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Westhouse Holdings plc Board

Garth Milne

Chairman

Mr Milne has been involved with investment funds in the City for over 30 years. He was formerly head of the investment funds team at UBS Warburg, having originally set up the team at Laing & Cruickshank. He is currently a non-executive director of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Trust plc, Directors' Dealing Investment Trust plc, Real Estate Opportunities Limited and Utilico Emerging Markets Limited.

William Staple

Chief Executive

Mr Staple joined Cazenove & Co in 1972 after qualifying as a Barrister. In 1981 he joined NM Rothschild & Sons and became a director of the bank in 1986. He was seconded by Rothschild to the Takeover Panel as director general in 1994, returning to Rothschild in 1996. Mr Staple left Rothschild in 1999 to help establish Benfield Advisory, part of the Benfield reinsurance broking group. He joined Brown Shipley in 2001 and became chief executive of Westhouse in 2005.

Jonathan Azis

Finance Director

Mr Azis was previously an adviser to Lord Hanson having been a director, company secretary and tax manager of Hanson PLC. A solicitor, he is non-executive chairman of Molins plc and is on the council of the Royal Albert Hall.

Andrew Beeson

Non-Executive Director

Mr Beeson was the founder and chief executive officer of the Beeson Gregory Group and subsequently chairman of Evolution Group plc following its merger with Beeson Gregory, before leaving in 2003. He founded the City Group for Smaller Companies in 1992, now known as the QCA (Quoted Company Alliance), and became its first chairman. Between 2001 and 2004 he was a director of IP Group Plc and is currently a non-executive director of Schroders plc and Nelson Bakewell Holdings Limited, is on the advisory board of Armstrong Bonham Carter and is co-chairman of DataWind Inc.

Sir Hayden Phillips

Non-Executive Director

Sir Hayden is chairman of the National Theatre and, amongst other appointments, he is an adviser to Englefield Capital and deputy chairman of Hanson Transport. His previous career was in the Civil Service, where he was Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Ministry of Justice) from 1998 to 2004, and Permanent Secretary of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport from 1992 to 1998. Before that he held senior positions in the Treasury, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and in the European Commission.