Appointment of new SCS Managi

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Cohort PLC

28 June 2010

 



28 June 2010                                                                                                                                                               AIM: CHRT

PRESS RELEASE

COHORT PLC ("Cohort")

Appointment of new SCS Managing Director

Cohort, the independent technology group, today announces that it has appointed Bill Bird as the new Managing Director of Systems Consultants Services Ltd ("SCS"), its defence technical advisory business, with effect from 6 September 2010.

Bill joins the group from Moorhouse Consulting where he has been working as a Programme Director. He led Hedra's UK defence and aerospace business between 2003 and 2007, having been a senior level consultant at KPMG in the defence field from 2000-2003. Between 1991 and 1999 he held senior roles with Rockwell UK and Boeing Defence UK. Prior to this he spent 16 years as an RAF officer, during which time he was awarded the MBE. Bill graduated from Cambridge University and holds an MBA.

Commenting on the appointment, Andrew Thomis, Chief Executive of Cohort plc, said:

"We are delighted to have appointed Bill Bird as the new MD of SCS. He has extensive defence programme and management experience and the leadership skills required to take SCS forward.

"Putting in place new leadership at SCS is a major step forward in returning this business to a normal operational footing."

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For further information, please contact

Cohort plc	Andrew Thomis, Chief Executive Simon Walther, Finance Director	[phone]
Investec	Keith Anderson, Daniel Adams	[phone]
Hogarth	Reg Hoare, Vicky Watkins	[phone]

Cohort plc (www.cohortplc.com)  

Cohort is an independent technology group working primarily for defence (air, land and sea), wider government and industry clients, through three market-facing subsidiary companies:

·     MASS (www.mass.co.uk) - a specialist systems house with considerable experience in the defence market and a focus on Information Systems.  Based in Cambridgeshire, MASS was acquired by Cohort in August 2006;

·     SCS (www.scs-ltd.co.uk) - an independent defence consultancy, combining technical expertise with practical experience and domain knowledge. Owned by Cohort since flotation in March 2006;

·     SEA (www.sea.co.uk) - an advanced surveillance systems and software house with hardware development capability operating in the defence, space, transport and offshore market sectors. Acquired by Cohort in October 2007.   

Cohort (AIM: CHRT) was admitted to London's Alternative Investment Market in March 2006. It has its headquarters in Oxfordshire and, through its operating companies, employs in total around 500 core staff there and at bases in Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire and Somerset.

 

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