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o2o Board of Directors

Chairman - David Callear  CEO - Simon Moate

David Callear – Chairman

David is a Chartered Accountant whose career has been in financial and general management mainly with publicly quoted companies. During the 1990s he was chief executive of both TIP Europe plc (Europe-wide vehicle rental) and Jeyes Group plc (international household products manufacture and supply).

David joined o2o as Chairman in February 2001. In addition, he has a number of non-executive chairman roles working with the boards of private companies including RP Martin Holdings Ltd and Swift Technical Group Holdings Ltd.

Simon Moate – Chief Executive

Simon joined o2o as Chief Executive on 30 July 2007. He was previously an executive director of Johnson Service Group plc, the managed services business, where as chief executive of the facilities management and specialist supplies division, he led and integrated a number of acquisitions. Prior to this he held a number of senior sales, marketing and operations roles with blue chip companies, including Well Well Well Ltd, Aramark plc, Provend Group plc and Coca Cola.

Mark Cunningham – Finance Director

Mark is a Chartered Accountant and joined Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1994. He was appointed Finance Director of Banner Business Supplies Ltd in 1999, having previously worked as Finance Controller. Mark became Finance Director of o2o in December 2000, a role he has retained whilst overseeing Logistics and IT on a project basis since February 2007.

Jim Cohen – Senior Non-Executive Director

Jim was a main board executive director of Balfour Beatty until his retirement in February 2007. Prior to joining Balfour Beatty in 1993, he held senior management positions with GTE and GEC and was a senior civil servant at the Department of Energy. In April 2007, Jim took on a non-executive role for the Swiss construction company, Implenia AG. He is also chairman of Empower Advisors limited, a private company, which is owned by Actis and provides interim power generation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Chris Batterham – Non-Executive Director

Chris joined office2office in June 2008 and is a Chartered Accountant with significant experience in the business services sector. He was finance director of Unipalm plc, the first internet company to float on the London Stock Exchange, and, latterly, chief financial officer of Searchspace Group until 2005. He currently holds a number of non-executive directorships including SDL plc, DRS Data and Research Services Plc, Iomart plc and Betfair plc.

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