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Mr. Lawrence qualified as a chartered accountant in 1986 with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC)

where he spend 14 years before moving to Grant Thornton. He has subsequently held senior

financial positions in a wide range of businesses including Group Finance Director of Lighthouse

Group plc, an AIM-quoted financial services business that he joined at IPO and is now the largest

listed Independent Financial Advice business in the UK, and CFO of Cybit Holdings PLC between

2002 and 2010 when the business was taken private by a US based private equity firm.

In 2011 Mr Lawrence led the Cybit business through a reverse takeover of Masternaut Group to

become the pan-European leader in telematics with revenues of EUR100m and 500 employees.

Most recently, Mr Lawrence was CFO of Atego Group, a software development company which

was acquired by PTC Inc in 2014 and currently holds the position of CFO at Gardien Group, a

private equity backed business specialising in the testing of PCB boards that are fabricated for

clients supplying the automotive, defense, telecommunications, aerospace, medical and computer

markets worldwide. He joined Toople in June 2018.