Board Members
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- Non-Executive Chairman
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO, OBE - Chief Executive Officer
Peter Fowler - Finance Director
Ian Selby - Commercial Director
Roger Worrall - Operations Director
Stuart Fowler BEng (Hons) - Non-Executive Director
Hon. Sir Michael Pakenham KBE CMG - Non-Executive Director
Matt Wood
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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 38 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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Ian Selby
Finance Director
Ian, aged 44, is a Chartered Accountant with significant board level experience of working with private and listed SME's. He was previously the Group Finance Director of Zenith Hygiene Group plc where he was instrumental in executing a successful trade sale, and previously he was the CFO of Corero plc, a software company. He has extensive experience including M&A, fundraising, working capital improvements, debt renegotiation and operational financial management. Earlier in his career he held international finance roles, including emerging markets in Halliburton Inc, Sybase Inc and Micro Focus plc. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte and holds a degree in Physics from the University of Birmingham.
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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 many years experience of the security industry and has been particularly involved on many of the more complex integrated security systems.
Stuart studied computing and business studies at University obtaining a Bachelor of Engineering Honours degree in 1996. After university Stuart successfully implemented several software development projects for listed companies before joining Westminster in 1998 as IT manager. After acquiring considerable experience with the vast array of technical products and equipment in which the Company is involved, he 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. and is now responsible for the groups operations and technical implementation worldwide.
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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.
For the past 8 years he has been the Senior Advisor to Access Industries, a US-based private holding company with global interests, including in Russia. Other appointments include being Vice-Chairman of the Council of Kings College, London University; and a Trustee of the Chevening Estate. He has also served as a member of the European Advisory Board to Northrop Grumman Information Services, and of the Advisory Board to the Cambridge Judge Business School; and he has led work on the EU Security & Technology research project with Thales and the IISS.
Sir Michael is Chairman of the Audit Committee and is also a member of the Remuneration Committee.
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Matt Wood
Non-Executive Director
Matt, aged 38, is an experienced non-executive director and has been providing consultancy services to the Group for some time. He will also become a member of the Group's audit and remuneration committees. Matt qualified with a First Class honours degree in Economics in 1996 and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1999. He then joined the corporate finance department of Beeson Gregory Limited (now Evolution Securities) where he advised growing companies on a wide variety of capital market transactions, corporate development and regulatory issues. In 2006, Matt set up CMS Corporate Consultants Ltd, a Plc corporate advisory firm based in the City providing advisory services to small cap quoted companies, including Westminster.
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