Board
Executive Directors
Kenn Lamb - Chief Executive Officer
Kenn joined the Board in April 2007. From 2001 to 2006, Kenn was CEO of Elixent where he completed a successful sale of the business to Matsushita of Japan. Prior to Elixent he was Senior Vice President Sales at ARC International plc where he managed the restructuring of its international sales team. After two years of sales growth, ARC completed a successful London Stock Exchange flotation in September 2000 with a market capitalization of £500m. Before joining ARC, Kenn was Managing Director of Actel Inc's European FPGA businesses.
Andrew Lee - Finance Director
A graduate of University College London, Andrew is a Chartered Accountant with 8 years experience with Ernst and Young, mostly as a senior manager and has worked in the Far East and Australia. In 1993 he was responsible for setting up and running the Vietnamese practice. He was appointed UK Group Finance Director for Hachette in 1994 with the responsibility of restructuring the UK based businesses.The turnaround was successfully completed within two years, restoring the business to profit. Andrew left to form his own consulting business concentrating on commercial and financial activities for young businesses and start-ups. He was a co founder and director of The Library House Limited. He joined Dr Paul Johnson as a founder of Cyan Holdings plc in February 2003 and joined the Board of the Company on 3rd November 2003.
Non-Executive Directors
Dr John Read - Non-Executive Chairman
Dr John Read is an experienced manager with a record of developing profitable high-tech semiconductor businesses. In the late 1990s he was a director of GEC Plessey Semiconductors and joint president of GPS Inc. in California. Since then he has been involved with a number of fabless start-ups: he was a director of Alphamosaic Limited (which was sold to Broadcom Europe Limited), and served on the board of Anadigm Limited from 2000 to 2003. He is an active mentor for the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre and for SETSquared in Surrey. Other positions held include technical director of Texas Instruments in the UK, technical director at STC Telecommunications, and director of engineering at Honeywell's Solid State Electronics in Minnesota. Dr Read is a director of the semiconductor company Si-Light Technologies Limited and a director of Iceni Advisory Limited. He became a Director of the Company on November 2005 and was appointed Chairman in October 2007.
David Gutteridge - Non-Executive Director
David has over fifteen years experience in the technology and IT sectors. He has held the position of director of a number of public and private companies where he has made a significant contribution to their business and strategic development. He has extensive experience in listings, management buy-outs and buy-ins, venture capital start ups as well as acquisitions and disposals.
David’s last executive role was as Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director of UK based banking software provider Financial Objects plc where he led the Company’s flotation on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange as well as the organic and acquisitive growth of the business.
David is currently a senior independent Non-Executive Director of Sanderson plc, a £30 million revenue software solutions company and the Chairman of Tinglobal Limited, a private equity backed IT solutions vendor. He is a CIMA qualified accountant.
Roles of the Board Members
Kenn is responsible for the group’s world wide operations. He is also responsible for leading the strategic development of the Group and for managing the implementation of that strategy.
Andrew is responsible for the Group's finance function and treasury management. In addition to the finance function Andrew has Board responsibility for Investor Relations and manages the Company Secretarial activities of the group.
John Read and David Gutteridge are independent non-executive directors with responsibility for overseeing the executive and for ensuring that the financial performance of the Company is properly reported upon and monitored, and considering reports from the auditors relating to accounts and internal control systems. They also have responsibility for reviewing the performance of and setting the compensation of the executive directors. Non-Executive Directors do not have any day to day involvement in the running of the business.
John Read chairs the nominations committee and David Gutteridge chairs the audit committee and the remuneration committee.
The Company is in the process of recruiting a further non-executive director in line with corporate governance best practice.