Appointed to the Board in 2004. He is currently Chairman of Roke Manor Research Ltd, and a member of Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He is the former Director General of Research Councils and the former director of Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol. He was chair of the South West RDA`s Shadow Science and Industry Council and director of the UK Foresight project on Cognitive Systems. He previously served as President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and as Chairman of the UK Technology Foresight Panel in IT Electronics and Communications. Age 62.