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  Curriculum Vitae - Ian Harvey

Former Chief Executive Officer, BTG plc

Ian Harvey was Chief Executive Officer of BTG plc from 1985 until his retirement in late 2004. During that time he oversaw the privatisation of BTG, its public flotation in 1995, a demerger of part of its business and three Rights Issues amounting to about £170 million to raise additional capital from its shareholders.

Following a degree in Mechanical Sciences from Cambridge University, his early career was as an engineer with Vickers and Laporte Industries in the civil, aerospace and chemical industries. After an MBA from Harvard Business School, he was with the World Bank in a variety of roles, including agro-industrial projects in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and preparing a new industrial strategy for the Portuguese Government. Subsequently, he was responsible for the Burma Timber and Bangladesh Fertiliser Corporation projects. Later, he was responsible for the lending programme for Guinea as well as having responsibility for other mining and industrial projects in francophone West Africa.

Following a two-year sabbatical in Europe and the United States to spend time with his young family, he became a partner in Logan Associates prior to joining BTG.

Mr. Harvey is: Chairman of The Intellectual Property Institute Board; Chairman of the UK government's Intellectual Property Advisory Committee; a Member of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. European Advisory Council; a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute; a Fellow of the University of Nottingham; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a Director of Primaxis Technology Ventures Inc.; a Member of the Appointments Committee of the PPARC Council; a Member of the Industry Advisory Board, Center for IP Studies (CIP) Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg University; and a Visiting Fellow Tanaka Business School, Imperial College.

Mr. Harvey has written many articles and book chapters and lectures widely on global intellectual property and technology issues.

Aged 59, he is married with two children. His leisure interests include the piano, skiing, mountain walking, sailing, windsurfing and scuba diving.

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