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23 November 2005 Ref: PR 16 (05)
New board member appointed
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has appointed Professor Michael
Mainelli to the position of Non-Executive Director. Mainelli brings a rich mix
of strategic and practical experience from both academic and commercial arenas
to the UKAS Board. In his new role, Mainelli will be able to make a valuable
contribution to the work UKAS undertakes to develop the profile of accreditation
both in the business community and across government.
Mainelli is Director of the risk-reward managers Z/Yen Limited covering
strategy, technology, finance and business development. He has worked in public,
private and not-for-profit organisations, led several privatisations, won a DTI
Smart Award in 2003 for PropheZy and served on the board of Europe’s largest R&D
organisation—the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. He is Mercers’ School
Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College and was recently named
Director of the Year 2004/5 by the British Computer Society.
In welcoming Mainelli’s appointment, Lord Lindsay, Chairman of UKAS, said, “We
are enormously pleased to have access to Michael’s considerable expertise. He
has a wealth of experience in the public and private sectors which is of direct
relevance to UKAS services. His knowledge will enable him to offer new
perspectives on our current priorities as well as on ways of further increasing
the value of accreditation.”
For further information on UKAS and the role of accreditation go to
www.ukas.com, contact: 020 8917 8400 or email
info@ukas.com.
ENDS
For media enquiries, please contact Matt Lambert,
Andrew Collis or Bobbi Davy at the UKAS press office on 020 7689 5155 or email
acollis@clear-group.co.uk or bdavy@clear-group.co.uk
Notes for editors
1. UKAS is a commercial, non-profit-distributing company limited by guarantee
with an annual turnover in excess of £10m. The UKAS Board includes the
non-executive Chairman (Lord Lindsay), and the Chief Executive who is supported
by an Executive Team and both technical and administrative staff.
Non-executive Directors are retired/re-elected on a three year rotation.
2. Mainelli started as a research scientist, later becoming a partner in a
leading accountancy firm directing their consultancy work in the UK and
overseas. He is a qualified accountant, computer specialist and management
consultant with a degree in Government from Harvard as well as mathematics and
engineering from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from the London School of
Economics in applications of chaos, risk/reward, statistics and planning.
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