Biographies of the Executive Team

Kurt Kerschat, CEO SCOTTY Group plc

Mr Kerschat is a co-founder of SCOTTY Tele-Transport Corporation (now SCOTTY Group Austria GmbH) in Austria. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of SCOTTY Group plc in 2004. He acts as the key account manager for German and Dutch military forces. Prior to founding SCOTTY he worked at the Joanneum Research Institute on the Multipoint Videoconference System for the European Space Agency and designed and implemented the videoconference networks for the AUSTROMIR 91, MIR 92, Euromir 94 and Euromir 95 missions. He is a graduate of the Technical University of Graz, Austria, where he read Electrical Engineering.

Hugh Edmonds FCA, CFO SCOTTY Group plc

Mr Edmonds was appointed Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of SCOTTY Group plc in 2005. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom, with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell (now KPMG), following which he spent ten years in financial management roles with Schlumberger, the oilfield services and electronics multinational. Since then he has held senior financial management positions with UK technology companies including, most recently, eight years as Finance Director and Company Secretary of Advanced Power Components plc, a company listed on the Alternative Investment Market. He is a graduate of the University of Bristol, where he read French, Economics and Commercial Law.

Walter Mueller, CTO SCOTTY Group Austria

Mr Mueller is the Development Director of the SCOTTY Group Austria, with responsibility for the electronic and software design of the company’s communication systems. Prior to joining SCOTTY in 1995, he was responsible for the software development of the Multipoint Videoconferencing System used by the European Space Agency. Walter was a visiting engineer at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory working on ATM interfaces and videoconferencing equipment for the EU funded Charisma Project. He is a graduate of the Technical University of Graz, Austria, where he read Telematics.