Board of Directors

Simon Collins

Non-Executive Chairman

Simon co-founded strategic advisory firm Gold Collins in 2018 and holds board positions at Decoded (acting Chairman), Signal AI, Quantexa and the RAF. Simon was Chairman of KPMG UK from 2012 to 2017 and Global Head of Transactions & Restructuring and European Head of Corporate Finance during his 19-year tenure at the firm. He also spent 7 years at SG Warburg & Co. and then NatWest Markets, leaving as MD & Global Head of Debt Structuring & Private Placements.

 

Sara Murray OBE

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Sara has founded and grown several successful technology companies. She founded Ninah Consulting, a proprietary software to advise clients, including GSK and Coca-Cola, and sold it to Publicis Group (via ZenithOptimedia) in 2003. She founded Inspop (Confused.com) and sold the company to Admiral Insurance in 2002. Sara has been named Entrepreneur of the Year and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She was a board member of the British Government’s Innovate UK and a founder of Seedcamp, an organisation to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in the UK and Europe. She was previously on the board of Schering Health Care (now Bayer Schering Pharma) and was a Senior Independent Director of Boohoo Group PLC. Sara read Physiology, Psychology and Philosophy at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

 

Daren Morris

Chief Financial Officer

Daren was previously CFO of Volex PLC from 2015 to 2020. He was part of the executive management team that led a turnaround of Volex and drove a quadrupling of the share price over the period. Daren spent the first eighteen years of his career in investment banking and accountancy and was a Managing Director at both UBS Investment Bank and Morgan Stanley, advising manufacturing and technology companies on their expansion and financing strategies. Daren’s current public company board experience includes Big Technologies plc, and Manchester and London Investment Trust plc. Daren’s previous public company board experience includes Volex plc, Easynet plc and Nexen Tech Corporation. Daren is a qualified chartered accountant (ICAEW ACA 1997) and read Physics at Trinity College, Oxford.

 

Charles Lewinton

Chief Operating Officer

Charles has been working in the Electronic Monitoring industry for the last 20 years, focussed on developing new technology in both software and hardware. He has a background in large scale secure software development, delivering innovative combinations of software and smart hardware to reduce operational costs. He has led on the roll-out of multiple international electronic monitoring projects for central and local governments. Charles joined Buddi in 2012 after serving as Technical Delivery Manager at Serco and as a Software Developer at Geologix. Charles has a BSc Hons in Computing from University of East Anglia.

 

Camilla Macun

Non-Executive Director

Camilla is a highly experienced professional equities fund manager. In the UK she has launched and managed portfolios on behalf of many diverse types of clients, including institutional pension funds, retail funds, local authorities and private banks. She has successfully raised and grown new funds and won new mandates. She is a UK citizen based in Abu Dhabi with a residence visa, until recently working as a product manager in the investment product group at ADCB Abu Dhabi. She is a director of Cranmore Partners, a boutique advisory firm specialising in project finance in the energy sector.

 

Alexander Brennan

Non-Executive Director

Alexander has nearly two decades' experience of delivering growth for businesses in the UK and internationally, both as principal and as an advisor. He founded UK-headquartered Brennan & Partners in 2016, providing business development advisory services for UK and international clients. In addition to his roles at Brennan & Partners and Big Technologies Plc, Alexander is also an Executive Director at Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc. Prior to founding Brennan & Partners, he worked at De La Rue Plc, focusing on B2G and B2B sales across Europe and the Americas. Alexander began his career at Slaughter and May where he practised as a corporate and M&A lawyer.

Board Committees

The Board meets regularly to consider strategy, performance and the framework of internal controls. To enable the Board to discharge its duties, all directors receive appropriate and timely information. Briefing papers are distributed to all directors in advance of Board meetings. All directors will have access to the advice and services of the Chief Financial Officer, who is responsible for ensuring that the Board procedures are followed and comply with applicable rules and regulations. In addition, procedures will be in place to enable the directors to obtain independent professional advice in the furtherance of their duties, if necessary, at the Company’s expense.

 

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee has Simon Collins as Chairman, and has primary responsibility for monitoring the quality of internal controls, ensuring that the financial performance of the Group is properly measured and reported on and reviewing reports from the Group’s auditors relating to the Group’s accounting and internal controls, in all cases having due regard to the interests of Shareholders. The Audit Committee meets at least twice a year. Alexander Brennan and Camilla Macun are the other members of the Audit Committee.


Nomination Committee

The Nomination Committee has Simon Collins as Chairman, and identifies and nominates, for the approval of the Board, candidates to fill Board vacancies as and when they arise. The Nomination Committee meets as required. Alexander Brennan and Camilla Macun are the other members of the Nomination Committee.


Remuneration Committee

The Remuneration Committee has Camilla Macun as Chairman, and reviews the performance of the executive directors and determines their terms and conditions of service, including their remuneration and the grant of options, having due regard to the interests of Shareholders. The Remuneration Committee meets at least once a year. Simon Collins and Alexander Brennan are the other members of the Remuneration Committee.