Appointed: May 2017
Nationality: British

Skills and expertise
Mark is a qualified accountant with a strong financial background combined with considerable managerial experience. He was CFO of International Power plc until 2012 and is experienced in managing relationships with the investor and financial communities. Until December 2021, he was senior independent director of National Grid plc. Mark also served as chairman of Imperial Brands plc until January 2020 and as senior independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Alent plc until its sale in 2015.

Other appointments
None.

Appointed: September 2018
Nationality: British

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
Andrew was appointed as a non-executive director of Rotork plc in April 2024.

Appointed: September 2024
Nationality: British

Angela joined the Group as CFO in September 2024 and has more than 25 years of finance and commercial experience, with proven and highly relevant industrial end-market expertise. In addition to being responsible for Group finance operations, she also leads the operational management of Group Risk, Legal, Investor Relations, IT and the Capital Allocation process. Angela was previously CFO at Royal Mail. Prior to this, Angela spent over 20 years in various international leadership roles at Siemens AG in industrial software and business development, including as CFO for Siemens UK & Ireland.

Angela has a Bachelor of Accounting (BAcc), is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is a chartered manager.

In 2022, Angela was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to Education.

Other appointments
Angela was appointed a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V. in May 2023.

Appointed: March 2019
Nationality: British

Derek has served as an Executive Director since March 2019, originally joining the Group as CFO. In September 2024, Derek became President of the enlarged Spectris Scientific Division.

Prior to joining Spectris, Derek 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: 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 has included responsibility for strategy, investor relations, HR, corporate affairs, legal, internal audit, brand and marketing.

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

Appointed: October 2023
Nationality: British

Skills and expertise
Mandy brings to the Board significant experience in finance, investor relations, strategy, digital and software and is currently CFO of Ascential plc.

Before joining Ascential plc in 2013 as CFO, Mandy held a variety of financial roles, including CFO at the FTSE 250 technology business, Detica Group plc, CFO at Torex, the private equity-owned retail technology firm, director of corporate development at Telewest and group financial controller at Dalgety plc. In addition to her executive career, Mandy was also previously a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee at SDL plc. She began her career at Price Waterhouse, where she spent eight years and where she qualified as a chartered accountant.

Other appointments
In addition to her role as CFO of Ascential plc, Mandy is also chair of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Listing Authority Advisory Panel.

Appointed: January 2017
Nationality: Norwegian

Skills and expertise
Kjersti has held a series of senior global positions, leading technology enterprises and managing varied international business environments effectively. She is an experienced non-executive director with deep technology and software experience. Kjersti has held a variety of executive roles including; director, global 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 Zegona Communications plc, Babcock International Group plc (UK), Trainline plc (UK), Laird plc (UK), Cxense ASA and Fast Search & Transfer ASA (Norway) and Telescience Inc (USA) as well as Chair at Saga Robotics (Norway).

Other appointments
Kjersti is a non-executive director at AutoStore Holdings (Norway), Evelyn Partners (UK), and Nordea Bank Apb (Finland).

Appointed: June 2024
Nationality: British and American

Skills and expertise
Nick studied at the Escola Politécnica of the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and obtained a BSc in Civil Engineering in 1982. He gained an MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil) in 1989, specialising in Finance and Marketing. In 2013 he also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School (USA).

He joined Spirax-Sarco Engineering in 2011 as Director EMEA for the Group’s Steam Specialties business and was appointed to the Board in March 2012, became Chief Operating Officer in August 2013 and Group Chief Executive in January 2014. Nick retired from the role of Group Chief Executive in January 2024.

Prior to joining Spirax Sarco, Nick gained broad international experience with industrial engineering companies and was Vice President of John Crane Asia Pacific, part of Smiths Group plc. He was also President of John Crane Latin America, and worked for Alcoa Aluminio in Brazil and Argentina. He started his professional career in Brazil with British engineering firm Foseco Minsep Group plc.

Other appointments
Nick is currently a non-executive director of BAE Systems plc and The Weir Group plc.

Appointed: June 2021
Nationality: Singaporean

Skills and expertise
Ravi 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’s last executive role was with AVEVA plc where he held the roles of chief product and strategy officer and chief operating officer in the period from 2018 to 2022. Prior to that he was the executive vice president of Schneider Electric Software which was merged with AVEVA in 2018. He previously held roles at Invensys plc as president, software and president, Asia Pacific from 2009 to 2014 when Invensys was acquired by Schneider Electric. Ravi started his career in India with Tata Consultancy Services and subsequently was CEO and MD at Geometric Ltd. He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a masters in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Other appointments
Ravi is currently a strategic advisor at Schneider Electric and is a non-executive director at Thermax Ltd.

Appointed: September 2021
Nationality: British

Skills and expertise
Alison has broad technical experience in key finance areas including treasury, risk management, internal control and audit across regional, divisional and global functional roles. Until June 2022, Alison was executive vice president of finance, trading and supply at Shell plc (‘Shell’), leading finance for 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. From January 2017 to July 2023, she also served as a non-executive director and audit committee chair at the UK Hydrographic Office, a world-leading centre for hydrography, specialising in marine geospatial data to support safe, secure and thriving oceans.

Other appointments
Alison is a member of the supervisory board at Umicore which is a global materials technology and recycling group based in Belgium. She is also chair of the audit committee, and a member of the sustainability committee at Umicore.