Mr. James Ross Ancell

Mr. James Ross Ancell, has been an independent non-executive Director since April 2004. Mr. Ancell is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Company. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and has over 40 years of broad experience in building materials and construction sectors, waste management and recycling business gained from multinational corporations. He is currently the Chairman of Churngold Ventures Holdings Limited in the UK, a property-owning business. Previously he was Chairman of a leading specialist groundworks subcontractor carrying out groundworks, with a separate remediation business, cleaning up sites contaminated by previous industrial activity.