Board Members
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- Non-Executive Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Finance Director
- Commercial Director
- Operations Director
- Non-Executive Director
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Lieutenant Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO, OBE
Non Executive Chairman
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO OBE, is a former member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, and since 2006, of the Prince of Wales (retired March 2008).
Sir Malcolm was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served in the Scots Guards from 1964 to 1987, holding the posts of Adjutant at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1977-1979, and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1982.
Sir Malcolm joined the Royal Household in 1987 as Assistant Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office and Management Auditor. In 1989 he ceased to be Management Auditor, but remained as Assistant Comptroller until 1990. From 1989 to 1990 he was Secretary of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood. He was Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office 1991-2005, and became Master of the Household to the Prince of Wales in 2006. Since 1988 he has been an Extra Equerry to The Queen.
He was made an OBE in 1988, and joined the Royal Victorian Order in 1994 as a CVO. He was knighted as a KCVO in 1999, and advanced to GCVO in 2005. He has been a member of the Royal Company of Archers since 1981, and a Freeman of the City of London since 1994. In 2006, he was made Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
Sir Malcolm is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and is also a member of the Audit Committee.
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Peter Fowler
Chief Executive Officer
Peter has over 36 years experience operating within the security industry, with particular reference to the electronic protection sector.
Peter is extensively travelled and has a long history of running successful companies having built and sold two security businesses, successfully carried out acquisitions, disposals and an MBO and has held several senior positions in listed companies.
Peter started his career in the security industry in 1970, quickly progressing into senior management roles. In 1980 he founded a specialist electronic security company, Sovereign Security Systems Limited, which became one of the leading independent security companies of its type in the UK and was acquired by the Britannia Security Group Plc in 1987.
In 1990, Peter joined the Menvier-Swain Group Plc as Managing Director of the newly acquired security division and has been Chief Executive Officer of the Westminster Group of companies since leading a management buy out of the business in 1996.
In 2000 Peter reorganised the business and disposed of the UK alarms business to Chubb in order to concentrate on international business and since that time has developed Westminster into a global business with representation in over 40 countries with an enviable international reputation and an extensive and growing ‘blue chip’ client base.
Peter is a member on the Remuneration Committee.
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Nicholas Mearing Smith BScEcon, FCA, ATII, MSI
Finance Director
Nicholas is a chartered accountant, a former partner of a major stockbroking firm and an ex-investment banker. In 1989 he founded a cable television business, which became part of NYNEX CableComms plc, of which he became Chief Financial Officer. When NYNEX CableComms merged into Cable & Wireless Communications plc, he became Finance Director of the operation which had a £2.3 billion turnover. Both companies were floated on the London Stock Exchange, in 1995 and 1997 respectively.
Nicholas left in 1999 to become C.E.O. of an international cable business and has more recently been involved in starting and managing new telecoms and related businesses.
Nicholas joined Westminster as Finance Director in February 2007 and in addition is a non-executive director of two private-equity owned businesses and of a privately owned Chinese software business.
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Roger Worrall
Commercial Director
Roger has 36 years experience in the electrical and electronic installation and manufacturing industries.
Roger began his career in the Royal Navy before joining an electrical company specialising in large scale electrical contracting. In 1975 Roger joined the newly formed Menvier (Electronic Engineers) Limited a forerunner to the Menvier-Swain Group Plc, an international supplier of fire and safety systems and was appointed a director in 1987. Menvier Swain Group Plc joined the Unlisted Securities Market (USM) in 1986. Roger remained with the Menvier-Swain Group Plc until 1999, when he joined Westminster Security Systems as a Director.
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Stuart Fowler BEng (Hons)
Operations Director
Stuart has several years experience of the security industry and has been particularly involved on the design and implementation of more complex integrated systems.
Stuart studied computing and business studies at University obtaining a Bachelor of Engineering Honours degree in 1996. After university Stuart joined an IT support and web site design company producing innovative computer web sites for several high profile sites such as Toys-R-Us. He joined Westminster Security Systems Ltd. in 1998 as IT manager and after acquiring considerable experience with the vast array of technical products and equipment in which the Company is involved was appointed a Director within the Group in 2000. Since that time Stuart has been instrumental in the design & implementation of many larger complex systems installed by the Westminster Group Plc.
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The Hon. Sir Michael Pakenham KBE CMG
Non-Executive Director
Sir Michael Pakenham had a distinguished career in the British Diplomatic Service lasting nearly 40 years, during which time he held posts in Poland, Paris, Washington, New Delhi, Nairobi, Brussels, Luxembourg and London. Whilst in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall he served for three years as Cabinet Secretary for Defence and Overseas Affairs, as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and as Intelligence Coordinator. He retired from the Service in 2003 at which point he was British Ambassador to Poland.
He is a Senior Advisor to Access Industries, a US-based private holding company with global interests, including in Russia; and a member of the European Advisory Board to Northrop Grumman IT. He has led work on the EU Security & Technology research project with Thales and IISS. Other appointments include a member of the Council of Kings College, London University; and Trustee of the Chevening Estate.
Sir Michael is Chairman of the Audit Committee and is also a member of the Remuneration Committee.
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