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Cohort PLC
28 June 2010 
 
28 June 2010                                                                                                               
                                               AIM: CHRT 
 
PRESS RELEASE 
 
COHORT PLC ("Cohort") 
 
Appointment of new SCS Managing Director 
 
Cohort, the independent technology group, today announces that it has appointed Bill Bird as the new Managing Director of
Systems Consultants Services Ltd ("SCS"), its defence technical advisory business, with effect from 6 September 2010. 
 
Bill joins the group from Moorhouse Consulting where he has been working as a Programme Director. He led Hedra's UK defence
and aerospace business between 2003 and 2007, having been a senior level consultant at KPMG in the defence field from
2000-2003. Between 1991 and 1999 he held senior roles with Rockwell UK and Boeing Defence UK. Prior to this he spent 16
years as an RAF officer, during which time he was awarded the MBE. Bill graduated from Cambridge University and holds an
MBA. 
 
Commenting on the appointment, Andrew Thomis, Chief Executive of Cohort plc, said: 
 
"We are delighted to have appointed Bill Bird as the new MD of SCS. He has extensive defence programme and management
experience and the leadership skills required to take SCS forward. 
 
"Putting in place new leadership at SCS is a major step forward in returning this business to a normal operational
footing." 
 
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For further information, please contact 
 
 Cohort plc  Andrew Thomis, Chief ExecutiveSimon Walther, Finance Director  +44 (0)14 9184 5630  
                                                                                                 
 Investec    Keith Anderson, Daniel Adams                                   +44 (0)20 7597 5970  
                                                                                                 
 Hogarth     Reg Hoare, Vicky Watkins                                       +44 (0)20 7357 9477  
 
 
Cohort plc (www.cohortplc.com) 
 
Cohort is an independent technology group working primarily for defence (air, land and sea), wider government and industry
clients, through three market-facing subsidiary companies: 
 
·     MASS (www.mass.co.uk) - a specialist systems house with considerable experience in the defence market and a focus on
Information Systems.  Based in Cambridgeshire, MASS was acquired by Cohort in August 2006; 
 
·     SCS (www.scs-ltd.co.uk) - an independent defence consultancy, combining technical expertise with practical experience
and domain knowledge. Owned by Cohort since flotation in March 2006; 
 
·     SEA (www.sea.co.uk) - an advanced surveillance systems and software house with hardware development capability
operating in the defence, space, transport and offshore market sectors. Acquired by Cohort in October 2007. 
 
Cohort (AIM: CHRT) was admitted to London's Alternative Investment Market in March 2006. It has its headquarters in
Oxfordshire and, through its operating companies, employs in total around 500 core staff there and at bases in Bristol,
Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire and Somerset. 
 
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