBC Bank plc.  Alison is a non-executive director of British Airways Plc and The Movement of Non-Mobile Children (Whizz Kidz).

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Limb, PhD, MA, non-Executive Director

Ann Limb was appointed to the Board of DRS as a non-Executive Director in May 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 is currently Chair of the Homes and Communities Milton Keynes Partnership Board and the Legal Deposit Advisory Committee within the Department of Culture Media and Sport. She is a non-Executive Director of Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and advises a number of 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

Lord 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 was Chairman of the British Council from 2004 to 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 in both 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 the DRS Group in December 2007.