NATS-Annual-Report-2015

Annual Report and Accounts 2015 | NATS Holdings Limited
Governance 45
Directors of
NATS Holdings Limited
Director’s biographies
The directors and officers of NATS Holdings Limited who were serving as at the date of approval of the accounts were as follows:
Chairman
Executive directors
Dr Paul Golby CBE
Paul served as Chief Executive Officer
of E.ON UK plc from 2002 to 2011,
is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering and was appointed Pro-
Chancellor and Chair of the Council for
Aston University in 2009. He is also
a non-executive director of National
Grid plc. Paul chairs the Nomination
Committee and is a member of the
Audit Committee.
Martin Rolfe, Chief Executive Officer
Martin was appointed Managing
Director, Operations in 2012, with
responsibility for NATS’ economically
regulated UK and North Atlantic
services. An engineer by training,
Martin holds a Master’s degree in
Aerospace Systems Engineering from
the University of Southampton. He
has 20 years of experience in the
defence and aerospace industry,
and prior to joining NATS was the
Managing Director of Lockheed
Martin’s Civil Division with responsibility
for worldwide Air Traffic Management
programmes as well as UK government
business. Martin has also worked for
the European Space Agency and
Logica plc.
Nigel Fotherby, Finance Director
Nigel joined NATS in 1999 as Finance
Director and led the Finance team
through the transition to Public
Private Partnership (PPP) (2001)
and, following the events of 9/11, the
financial restructuring and refinancing
of NERL in 2003. In addition to his
responsibilities for finance, Nigel leads
NERL’s economic regulatory team
and represented the company in the
economic regulator’s review of NERL’s
charges for CP3 and RP2. Previously,
he worked for Lex Service plc as
Finance Director of its retail group
and then for BT Cellnet, where he
was Deputy Finance Director.
He began his career with Coopers
& Lybrand where he qualified as a
Chartered Accountant.
Governance