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Steve Bennett, Non Executive Chairman

Achieving higher quality performance on a reduced funded basis has been Steve's senior management responsibility for over thirty years.

Initially he ran internal project reviews in the operating subsidiaries of a large British Plc engineering group, where he motivated management teams to conduct fundamental reviews of their organisation and practices which, combined with the adoption of new technology systems, achieved significant improvements in organisation and methods.

With the growth in technology Steve moved sector to the Information Technology industry, where for twenty years he worked as the Managing Director of the main subsidiary company of each of four fully quoted plc Groups. Each of these groups developed their own critical business software applications, consulting and providing managed service support to some two thousand major public and private sector organisations in the UK and international markets. His high profile management role was to lead fundamental strategic reviews of his companies and their resources and ensure that long and short term programmes that delivered radical change or significant business improvement were successfully planned and implemented by empowered staff and management.

Steve has always believed that high quality communication and reporting on a regular basis to all stake holders, suppliers, clients and staff is crucial to the success of any programme of change. Ensuring that all critically interested parties to his change management programmes were fully aware, committed to and supportive of the vigorous change being implemented across the organisation was business imperative number one.

His breadth of experience, and understanding of how sustainable improvement requires attention to many interdependent elements, means that Steve is the Chairman or Non-Executive Director of many smaller enterprise growth companies as well as empirical. He retains the same passion for motivating the individual to achieve maximum performance for the stakeholder's investment that he has delivered to institutional and banking sources for more than three decades.