Elektron Technology plc announced that Mr. Richard ('Ric') John Piper has agreed to join the Board as a Non-Executive Director, with immediate effect. Ric is also appointed Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit and Nomination Committees. Mr. Piper, aged 60, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1977. He was appointed Finance Director of Logica (UK) in 1990 and was Group Finance Director of WS Atkins from 1993 to 2002. Since 2003 he has been Chairman or Non-Executive Director for several AIM and privately owned businesses. Currently Ric is a Non-Executive Director with Matchtech Group plc and also with Turbo Power Systems Inc. He has been a partner with Restoration Partners Limited since 2006 and is an Audit Committee member of the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (and its predecessor, the Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council) and a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel. The company also announced that Jeremy Thorn will be stepping down from the Board.