1 Donald Brydon, CBE

Chairman #†

Aged 65. British. Donald Brydon was appointed to the Board in April 2004, becoming Chairman in September 2004. He is Chairman of Royal Mail Holdings plc. He had a 20-year career with Barclays Group, during which time he was Chairman and Chief Executive of BZW Investment Management, followed by 10 years with the AXA Group. He was also formerly Chairman of the London Metal Exchange and of Amersham plc, and a director of Allied Domecq plc and Scottish Power plc. He is Chairman of the David Rattray Memorial Trust (UK).

Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

2 Philip Bowman

Chief Executive

Aged 57. Australian. Philip Bowman was appointed Chief Executive in December 2007. He previously held the positions of Chief Executive at Scottish Power from early 2006 until mid 2007 and Chief Executive at Allied Domecq between 1999 and 2005. He is currently the senior independent director of Burberry Group plc. Past board appointments include British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, Scottish & Newcastle Group plc and Coles Myer Limited as well as Chairman of Liberty plc and Coral Eurobet plc. His earlier career includes five years as a director of Bass plc (now Mitchells & Butler plc and Intercontinental Hotel Group plc), where he held the roles of Chief Financial Officer and subsequently Chief Executive of Bass Taverns.

3 Peter Turner

Finance Director

Aged 40. British. Peter Turner was appointed an executive director of the Board in April 2010 and, after a brief handover period, become Finance Director in June 2010. He was Finance Director of Venture Production plc from 2007 until its acquisition by Centrica plc in 2009. He spent the previous 11 years at the BOC Group plc where he held a number of senior finance posts including Director of Taxation and Treasury, and Finance Director of the group’s largest division. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant whilst working for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

4 David Challen, CBE

Non-executive director *#†

Aged 67. British. David Challen was appointed to the Board in September 2004. He is Vice-Chairman of Citigroup European Investment Bank and former Chairman of J Henry Schroder & Co Ltd. He is senior independent director at Anglo American plc. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Takeover Panel.

Chairman of the Audit Committee
Senior Independent Director.

5 Stuart Chambers

Non-executive director *#†

Aged 54. British. Stuart Chambers was appointed to the Board in November 2006. He was formerly Chief Executive of Pilkington plc and then Group Chief Executive of Nippon Sheet Glass until September 2009. Prior to joining Pilkington plc in 1996, he spent ten years at Mars Corporation, latterly as Vice President, Sales & Marketing – Mars Electronics International. A chemical engineer by training, he previously spent ten years at Shell in a variety of European roles.  He is a non-executive director of Tesco plc and of Manchester Airport Group plc.

Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

6 Anne Quinn, CBE

Non-executive director *#†

Aged 59. New Zealander. Anne Quinn was appointed to the Board as a non-executive director in August 2009. She worked for BP in the UK, USA, Belgium and Colombia and held a number of positions, including Group Vice President of Gas and Natural Gas Liquids. She has also been a managing director of the energy private equity group, Riverstone LLP. She was a non-executive director of BOC and is currently a non-executive director of Mondi plc. She also serves on the President's Advisory Committee to the Sloan School, MIT.

7 Sir Kevin Tebbit, KCB, CMG

Non-executive director *#†

Aged 63. British. Sir Kevin Tebbit was appointed to the Board in June 2006. He served widely in policy, management and finance posts in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, NATO and finally the Ministry of Defence, where he was Permanent Under-Secretary of State from July 1998 to his retirement in November 2005. He is Chairman of Finmeccanica UK and Chairman of the Defence Advisory Group to the UKTI Defence and Security Organisation. He is also Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London.

8 Bruno Angelici

Non-executive director *#†

Aged 63. French. Bruno Angelici was appointed to the Board as a non-executive director in July 2010. He pursued a 20-year career with AstraZeneca plc before retiring in 2009 as Executive Vice President, International, after holding responsibility for its national operations in France and then in Japan. Prior to this he held a number of senior management roles during a decade at Baxter. He currently sits on the Supervisory Board of Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch-based information services and publishing company, and is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Reims Management School.