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Andrew Pinder was appointed a non-executive director on 1September 2001. As the e-Envoy to the UK government from 2000 to 2004 he was responsible to the Prime Minister for the delivery of internet access to all British citizens and businesses. He is currently a senior executive of Entrust a US-based security specialist on whose board he sat from 2004 to 2006 and the senior independent non-executive director of Spring Group plc. He is also a member of the Intel Global Advisory Board. In January 2006 he became Chairman of Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) an agency of the DfES which looks after IT in schools and further education. Before his appointment as e-Envoy he was a partner in a venture capital firm and carried out a number of management consultancy assignments for the British government. Previous executive leadership roles also include positions as the head of European operations and technology at Citibank director of operations and technology at Prudential Corporation and as director of information technology at the Office of Inland Revenue. | 