Board of Directors

The Board's main roles are to create value for shareholders, to lead the Group, to approve the Group's strategic objectives, and to ensure that the appropriate financial and other resources, as required, are made available to enable the Group to meet set objectives. All Directors have a wide range of experience and skills, bringing independent judgment to bear on issues of strategy, performance, resources, and standards of conduct.

• Vanni Treves
   Chairman

  Appointed to the Board as Chairman in May 2002. He is a corporate lawyer and was a Partner of a major London firm of Solicitors, Macfarlanes, for 30 years, (during twelve of which he was Senior Partner). He has been Chairman of three listed companies, Channel Four Television and London Business School and, until recently, of Equitable Life Assurance Society. He is currently Chairman of the National College for Leadership and of Korn Ferry/Whitehead Mann, a Director of Amplifon S.p.A. (an Italian public company) and a Trustee of the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust.

  
  

• Wolfhart Hauser
  Chief Executive Officer

  Appointed to the Board as Chief Executive Officer in March 2005 after serving as a Non-Executive Director since November 2002. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of TÜV Product Services for 10 years and Chief Executive Officer and President of TÜV Süddeutschland AG from 1998 to 2002. Starting his career as a scientist in pharmacology and ergonomics, he established and led a broad range of successful international service industry businesses over 25 years. He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of Logica plc.

  
  

• Lloyd Pitchford
  Chief Financial Officer

  Appointed to the Board as Chief Financial Officer in April 2010. He had previously spent 11 years with BG Group plc in various operational and corporate finance roles in the UK and Middle East; the last 5 of which were as Group Financial Controller. He started his career with Mobil Oil Corporation, where he held various financial, commercial and management roles in the UK over seven years.

  Lloyd is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an MBA from Herriott Watt University.

   

• Mark Loughead
  Chief Operating Officer

  Appointed to the Board and appointed Chief Operating Officer of Intertek Group plc on 1 January 2008. As COO, he leads the global integration of sales, key account management, global information systems and country-focused activities across the Group. Previously, he was Chief Executive of Intertek’s Oil, Chemical & Agri division. Before this, he was Vice President of the division in the Americas and prior to that, divisional Vice President in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joined the Group in 1988 as Operations Manager in Liverpool and in 1993 he was promoted to Regional Manager for Scotland, based in Aberdeen. Prior to joining Intertek, he spent 13 years at Inspectorate including six years in the Middle East.

  
  

• David Allvey
  Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

  Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in May 2002. With a career that started in civil engineering, as a Chartered Accountant he has held positions in major international businesses including Group Finance Director for BAT Industries and Barclays PLC and Chief Operating Officer for Zurich Financial Services. He is currently Chairman of Costain Group plc and Arena Coventry Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of William Hill plc and Thomas Cook plc, and is a former board member of the UK Accounting Standards Board.

  
  

• Debra Rade
   Non-Executive Director

  Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in January 2006. Between 1989 and 2002, she was an officer of Underwriters Laboratories Inc., a global provider of systems certification, product inspection, testing and certification, and held various positions there, including Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer. Formerly a partner in a large international law firm, she is the managing attorney of Rade Law LLC in Chicago focused on corporate law, and legal issues concerning product testing, safety, certification, standards and regulations. Additionally, she is the chief executive officer of Rade Consulting LLC providing corporate strategic planning services.

  
  

• Christopher Knight
   Non-Executive Director

  Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in March 2006. He was an investment banker for nearly 30 years, for much of that time with Morgan Grenfell and Deutsche Bank, of which he was a managing director until 2001. He is a Chartered Accountant and has extensive corporate finance experience gained during his banking career in London, New York and Hong Kong. He is Chairman of Brooks Macdonald Group plc.

  
  

• Edward Astle
  Non-Executive Director

  Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2009. He is currently Pro-Rector of Commercial Development at Imperial College London where he leads major international business development and project opportunities in the UK and internationally for the University. Edward was Executive Director of National Grid plc from 2001 to 2008, a Managing Director at the BICC Group from 1997 to 1999 and an Executive and Regional Director at Cable & Wireless plc from 1989 to 1997. Previously he held senior business strategy positions in the UK and France.

  
  

• Gavin Darby
  Non-Executive Director

  Appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2009. Until April 2010, he was the Operations & Business Development Director of Vodafone Group Plc for the Asia Pacific and Middle East Region, and prior to that, Chief Executive Officer for Vodafone Affiliates in the USA, Africa, China and India from 2004 to 2008, and CEO of Vodafone UK from 2002 to 2004. Gavin's operational and management experience spans the consumer goods and technology sectors, having also held executive positions at Coca-Cola Co, S.C Johnson & Son Ltd (UK) and Spillers Foods.