Lord Clive Hollick Named To TRW Board Of Directors
16 February 2000
Lord Clive Hollick Named To TRW Board Of Directors
CLEVELAND--Feb. 16, 2000--TRW Inc. today announced the election of Lord Clive Hollick to the company's board of directors. The appointment, made at the company's regular board meeting, is effective immediately and increases the number of TRW directors to 14.Lord Hollick, 54, is chief executive of United News & Media plc, a $6 billion international media and information group operating in three areas: business services, consumer publishing, and broadcasting. The business services groups provide business magazines and exhibitions, market research, information distribution and stock photography. The consumer publishing groups are publishers of advertising periodicals in the United States and the United Kingdom. The broadcasting and entertainment groups handle television and related activities, including Anglia Television, HTV and Meridian Broadcasting, an ITV license holder in Great Britain. The largest part of United's business is in the United States, where its leading brands are Miller Freeman, the world's largest trade show operator; PRNewswire; Audits & Surveys Worldwide; and the recently acquired CMP, whose Internet business, CMPnet, is the leading business-to-business high-technology Web site.
"I'm absolutely delighted to have Clive Hollick join our board of directors," said Joseph T. Gorman, chairman and chief executive officer. "As TRW's recent acquisition of LucasVarity expands our overseas operations, his intimate knowledge of the business environment in Europe and the United Kingdom will prove invaluable to us."
Lord Hollick founded and is trustee of one of the leading UK think tanks, the Institute for Public Policy Research. In 1995, he established and became a member of the Commission on Public Policy and British Business. In 1997, he was appointed a governor of The London School of Economics and Political Science.
He has been a non-executive director of Hambros Bank, Logica plc, and British Aerospace plc. He established and is a leading member of the cross party and business group, "Britain in Europe," which is campaigning for the UK's adoption of the euro. Lord Hollick was a special adviser to the president of the Board of Trade and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 1997 to 1998. He was a director of the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge from 1988 to 1995 and a member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology from 1995 to 1996.