Avingtrans plc

Roger McDowell
Non-executive Chairman

Appointed to the board as Non-executive Director on 22 February 2008, Roger McDowell became Chairman in March 2008.

After University Roger worked for some 20 years with Oliver Ashworth Ltd., pipeline manufacturing, where he became MD and instrumental in growing sales from £1 million to over £100 million and achieving a full listing on the London Stock Exchange. Roger has held a number of non-executive appointments in both private, Official List and AIM quoted companies predominantly in the engineering sector.

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Stephen M King
ACA, BEng.
Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary

Stephen was appointed Finance Director and Company Secretary in September 2002. He is also a Director and Company Secretary for each of the UK Subsidiary companies.

Stephen joined from Pricewaterhouse Coopers where he was a Senior Manager in the Assurance and Specialist Transaction practice.

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SteveMcQuillan
Chief Executive Officer

A graduate engineer, Steve started his career in the oil industry, working for American Oil giant Conoco in the North Sea.

A long period at Mars Inc followed, mostly at Mars Electronics, where Steve eventually moved to France to run Western European Operations and ultimately became the general manager of the Swiss banknote recognition business, Sodeco.

Later as sales director, Steve was part of the team that sold Marconi Instruments to IFR, Inc, before spending the following 6 years at Oxford Instruments as Managing Director of its Superconductivity Division.

Steve joined Avingtrans in October 2008 from Serco, where he had spent the previous four years as a Director of the National Physical Laboratory and, latterly, as the Managing Director of the Serco Defence Operations business.

Steve was appointed as non-executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s board in November 2010.

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Graham K Thornton
PhD, MA(Oxon)
Non-executive Director

Appointed to the Board as a Non-executive Director in September 2009.

In a 25-year career spanning several sectors, including aerospace and defence, Graham has worked in senior management and Board positions for TRW Aeronautical Systems, Smiths Group plc, Dowty, Schlumberger and Standard Telephones & Cables.

He is currently Non-executive Chairman of C Zero Limited, and was Managing Director of Northrop Grumman Corporation UK Limited. Graham is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

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Jeremy J Hamer
FCA.
Non-executive Director

Jeremy has been on the Board as a Non-executive Director since the acquisition of the Jena Group in 2002.

He has a wealth of AIM listed company experience including current Non-executive roles at Access Intelligence plc and SQS plc.

Jeremy is Chairman of the Audit Committee.

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