"John Devaney" is the Chairman of NATS Holdings Ltd, Chairman of Cobham the listed UK Aerospace and Defence Company and Immediate past Chairman of National Express. He is the Chairman of TersusEnergy a finance and strategic advisory business.

He was previously the Chairman of Liberata UK Ltd, Exel plc, and EA Technology; Executive Chairman of Eastern Electricity and Kelsey-Hayes Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of Varity Corporation); and a non-executive director of HSBC Bank and British Steel.Chairman of Marconi and member of the Board of Northern Rock after acquisition by the Government.

Devaney is an alumnus of Sheffield University (B.Eng 1968) and a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Shelter the homelessness charity.

He was awarded non-Exec of the year 2012 .

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Over a period of several years, we have had conversations with a number of potential partners regarding the necessary consolidation in our industry.

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In Ericsson, we have found a partner that has the scale and global reach to take our equipment business forward in a way that we would not have been able to do alone.

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We did a great job keeping the shots on him down. They all know that he was new back there and I have never seen the kids work so hard keeping the puck down the other end.

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