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The British Machine Vision Association & Society for Pattern Recognition

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 44

  1. Professor Marina Bloj 2017-2025 Director View profile
  2. Lourdes Agapito 2015-2017 Director View profile
  3. Dr Carole Twining 2013-2017 Director View profile
  4. Graham, James, Doctor 2012-2013 Director View profile
  5. Professor John Illingworth 2012-2015 Director View profile
  6. Mahmoodi, Sasan, Doctor 2012-2013 Director View profile
  7. Dr Ian Reid 2010-2012 Director View profile
  8. Dr Aphrodite Galata 2007-2010 Director View profile
  9. Dr Neil Thacker 2007-2015 Director View profile
  10. Dr Dimitrios Makris 2007-2012 Director View profile
  11. Professor Tim Ellis 2005-2007 Director View profile
  12. Dr Andrew Fitzgibbon 2004-2013 Director View profile
  13. Dr Peter Maxwell Hall 2004-2010 Director View profile
  14. Dr James Michael Ferryman 2004-2005 Director View profile
  15. Michael John Chantler 2002-2012 Director View profile
  16. Dr Adrian Francis Clark 2002-2025 Director View profile
  17. Dr Tony Paul Pridmore 2000-2002 Director View profile
  18. Dr Richard Bowden 2000-2005 Director View profile
  19. Charles Catherwood Taylor 2000-2004 Director View profile
  20. Maybank, Stephen John, Doctor 1999-2000 Director View profile
  21. Dr Josef Vaclav Kittler 1999-2005 Director View profile
  22. Professor Maria Petrou 1998-2004 Director View profile
  23. Dr Julia Alison Noble 1997-1999 Director View profile
  24. Tieniw Tan 1997-1998 Director View profile
  25. Timothy Francis Cootes 1997-2010 Director View profile
  26. Paul Leonard Rosin 1997-2002 Director View profile
  27. David Pycock 1996-1999 Director View profile
  28. Dr Timothy James Ellis 1996-2004 Director View profile
  29. Dr Philip Fraser Mclauchlan 1994-1996 Director View profile
  30. Professor Emlyn Roy Davies 1994-2025 Director View profile
  31. Timothy Ian Paterson Trew 1994-1996 Director View profile
  32. Dr Neil Andrew Thacker 1994-1999 Director View profile
  33. John Stewart Anderson 1994-1994 Director View profile
  34. Marshall, Stephen, Doctor 1993-1994 Director View profile
  35. Dr Peter Heward Mowforth 1993 Director View profile
  36. Dr Bernard Francis Buxton 1994 Director View profile
  37. Peter Saraga 1993 Director View profile
  38. Dr Edwin Robert Hancock 1994 Director View profile
  39. John Illingworth 1997 Director View profile
  40. Dr Margaret Jai Varga 2001 Director View profile
  41. Dr Andrew David Marshall 2002-2006 Secretary View profile
  42. Professor Christopher John Taylor 1996-2010 Secretary View profile
  43. Geoffrey Daniel Sullivan 1994-1997 Secretary View profile
  44. Andrew Crofton Sleigh 1994 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
26/09/1990
Also a registered charity
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

Financials

Net assets
£370,457
Total assets
£370,457
Cash
£366,367
Employees
0
Turnover
Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)

Filed as Full accounts (audit exempt).

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

7 directors on the board

8.8y median 10.8y
average tenure
20.9y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

0
also govern a charity
3
left in the last 12 months

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving directors could step down together
  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats; a director with board experience elsewhere.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
02543446
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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