Barrie Brinkman joined the board of HTEC in 1987 and has over 25 years of electronics and software design experience with a number of companies including City Business Products Limited, a subsidiary of British Telecommunications plc. He joined the board in February 1998 following the Company's acquisition of HTEC.
Malcolm Coster joined the Universe Group board in August 2007 and is an experienced businessman who has held the most senior international positions in Commerce and Industry and in the Management Consultancy and Information Technology industries. Malcolm is an experienced Chairman, Board Member and Non-executive Director of several well known public companies. Other current positions include Chairman of MTL Instruments Group Plc, a successful public company and world leader in the manufacture and supply of instrumentation and protection equipment for the process control, energy and telecommunication industries and Chairman of DMW Group, a technology consultancy specialising in large scale project and programme management.