3 Jul 2012 07:01
Toumaz Limited
Chris Batterham appointed non-executive director
Toumaz Limited (AIM: TMZ, 'Toumaz' or 'the Group'), a pioneer in and provider of ultra-low power, high-performance wireless communications technologies and solutions, has appointed Chris Batterham as a non-executive director with immediate effect.
Chris has considerable financial and operational experience and expertise having had an extensive career in a range of relevant companies. His career includes being finance director of Unipalm plc, the first internet company to IPO and then staying with the company for five years following its takeover by UUnet and being CFO for Searchspace. He is currently a non-executive director of SDL plc and office2office plc. He is also Chairman of Eckoh plc.
Chris has served on the boards of Staffware plc, DBS Management plc, DRS plc, Betfair Limited and The Invesco Techmark Enterprise Trust plc.
Chris Toumazou, Toumaz Chairman, said:
"We are delighted that someone of Chris' calibre has agreed to join us at this exciting time in our development. His considerable experience in developing fast-growing international technology companies will be invaluable."
Disclosures required pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules:
Mr Chris Michael Batterham (aged 57) currently holds, and has during the last five years immediately preceding the date of this announcement held, the following directorships or partnerships:
Current | Previous |
Eckoh plc | Betfair Group plc |
iomart plc | DRS Data and Research Services plc |
Office2Office plc | Searchspace Limited |
SDL International plc | The Risk Advisory Group plc |
UUNet (formerly Unipalm Group plc) |
Mr Batterham was a director of Whitechapel Workstations Ltd from 1987 until it was placed into receivership in 1988. There are no further matters to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.
Enquiries:
Toumaz Limited | 020 7355 0036 |
Chris Toumazou, Chairman | |
FinnCap | |
Geoff Nash / Henrik Persson (Corporate Finance) | 020 7220 0500 |
Brian Patient (Corporate Broking) | |
College Hill | |
Adrian Duffield/Malar Veleigam | 020 7457 2020 |
About Toumaz - (www.toumazltd.com)
Toumaz is pioneering low cost, ultra-low power wireless technologies for a wide range of markets including medical monitoring and internet-connected consumer devices.
The Group has two businesses; Toumaz Healthcare covering health technology solutions, and Toumaz Microsystems covering the design and development of semiconductor chips and solutions for low power and high-performance wireless communication.
Toumaz Healthcare provides wireless healthcare monitoring solutions for the hospital and home health markets. Toumaz's licensable smart sensor interface and transceiver platform, Sensium, is a leader in real-time wireless monitoring of the body's vital signs. Sensium has the potential to transform medical monitoring and reduce the cost of healthcare by wirelessly connecting individuals to healthcare providers - simply, affordably and unobtrusively. For healthcare professionals, this creates new opportunities for pro-active monitoring and improved quality of care. For patients, it delivers new opportunities for lifestyle-compatible personalised healthcare.
Toumaz Microsystems designs, develops and sells low-power and high performance semiconductor chips and solutions for the growing embedded wireless connectivity market, addressing opportunities in a wide range of internet connected devices. These include home and enterprise automation, healthcare, smart power, security/monitoring systems, intelligent toys and other connectivity-centric cloud-enabled systems.
Its key product, Telran, the world's lowest power radio system-on-chip forms the basis for Toumaz UK's Sensium platform.
Toumaz is an AIM listed company (AIM: TMZ) with development centres in Abingdon, UK and Taipei City, Taiwan.