Dominic Berger

Executive Chairman

Dominic has over 26 years’ experience in various fast-growing private and public businesses, with expertise in building, developing and listing or selling companies, including numerous turnaround situations. His extensive experience includes leading a diverse group of listed and private businesses, including Sportsio / Umbro.com backed by Doughty Hanson, Blackstar, Venue Solutions Holdings Plc and, until recently, being chairman of Happy Drinks Co. Ltd. He was also previously managing director of Umbro.com, Europe. An FCA-approved person, Dominic is also chief executive officer of Capital Plus Partners, a regulated corporate finance business. Recently he has also advised businesses such as URA Holdings Plc an AIM-quoted mining business, and Genflow Biosciences Plc, an AIM-quoted Biotech. Dominic has been Chairman of LifeSafe since April 2019.

Neil Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Neil has diverse experience within multi-channel retailers, technology and e-commerce businesses, including as a commercial director at B&Q (part of Kingfisher Group) and Halfords Group plc. Most recently, from February 2015 until July 2019, Neil was the group chief executive officer of AIM-quoted FireAngel Safety Technology Group plc, a supplier of smoke, heat and carbon monoxide detectors through multiple retail and trade channels. Having joined the Group as a consultant in 2020, Neil became CEO of LifeSafe in October 2021.

Mike Stilwell

Chief Financial Officer

Mike is an experienced CFO who has over seven years’ experience in executive positions with publicly traded companies. He is a Chartered Accountant, having trained with KPMG which he joined in 1997. Mike was, from December 2018 to January 2021, CFO of AIM-quoted FireAngel Safety Technology Group plc having joined the group from his role as CFO of AIM-quoted Synectics plc. Prior to this he held senior finance roles with the Saint-Gobain Group, Coventry Building Society and the Caparo Group. Mike, who has a first-class degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis from the University of Warwick, joined LifeSafe in September 2021.

The Rt. Hon. Mark Field

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Mark is a former MP and Minister of State for Asia & Pacific at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who represented the Central London constituency of the Cities of London and Westminster in the UK Parliament between June 2001 and November 2019. A graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he practised as a solicitor with Freshfields in the early 1990s and then founded, managed and sold two businesses before embarking upon public service. During this time he developed expertise of the City and financial and professional services. As the Minister of State for Asia & Pacific, he travelled extensively in the region and was responsible for bilateral relationships with China and India, developing future UK strategy and co-operation with ASEAN, and promoting security and trade partnerships with Australia and New Zealand. Since leaving parliament he has embarked upon a portfolio career, which includes roles as the non-executive chairman of the Isle of Man based Capital International Bank and consultant to turnaround/corporate restructuring specialists, Buchler Phillips. He is also a non-executive director of AIM-quoted Frenkel Topping Group PLC.

Emma Hynes

Independent Non-Executive Director

Gregor Paterson

Non-Executive Director

Emma is a barrister who specialises in construction and commercial matters including professional negligence claims. She has developed a specific focus in the arena of fire safety and legislation, and is currently instructed as junior counsel to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Emma regularly advises her private and government clients on matters of fire safety compliance following the enactment of new laws after the Grenfell tradgedy. Before coming to the Bar in 2015, Emma had a successful career in business communications with Serco, the Carbon Trust and Microsoft.

Gregor has 25 years’ experience in UK equity capital markets and is part of the UK team at Amati Global Investors. In 1999, he joined Grieg Middleton & Co, as an investment manager, and then Bell Lawrie as an equity analyst in 2002, covering an array of UK small and mid-cap stocks. He moved into corporate & institutional stockbroking in 2008, holding senior positions at Cenkos, Cantor Fitzgerald and Zeus Capital. Gregor has a MA in Economics from the University of Aberdeen, is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute for Securities and Investment and, more recently, undertook the CFA Institute’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) qualification. He joined Lifesafe in October 2024.