ITIS Holdings - The Company

Stuart Marks, Chief Executive

Stuart Marks, aged 40, is the founder of ITIS Holdings, and has fifteen years’ experience in the service industry. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Handling Solutions Limited, a company which specialises in database led promotional fulfilment, direct mail and customer loyalty programmes. The company was later sold to Park Group plc. In 1997 he established Module Communications, which grew to become a leading new media company, and was sold to Grey Advertising in 1999.

Jonathan Burr, Chief Technology Officer

Jonathan Burr, aged 46, graduated from the University of Oxford in 1982 and in 1985 qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross Management Consultants. In 1987 he joined Avis Europe plc and in 1993 became Director of Business Development Europe for Capital Fleet Services. In December 1996 GECFS appointed him as Managing Director, Benelux and then as Managing Director, UK and Ireland in September 1996. He joined ITIS Holdings in January 2000.

Andrew Forrest, Finance Director

Andrew Forrest, aged 39, graduated from the University of Bath, with a degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering in 1990. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Cassons in 1993 and joined ITIS Holdings in May 2000 to assist with the flotation process. He was appointed as Finance Director in November 2002.

Dr Gary Gates, International Business Director

Dr Gary Gates, aged 38, graduated from the University of York in 1991 with a degree in Theoretical Physics and obtained a PhD in Computational Physics in 1993. He became a Chartered Physicist in 1995. In 1994, he joined British Energy to work on a number of key research projects and moved to BNFL in 1996. In 1998 he moved to Norway to manage BNFL’s nuclear fuel research programme. In 2000, he moved back to the UK to lead BNFL’s fuel performance team. Gary joined ITIS Holdings in January 2001 as Product Development Manager and then International Business Director in 2004. He was appointed to the ITIS board in July 2007.

Sir Trevor Chinn, CVO, Chairman

Sir Trevor Chinn, aged 71, is Chairman of the Automobile Association. He retired at the end of April 2003 as Chairman of RAC plc (formerly Lex Service PLC). He was appointed to the Board of Lex Service PLC in 1959, became Managing Director in 1968, Chairman and Chief Executive in 1973 and Chairman in September 1996. In 1999 he was appointed Chairman of the Motorists’ Forum. He was awarded the CVO in 1989 and a knighthood in 1990 for his charitable activities, in particular the Wishing Well Appeal for Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was appointed Chairman of ITIS Holdings in September 2000.

John Hewett, Non-Executive Director

John Hewett, aged 43, is Chief Executive of Smedvig Capital, a London based venture capital firm he founded with Peder Smedvig in 1996. He sits on a number of boards in connection with Smedvig Capital investments. Prior to this, he was a management consultant with Bain & Company and an investment banker with NatWest Markets. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of ITIS Holdings in April 2000.

Steven Norris, Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director

Steven Norris, aged 62, was a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 1997 and Minister of Transport from 1992 to 1996. He retired in 1997 to be Director General of the Road Haulage Association. He was the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004. He is currently Executive Chairman of Jarvis plc, Chairman of AMT-Sybex Group Ltd and a director of a number of other companies in the transport field. He is Senior Partner of Park Place Communications, a specialist in transport, land use and planning policy. He is President of ITS UK, the trade association of the UK telematics industry, and a former President of the Motorcycle Industry Association. He was the first Chair of the National Cycling Strategy Board. He is a leading authority on transport policy in the UK. He was appointed as Non-Executive Director of ITIS Holdings in May 1997.