Board of Directors

PLC Executive Directors

	Martin Balaam, ACA, ARCS, BSc(Hons) Chief Executive Officer Martin, 39, is Chief Executive Officer of Redstone plc which recently acquired Xpert Group Ltd. Martin was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Xpert Group Ltd, a role he undertook from February 2004 after joining the Xpert Group Board in April 2002 as Group Finance Director. Martin was brought into the Xpert Group by its major shareholders, Lloyds Development Capital Ltd and was pivotal in turning around the group that had previously been loss making. During his time he consolidated all back office functions, setting and delivering a strategy for growth. This included the acquisition of Genesis Telecommunications plc in July 2003, as well as the restructuring of the Group's capital and debt facilities. Before joining Xpert, Martin worked for Hays plc for five years. He held several senior financial and commercial roles within the Group, and finished as President of Hays IMS Inc based in Houston and Dallas, Texas. Prior to this, Martin qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte and Touche, where he worked for 5 years which included a secondment to Johannesburg, South Africa. Martin gained a BSc Honours degree in Physics from Imperial College and is married with three children.
	Tim Perks, ACA Chief Financial Officer Tim Perks, a Chartered Accountant, joined Redstone from Staffware plc, following its sale to TIBCO Software Incorporated. He held the position of Chief Financial Officer of Staffware for three years, having previously held the same position in an acting capacity at Baltimore Technologies plc. Prior to Baltimore, Tim was employed in a number of senior financial positions at Leading Technology Limited. In Sept 2004 he was asked to join the main Board of Redstone Plc as Chief Financial Officer.
	Peter Hayes, CA (SA) Company Secretary and Group Financial Controller Peter joined the company in January 2006 after working in the computer software industry for the previous 13 years.  Peter spent 5 years as the EMEA Finance Director at Seer Technologies and more recently was at Staffware plc as the Company Secretary and Group Financial Controller. Peter’s previous experience was gained in South Africa where he worked in the accounting profession at BDO for 12 years and in Commerce for 5 years, much of this time as the Finance Director of a subsidiary of Anglo American.

Non Executive Directors

	Alan Coppin Chairman Alan Coppin, aged 56, recently stepped down as the Honorary Chairman of the Prince's Foundation to take up the Chairmanship of Redstone. He is also currently the Chairman of Danoptra Holdings Limited, a non-executive director of Capital & Regional plc and a director of Timeless Management Limited and Timeless Group Limited. He has held a number of Board positions over the last 10 years including that of Chief Executive of Wembley plc, Chief Executive of the Historic Royal Palaces, and a non-executive director of Carillion plc, Metroline plc and Expocentric plc.
	David Payne Non Executive Director David Payne has a varied background in the leisure, computer and property industries. For 20 years after leaving university he worked for Juliana's, a leisure company that floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1983. He was subsequently recruited, by a venture capital fund, to become Chairman of Virtuality, a company at the forefront of developing virtual reality. He oversaw the successful flotation of this company on the LSE in 1994 and then left to devote more time to the development of a quoted property company.

	Tim Sherwood Non Executive Director Tim Sherwood joined the board in March 2007 after working for Vodafone for 13 years. At Vodafone he held a number of senior financial roles in the UK and overseas as well as commercial and business development positions in the UK.  He was responsible for a number of Vodafone’s acquisitions in the UK.  Prior to joining Vodafone he was with KPMG where he worked in their corporate finance department for three years – primarily advising on management buy outs.  Since leaving Vodafone he has undertaken a number of consultancy roles within the mobile telecoms industry as well as advising a number of companies on M&A and strategy.