Clay was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman in October 2005. Prior to his retirement in May 2001, he was Executive Deputy Chairman of CMG (now part of LogicaCMG), having joined the board when it acquired Admiral plc, the software services company he co-founded in 1979.
Clay is also Non-Executive Chairman of Echo Research Limited and Close Beacon Investment Fund. He is a trustee of Economist Newspapers Limited and the Foundation for Liver Research and Director of The Test and Itchen Association Limited. Clay's other Non-Executive Directorships are British Telecommunications plc and Herald Investment
Trust plc.
Christopher joined the Board in February 2003 as Group Finance Director and was appointed Chief Executive of the Company on 31 December 2008. He has held senior positions in finance at Conoco, Eurotherm International plc and Critchley Group plc.
On 2 November 2009, Richard Amos was appointed as Group Finance Director.
Previously, Richard held the position of Group Finance Director with Agilisys Holdings Limited, a private company specialising in IT outsourcing and services and prior to that, he was Group Finance Director at Retail Decisions PLC and Vega Group PLC.
Richard is a graduate of Cambridge University in Management Studies and Engineering and he qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young in 1990.
David joined the Board on 23 August 2004. Following a career in the investment banking industry David has been acting as a Non-Executive Director for a variety of public and private companies. These include Imagination Technologies Group plc, and FfastFill plc.
David is a Fellow of the Securities Institute.
Nigel joined the Board on 1 April 2009. He has wide experience across a number of sectors, including the wireless telecoms and OSS software sectors. Since June 2005, he has held the position of Chief Executive at Symbian Limited, which became wholly owned by Nokia in 2008.
Prior to joining Symbian, Nigel was Chief Executive of Tertio Telecoms Limited, a software product and services company and formerly held the position of Senior Vice President, Service Delivery with international telecommunications company
Cable & Wireless.
On 5 October 2009 Paul Taylor was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and he became Chairman of the Audit Committee in December 2009.
From March 2001 to date, Paul has held the position of Group Finance Director with AVEVA Group plc, the world's leading engineering IT software provider to the plant, power and marine industries where he has gained considerable experience of the demands of a growing global software business. Paul is a Fellow member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.
