Mark Evans

Past

• CFO at Lagan Technologies
• Vice President and European Head of Finance at Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics
• Managing Director Siemens Molecular Imaging Ltd & PETNET Solutions Ltd at Siemens Medical Solutions

• Finance Director at Swisscom Eurospot UK
• Various Financial Control and Project Roles at Bell Microproducts
• Staf Auditor at Bristol-Myers Squibb

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
• University of Oxford - Said Business School
• The University of Stirling

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Mark Evans’s Summary

Commercially focussed international Financial and General Manager with experience across 2 NASDAQ and 3 NYSE listed companies, a start-up and a privately held company.

Line experience of all aspects of Financial Management including Treasury. General Management and Business Development experience within Medical Software Development and Radiopharmaceutical Production and Distribution.

Material responsibility for effecting 6 Post-Merger Integrations of various sizes, and significant involvement with 3 disposals and 1 acquisition - all cross-border. I have set up new entities to support organic growth in 6 countries, and (in a different company) closed down entities in 3 countries. I have moved activities in to Shared Services and between Shared services.

Industry exposure to Medical Imaging (in particular Molecular Imaging), In Vitro Diagnostic Technology, Radiopharmceuticals, Pharmaceuticals, IT Distribution, Telecomms and Software (Medical and now CRM / Enterprise Case Management).

Mark Evans’s Specialties:

Building teams. Cultural change. Acquisition and disposal. Post Merger Integration. Restructuring. Migration to Shared Services and between Shared services. Market entry through establishing new entities. System implementations. Treasury Management. Project Management.

Mark Evans’s Experience

• CFO

  Lagan Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — September 2008 (6 months)

  With a customer base of over 160 Public Sector organisations worldwide, Lagan's solutions are being used by organisations as diverse as Transport for London (TfL) and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS).
  
  Lagan has built on its market position as the leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to Local Government worldwide and now offers a full Enterprise Case Management capability across the wider Public Sector,
  
  Lagan's solution has proven scalability and availability and utilises a powerful rules engine and advanced Business Intelligence deployed accross a true Service Orientated Architecture.
  
  The Enterprise Case Management solution is already being used by government departments and agencies to support their case management activities and provides a platform for third parties to build, through configuration, specific case management solutions for government.

• Vice President and European Head of Finance

  Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Medical Devices industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )

  Head of Finance for the European Group of Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics comprising operations across 18 countries and 26 EMEA markets totalling EUR 700m turnover.
  
  Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics (EUR 2Bn Turnover) was created following the acquisition and merger of Diagnostic Products Corporation and Bayer Diagnostics, with the latter acquisition finalising in Jan 07.
  
  I managed the integration of the European Finance team in to Siemens; was Project Executive for the European business integration project; oversaw the transfer of European shared services from Barcelona (Bayer) to Portugal (Siemens); and delivered the transfer of the European Finance Headquarters from Dublin to Germany completing 31 Dec 07.

• Managing Director Siemens Molecular Imaging Ltd & PETNET Solutions Ltd

  Siemens Medical Solutions

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Medical Devices industry)

  November 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  Managing Director of Siemens Molecular Imaging Ltd. This entity specialised in the development of advanced software applications for medical imaging. Previously known as Mirada Solutions Ltd, it had been acquired in Aug 03 by CTI Molecular Imaging Group (Ticker: CTMI). CTI was purchased by Siemens in May 05.
  
  In addition, I was Managing Director of PETNet Solutions in the UK. PETNet is the leading supplier of radiopharmaceuticals for use in Positron Emmission Tomography to the UK market.
  
  I joined CTI as European Finance Director with responsibility for entities in the UK (including Mirada Solutions Ltd and PETNet), Germany, Italy and Spain, and was then promoted to General Management roles.

• Finance Director

  Swisscom Eurospot UK

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SWX; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 3 months)

  Finance Director of international (France, Germany, Netherlands and UK) WiFi start-up acquired by Swisscom. Post-Acquisition, I Project Managed a system implementation accross 9 jurisdictions (CH, UK, DE, ES, IT, FR, AT, NL, BE).

• Various Financial Control and Project Roles

  Bell Microproducts

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BELM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 5 months)

  Various Financial Control and Project Management positions within the acquired EUR 1Bn European element of this IT Distribution business.
  
  Within these roles I worked on organic expansion in to Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and France, along with the associated system implementation. I also worked on the Post-Merger Integration and system implementation in to an acquired entity in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Please see my reference from Ian French, the European President, for more details.

• Staf Auditor

  Bristol-Myers Squibb

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BMS; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  May 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 1 month)

  Staff Auditor conducting financial and operational audits and fraud reviews within Healthcare and Consumer products across entities in the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and Saudi Arabia.

Mark Evans’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

  Venture Capital Executive Program 2008 — 2008

• University of Oxford - Said Business School

  MBA , 2006 — 2007

• The University of Stirling

  BA , Business Studies , 1990 — 1994

Additional Information

Mark Evans’s Honors:

MBA (Said Business School, Oxford University)
FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales),
MCT (Member of Association of Corporate Treasurers)