Aged 66. British. BSc in Mathematical Science. 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.

Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

Aged 58. Australian. MA in Natural Sciences. 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.

Aged 41. British. BA in Natural Science - Chemistry. 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 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.

Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

Aged 68. British. BA in Mathematics; BSc in Natural Science (Physics) and MBA (Harvard). David Challen was appointed to the Board in September 2004. He is Chairman of the EMEA Governance Committee at Citi and former Chairman of J Henry Schroder & Co Ltd. He is Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Anglo American plc. He is also a Deputy Chairman of the Takeover Panel.

Chairman of the Audit Committee
Senior Independent Director.

Aged 55. British. Qualified chemical engineer, PhD in Business and BSc in Applied Physics. Stuart Chambers was appointed to the Board in November 2006. He was Group Chief Executive of Nippon Sheet Glass until September 2009 after having been Chief Executive of Pilkington plc for several years. Prior to joining Pilkington plc in 1996, he spent 10 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 Airports Group plc.

Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Aged 60. New Zealander. BCom and MSc in Management Science. 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.

Aged 64. British. BA in History. Sir Kevin Tebbit was appointed to the Board in June 2006. He served widely in policy, management and finance posts in the MoD, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and NATO before becoming Director of GCHQ and finally Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence from July 1998 to November 2005. He is Chairman of Finmeccanica UK and Chairman of the Industry Advisory Group to the UKTI Defence and Security Organisation. He is also Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London and a member of the Advisory Board of the Imperial College Institute for Security Science and Technology.

Aged 64. French. MBA (Kellogg School of Management) and Business and Law degrees from Reims. Bruno Angelici was appointed to the Board 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 operations in France and Japan. Prior to this he held a number of senior management roles during a decade at Baxter, a US-based global supplier of medical devices. He currently sits on the Supervisory Board of Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch-based information services and publishing company, and on the Global Advisory Board of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, based in Japan. He is a non-executive director of Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish healthcare company. He was received into the Legion d’honneur in December 2009.