PHSC plc - directors

Stephen King co-founded PHSCL in 1990 with Nicola Coote. He has over 20 years experience in health and safety management, having qualified in 1985. He left a role as Personnel Manager at Delta Enfield Cables Ltd in 1986, moving to the News International printing facility at Wapping, London. At News International, he was Occupational Health and Safety Manager, in charge of a team of practitioners responsible for the well-being of over 4,000 staff. In 1990, he joined Reuters plc as UK Health and Safety Manager. He left employment with Reuters plc in 1992 and continued to service their health and safety requirements through PHSCL. He has acted as Secretary of the South East Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and served a two-year term as Chairman of the London Occupational Health and Safety Group by whom he was granted honorary Life Membership. He chaired the annual Tolley Health and Safety Conference for three successive years, and has presented papers at a number of conferences.

Nicola Coote co-founded PHSCL in 1990 with Stephen King. After an administrative role in health and safety with News International, she moved to Reuters plc in 1990, and qualified as a health and safety practitioner in 1991. She left their employment in 1992 and continued to service their health and safety requirements through PHSCL. Nicola has served as Secretary of the South East Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and has chaired the annual Tolley Health and Safety Conference. She has been a national examiner for the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health since 1995.

Graham Webb was appointed as a non-executive director of the Company in June 2003. He is chairman of the international hair and beauty group that bears his name. He was chairman of the Institute of Directors, Kent branch, from 1996 to 1999 and was appointed as a member of the Confederation of British Industry South Eastern Regional Council (1994 to 2000). He served as a director of Kent Training and Enterprise Council prior to its reorganisation, and was also a member of the CBI Training and Skills Council from 1995 to 2000. His charitable activities include a trusteeship with Kent Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. As chairman of the Kent and Medway NSPCC Full Stop Appeal, Graham helped raise over £460,000. In the 2005 New Year Honours list, Graham was awarded an MBE for his services to business, and charity in Kent.

Mike Miller was appointed non-executive director of the Company in June 2005. Having worked for 33 years with National Westminster Bank plc, latterly in managerial roles, Mike left to become a director of Brossard de Bayle Ltd, an independent commercial banking consulting firm, in 1995 where he assessed and found suitable financing for small and medium sized enterprises. In 1999 he joined Beer Mergers Ltd, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm specialising in owner managed businesses, as a regional director and in this capacity Mike has been valuable in introducing and assessing companies suitable for acquisition by the Company. Mike has been an honorary treasurer for Save the Children Fund in Maidenhead and Reading, Uckfield Chamber of Commerce and his golf club in Seaford. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors.