Amir Eilon	Non-Executive Chairman
Peter Searle	Chief Executive Officer
Neil Martin	Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Pinder CBE	Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Steven B. Fink	Non-Executive Director
Adam Cohn	Non-Executive Director
Jonathan Wright	Independent Non-Executive Director
Shena Winning	Independent Non-Executive Director

Executive management board

Peter Searle	Chief Executive Officer, Spring Group plc T: +44 (0)20 7356 0701
Neil Martin	Chief Financial Officer, Spring Group plc T: +44 (0)20 7356 0701
Aidan Anglin	Managing Director, Professional Staffing T: +44 (0)20 7356 0702
Neil Jones	Managing Director, Managed Solutions T: +44 (0)20 7356 0702
Steven Kirkpatrick	Managing Director, General Staffing T: +44 (0)20 7356 0702
Pat Davis	Managing Director - Scotland and Continental Europe T: +44 (0)131 524 9000
Tim Briant	Company Secretary and Group Financial Controller T: +44 (0)20 7300 9000

Biographies

Amir Eilon
Non-Executive Chairman

Amir Eilon was appointed to the Board on 13 January 2005 and then appointed as Non-Executive Chairman on 1 October 2005. He has over 35 years' international capital markets experience in corporate treasury, investment banking and private equity. Following corporate treasury roles at British Steel and Esso Petroleum, his City experience began at Continental Illinois and Samuel Montagu. He was subsequently head of global capital markets at Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Managing Director of private equity at Credit Suisse First Boston. He has his own corporate finance advisory practice, Eilon & Associates, and is also a Non-Executive Director of Globus plc, a dry cargo shipping company, and Silverjet, a businessclass only airline, both publicly listed on AIM and a Director of MK airlines, a private international cargo airline company based in the UK.

Eilon & Associates

Peter Searle
Chief Executive Officer

Peter Searle was appointed as Chief Executive Officer to Spring Group in October 2006. He has extensive experience of both speciality and mainstream recruitment in a number of European countries, Asia Pacific and North America.

After successfully completing a degree in business and marketing, he joined Yellow Pages, initially in a marketing capacity, later moving into field sales and finally sales management before moving into the recruitment industry. Subsequently he has spent 19 years working in recruitment, 12 years of which were with Computer People.

After the purchase of the Delphi Group, of which Peter was Managing Director, by Adecco in 1999, he took on responsibility for all the European and Asia Pacific offices of the professional services companies of the Adecco Group under the speciality brand name of Ajilon. This remit covered a total of 16 countries with a combined turnover of almost £1 billion. In 2005 when the Adecco Group restructured to a zone organisation, he became the Chief Executive of Adecco UK in a role that covered a variety of sectors including general recruitment, IT, engineering, fi nance and RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) and included brands such as Office Angels, Jonathan Wren, Adecco and Roevin Engineering. His responsibilities covered 320 offices, 3,700 employees and 57,000 temps and sub-contractors with a turnover of £1.2 billion.

Neil Martin
Chief Financial Officer

Neil Martin was appointed Chief Financial Officer at Spring Group plc in October 2008. Neil has a broad range of experience in senior financial roles and prior to Spring CFO at Barkers Group ltd.

Following Spring Group's acquisition of Best International in 2003 Neil joined Spring Group plc as Finance Director of the technical staffing division and in 2007, he was promoted to European Finance Director, managing the finance and middle office divisions.

Before working at Spring Group, Neil held several senior finance positions in treasury and planning at Exxon Mobil International and Esso Petroleum. Neil is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Andrew Pinder
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Andrew Pinder was appointed to the Board on 22 March 2005. He served as the Government's e-Envoy at the Cabinet Offi ce from 2000 until 2004, reporting directly to the Prime Minister, with overall responsibility for the UK's online strategy. As e-Envoy, he promoted access to the internet, helped bring the vast majority of government services on line and was the UK's Central Sponsor for Information Assurance.

His early career was spent in information technology within the public sector, culminating as Undersecretary and Director of IT at the Inland Revenue. He was subsequently Director of Systems and Business Operations at Prudential Assurance from 1990 to 1994, and at Citibank from 1995 to 1999, fi rst as Head of European Operations and Technology, and then Head of Global Operations for Citibank's Global Transactional Services business. Mr Pinder is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Chairman of Becta (a UK Government Agency responsible for the use of technology in the UK education system) and a Non-Executive Director of United Utilities Plc. He is also an advisor on strategic technology, e-commerce and e-government issues to a number of organisations, including several other governments.

Steven B. Fink
Non-Executive Director

Steven Fink is Chief Executive Officer of Lawrence Investments LLC, a privately owned company with controlling and non-controlling interests in approximately thirty technology and biotechnology companies. Prior to joining Lawrence Investments, he was a founding partner and continues to serve as Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Knowledge Universe Inc.

He serves as Chairman of the Board of LeapFrog Enterprises Inc., a NYSE listed educational toy company, and Vice Chairman of Heron International, a London-based European real estate company. He also serves on numerous Boards of Directors, including Nobel Learning Communities, Pillar Data, nCUBE and NetSuite. He holds a B.S. from the University of California at Los Angeles and a J.D. and an L.L.M. from New York University. He was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman on 20 June 2002, having previously held this role from June 1997 until May 2000 and served until 30 September 2005. Steven remains on the Board as Non-Executive Director and chairs the Audit Committee.

Adam Cohn
Non-Executive Director

Adam Cohn was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in March 2006. He represents the Group's largest shareholder, ET Training LLC. Mr Cohn is a Principal at Knowledge Universe Limited LLC., where he is responsible for investments, financings and business development for Knowledge Universe and its portfolio companies. Mr. Cohn has been at Knowledge Universe, or related entities, since March of 2000. Previously, Mr. Cohn was with Whitney & Co., a private equity firm. Prior to Whitney & Co., Mr. Cohn was an investment banker in the Financial Sponsors Group at Bankers Trust Company and Deutsche Bank. Mr. Cohn has a B.S. in Business from Skidmore College and a MBA from Columbia University.

Jonathan Wright
Independent Non-Executive Director

Jonathan Wright was appointed to the Board as an independent Non-Executive Director in May 2006. Mr Wright has over 20 years' staffing industry experience. He co-founded the TSI Group, a VC-backed recruitment start-up, in 1986. Subsequently, Mr Wright spent over 10 years at Alexander Mann Group, where as Group Managing Director he was instrumental in achieving significant organic growth in revenues and operating profits and in building the group internationally through acquisitions. More recently, Mr Wright established Hexagon Human Capital, an investment firm operating in the recruitment sector (which was listed on AIM in February 2007) and as a previous Non-Executive Director at FDM Group guided the business through its successful IPO.

Shena Winning
Independent Non-Executive Director

Shena Winning was appointed to the Board as an independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee in November 2008. Ms. Winning, a Chartered Accountant has extensive experience as a non-executive director and Audit Committee chair gained in a wide range of organisations including her current roles at Swallowfield plc where she is Chairman, Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Trust, where she is non-executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee and as non-executive Director at Chadwick House Group Ltd.

Formerly the Group Finance Director of Carpetright Plc (1997-2002) Ms. Winning has over 20 years experience in the retail sector where she was employed in senior financial and management positions with major high street names including House of Fraser plc and Laura Ashley plc.