We provide communications to our investors through our annual and interim reports, face-to-face meetings and stock exchange announcements. In this section you will find director details, company accounts and shareholdings.
This information together with the details disclosed under Board of Directors constitute the information required by AIM Rule 26. The companies articles of association are available in Investor Relations.
Profile of Company Directors
Executive Chairman
Lynton Barker
Date Appointed: 14 November 2008
Appointed to the Board in November 2008, appointed Chairman in April 2009 and Executive Chairman in April 2010. He was a Non-executive Director of Mouchel Group plc from 2008 to 2010. Between 2003 and 2008 he was a Director, and latterly Chairman, of Hedra plc. Prior to that he had a long career in management consultancy, having been Head of UK Consultancy for PricewaterhouseCoopers LL and a member of its UK Main Board and European Consultancy Board.
Lynton Barker has interests in the following companies/partnerships:
CURRENT DIRECTORSHIPS:
Active Risk Ltd, Active Risk Inc., Active Risk Pty Ltd.
PAST DIRECTORSHIPS:
Mouchel Group plc
Hedra plc
No other information for this director falls to be disclosed under the AIM Rules.
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Darby
Date Appointed: 03 August 2006
Joined Active Risk from Misys plc, where he was a Business Unit Finance Director within the Banking Division. Andrew held several senior financial positions whilst at Misys, including Chief Financial Officer of Misys Risk Management Systems in California and European Financial Controller. His earlier career was at Generali SpA and English and American Group plc. Andrew qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand.
Andrew Darby has interests in the following companies/partnerships:
CURRENT DIRECTORSHIPS:
Active Risk Ltd, Active Risk Inc., Active Risk Pty Ltd.
PAST DIRECTORSHIPS:
Almonde Inc Almonde Limited Almonde SARL Misys Holdings France S.A.S. Misys International Banking Systems (CIS) Limited Misys International Banking Systems B.V. Misys International Banking Systems GmbH Misys International Banking Systems Limited Misys International Banking Systems S.A. (France) Misys International Banking Systems S.A. (Luxembourg) Misys International Banking Systems Sp. z o.o. Misys International Financial Systems S.L. Misys International Financial Systems Srl Misys International S.A. Misys International Systems – Informatica Unipessoal Limitada Misys IQ Limited Misys Overseas Investments S.a r.l The Frustum Group (Europe) Limited, Line International Ltd
No other information for this director falls to be disclosed under the AIM Rules.
Senior Non-Executive Director
Alastair Gordon
Date Appointed: 14 November 2008
Appointed to the Board in November 2008. He was CFO of SDL plc for ten years until 2008 and remained on the board until early 2010. Prior to that he spent ten years with Berisford plc which included three years as CFO for the USA operations. His early career was spent as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. Alastair was also a Non-executive Director of Alterian plc and Chairman of the Audit Committee until January 2012.
Alastair Gordon has interests in the following companies/partnerships:
PAST DIRECTORSHIPS:
SDL plc, SDL Sheffield Ltd, Automated Language Processing Services Ltd, Interlingua Group Ltd, Aplnet UK Ltd, Computype Ltd. No other information for this director falls to be disclosed under the AIM Rules.
Non-Executive Director
Iain Johnston
Date Appointed: 21 December 2011
Iain has held a number of non-executive positions as well as founding several businesses in the technology sector. He has a strong Sales and Marketing background with experience of both the UK and the USA markets in a variety of roles at all levels. Iain is also a Non-Executive Director of Internetq plc. He was Deputy Chairman of Alterian plc until October 2011, having co-founded the business in 1997 and was also CEO of the Loewy Group Ltd until the sale of the business in July 2011.
Iain Johnston has interests in the following companies/partnerships:
CURRENT DIRECTORSHIPS:
Event Marketing Solutions Ltd, EMS Healthcare LLP, InternetQ plc, Chail Consulting Ltd.
PAST DIRECTORSHIPS:
Alterian plc, Loewy Group Limited, Epoch Design Limited, President Limited, Radius London Limited, Raymond Loewy International Limited, Raymond Loewy Limited, Seymour-Powell Limited, The Team Brand Communication Consultants Limited, Williams Murray Hamm Limited, Loewy Limited, BITE Limited, Logopress Limited, Branded Limited, Manta Public Relations Limited, PBW Group Limited, Advent Publishing Systems Limited, Rainier Limited, Core Create Group Limited, Core Create Design Limited, Core Create Publishing Limited, Core-Create Limited, Brand Create Limited.
No other information for this director falls to be disclosed under the AIM Rules.
Sub-Committees
Audit Committee:
- Iain Johnston
- Alastair Gordon
Remuneration and Nominations Committee:
- Iain Johnston
- Alastair Gordon
Shareholder Information (updated as of 9 May 2013)
Active Risk Group securities are traded on the AIM Market, LSE.
The total number of AIM Securities in issue is 33,346,769.
Major Shareholder Information
Nick Denning, 17.69% shareholding
Blackrock Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, 12.18% shareholding
Richard Higgs, 12.00% shareholding
Herald Investment Management Ltd, 10.00% shareholding
Octopus Investments Limited, 8.64% shareholding
Invesco Perpetual, 8.96% shareholding
Isis Equity Partners, 5.60% shareholding
Active Risk Group Employee Benefit Trust, 4.29% shareholding
Director Shareholdings
Lynton Barker, 1.67% shareholding
Alastair Gordon, 0.23% shareholding
Andrew Darby, 0.15% shareholding
Shares Not in Public Hands
In accordance with AIM Rule 26, The Company discloses that as at 9th May 2013, 58.21% of the issued share capital was considered not to be in public hands.
