Appointed as Non-Executive Director in April 2004. Previously he was a Non-Executive Director of South Staffordshire Group plc from 1993 to 2004. He is Non-Executive Director of Haynes Publishing Group PLC and Tex Holdings PLC. He was Chairman of the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange from its inception up until April 1998 and an Executive Director of Singer and Friedlander from 1973 to 1993 and then as Non-Executive from 1993 to 1998.