Our Board of Directors comprises:-

Barrie Whipp (Executive Chairman)
Stephen Goodwin (Chief Executive)
Jeremy Roth (Sales Director)
Rowley Ager (Non-Executive Director)
Graham Ashley (Non-Executive Director)

The Company Secretary is Stephen Goodwin

Profiles of the Directors are included below.

Barrie Reginald John Whipp (aged 51, Executive Chairman)

Barrie founded Crimson Tide in 1996 and he formulated the ideas behind the Group’s mobile data solutions in 2003, recruiting the current management team in 2004. After a career in finance, he founded the financial services arm of Tiphook plc. He later became Group Managing Director of IAF Group plc which was subsequently admitted to the Official List in 1994. He has served as a non-executive director of Wills Group plc as well as a number of private companies. He is responsible for setting the Group’s vision and strategy as well as setting goals and targets for the Board.

Stephen Keith Goodwin (aged 53, Chief Executive)

Steve was appointed as Crimson Tide’s Chief Executive in April 2004 and has responsibility for delivering the strategy, day-to-day management of the Company and financial management and control. Steve is a Certified Accountant with over 20 years experience at Board level, 18 years as a CEO. After training as an accountant working for Shell International plc, he joined Tiphook plc in 1988 where he became Group Financial Controller and later Finance Director of the trailer division. In 1993 Steve was appointed Managing Director of the rail division and in 1996 led the management team in a £30m management buyout working with Prudential’s venture capital arm and HSBC. The business was sold two years later to GE Capital where he stayed on as Managing Director of GE’s European rail business and gained further experience in negotiating and integrating acquisitions.

Jeremy Walter Frederick Roth (aged 50, Sales Director)

Jeremy has over fifteen year’s experience in mobile telecommunications. His early career was with Connexions, a mobile telecoms dealer based in the South East in the early days of the introduction of personal mobile phones. He joined Astec Communications in 1989 which was subsequently taken over by Vodafone. Jeremy worked within Vodafone Corporate, dealing with mobile communications for some of its largest corporate accounts, and later, as a senior sales executive, was given responsibility for dealing with the NHS. During this time he built relationships with a number of NHS trusts, including ambulance services and the Department of Health. He developed these accounts from being purely users of voice communications to mobile data, introducing a number of Blackberry based and other mobile data solutions. He joined Crimson Tide in 2004 to head the Company’s sales division.

Rowley Stuart Ager (aged 65, Non-Executive Director)

Rowley is a qualified accountant who has spent all of his working life in industry and commerce. In 1972 he joined BAT Industries Group where he held a number of finance roles. In 1986, Rowley joined Tesco PLC becoming Company Secretary from 1990 to 2004 and was a member of the Tesco PLC board from 1992 to 2004. Rowley was Chairman of Tesco Personal Finance, a joint venture with RBS Group plc, from its formation in 1995 until he retired in 2004. He is currently chairman of Tesco Pension Trustees Ltd. Rowley is chairman of the Audit Committee.

Graham Basil Ashley (aged 63, Non-Executive Director)

Mr Ashley has over 40 years experience in stockbroking and corporate finance and was a founding director and shareholder of Greig Middleton Holdings Limited (stockbrokers). After the merger of Greig Middleton Holdings Limited with Gerrard Limited, he became a director of Gerrard Limited and following its acquisition by Old Mutual Securities Limited, a Senior Corporate Finance director of Old Mutual Securities, which was subsequently acquired by Arbuthnot. Mr Ashley has advised on acquisitions and disposals and fundraisings across a wide range of sectors and industries.

Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and of the profit or loss of the Group for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the Directors are required to:
a. select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; b. make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; c. state whether applicable accounting
standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and d. prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Group will continue in business. The Directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Group and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and Article 4 of the IAS regulation. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other
jurisdictions.

The Group has two Board committees, which operate within defined terms of reference.

Audit Committee
The Audit Committee, comprising Mr Ager (Chairman), Mr Ashley, Mr. Whipp and Mr Goodwin, is responsible for reviewing the full and half year results. In addition, the Audit Committee monitors the framework of internal control.

Remuneration Committee

The Remuneration Committee, comprising Mr Ashley (Chairman),Mr Ager, Mr Whipp and Mr Goodwin, reviews the remuneration of the Executive Directors and any senior executive of the Group and considers the grant of options and payment of performance related bonuses.

The Directors shareholdings in the company are as follows: