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Sir David Brown, Chairman
Sir David Brown joined the Board as Non-executive Director in May 2010 and became Chairman in March 2012. He was Chairman of Motorola Ltd from 1997 to 2008 and was also Motorola’s Global Governance Advisor. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, he was President of the Federation of the Electronics Industry and President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was the first President of the Chartered Quality Institute, during which time it secured its Royal Charter status. He is the Chairman of DRS Data & Research Services plc and non-executive director of two other companies. |
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Howard Kerr, Chief Executive
Howard was appointed to the Board in November 2008 and assumed the position of Chief Executive in January 2009. After a period at Associated British Ports his early career was spent in business development roles in the fields of shipping, logistics, and B2B marketing with Inchcape PLC in the UK, Japan, China and the Middle East. Subsequently he joined SHV Holdings NV where he held general management positions in the energy division, including Chief Executive of Calor Group Ltd., UK and Senior Vice President on the International Management Board of SHV Gas in the Netherlands. |
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Craig Smith FCCA, Group Finance Director
Member of the Executive and the Banking and General Purposes Committees
Craig Smith joined the Board as Group Finance Director in August 2011. A Chartered Certified Accountant, he began his career in 1985 with Coats Viyella PLC, undertaking finance roles in Australia, Spain, the UK, Morocco, Hungary and Finland. On his return to the UK in 1997 he was European Finance Director for two large American corporations in the product identification and printing ink industries. Immediately prior to joining BSI he was Group Finance Director of two UK listed companies, Huntleigh Technology PLC from 2003 to 2007 and Management Consulting Group PLC from 2007 onwards. |
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Mike Low, Director, BSI Standards
Mike Low joined the Board as Director, BSI Standards, in November 2003. Prior to this he was Director of Group Strategy and Performance for Amey PLC and Managing Director of Amey Rail. Until 2000 he was Managing Director of British Energy PLC’s
UK Generation division. He has also served as Director of Health, Safety and Environment for Nuclear Electric. He is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Chartered Quality Institute, where he is also on the Board of Trustees. In January
2011 he was appointed Vice President, Policy for CEN, the European Committee for Standardization.
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Keith Clarke, Non-executive Director
Keith Clarke joined the Board as Non-executive Director in December 2010 and was formerly Chief Executive of WS Atkins PLC. A qualified architect, he previously held the roles of Chief Executive of Skanska UK and Chief Executive, Construction at Kvaerner Construction Group and, prior to these, management positions at Trafalgar House and Olympia and York. He has been Chairman of the Construction Industry Council Health and Safety Committee and its Constructing Excellence High Level Steering Group. He is a patron of the Environmental Industries Commission, advisory board member of Imperial College and
Non-executive Director of Forum for the Future and Engineering UK. |
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Dr Tom Gorrie, Non-executive Director
Tom Gorrie joined the Board as Non-executive Director in September 2009. He is a US citizen and resident and held numerous senior international positions at Johnson & Johnson during his 35 years with the corporation. Most recently he served as Corporate Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy and as a Corporate Officer until his retirement in 2008. He is currently a Board Trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Jersey, a Trustee of Duke University, North Carolina, and Chair of their Health System, and an adjunct professor of the Rutgers University Business School, New Jersey. |
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Anthony Lea, Non-executive Director and Senior Independent Director
Anthony Lea joined the Board as Non-executive Director in July 2007 and became Senior Non-executive Director on 21 May 2008. Previously he served as a board member of the Anglo American Group and as Finance Director of Anglo American PLC until his retirement in 2005. He has extensive international operational experience in the UK, South Africa and North America. He is Chairman of Blackrock World Mining Trust PLC and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund. In 2008 he was appointed
Non-executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading and is also a Trustee of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. |
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John Regazzi PhD, Non-executive Director
John joined the Board as a Non-executive Director in July 2006. He is a US citizen and resident, former Managing Director of Market Development at Elsevier, CEO of Elsevier Inc, and Global Managing Director of Elsevier Electronic Publishing. John was President and CEO of Engineering Information Inc and is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the College of Information and Computer Science of Long Island University. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Elsevier Foundation in the USA, Vice President of the Engineering Information Foundation and Chairman of the National Technology Information Service (U.S. Department of Commerce) Board. |
