Board of Directors

The senior management team at Redstone plc is enthusiastic, committed and experienced. The team has established a working environment and culture at Redstone which encourages innovation, the sharing of ideas and continual personal development. The board recognises that it has a unique role in representing and promoting the interests of all of Redstone’s stakeholders, including its shareholders and it is accountable to shareholders for the performance and activities of the company.

PLC Executive Directors

Ian Smith

Executive Chairman

A highly experienced IT and communications industry developer of new business. Ian has held senior sales positions with Dataworkforce, Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks and Cable & Wireless.

Most recently, for 7 years as CEO of Xploite plc, Ian was responsible for the buy, build and sell strategy that saw 26 corporate transactions including 2 substantial disposals and the creation and return of c£20m of cash to the company’s shareholders.

Tony Weaver

Chief Executive Officer

Tony has an IT and communications services background that started in the mid 1980’s. Tony founded his first IT business in 1988 and is a founder of a number of other successful private IT companies and has a very well established background in sales and management.

From 2003 to 2010, as COO of Xploite plc, Tony was responsible for the restructuring and management of the businesses acquired and created by the company. This included defining and running the integration strategy of those businesses into single company entities that were sold as part of Xploite’s buy, build and sell strategy.

Peter Hallet

Chief Financial Officer

Peter has been a qualified chartered accountant for the past 28 years, and since 1986 has been engaged in industry.

Peter initially specialised in retailing and held the position of CFO in some of the UK’s leading retailers including FADS, Texas Homecare and Thresher/Victoria Wine where he developed his skills in turnaround, restructuring and corporate finance.

His most recent appointments have been within businesses requiring restructuring and have included Waterford Wedgwood PLC, Speciality Retail Group PLC and Wm Morrison.

Peter was appointed as Group CFO to Redstone in October 2009.

Non Executive Directors

David Payne

Non Executive Director

David Payne is Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees of the Board of Directors

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 is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees of the Board of Directors

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.

Nicholas O’Rorke

General Counsel and Company Secretary

Nicholas qualified as a solicitor in 1995 with Allen & Overy where he worked for 6 years from 1993 to 1997 and again from 2000 to 2001 as a Trainee solicitor and then Associate in the Corporate Finance department. From 1997 to 2000 he worked with Blake Dawson Waldron in Sydney, Australia including a year spent at Sydney Airports Corporation Limited as Corporate Legal Manager and from 2001 to 2006 at Infineum UK Limited a £3 billion turnover joint venture between Shell and Exxon Mobil as Counsel EMEA.

Joining Redstone plc in 2006 as General Counsel, Nicholas has worked alongside the Board on a number of acquisitions and disposals within the Group and has been integral to the Redstone Group’s participation in the ongoing Government funded ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme.

Nicholas became Company Secretary of the Redstone Group of companies in January 2010.

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