SENIOR PERSONNEL

   
 

Roger Wadsworth was born in 1950 and holds an honours degree in Business Studies from Kingston Polytechnic. Following training in banking and precision engineering, he joined a private group of companies specialising in international distribution and marketing. He has been a senior Director in nine companies, involved primarily in the design and distribution of components for the engineering and electronics industries. He is currently Chairman of Wadsworth Holdings Ltd, Wadsworth Electronics Ltd and Leonard Wadsworth Group Limited. He is also a Director of Farlows Group Ltd. In February 2002 Roger Wadsworth stepped up from his non-executive position to become executive Chairman of Blazepoint.
 

 

   
 

Paul Cooper was born in 1954 and has an honours degree in Financial Control from Lancaster University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, having qualified with Deloitte and Touche. After initial roles in finance, including a brief period as Finance Director of Lynx Group plc, he headed up the European subsidiary of Eltron International Incorporated, a leading manufacturer of thermal printers where his work included establishing a new logistics operation for European distribution. Paul then set up the UK based European office of Comtec Information Systems Incorporated in 1999. Paul brings 17 years' experience of the printer industry to Blazepoint.
 

 

   
 

John Sparshott was born in 1952 and joined the company in February 2001, following a career spanning over 20 years in the "on demand printing" industry both in operations and technical roles. John most recently worked for Zebra Technologies, a Nasdaq quoted supplier of barcode printers, where he was involved with Zebra Technolgies' worldwide supply chain. Prior to that John worked as a project manager at Cubic Transport Systems introducing a credit card operated ticket kiosk for a rail operator. John has a history of technical innovation and has a number of USA patents for printing related items.

 

   
 

Roger Price was born in 1963 and holds an honours degree in French and Italian from University College, London. He began his career in 1988 as a sales executive at Wenger Printers Limited, the then name for Blazepoint. In 1990 he joined Airtech, a supplier of software computer security tools and encryption products, as an Account Manager with responsibility for government contracts before being promoted to European Sales Manager and then General Sales Manager in 1993. Airtech was sold to Racal in 1994 and Roger returned to Blazepoint, then named Continuum Specialist Technologies, as Managing Director. Roger renamed the company Blazepoint in 1995 and he was appointed as the Commercial Director in August 2000. In February 2002 Roger Price resigned from his executive directorship, but he continues to play an active role within Blazepoint as a non-executive Director.