Board of Directors
Our business is led by our Board of Directors. Biographical and other details of the Directors as at 31 May 2021 are as follows:
Chris Stone Non-Executive Chair
Adam Palser Chief Executive Officer
Tim Kowalski Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Chris Batterham Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
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Appointment to the Board: 6 April 2017 Career experience Chris has held various Non-Executive Director and Chief Executive roles at listed and private equity backed technology companies. He was CEO of Northgate Information Solutions plc from 1999 to 2008, until its sale, and stayed as CEO until 2011. From 2013 to 2016, he was CEO of Radius Worldwide. Chris was also a Non-Executive Director of CSR plc, and Chair of the Remuneration Committee, from 2012 until its sale in 2015. Chris was also Chair of AIM listed CityFibre plc from January 2017 until June 2018, when it was sold to private equity buyers. External appointments Chris is the Chair of Everynet BV, a privately owned Internet of Things infrastructure business, and Chair of AIM listed Idox plc. Chris is also a Non-Executive Director of Rural Broadband Solutions Plc.
Appointment to the Board: 1 December 2017 Career experience Prior to NCC Group, Adam was the CEO of NSL Ltd, the public services provider. He joined NSL in 2015 and led the successful transformation and sale of the business for its private equity owner. Between 2003 and 2013 Adam performed a number of different roles at QinetiQ including taking responsibility of QinetiQ’s cyber, information warfare and professional services businesses. External appointments Adam does not currently have any external appointments. Internal appointments Adam is an Executive sponsor of the Gender resource group.
Appointment to the Board: 23 July 2018 Career experience Tim is an accomplished CFO with significant listed and private company experience. Prior to joining NCC Group, Tim was Group Finance Director of Findel Plc between 2010 and 2017 and prior to that held similar roles with Homestyle Group Plc and N Brown Group Plc. Tim has significant experience of divisional financial management within the hospitality sector. Tim qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and spent his early career there. Tim has a wide breadth of finance expertise obtained from experiencing differing finance roles within organisations and also within a variety of companies, and has been involved in a number of high profile financial turnarounds. External appointments Tim does not currently have any
Appointment to the Board: 1 May 2015 Career experience Chris is a qualified Chartered Accountant, spending his early career with Arthur Andersen, and also has significant experience in senior finance roles across the technology sector. Chris was Finance Director of Unipalm plc (the first internet company to IPO in the UK) from 1996 until 2001, before becoming CFO of Searchspace Limited until 2005 and has since held a wide variety of non-executive and advisory roles, the majority having a technology focus. External appointments Chris is currently the Senior Independent Director and Non-Executive Deputy Chair of Blue Prism Group plc (and also chairs the nomination committee, as well as being a member of its audit and remuneration committees) and Non-Executive Director at Nanoco Group plc (and also chairs the audit committee, as well as being a member of its nomination and remuneration committees). Chris is also Chair of Racing Digital Limited.
external appointments. Internal appointments Tim is an Executive sponsor of the Race and Ethnicity resource group.
Committee key:
Member of Audit Committee
Member of Cyber Security Committee
Member of Nomination Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
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NCC Group plc — Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 May 2021
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