Peter Haslehurst

Non-Executive Chairman

Peter was appointed Chairman on 31st March 2006. He had been a non-executive special director of the Company since June 2003.

A Chartered Engineer, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the RSA and also the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, where he is a past vice president, Peter has been a managing director/chief executive and chairman in international manufacturing industry for over 40 years.

From 1969 to 1981 he was managing director of Wellman Mechanical Engineering Ltd., the metallurgical plant makers, from 1981 to 1999 he was chief executive, then chairman in 1985, of Flexibox International Ltd., from 1985 to 1999 he was chief executive and deputy chairman of the EIS Group PLC, building a group of 100 companies in 30 countries involved in aircraft and defence equipment and fluid technology products, achieving 14 years of uninterrupted record profits.

He was chairman of the Brunner Mond Group from 2000 to 2008, stepping down an agreed two years after the company was sold, tripling shareholder value, in 2006. From 2003 to 2009 he was chairman of Imago at Loughborough Ltd., He is a non-executive director of ECGD, chairman and Vice Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club Ltd. since 2008 and was appointed president emeritus of VAI Industries (UK), following chairmanship of VA Tech (UK) from 1999 to 2002.

He is chairman of the Leonard Cheshire Hill House appeal fund. He was made Eisenhower Fellow from Britain in 1980, an honorary Doctor of Science at Loughborough University in 2008 and is a Freeman of the City of London.

He is chairman of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.

Peter is 69 years old.