Listed manufacturer announces changes to senior team

Redditch manufacturer Solid State has announced a series of board changes.

Nigel Rogers will be joining the board as an independent non-executive director, replacing John Lavery who steps down from his role at the end of August.

Rogers has 36 years’ service with Steatite, the last 17 years with the group after Steatite was acquired by Solid State in 2002.

He managed the flotation of Stadium Group as group finance director, before progressing to group CEO in 2001, where he moved the strategic focus of the diverse industrial group towards building a global electronics manufacturing business.

In 2012, he joined 600 Group as group chief executive, initially leading the turnaround of the AIM-quoted global machine tool business before leaving in April 2015 to begin a plural career.

He has been non-executive deputy chairman of Transense Technologies, the AIM-quoted provider of sensor systems, since July 2015.

In October 2015 he was appointed chairman of Surgical Innovations Group, the AIM-quoted designer, manufacturer, and distributor of medical devices for minimally invasive surgery.

The group also announced that Tony Frere, non-executive chairman, has announced his intention to retire and step down from the board at the end of the year.

Frere joined the board in 2010 and was appointed deputy chairman in 2012.  In April 2014 he was appointed the group’s non-executive chairman. A search for his replacement has started.

Gary Marsh, chief executive, said: “We are very pleased to be welcoming Nigel Rogers to Solid State and look forward to his contribution as we further our growth ambitions.

“Equally, it is due to the contributions of long-standing members of our team that we are in the strong position that Solid State finds itself today. That is, in large part, thanks to the dedication of John Lavery and Tony Frere who have been part of the board during a period when we have made seven acquisitions and grown the business four-fold.  We wish them the very best for the future.”

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