Celoxica adds four to the board

Celoxica has appointed John Caswell, Doug Dunn, Jack Fryer and Stephen Dyde as non-executive board directors.

Celoxica has appointed John Caswell, Doug Dunn, Jack Fryer and Stephen Dyde as non-executive board directors.

The appointments broaden the commercial skills and industry experience of the Celoxica board as it guides the company's development in key global markets.

Caswell runs his own successful management consultancy business, Group Partners, a change management and business solution consultancy.

Previously he worked for Acorn Computers until Olivetti acquired the company.

Following this, he successfully set up his own marketing agency, ROCQM with a client base that included Benetton Formula One, IBM, Motorola, Nike, Oracle, Philips, SAP Virgin, and Visa.

Caswell later sold ROCQM to WPP, the world's largest communications services company, where he remained as CEO for ROCQM.

Group Partners focuses on working for companies with transforming and disruptive technologies.

Dunn is president and chief executive officer as well as chairman of the board of management at ASML.

Based in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is publicly traded on both the Amsterdam exchanges and on the Nasdaq stock market.

Dunn was formerly chief executive officer of the consumer electronics and semiconductor divisions of Royal Philips Electronics from 1993 to 1998 and also served on Philips' board of management.

Prior to joining Philips in 1993, he gained extensive experience in the semiconductor industry working for GEC-Plessey Semiconductors and Motorola Semiconductors.

In addition, he was member of the supervisory board of ASML from January 1995 till April 1997.

Following the de-merger of the defence business from GEC in November 1999, Fryer became technology and strategy director for Marconi, having joined GEC in 1996 as strategic planning director.

His role includes a group responsibility for information technology.

Prior to that Jack joined Lucas Industries in 1986 and progressed from group technology director to managing director of the transition team at the time of the Lucas Industries/Varity merger.

Jack is also a non-executive director of Northgate Information Solutions.

Dyde is the company secretary and general counsel of Celoxica Holdings.

He graduated in law in 1986 and then spent five years at Ashurst Morris Crisp, a major city of London law firm, specializing in company law.

He joined Darbys Mallam Lewis, a commercial law firm based in Oxford, in September 1992, and established and headed the company department.

He was made a partner in 1996.

He began acting for Celoxica in March 1999 and joined the company as an employee in May 2000.

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