Takeover

PETER WAINE has worked for manufacturing companies and professional firms and has main board experience both as an executive and non-executive director of companies with turnover of up to GBP1bn. A former CBI director,he is co-founder of Hanson Green, a leading source for recruiting non-executive directors and chairmen. He is also co-author of The Independent Board Director, the acknowledged management book on non-executive directors. He is a Trustee of the Royal Opera House, a member of the International Cricket Council and is a former member of the Council of the European Business School, the Institute of Management and former Chairman of the Tree Council. He has also been a parliamentary candidate. MIKE WALKER has worked for radio and TV for many years, writing drama, documentary and educational broadcasts. His productions have received many awards, including: Royal TV Society Gold Medal, Sony Award for Best Play, Society of Authors Best Script Award, Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Adaptation and BAFTA & Sony nominations. His most recent works have been an award winning adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and adaptations of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Graham Swift's Booker Prize winning Last Orders. He is currently working on a stage play about Washington DC and his new play about Henry James will be broadcast this autumn. He is particularly interested in American history and has written plays about Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover. His BBC World Service drama, Westway has keen fans in 176 countries.

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