Board of Directors
Dr Bernard Bulkin
Chairman
Dr Bernard Bulkin was initially appointed to the Board in April 2004 and to the role of Chairman in April 2005. He is a member of the Nomination Committee. Previously, he worked for 18 years for BP plc until 2003 when he retired as Chief Scientist. His current positions include Non–Executive Directorships of Severn Trent plc, Accelergy Corporation, and Chemrec AB, a Venture Partner of Vantage Point, and a Fellow of New Hall Cambridge. In the UK public sector he was appointed by the Prime Minister to the UK Sustainable Development Commission, where he chairs the Climate Change, Energy and Transport Steering Group. His earlier career included professorships of chemistry at the City University of New York and the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
Andrew McCree
CEO
Andrew McCree was appointed CEO in April 2005. He was first appointed to the Board in November 2000 as Director for Corporate Affairs and Human Resources, and subsequently Group Managing Director. He has held a number of senior posts in AEA and before that in UKAEA, which he joined in 1991. His earlier career was with BP Exploration.
Alice Cummings
CFO
Alice Cummings was appointed to the Board as CFO in October 2006 having previously been Deputy Group Finance Director. She also has responsibility for IT, legacies and risk management. She has held a number of senior posts in AEA since joining in 1995 including Finance Director of Environment, Finance Director and Deputy Managing Director of Nuclear Programmes, and Chief Accountant. Her previous career was with South West Water plc after having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse.
Dr Leslie Atkinson
Senior Independent Director
Dr Leslie Atkinson was initially appointed to the Board in August 1996 and has been the Senior Independent Director since January 2004. He chairs the Nomination Committee and is a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees. He worked for many years with BP plc where he became Chairman of BP Asia Pacific. He was later an Executive Director of Tarmac plc responsible for construction services. He is a Non–Executive Director of Electrocomponents plc, Witan Pacific Investment Trust plc and Samworth Brothers (Holdings) Ltd.
Dr Paul Golby
Head of Remuneration Committee
Dr Paul Golby was initially appointed to the Board in August 2003. He chairs the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees. He has been, since 2002, Chief Executive of E.ON UK plc, one of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers, which he joined in 1998. He is a Top Executive Committee member of E.ON AG, its parent company and the world’s largest investor–owned electricity and gas company. He is also co–chair of the Energy Research Partnership, a private public partnership established by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2005. After training as a mechanical engineer, he had a series of management appointments with Dunlop and BTR before becoming an Executive Director of Clayhithe plc. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and of the Energy Institute.
Lord Moonie
Non-Executive Director
Lord Moonie was initially appointed to the Board in April 2004. He is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committees. Now a working peer, he was MP for Kirkcaldy between 1987 and April 2005, and Parliamentary Under Secretary for State at the Ministry of Defence between January 2000 and June 2003, when he had responsibility for MoD’s science and technology. He has a long–standing interest in energy generation. Before becoming an MP, he studied medicine and was a consultant in public health medicine for the Fife Health Board and a senior medical adviser and clinical pharmacologist in the pharmaceutical industry. He is a Non–Executive Director of PartyGaming plc.
Rodney Westhead
Head of Audit Committee
Rodney Westhead was initially appointed to the Board in August 2003. He chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Nomination Committee. From 1996 until his retirement in 2005, he was Chief Executive of Ricardo plc, a leading automotive engineering consulting company. He is the Senior Independent Director of Mouchel Group plc, a Director of Carter and Carter (in administration), Chairman of Clean Air Power and a Director of Transense Technologies plc. An accountant by profession, he was a partner with Grant Thornton, including Managing Partner of their London office, before moving to Ricardo plc in 1992 as the Group Finance Director.
Attendance record at Board and Committee meetings
The Directors in post at the end of 31 March 2008 attended all scheduled Board and Committee meetings in the year with the exceptions that Paul Golby missed three Board meetings and two Audit Committee meetings, Rodney Westhead missed three Board meetings, Lewis Moonie missed one Board meeting and one Remuneration Committee meeting and Leslie Atkinson missed one Board meeting.
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