Bruce Powell was trained as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in London. He has worked for many years in the IT industry and was finance director of Acal Group plc and Videologic Group plc (now Imagination Technologies) when they floated on the London stockmarket. He is senior independent non-executive director of DICOM Group plc, non-executive chairman of Dataform Group Ltd and non-executive director of Princeton Consulting Ltd and Argenta Discovery Ltd.