Transense is pleased to announce the appointment of David Michael Ford, aged 53, to its board as a non-executive director with immediate effect.
 
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.

David Kleeman, Transense Chairman commented:

“We are delighted to welcome David onto the Transense board.  He brings considerable expertise in IP law, which is invaluable to the Company as we look to develop our family of patents. I look forward to working closely with David as we continue to grow the Transense business, and our new wholly-owned subsidiary, Translogik.”

The following disclosures are made in accordance with the AIM Rules.
David Michael Ford, is, or has been a director of the following companies and organisations during the past five years:

Current Directorships:
Internet E-mail Limited
Dot R Limited
Tessera Credit Services Limited
Tessera Group PLC
Spinney 1998 Limited
Option NTC Limited
Option Telecom (Eire) Limited
Securecoms Limited

Previous Directorships:
Environmental Hygiene Limited
Jobsdata Limited
Homesdata Limited
Database Advertising Limited
Option Telecom Limited
Careerswitch Limited
Sail Media Limited
David Ford had previously been a director of Bodafose Limited which went into administration on 16 January 2009.  David Ford resigned 7 March 2008.
David Ford was director or had been in the previous year when the following companies were dissolved:
Equalearn Limited (22/12/1992) dissolved by registrar for non filing of documents
Jointhire Limited (24/11/1992) dissolved by registrar for non filing of documents
Tarlo Lyons Training Services Limited (21/09/1993) dissolved by registrar for non filing of documents
Quatrobell Limited (29/03/2009) member voluntary liquidation
Hireright Limited (19/02/2008) voluntary strike off
There are no further matters to be disclosed under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules.