Meet the team

Graham Ritchie was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2021. Since 2016, Graham was a member of the Executive Committee of Intertek Group plc, responsible for its operations in Europe, including Russia, and Central Asia. Prior to that role, Graham was Intertek’s Group Financial Controller. Previously, Graham held senior financial positions at BT Group plc and other technology services organisations, having started his career with PwC. Graham is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a BA in Economics.

Judith joined Ricardo plc and the Board on the 1 July 2023 and will become the Company's Chief Financial Officer from the end of September 2023.

Judith is a former KPMG accountant and has more than 20 years’ experience working in senior financial and operational roles. She was previously the Group Finance Director for RPS Group plc ("RPS"), and, prior to that, she held various senior roles within RPS, including Chief Executive of RPS's UK & Ireland consulting business and Group Strategy Director.
 
Before RPS, Judith worked at Ricardo as a Finance Director within its Automotive and Industrial business unit, having originally joined AEA Technology, which Ricardo acquired in 2012.

Mark Clare formally was announced as Chairman of Ricardo plc on 17 November 2022. He brings to Ricardo substantial plc-level experience and is currently non-executive chairman of Grainger plc, a UK-based residential property business, listed on the London FTSE 250 index. He is also a senior independent director of Wickes Group plc and a non-executive director of Premier Marinas Holdings Limited. From 2005-2016, he was the CEO of Barrett Developments plc, a FTSE 100 house builder.

Russell King was appointed Non-Executive Director on 5 September 2019. Russell is an independent non-executive of BDO LLP. Russell served as Chief Strategy Officer at Anglo American plc where he had global responsibility for strategy, business development, government relations, safety and sustainable development. He was also a member of its executive committee for eight years. Additionally, Russell was Senior Independent Director and remuneration committee Chair of Spectris plc from 2010 to 2020 and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chair of Aggreko plc, from 2007 to 2017.

Malin Persson was appointed Non-Executive Director on 4 January 2016 and Senior Independent Director on 14 November 2019.Malin is also the nominated non-executive director for workforce engagement and ESG. Malin held a number of senior executive roles during her employment by the Volvo Group between 1995 and 2012. She is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Malin is also currently a non-executive director of Peab AB, Getinge AB, Hexpol AB and OX2 AB

Jack Boyer OBE was appointed Non-Executive Director on 5 September 2019. Jack is a non-executive director and Senior Independent Director of TT Electronics plc where he is a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nominations committees. Jack is a non-executive board member at the Department for Education. He chairs the Board of Trustees of the University of Bristol.  He recently chaired AIM listed companies: Seeing Machines and Ilika plc and was previously a non-executive director at FTSE 250 companies Mitie plc and Laird plc after a background in engineering and biosciences. Until recently, he was a board member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and co-chaired the Advanced Materials Leadership Council at the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; a non-executive director, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Remuneration Committee of Elcogen Group plc until 30 December 2022; and a non-executive director of the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials until June 2023. Jack was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to Science and Engineering.

Laurie Bowen was appointed Non-Executive Director on 1 July 2015.
She has over 30 years of international leadership experience at IBM, British Telecom, Tata Group, Telecom Italia Sparkle and Cable & Wireless Communications. She was appointed non-executive director of Chemring Group plc on 1 August 2019. Laurie has an MBA, a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a BSc in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bill Spencer was appointed Non-Executive Director on 24 April 2017 and Chair of the Audit Committee on 8 November 2017. For 15 years until 2010 he was the CFO of Intertek Group plc. Since then he has developed a varied non-executive career. His former NED roles where he also chaired the Audit Committee include UK Mail plc Exova Group plc and Northgate plc. Currently Bill is a Non-Executive Director and the Audit Committee Chair at The Royal Mint. He is a Chartered Management Accountant and Corporate Treasurer and has a BSc in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester.

Harpreet Sagoo is Group General Counsel and Company Secretary for Ricardo plc. She began her career with Marconi Telecommunications, where she qualified as a lawyer in 2002. She has held several senior legal positions internationally primarily focused on the technology sector, moving from listed companies to the startup world. Harpreet is a results driven professional with an excellent track record of building agile, responsive legal teams which can provide a tailored service to the business across various regions within a fast paced environment. Her extensive experience with creating legal compliance frameworks to address regulatory changes on a global basis, working on M&A, divestments, IP strategy, litigation, ethics and reducing the sales contract cycle has not reduced her appetite to lead and close complex legal high profile contracts.