PLC Board Directors

Born in 1948, Mike was Chief Executive of SciSys (formerly CODASciSys) from 1986 (when he led the management buy-in of the business) until 2003, when he became Non-Executive Chairman. He stepped back in as Executive Chairman in late 2007. He studied physics at university and obtained his PhD in theoretical nuclear physics. He entered the software industry in 1976 with Logica, moved to the European Space Agency in the late seventies and joined SciSys in 1981. He serves as Non-Executive Director at Dillistone Group plc; is Chairman at ClearStream Technologies Group plc; is a Director of WP2 Limited and a Director of The Nepal Trust.

Born in 1952, David joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director in June 2002. He became an Executive Director in late 2007 when he took on the role of Operations Director for the Government Division and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in January 2010. His earlier career includes some 20 years at Admiral plc, where he held a number of director-level appointments, including Group Operations Director and Managing Director of Admiral Computing Limited. He has also been Chief Operations Officer for Allied Worldwide Limited and was a founding member of the DRA Software Engineering Centre Advisory Board. He is also Chairman of Ashlar Property Management Limited, a property development and rental company.

Born in 1960, Klaus studied electrical engineering with a focus on communications engineering at the University of Dortmund and gained a masters degree in electronics engineering. In 1989 he joined VCS AG (now SCISYS DE GmbH) as a sales engineer after working as sound engineer and musician for 3 years. From 1992 he was responsible for marketing & sales of VCS and developed VCS media activities until he briefly left VCS for Management Data AG in Hamburg in 2000 where he was Managing Director. A year later he came back to VCS and took responsibility for strategic business development within corporate management. Since 2005 he has been a director of the Media Broadcasting Solutions business unit and joined the Executive Board in 2009. On 1st January 2012 he became an Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer.

Klaus-G. Meng was born in 1959 and was the founder and chief executive of VCS AG, which was acquired by SciSys plc in 2007. He studied electrical engineering at Bochum University in Germany and graduated with a dissertation as doctor in the field of the optic communication engineering in 1987. As a student he began to market his ideas in the field of meteorological satellite remote sensing. This led to the creation of VCS. Since1993 Klaus-G. Meng has been lecturing on satellite communication at the University of Dortmund. In 2003 he received an honorary professorship of the faculty for electrical engineering and information technology at the University of Dortmund.