The Board
Tudor Davies
Executive Director and Interim Chairman
Peter Manning
Non-Executive Director
Peter has extensive international experience in senior operating and customer focused roles in business process outsourcing and in service and technology industries. Between 2004-2007, he was Chief Executive of HBS Ltd, a business owned by Terra Firma Capital Partners providing business process outsourcing to the Local Government sector in the UK, which was subsequently sold to Mouchel Group plc.
Before joining HBS Ltd, from 1999-2003, Peter was President and Chief Executive Officer of COLT Telecom PLC, the Pan-European telecom operator and from 1996-1999, President and Chief Executive Officer of the US-based telecoms group Concert Communication Inc. based in Virginia, USA. His early career was at British Telecom (BT) where, between 1994 and 1996, he was Chief Operating Officer of BT Europe.
Peter has a BSC (Hons) Computer Science, is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Liveryman of the City of London.
Andrew Freemantle
Non-Executive Director
Andrew has extensive leadership experience in complex, multi-site organizations providing mission critical services to the public both in the UK and Internationally.
Andrew has recently retired as Chief Executive of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution a position he held for 10 years. The RNLI is the world’s largest lifeboat service with an annual budget of over £124 million, operating with 450 lifeboats from 235 lifeboat stations with 1,250 staff and 4,700 volunteer crew.
During his tenure at the RNLI, Andrew introduced many successful initiatives including the building and opening of a residential training college and survival centre, new Strategic Performance Standards, competency based training of lifeboat crew and RNLI lifeguards on 150 public beaches. He also developed overseas commercial interests, which capitalise on the RNLI’s extensive experience by providing expertise and support to lifeboat services worldwide, including the Middle East and Asia.
From 1963 to 1990, Andrew was in the Armed Services. In his early career, he was awarded the MBE and Mentioned in Dispatches on the Northern Ireland Gallantry Awards List and was on the directing staff of the Army Staff College, Camberley. From 1985 to 1987 he was Commanding Officer of the Royal Hampshire Regiment and in 1987 was promoted to Brigadier at the youngest possible age to command one of only 14 regular Infantry Brigades.
From 1991 to 1998 Andrew was Chief Executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service, then the UK’s largest and busiest ambulance service with over 150 stations, 1,100 vehicles and 3,000 staff.
He is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Science and of the Army Staff College, a Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration in 2007. He is also a Freeman of the City of London and was awarded a CBE for services to Maritime Safety in 2007.
Christopher Mills
Non-Executive Director
Christopher is a founding Director of J O Hambro Capital Management and is Chief Executive and Investment Manager of North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and Chief Investment Officer of North Atlantic Value LLP.
He is a Non-Executive Director of a number of UK and US companies. Prior to joining the Board of J O Hambro Capital Management in 1993 he was a Director of Invesco MIM, where he was Head of North American Investments and Venture Capital, and of Samuel Montagu International.