John Weston (UK businessman)
John Weston is Chairman of Spirent plc and formerly Chief Executive, BAe Systems. Weston was appointed Non-executive Chairman of Spirent plc with effect from 7 November 2002.[1]
Weston (51 in 2002) was formerly Chief Executive of BAe Systems (May 1998 to March 2002). He is also Chairman of UFI, formerly known as the University for Industry, which is responsible for the government's learndirect network 'across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and UK online centres in England. learndirect and UK online centres form a government-backed network of several thousand centres supporting e-learning and e-services.[2][3]
Weston is Chairman of iSoft plc, a supplier of software applications to the healthcare sectors in the UK and internationally which has been responsible for the disastrous implementation of the NHS IT system, leading to the resignation of its Chief Executive Tim Whiston in June 2006.[4]
He is also Chairman of Acra Controls, a Dublin based manufacturer of digital data collection systems for flight test instrumentation systems; and until April 2005 was Chairman of Inbis plc, a design engineering business, mainly in the aerospace and nuclear fields.
Prior to 2002 Weston spent 32 years in the Aerospace and Defence Industry, concluding as Chief Executive BAe Systems. He was educated at Kings School Worcester and Trinity Hall Cambridge, where he read engineering.[5]
Affiliations
- Ditchley Foundation, Governor and Council member
- Royal United Services Institute, Vice President
- German British Forum, Director
- Commander of the Order of the Pole Star (Sweden)
- Council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts
Notes
- ^ Mark Ballard 'NHS IT fiasco claims scalp at iSoft: iSoft CEO resigns after calamitous start to the year' The Register,Published Thursday 15th June 2006 12:41 GMT
