rns director change 20 Dec 2011 08:48
RNS Number : 2740U
Pure Wafer PLC
20 December 2011

PURE WAFER PLC
(AIM: PUR)
Directorate Change
Pure Wafer plc, the provider of high quality silicon wafer reclaim services for many of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, is pleased to announce that David Richard Howells (aged 38) has been appointed as Group Finance Director, with a commencement date of 4 January 2012.
Richard qualified as a chartered accountant in 1999 prior to joining KPMG's audit division where he stayed until 2003. After this Richard joined Christie Tyler, the largest manufacturer of upholstered furniture in the UK, as Group Accountant before moving to Airborne Systems Group Limited in 2005 as Assistant Group Financial Director and moving to interim Group CFO. Whilst at Airborne Systems Group, the world leader in the development and manufacture of aerial delivery systems for the military and space industry, Richard was involved in the restructure of the Group following its acquisition in 2010 by a US private equity firm, which included a public debt offering in the US and securing a multi-million banking facility in the UK.