Mike was appointed Chair in 2010. Mike brings significant experience to the Board having held a number of senior executive positions at globally recognised companies such as General Electric, Motorola and Philips.
For more than 20 years Mike has been a non-executive director, and in many cases chairman, of over 20 public and private companies around the world. Additionally, he was on the board of the UK Communications Sector Regulator, Ofcom, for eight years and was awarded the Grant Thornton UK Chairman of the Year award in 2010. Mike is currently the non-executive Chairman of IG Group Holdings plc and Openreach Ltd, the heavily regulated, structurally separate arm of BT Group plc to which he was appointed as inaugural Chairman in January 2017.
Mike is also the Chair of the Remuneration and Nomination committee and a member of the Audit and Risk committees.