Tim Dye

TIM DYE, 37, is the Chief Executive of William Ransom & Son Plc. After
four years in international banking and strategy consultancy, in 1988 he
founded a specialist real estate firm. After selling that business, in
1990, backed by Hambros Plc, he founded and became CEO of environmental
services business Dyvell. On acquisition of this business by Yorkshire
Water Plc in 1994, he left the company to found and become CEO of RAMAR
Technology, a wireless systems development business financed by a
consortium of international institutional investors. He was appointed to
the Board of William Ransom & Son Plc as Non-Executive Director in
November 1998, and appointed Chief Executive in September 1999. He is a
graduate of Cambridge University, where he was awarded an Exhibition to
read Economics.