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Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors has general responsibility for the management of Nomad in accordance with English law and the Company's Articles of Association. Currently, the Board of Directors consists of a chairman and four additional members.
Nigel Wallbridge
Nigel Wallbridge Executive Chairman and CEO Direct Number: +44 207 0 966 966
nigel@nomadrail.com
Nigel Wallbridge is the founder and Executive Chairman of Nomad Digital. He has previously held senior managerial positions in the telecommunications industry, including CEO of Interoute, and President of Cable & Wireless Americas. A professional engineer with a doctoral degree from the University of Leeds, and an MBA from INSEAD, Nigel lives in France and is a Non-Executive Director for a number of technology companies. He has dual UK/Canadian citizenship.
Haydn Abbott
Haydn Abbott Non-Executive Director Direct Number: +44 207 0 966 966
Haydn Abbott was previously the Chief Executive of Alpha Trains International, created as a separate company to concentrate on the European train leasing business outside of the UK following the sales of the Angel Trains Group by the Royal Bank of Scotland in August 2008, and before that, the Chief Executive of the Angel Trains Group, Europe's leading train leasing company with assets and train orders of over £3.6bn in the UK, and a rapidly developing international business in both freight and passenger vehicles with assets of over 2bn.Haydn was previously on the Board of De La Rue PLC. as Managing Director of the Casy Systems Division and with Sony Europe where he held the positions of Group Managing Director of Sony's UK business and then Vice President of Sony Europe, responsible for all of Sony's broadcast and professional equipment activities across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Prior to Sony, Haydn ran Racal Electronics worldwide offshore navigation systems business.Haydn was Chairman of the Railway Industry Association from 2004 to 2006 and is now Chairman of the Railway Sector Advisory Group (from 2006 to 2011), and was also Deputy Chairman of the Railway Forum. He is a Cambridge graduate in Mathematics, and a Chartered Electrical Engineer, speaks several languages and is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transportation and a Freeman of the City of London.
Roy Merritt
Roy Merritt Non-Executive Director Direct Number: +44 207 0 966 966
Roy is a Partner at Oakfield Capital Partners Limited, which he co-founded in 2008. He has over 15 years of experience in private equity at leading firms including Apax Partners, Providence Equity Partners, DB Capital Venture Partners and Amadeus Capital Partners. He began his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Roy was non-executive Chairman of Axon Group plc, an LSE-quoted business IT services consultancy which was purchased by HCL Group in 2008. In addition, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Esprit Telecom Group PLC, a pan-European, facilities-based, long-distance telephone operator. He played a leading role in helping the company scale to around 1,000 employees in seven countries, its IPO on NASDAQ and a successful trade sale exit. Roy holds MA and MEng degrees in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, and received an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.


David Proctor
David Proctor Non-Executive Director Direct Number: +44 207 0 966 966
David graduated from Sunderland Polytechnic in 1973 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Folowing a career in BT PLC spanning 25 years, culminating in his appointment as General Manager of BT's cellular mobile business, he left in 1992 to set up Xpedite Systems Ltd (XSL). XSL was a start up Enhanced Fax Service Provider business funded by £3m Venture Capital utilising some technology from the US. Over the following five years, he built the business up to become market leader in the UK, and XSL was sold in 1997 to a US Company for S$87.5m, winning him the BVCA "Venturer of the Year" award in 1998. He was appointed as a Director of Nomad Digital during the funding round of 2006.
James Raby
James Raby Non-Executive Director Direct Number: +44 207 0 966 966
After graduating from Imperial College in London, James has had 25 years of experience where he has held senior positions as Product Manager for Atmel Semiconductor Inc, and as Director of International Business Development at VT Merlin Communications, and Senior Managing Director at CC Media Inc. Currently James is a Senior Investment Manager with SEB, and Director at Zinware.
Lars Michaelsen
Lars Michaelsen Non Executive Director Direct Number: +44 207 0 966 966
Lars joined T-Venture in 2001 where he is working in the T-Mobile Venture Fund. The fund supports T-Mobile to achieve efficiency gains in customer services, access and core networks, and service enabling platforms. It also enables the deployment of new consumer and enterprise services. Lars currently represents T-Venture's investments in Nomad Digital, Ubiquisys and BodyTel. Successful exits include Arantech and Percello. Lars holds a PhD in finance of the University of Cologne and graduated in business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) at the same university. He also studied at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Paris, and holds a CEMS Master in International Management (Community of European Management Schools).

Sales Contacts

At the core of Nomad is a dedicated global salesteam, with respective geograhical coverage. For enquiries, please get in touch with the relevant contact below, or use the links at the top of the page to submit an online enquiry.

Matthew Gould Sales Director Direct Number: +44 7908 252 663
matthew.gould@nomadrail.com
Bill Brunet Director of Sales, North America Direct Number: +1 802 999 8960
Bill.Brunet@nomadrail.com
Damian Bryant General Manager, Australasia Direct Number: +61 (08) 6231 1440
damian.bryant@nomadrail.com
Hubert Knulst Regional Manager, Europe Direct Number: +31614267547
hubert@nomadrail.com
Ken Kyle Regional Manager, UK + Ireland Direct Number: +44 (0) 207 0966 966 Ext 2074
ken.kyle@nomadrail.com
Spencer Dando Regional Manager, Middle East, Africa Direct Number: +971 50 6009233
spencer.dando@nomadrail.com

 

Xiong Bo China Direct Number: +86 10 5165 5971
xiong.bo@nomadrail.com

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