Laird PLC

Chairman. MA, FCA. Appointed a non-executive director in 1993 and Chairman in 2000. Chairman of the Nominations Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. Chairman of Axis-Shield plc, Oxford Instruments plc, Deltex Medical Group plc and BIOQUELL PLC.

Chief Executive. BSc, MBA, Chartered Engineer. Appointed Managing Director in 2001 and Chief Executive in 2002.  Previously held senior management positions with Invensys plc and BTR plc.  Non-executive director of Meggitt plc from 2004 until 31 March 2010 and a non-executive Board Member of United Kingdom Trade & Investment from 2005 until 31 March 2009. Appointed as a non-executive director of Cookson Group plc on 1 February 2010.

Finance Director. BA, CA. Joined Laird in 1986 and appointed to the Board as Finance Director in 1994. Previously Group Treasurer and Corporate Development Manager. Non-executive director of INVESCO Income Growth Trust plc.

Managing Director. BS, MS, MBA. Joined Laird in 1996 as General Manager of Laird’s EMI shielding business, becoming President of APM, Inc in 1997. Appointed Chief Executive of Laird Technologies, Inc in 2001. Appointed a director in January 2005. Previously held management positions with Monsanto. Non-executive director of Kionix, Inc until November 2009. US citizen.

Non-executive director. MA. Appointed on 1 December 2006. A member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees. Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. HM Diplomatic Service, retired. Formerly HM Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, having previously served as HM Ambassador, Warsaw, as Assistant Under Secretary of State for North Asia and the Pacific, and earlier as Head of the Hong Kong Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Non-executive director. BSc, MSc, PhD, ScD. Appointed on 1 July 2006. A member of the Remuneration Committee. Currently Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. Formerly Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government. Previously Cambridge Executive Director for the Cambridge-MIT Institute and Head of the School of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Surrey.

Non-executive director. FCA. Appointed on 1 September 2004. Senior independent non-executive director. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees. Previously an executive director of Tomkins plc and Chairman and Chief Executive of Tomkins Corp. USA and a non-executive director of George Wimpey plc. Non-executive director of Taylor Wimpey Plc, Spectris plc and e2v technologies plc.

Non-executive director. FCMA. Appointed on 1 September 2004. Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. Previously Finance Director of Pilkington plc and P&O Steam Navigation Co. Non-executive Chairman of Tata Steel Europe Limited and non-executive director of Tata Steel Limited, Kesa Electricals plc, JaguarLandRover Limited and PayPoint plc.

Non-executive director. BS, MS, PhD. Appointed on 1 September 2002. A member of the Remuneration and Audit Committees. Formerly President and CEO of Luminent, Inc., having previously held senior management positions with AT&T Corporation and Lucent Technologies. Non-executive director and Independent Lead Director of both Novellus Systems and ADC Telecommunications, and non-executive director of the Raytheon Company and Cascade Microtech Inc. US citizen.