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The Board of Directors are ultimately responsible for the management of the Company's business strategy, optimising performance, investment objectives, approving significant items of expenditure and consideration of significant financing and legal matters. The Directors are responsible for overseeing and maintaining the relationship between the Company, investors and licensees. The Company is currently led by a Board consisting of one Executive Director and four Non-executive Directors.
Biographies of the Board can be found below:
David Kleeman (Non-Executive Chairman)
Joined the company in December 2007
 David was a solicitor in private practice for seventeen years, specialising in corporate finance. Since 1985, he has been a professional investor and has provided funding to a number of companies in a variety of industries. He holds consultancies and directorships in both public and private companies and has held several Government appointments, including chairman of a Health Authority, a Board Member and later Deputy Chairman of NHS Logistics, and a Board Member of the Housing Corporation for eight years. David is also chairman of Fayrewood plc, an AIM-listed company, and of ComputerLinks AG, which is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Graham Storey (Chief Executive Officer)
 Joined the Company in February 2008
Graham commenced work for a courier business in the late 1980's and quickly took over the running of a subsidiary company operating a Tropical Plant hire business. Graham then effected a management buy out of that business and through both organic growth and acquisitions, he built up The Moyses Stevens Group to become the biggest commercial and retail florist in the UK and personally held three Royal Warrants.
Graham carried out a successful sale of the business in 2004 to a venture capital fund and, prior to joining Transense has been involved in investing in several businesses one of which was Transense Technologies plc.
Norman Smith (Non-Executive - Formerly Joint CEO)
 Joined the company in June 2008
Norman gained his BSc (Mech Eng) at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1968 and then fulfilled various Sales and Marketing roles before joining Instron Ltd as Deputy Managing Director in 1982. Norman was then Managing Director of Instron and Senior Vice President of Instron Corporation. In addition, Norman was also Senior Vice President and General Manager of Instron Asia/Japan between 2002 and 2007.
Rodney James Westhead (Non-Executive)
Joined the Company in April 2007
Chartered Accountant by training and until 2005 was Chief Executive of Ricardo plc, the major automotive consulting engineering group with sales of £200 million a year. He is Chairman of Clean Air Power plc and Non-executive Director of Mouchel plc and AEA Technology plc. He was formerly Chairman of Carter & Carter plc, now in Administration.
David Ford (Non-Executive)
Joined the Company in August 2009
David qualified as a solicitor in 1980. He specialised in Intellectual Property (IP) law. In the late 1980’s he dealt with the acquisition by his firm, Tarlo Lyons, of the entire consumer debt recovery department of HSBC and negotiated a long term contract to deal with all branch consumer debt. In 1990 he became the firm's first Managing Partner. In 1993 he left the firm to move into a general business environment. Since then he has been involved with a variety of companies in various industries in a non-executive or semi-executive capacity. In 1998 he led the management buyout of the consumer debt recovery department of his old firm, Tessera Group, and is still the non-executive chairman of that company. In 2006 he established a company specialising in email encryption, Securecoms, which he still heads. It numbers HSBC among its shareholders and is the only non-banking/finance related direct investment ever made by HSBC.
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