Non Executive Board
The Rt. Hon.
Sir Geoffrey Pattie PC - President
Sir Geoffrey was educated at Durham School and St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an MA Honours Degree in Law. Having entered the advertising industry in 1959, he was a Director and then Managing Director at Collett Dickenson Pearce, one of the country’s leading advertising agencies. From 1974 to 1997 he was elected Member of Parliament for Chertsey and Walton and following the General Election of May 1979, he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence (RAF). In 1990, Sir Geoffrey was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party and in 1992 he was appointed Vice-Chairman (International) of the Conservative Party. At the General Elections in 1997 sir Geoffrey resigned from his seat in Parliament.
John Bottomley FCIS - Company Secretary
John Bottomley qualified as a Chartered Secretary in 1972 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Secretaries and Administrators. From 1968 to 1974 he was a senior manager of the secretarial department at PricewaterhouseCoopers and between 1985 and 1992 he was a director of Robert Fraser and Partners Limited. In 2003 he moved to Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP to head up the Company Secretarial services division.
Roger Gabb - Director
Roger Gabb is Executive Chairman of Western Wines Ltd, a £100m turnover business that he built up over twenty years to supply wine to the UK supermarket sector. His earlier career included introducing Volvic mineral water into the UK and a period with Distillers Company as European Brand Manager.
David Mott - Non Executive
David Mott holds a BA in Economics and Japanese from the University of Durham. He began his career as an equities analyst with Jardine Fleming in Asia, and later with Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers in London. David is the co-founder of Oxford Capital Partners Ltd. and has led over 20 venture capital transactions in science and technology companies since 1999. His investment experience covers a range of sectors, from new media to renewable energy and from medical devices to novel materials. In 2006, he was named Young Venture Capital Personality of the Year at the Investor Allstars Venture Capital Awards and has been cited as one of the rising stars of the UK’s venture capital industry.