Appointed: May 2017
Nationality: British

Skills and expertise
Mark Williamson is a qualified accountant with a strong financial background combined with considerable managerial experience. He was chief financial officer of International Power plc until 2012 and is experienced in managing relationships with the investor and financial communities. He is a former senior independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Alent plc. Until 1 January 2020, Mark was chairman of Imperial Brands plc and until December 2021, Mark was also senior independent director National Grid plc.

Other appointments
None.

Andrew joined the Group as Chief Executive in September 2018, bringing a wide range of executive and leadership expertise to Spectris, with proven experience in technology-enabled businesses and a track record of delivering shareholder value. He previously served as CEO of Imagination Technologies Group plc from 2016 to 2018 and before that was CEO of Alent plc.

Prior to this, Andrew had a 30-year career with Rolls-Royce where he held a number of international and senior management roles, latterly serving as the President of Energy from 2010 to 2015. Andrew has a BSc in engineering from Imperial College London and an MBA from Loughborough University.

Other appointments
None.

Derek joined the Group as Chief Financial Officer in March 2019 and brings a wide range of financial leadership and industrial expertise to Spectris. In addition to his responsibility for Group finance operations worldwide, he also leads the operational management of Group Risk Management, Investor Relations, Group IT, and the Group’s Capital Allocation process. He most recently served as group finance director at Shop Direct. Derek was CFO at Senior plc from 2013 to 2017 and before that, he was at Wolseley plc for 11 years in a number of financial leadership roles, most recently as finance director of Wolseley UK. He previously held a number of group roles, including group financial controller, director of group strategy and investor relations, and head of mergers and acquisitions. Derek qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC.

Other appointments
Derek was appointed as a non-executive director of The Sage Group plc in March 2021.

Appointed: January 2015
Nationality: American

Skills and expertise
Bill Seeger has significant corporate finance and accounting experience. Bill was group finance director of GKN plc and, prior to that, president and CEO of the propulsion systems and special products division and CFO in the aerospace division of GKN. He spent most of his career at TRW, latterly in senior finance roles, including as vice-president, financial planning and analysis, and vice-president, finance, of TRW Automotive.

Other appointments
Bill is senior independent non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee of Smiths Group plc, lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management and director and a member of audit and compliance committee at ICU Medical Inc.

Appointed: September 2019
Nationality: British

Skills and expertise
Cathy Turner is an experienced non-executive director with significant business leadership experience plus a deep knowledge of HR and remuneration matters. Her executive career at Executive Committee level at Barclays PLC and Lloyds Banking Group PLC, has included responsibility for strategy, investor relations, HR, corporate affairs, legal, internal audit, brand and marketing. She was previously a non-executive director at Aldermore Group plc.

Other appointments
Cathy is a non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee at Rentokil Initial plc, a non-executive director at Lloyds Banking Group plc and is a partner at the senior advisory organisation, Manchester Square Partners. Cathy is also a Trustee of the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

Appointed: January 2017
Nationality: Norwegian

Skills and expertise
Kjersti Wiklund brings significant knowledge of the international telecommunications sector. Kjersti has held a series of senior global roles, including: director, group technology operations at Vodafone; chief operating officer of VimpelCom Russia; deputy chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Kyivstar in Ukraine; executive vice president and chief technology officer of Digi Telecommunications in Malaysia; and executive vice-president and chief information officer at Telenor in Norway. Kjersti was previously a non-executive director of Babcock International Group plc (UK), Trainline plc (UK), Laird plc (UK), Cxense ASA and Fast Search & Transfer ASA (Norway) and Telescience Inc (USA).

Other appointments
Kjersti is a non-executive director at Zegona Communications plc, Nordea Bank Apb and Evelyn Partners.

Appointed: January 2015
Nationality: German

Skills and expertise
Ulf Quellmann has broad general management experience and considerable knowledge of the metals, minerals and mining industry, having worked in the sector for more than 16 years. He was chief financial officer of Allied Gold, a privately owned gold mining and development company. He was previously vice president, strategic projects of the copper and diamonds product group at Rio Tinto plc and, before that, chief financial officer of the copper and diamonds product group. He was also group treasurer from 2008 to 2016. He has held senior positions at Alcan Inc. including vice president, investor relations and media relations, and chief pension investment officer and assistant treasurer, and senior management positions at General Motors, in both the USA and the UK. Ulf was chief executive officer of Turquoise Hill Resources Limited (a company listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges) until March 2021.

Other appointments
None

Appointed: September 2021
Nationality: British

Skills and expertise
Alison Henwood has broad technical experience in key finance areas, including treasury, risk management, internal control and audit across regional, divisional and global functional roles. Alison was most recently Executive Vice President of Finance, Trading and Supply at Royal Dutch Shell plc (‘Shell’), leading finance for one of the largest energy-trading business in the world. She has held a wide variety of roles across Shell throughout her career, contributing to finance transformation, culture change, digitisation and Shell’s move towards zero carbon.

Other appointments
Alison is a member of the supervisory board at Umicore and a non-executive director and audit committee chair at the United Kingdom’s Hydrographic Office, a world-leading centre for hydrography, specialising in marine geospatial data to support safe, secure and thriving oceans.

Appointed: June 2021
Nationality: Singaporean

Skills and expertise
Ravi Gopinath is a highly experienced business leader, with over 25 years of diverse, global engineering and software experience, with a proven track record in setting up, scaling and transforming high-growth and profitable technology businesses. Ravi is a Strategic Advisor at AVEVA plc, having previously been Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Cloud Officer, and prior to that was Executive Vice President of the Schneider Electric Software Business which was merged with AVEVA in 2018. He previously held roles at Invensys plc as President, Software and President, Asia Pacific, Operations Management and prior to that, was CEO and Managing Director of Geometric Limited.

Other appointments
Ravi is a Strategic Advisor at AVEVA plc and is also a non-executive director at Thermax Ltd.