Stadium Group Directors

Executive Directors

Nigel Rogers FCA
Chief Executive
(Nominations Committee)
Nigel is a Chartered Accountant and joined Stadium in 1993 as Group Finance Director. He was responsible for the UK Electronics operations from 1998 until appointed Chief Executive in March 2001. Nigel was formerly Development Manager at Formica Corporation, and held both Audit Manager and Senior Manager Positions at PWC.

Kamal Verma BSc
Managing Director – Electronics
Kamal joined Stadium Group in 1985. He holds a First Class honours degree in Applied Physics from the University of Aston, Birmingham and has led the development of Stadium Electronics operations since his appointment as Managing Director for Electronics in 1989.
From 1998 to 2001 as Group Managing Director Kamal was responsible for integrating new acquisitions including Quest Consumer products and Arlec (Stadium Asia) into the Group.

Ken Leung BSc
Managing Director – Stadium Asia
Ken holds a BSc (Eng) in Industrial Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. Based in Hong Kong, Ken joined the Group on the acquisition of Arlec Power (now Stadium Asia) in March 2000. Appointed to the board as Managing Director for Stadium Asia on 1 January 2003. Formerly operations Manager at Philips LCD Hong Kong 1995-1997. Ken is a member of the IET - Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) Institute of Industrial Engineers (U.S.A) and P.Eng of Professional Engineers Ontario (Canada). Ken is also Vice Chairman for the Hong Kong SME Association and Industrial Adviser to the City University of Hong Kong.

Non Executive Directors

Nick Brayshaw OBE BSc, ARSM, CEng, FIMechE
Chairman
(Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees)
Nick was appointed as a Non-executive Director in April 2005 and Chairman in April 2006. He began his career with Rio Tinto plc and Caradon plc, before being appointed Group Chief Executive of Wagon plc until March 2004. He was an independent member of the Business and Innovation Group Board of the Department of Trade and Industry from 2000 to 2006, and Chairman of the CBI Manufacturing Council from 2003 to 2007. He is currently Chairman of UK Manufacturing, Barclays Bank plc, Traction Technology plc and a number of additional private companies.

Chris Gill ACA
Senior Independent Director
(Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees)
Chris is a Chartered Accountant and was appointed as a Non-executive Director in April 2006.
He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee at Stadium Group and a member of the North of England Industrial Development Board. Chris was appointed Financial Director of Wellstream Holdings plc in November 2007.

Colin Wilson ACA
Company Secretary
Finance Director and Company Secretary
Colin is a Chartered Accountant who joined Stadium in April 2006 as Finance Manager. He was appointed as Company Secretary in December 2006.
He trained with Coopers & Lybrand prior to moving into industry. Colin joined ICI's Uniqema business, where he spent over 10 years in diverse roles covering production accounting, systems implementations, planning and performance management and business analysis. Colin was appointed as Finance Director in February 2008.