Chairman
Sir Donald joined the Board in July 2012 and became Chairman on 1 September 2012. He is also Chair of the Nomination Committee. Sir Donald is currently Chairman of the Legacy Council of the Medical Research Council, has recently chaired the London Stock Exchange and was a past Chairman of the Royal Mail plc, Smiths Group plc, the London Metal Exchange, Amersham plc, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc, the ifs School of Finance and EveryChild. He has also served as Senior Independent Non-executive Director of Allied Domecq plc and Scottish Power plc.
Donald had a 20-year career with Barclays Group, during which time he was Chairman and Chief Executive of BZW Investment Management and acting Chief Executive of BZW, followed by fifteen years with the AXA Group including holding the posts of Chairman and Chief Executive of AXA Investment Managers and Chairman of AXA Framlington.
Chief Executive Officer
Steve joined Sage in January 2014, having previously been Operating Partner and Co-Head of the Portfolio Support Group at the private equity firm Apax Partners, which he joined in 2009. Prior to this he built over 10 years’ experience leading the finance function for three listed UK companies culminating as CFO for FTSE 100 company Invensys plc, the global technology-related business, from 2006 to 2009. Between 2004 and 2006 Steve was Group Finance Director for Spectris plc, the FTSE 250 precision instrumentation and controls company and from 1997 to 2003 he was with Marconi PLC, acting as CFO from 2001.
Steve qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 with Ernst & Whinney, now part of Ernst & Young, and has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Liverpool University.
You can follow Steve on Twitter @SteveHare
Chief Financial Officer
Independent non-executive director
John joined the Board on 31 May 2019 and is a member of the Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Eggplant, which specialises in AI-powered software test automation.
Previously John pioneered the space of streaming analytics as Co-founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Apama (now part of Software AG). He drove the evolution of platforms for digital business, while serving as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Chief Technology Officer at NASDAQ-listed Progress Software and as Chief Technology Officer of Big Data, Head of Industry Solutions and Chief Marketing Officer at Frankfurt-listed Software AG. As Chief Executive Officer at Plat.One (acquired by SAP in 2016) he drove the commercial development of platforms to support internet of things applications.
John holds a doctorate in computer science from Cambridge University and is the author of the book "Thingalytics: Smart Big Data Analytics for the Internet of Things”.
Independent non-executive director
Annette Court was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2019 and is Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Ms Court has been Chairman of Admiral Group since 2017 and a board member since 2012.
Between 2007 and 2010 she was CEO of Europe General Insurance for Zurich Financial Services. Ms Court is former CEO of the Direct Line Group (formerly known as RBS Insurance) and has previously served as a member on the Board of the Association of British Insurers (ABI). She was a non-executive director of Foxtons Group plc from August 2013 to May 2017.
Independent non-executive director
Drummond joined the Board on 1st January 2014 and is a member of the Remuneration, Audit and Nomination Committees.
Previously Drummond was the Senior Independent Non-executive Director of WH Smith plc and FirstGroup plc, a Non-executive Director then Chairman of Mitchells & Butlers plc and Chief Executive of Dairy Crest Group plc, prior to which the majority of his career was spent with Procter and Gamble, Mars and PepsiCo.
Independent non-executive director
Ms Wasti joined the Board on 1 May 2020 and is the President for GoDaddy EMEA, driving international growth by enabling everyday entrepreneurs to start, grow and run their businesses online.
Prior to this role, she was SVP and General Manager for GoDaddy's Productivity business, where she led teams that provide small businesses with tools and services to help run their ventures. Ms Wasti previously worked for Intuit where she oversaw the launch of QuickBooks POS with Mobile Payments integration, enabling more than 200,000 merchants to "go mobile" and has also held product and development roles at Google and IBM.