Interregnum PLC
07 July 2004
7th July 2004
INTERREGNUM PLC
('Interregnum' or 'the Company')
DIRECTORATE CHANGE
ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
John Scarisbrick and Steve Lewis to join Advisory Board, Martin Peck to leave
main Board.
Interregnum plc, the technology merchant bank, announces that it has extended
the membership of its Advisory Board with the appointment of John Scarisbrick
and Steve Lewis. Interregnum's Advisory Board, chaired by John Forrest CBE,
provides market and deal origination support to the Company.
John Scarisbrick worked for 25 years at Texas Instruments ('TI') in a variety
of roles, including as Senior Vice President, responsible for TI's $5 billion
Application Specific Products chip business; as President of TI Europe, and as
head of the team that created TI's Digital Signal Processing business in
Houston, Texas. Prior to this, he worked in electronics systems design roles
at Rank Radio International Ltd and Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd in
the UK.
John is currently Non-Executive Director of ARM Holdings plc and Cambridge
Silicon Radio plc. He sits on the board of three private companies in the
technology/telecoms sector - SonIM Inc, Intrinsity Inc and UbiNetics Ltd. He is
also Chairman of Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd.
Steve Lewis was, until May 2004, Microsoft's General Manager of Market
Development, where he was responsible for driving industry adoption of the
Microsoft platform and .NET.
Prior to Microsoft, Steve served as General Manager of the Messaging and
Collaboration division of IBM's Lotus Development Corporation, having previously
held key executive positions in business development, product strategy,
engineering and sales.
Separately, the Company announces that with immediate effect, Martin Peck has
resigned his position of Corporate Finance Director from the Board of
Interregnum. He will become a consultant to the Company and will advise on
transactions where appropriate.
Ken Olisa, Chairman & CEO of Interregnum, said:
'I am delighted to welcome John and Steve to the Advisory Board and I am sure
that their experience in the technology sector will prove invaluable to the
development of Interregnum's business. I would also like to thank Martin for his
contribution to the Board and we are pleased that he will retain his links with
the company as a consultant.'
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Contacts:
Interregnum plc T: 020 7494 3080
Ken Olisa, Chairman & CEO
Merlin PR T: 020 7653 6620
Vanessa Maydon 07802 961902
Rebecca Penney 07795 108178
Notes to Editor
Interregnum plc (www.interregnum.com), the AIM-listed technology merchant bank
(symbol: ITR), invests and takes principal finance positions in technology
companies and advises corporates, government, technology entrepreneurs, advisors
and investors on issues such as corporate finance, IP exploitation and
commercial due diligence.
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