QinetiQ Appoints non-executive directors

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(2002), "QinetiQ Appoints non-executive directors", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 74 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2002.12774aab.051

QinetiQ Appoints non-executive directors

Keyword: QinetiQ

QinetiQ, formerly the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), has announced the appointment of four new non-executive directors to the QinetiQ plc Board.

Clay Brendish has been in the computer systems environment and high technology industry for over 30 years. In May 2001 he retired as deputy chairman of CMG plc and was previously executive chairman of Admiral plc, a leading IT company. He co-founded Admiral in 1979, which became a major company in providing computer solutions for business. Admiral merged with CMG in June 2000. Between 1993 and July 2000 Clay was an advisor to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Services, on their Next Steps agencies. He is a member of the Open University Business School's Industrial and Professional Advisory Committee where, in August 2001, he took up an appointment as a member of the Open University Council.

Jack Fryer completed a postgraduate degree in nuclear physics at Birmingham University before spending his early career at Rolls- Royce where he worked on the design of nuclear reactors for submarine propulsion. In a ten year career with Rank Xerox, he rose through the ranks to become director of engineering and, in 1983, chief engineer. He joined Lucas Industries in 1986 and undertook technology, marketing and latterly strategic planning roles, culminating in the merger with Varity in 1996, when he moved to GEC, to take responsibility for strategic planning, technology and IT.

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones has worked extensively in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her previous roles have included deputy under secretary in the Cabinet Office and chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, acting as adviser to the Prime Minister on all foreign, defence and intelligence issues. She has also gained considerable experience in the private sector, working as managing director and head of Global Business Strategy in NatWest Marketing and, most recently, as executive vice-chairman of the corporate advisory house Hawkpoint Partners Limited. Dame Pauline is currently a BBC Governor, with special responsibility for the World Service and a member of the Development Committee of the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

Jon Symonds was a partner with KPMG, leading its chemical and pharmaceutical industry practice in the UK before joining Zeneca as finance director in 1997. When the company merged with Astra of Sweden in April 1999 he became an executive director and chief financial officer. AstraZeneca is a global life science group. Jon is responsible for all aspects of finance, including financial strategy and corporate finance, and also the global information services and investor relations for AstroZeneca, which is acknowledged as one of the top five pharmaceutical companies in the world. The new appointees will join existing board members: Sir John Egan (chairman), Sir John Chisholm (CEO), Graham Love (CFO) and Liz Peace (corporate affairs director). Terence Jagger and Colin Balmer will sit on the Board as MOD observers.

John Braddell has been appointed as the new managing director of QinetiQ Estates Ltd, a division of QinetiQ plc. His most recent role has been as managing director of Amey Comax, provider of a wide range of integrated support services. John has also worked at senior management level in a number of blue chip organisations, including Unilever, BET, HSBC and McKinsey and Co, Management Consultants.