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Mr. Birkenhead was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2007. Mr. Birkenhead is an experienced non-executive director following an executive career in finance inter alia with international energy businesses. Having qualified as an accountant Mr. Birkenhead worked in a variety of financial roles at companies including Royal Dutch/Shell Group (where he was Finance Director of Shell UK Oil) Johnson Matthey (where he was Executive Director Finance) and National Power (where he was Group Finance Director between 1989 and 1996). He was Chairman of The Hundred Group of Finance Directors. Mr. Birkenhead has acted as Chairman or non-executive director of a number of organisations including De La Rue plc (non-executive director 1994-2000) BT Pension Scheme (Trustee 1998-2006) and is currently a non-executive director of three companies listed on the London Stock Exchange: Vega Group API Group and Caffyns. He also continues to act as a consultant to several international organisations including Accenture KPMG and Deloitte & Touche. | 