Directorate Change

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RTC Group PLC

11 July 2011

 



11 July 2011

RTC Group plc ("RTC" or the "Company")
Appointment of directors

Further to RTC's annual general meeting held on 22 June 2011, at which Gary Hewett, Andrew Bailey and John White were proposed for election, the Company is pleased to announce their formal appointment to the board of directors of RTC ("Board") with immediate effect.

Gary Hewett has joined the Board as Recruitment Managing Director.  Gary was commissioned in the Royal Air Force in 1980 and served over 20 years in the UK, Germany and Belgium.  Trained as a fighter navigator and subsequently a qualified weapons instructor, he flew Phantom F4s and Tornado F3s, was selected to attend the Joint Service Staff College in Canberra Australia, and retired as a Wing Commander from a strategic planning tour in the Ministry of Defence in 2000.  He was awarded an MBE in 1993 and completed a Cranfield University MSc (Corporate Management) in 1999.  Gary's initial role in 'civvy street' was as General Manager Service Delivery for Global Crossing, before a short duration in interim management being the Business Development Manager for Thales Communications, followed by four years as EMEA Business Development Director for Ocean Software.  Gary joined the RTC Group initially as Managing Director of Ganymede Solutions in July 2008, was appointed as a Director of ATA Recruitment in February 2009, and Managing Director of ATA Recruitment in October 2010.

Andrew Bailey has joined the Board as  Group Finance Director  Andrew spent five years with a provincial accounting practice, qualifying as a chartered accountant in June 1982, when he moved to KPMG.  Having progressed to departmental manager within a general department, working on audit, accounting, tax, reporting and investigation work, Andrew left in 1987 to join Eagle Trust plc as a divisional financial controller.  In 1990 he joined Sanderson CFL Limited, a computer software and services business, as Finance Director.  Andrew was appointed Managing Director of Sanderson CFL Limited in 1993 and also held a number of non-executive roles within the Sanderson Group.  On 24 April 2003, Andrew as appointed to the Board as Commercial Director of RTC Group Plc and became Group Managing Director in January 2006 and Group Chief Operating Officer in October 2007.  In June 2009 Andrew left the board to take on the role of Training Division Managing Director.

John White has joined the Board as a non-executive director.  John trained as a mechanical design engineer at EMI Limited then went into contract engineering being engaged by various engineering companies to work on specific projects.  In 1975 he became a recruitment contracts manager in the sales and placement of contract engineers.  In 1977 John joined Shorterm Engineers Limited as a director and became a junior equity partner.  With backing from Midland Montague Ventures Limited, he led a Management Buyout taking individual overall control.  Shorterm Group Limited ("SGL") continued its expansion programme organically and by acquisition whilst building up a management structure to become one of the largest technical employment agencies in the South of England.  In 1999 SGL was sold to venture capital company 3i, which supported a new management buy-in.

Enquiries:

RTC Group plc
Tel:  [phone]
Bill Douie, Executive Chairman
Andy Pendlebury, Chief Executive

Allenby Capital Limited
Tel:  [phone]
Brian Stockbridge
Dan Robinson

Regulatory disclosures :

Gary Martin Hewett (aged 50), Andrew Bailey (aged 54) and John Terence White (aged 61) are or have been directors of the following companies in the last five years:

Name	Current directorships	Directorships within the last five years
Gary Hewett	ATA Recruitment Limited
	Ganymede Solutions Limited
	Gardake Limited
	Global Choice Recruitment Limited
Andrew Bailey		ATA Management Services Limited
		ATA Recruitment Limited
		Catalis Limited
		The Derby Conference Centre Limited
		Ganymede Solutions Limited
		RTC Group plc
John White	Project - EMC Limited	A R A Recruitment Limited
	Hogarth Close Residents Management Company Limited	Mobile Technical Staff Limited

Catalis Limited was placed into administration on 25 June 2010 and Andrew Bailey's directorship was terminated on that date.

John White was a director of Rubicon Ash Limited at the time it was liquidated on 22 December 2003.

Save as disclosed above, there are no further disclosures to be made in relation to Gary Hewett, Andrew Bailey or John White under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) (i)‒(viii) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

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