The Near Future.
Continuing Innovation
Antonov continues to seek new problems in need of a solution which can leverage the accumulated knowledge and experience of our engineering team.
As the existing technologies mature, it is also important to seek new opportunities to innovate. Antonov is not a business founded on a single historic invention, but rather on a continuous stream of innovation that reacts to the needs of the market. This can be seen from a review of the patent portfolio which demonstrates this continuous process. Antonov will also be actively seeking power transmission problems in need of a solution. This will ensure the long term future of the business.
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Strategy.
Antonov’s strategy is founded on the breadth of its technology portfolio with many potential applications. To achieve our goal of exploiting these innovations through licensing to high volume manufacturers, Antonov needs to establish entry points to this market.

Antonov plans to gain entry to the high volume market through:
*Alliance with Tier 1 suppliers who are threatened by competitive technologies and require a competitive advantage to maintain market share
*Alliance with new entrants to the automotive market who require new technology to create a product avoiding the need to displace existing technology Seeking low volume and niche applications where there is more willingness to pioneer new technologies, faster time to market
*Exploiting alternative applications where the technology is applied to a smaller sub-system where entry barriers are lower (e.g. supercharger drive)
*Exploring non-automotive markets where there are lower entry costs and faster adoption of innovation
Antonov also plans to continue to seek opportunities to innovate further where there are market requirements and so maintain and build the breadth of Antonov products.
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Information.

Board & Senior Management.
Christopher Ross
Chairman
Christopher Ross, 60 joined the Board of Antonov as a non-executive Director in March 2004 and was appointed Chairman in July 2005. Mr. Ross is a Chartered Engineer and is currently Chairman of Dunn-Line Plc, Deputy Chairman of Manganese bronze Holdings Plc and a Non-Executive Director of Carclo Plc, all are UK listed companies with interests in the automotive sector. He has also recently been appointed as Non-Executive Director of Icona Solutions Limited, an engineering software provider. Previously, he was Chief Executive of Ricardo Plc. He is widely credited in the automotive industry for having transformed Ricardo into the world’s No. 1 powertrain design and development business. He was honoured by Prince Philip in 1995 when he was initiated as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.


Roumen Antonov
Deputy Chairman and Technical Director
Roumen Antonov, 61, the inventor of the automatic transmission bearing his name, founded the Antonov Automotive Technologies Group in 1991 to develop and market what today comprises all of the Group’s transmission technology. Mr. Antonov was born in Bulgaria, where he trained as a nuclear physicist. After moving to France in 1989 he has pursued a career as a scientist, engineer and inventor from his base in Paris. Besides his Chairman’s responsibilities Mr. Antonov continues to lead the Group’s R&D endeavours.

John Moore
C EO
John Moore, 40, joined the Board of Antonov in January 2005. He is a Chartered Engineer and an experienced automotive industry professional with a strong track record of technical and organisational innovation. Prior to joining Antonov he was the Commercial Director of Lotus Engineering and has also held senior management positions with Ricardo plc and John McGavigan Ltd, a subsidiary of Pressac plc.

Mohammad ("Mory") Motabar
Financial director
Antonov plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Mohammad ("Mory") Motabar as a Non-executive Director. Mory, aged 50, is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with a BSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics (LSE). Mory has significant international finance experience and has played key roles in investment and business development strategy, financial planning in support of product development, sales and marketing as well as M&A, IPO and corporate governance experience for UK, Euronext and Nasdaq listed companies. His most recent role was Chief Financial Officer with the Seagull Software Group (1996 to 2007), an international software group with headquarters in the Netherlands and Atlanta, USA, which he guided through an IPO on Euronext Stock Exchange, Amsterdam in February 1999. During his time at Seagull Software Group, Mory was a Director of Seagull Business Software B.V., Seagull Software International B.V., Seagull Software Tool B.V.,Seagull Consultancy Services B.V., Seagull Software Systems Inc. and Seagull Business Software UK Limited. Mory ceased to be a Director of these companies in February 2007. Previously, Mory worked in the UK for 17 years latterly holding a senior international finance role as Financial Director and Company Secretary at Santa Cruz Operation (1989 to 1996), a NASDAQ listed software company headquartered in California in its Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and the Pacific region. Prior to this role, Mory held a senior international finance role with Amersham International plc, a company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of products for use in medicine, research and industry. In this role, he was responsible for financial and management reporting for eleven operating subsidiaries in Europe, North America and the Pacific region. On graduation from LSE in the UK, Mory began his career with Saffreys (1979 to 1986), one of the City's oldest firms of Chartered Accountants.

Nigel Brown
Company Secretary
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