BSI Board

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Sir David John KCMG, Chairman

Elected Chairman in July 2002 after joining the BSI Board in May 2002 as a Non-executive Director. He is currently Chairman of Premier Oil plc and past Chairman of BOC group and Balfour Beatty plc.

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Howard Kerr, Chief Executive

Appointed Chief Executive of BSI Group in November 2008, Howard previously held key positions at SHV Holdings N.V. and Inchcape Plc. These included CEO, Calor Group Ltd, UK as well as senior commercial and general management positions in Asia and Middle East.  Most recently, he was a member of the Management Board of SHV Gas in The Netherlands.

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Martin Hannah FCCA, Group Finance Director

A Chartered Certified Accountant with a degree from King’s College London and joining BSI in 2007, Martin has extensive experience in both the manufacturing and service sectors, and has held senior management positions with Powergen, ESAB and El Paso.

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Mike Low, Director, Standards

Before joining BSI in 2003, Mike was Director of Group Strategy & Performance at Amey plc; Director of Health Safety & Environment and Technical & Business Development Director for Nuclear Electric and MD of British Energy's UK Generation, where he was also a Main Board Director.

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Dr Norman Price OBE, Non-executive Director

Joining the BSI Board on 1 June 2004, Norman is Chairman of Ecologic and Director of Bede Plc and Mercia Fund Management. He is also Deputy Chair of the West Midlands Regional Development Agency, Chair of the West Midlands Enterprise Board and Finance Forum, a senior industrial adviser to the DTI  and a Vice President of the EEF.

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Michael French FCA, Non-executive Director

Michael joined the BSI Board on 1 January 2005. An Asia specialist who worked for several years in Japan, he is an engineer by training and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He forged a distinguished career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, for whom he became a Partner in 1980.

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John Regazzi PhD, Non-executive Director

John joined the BSI Board in June 2006. He is former MD of Market Development at Elsevier; CEO of Elsevier Inc, and global MD of Elsevier Electronic Publishing.  He was President and CEO of Engineering Information Inc and is also a member of faculty at the College of Information and Computer Science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

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Anthony Lea, Non-executive Director

Joining the BSI Board on 1 July 2007, Anthony is Chairman of Blackrock World Mining Trust PLC and Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund.  He is also a Non-Executive Director at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and a Trustee of The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.  He has extensive international operational experience in the UK, South Africa and North America and was Finance Director with Anglo American plc at his retirement in 2005. 

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Dr Tom Gorrie, Non-executive Director

Tom joined the BSI Board on 1 September 2009.  He has extensive medical device expertise having held senior international management positions at Johnson & Johnson during his 35 years at the corporation. Most recently he served as Corporate Vice Chairman, Government Affairs and Policy until 2008.  He is currently Board Trustee to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Trustee of Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

 

Secretary

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Tony Wales
Interim Director of Legal Affairs and
Company Secretary

Tony joined BSI as Interim Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary in January 2010 bringing with him extensive international experience.  He was previously SVP and General Counsel of AOL International and prior to this he was General Counsel and Company Secretary at the Economist Group. Tony has an MA Jurisprudence from Oxford University.

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