Colt Board of Directors

 

Andreas Barth - Colt Board of Directors

Andreas Barth
Non-executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2003.

Andreas was formerly a member of the Supervisory Board of TDS Informationstechnologie. He was previously Senior Vice-President of Compaq Computer Corporation and has also worked for Thomson-CSF, Texas Instruments and Ford.


Rakesh Bhasin- Colt Board of Directors

Rakesh Bhasin
Chief Executive Officer, was appointed to the Board on 13 December 2006.

Rakesh was previously President and Chief Executive of KVH Co. Ltd, a Fidelity Asia-focused telecom and network solutions provider based in Tokyo and remains as non-executive Chairman of that company. Rakesh has previously held senior positions at AT&T and Japan Telecom Company Limited.


 Vincenzo Damiani - Board Of Directors

Vincenzo Damiani
Non-executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 23 July 2002.

Vincenzo is President of VIDA Consulting Srl and non-executive director of Mediatica SpA. He is a former non-executive director of Banca di Roma and was previously Corporate Vice-President of EDS Corporation, President of Digital Equipment Europe and General Manager of IBM Europe.


Mark Ferrari - Colt Board of Directors

Mark Ferrari
Executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2009 as a non-executive Director and became CFO on 31 March 2011.

He is also an advisory board member of KVH. He was previously Chief Operating Officer of Fidelity Capital and Devonshire Investors and Fidelity Broadband Group and served as Chairman of FIML Natural Resources and Backyard Farms Holding LLC and as director on the boards of a number of other Devonshire portfolio companies. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mark was Vice President of Finance at Kronos Inc and began his career at Ernst & Young.

Gene Gabbard - Colt Board of Directors

Gene Gabbard
Non-executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 6 January 2005.

Gene was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MCI Communications Corporation (now Verizon), founder, Chairman and CEO of Telecom USA and President of M/A-Com DCC. He also served as advisor to the Walt Disney Company, Telecom Italia and Nippon Electric Company. Gene is a member of the boards of NetCracker Technology Corporation, Knology, Inc., and Tower Cloud Inc. 


Sergio Giacoletto - Colt Board of Directors

Sergio Giacoletto
Non-executive director, was appointed to the Board on 22 July 2009.

Sergio was the Executive Vice President of Oracle Corporation, Europe, Middle East and Africa until December 2008. Prior to joining Oracle, he was President, Value Added Services at AT&T and before that he spent 20 years with Digital Equipment Corporation in various senior management and executive roles. He is currently the Senior Independent Director of Logica Plc and a non-executive Director of CSR plc. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Turin.


Simon Haslam - Colt Board of Directors

Simon Haslam
Non-executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 16 January 2007.

Simon is President of the Moonray Investors division of FIL Limited. He is a director of FIL Limited and of various of its subsidiaries and of funds managed by FIL Limited and its subsidiaries, and is also a non-executive Director of KVH Co. Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and was previously an audit and consulting partner with Deloitte, and a non-executive Director of Euroclear plc


Tim Hilton - Colt Board of Directors

Tim Hilton
Chairman, was appointed to the Board on 26 May 1999 and as Chairman on 16 January 2007.

Tim is Chairman of DI International, a private equity affiliate of Fidelity Investments. Tim previously served successively as President of Fidelity Capital, Fidelity Broadband, Fidelity Ventures and Devonshire Investors. Before joining Fidelity Investments in 1996, Tim was a partner of the US corporate law firm Sullivan & Worcester LLP.


Katherine Innes Ker - Colt Board of Directors

Katherine Innes Ker
Non-Executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2013.

Katherine is currently Senior Independent Director at Go-Ahead Group plc and Tribal Group plc. In both companies she chairs the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees. She is also independent Non-Executive Director at S&U plc and sits on the Nomination, Remuneration and Audit Committees. For over 15 years, Katherine has also served on a number of Boards, including ITV Digital and Fibernet Group. Prior to her NED portfolio career, Katherine was a senior city analyst, at SBC Warburg, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Henry Ansbacher and UBS Phillips & Drew.


Anthony Rabin - Colt Board of Directors

Anthony Rabin
Non-executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 20 July 2011.

He was an executive Director of Balfour Beatty plc for nine years, six as Chief Financial Officer and three as Deputy Chief Executive, where he had global responsibility for the Group’s Investment Division and for Risk Management and Assurance across the Group. He retired from Balfour Beatty in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the UK.


Michael Wilens - Colt Board of Directors

Michael Wilens
Non-executive Director, was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2012.

Michael has served as President of both Fidelity’s Asset Management division and Fidelity’s Enterprise Technology and Operations division. He was previously CEO of Thomson Reuters North American Legal division (Westlaw) and CTO at Thomson Reuters. He also served as CEO of Legion, a division of Group Lagard and was CEO/co-founder of several software and information company start-ups.


Caroline Griffin Pain - Colt Board of Directors

Caroline Griffin Pain
Company Secretary, was appointed as Company Secretary to the Board in April 2005.

Caroline joined Colt from a Reuters joint venture, Radianz, where she was Company Secretary having previously held senior management positions at Antfactory and Rea Brothers Group plc where she was General Counsel.


Lorraine Trainer will join the Board of Directors on 1 December 2013.

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