Meet our Executive Leadership team

Ruth has spent over 30 years working in the international government sector, living and working in Mexico, Colombia, Spain and Malaysia. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese and French and has visited over 100 countries in the world.

During her career at De La Rue Ruth has managed complex international manufacturing businesses and change initiatives, with experience across multiple disciplines and functions including Sales, Human Resource, Marketing, Manufacturing and General Management.

Ruth sits on the advisory board of the International Currency Association, helping lead the currency industry in creating a single, cohesive voice. She also sits on the advisory council for Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.

Dave joined De La Rue as the Managing Director of the Authentication division in September 2022. He has over 25 years of commercial experience across a number of sectors, including mobile computing and software, renewable energy and chemicals. He is skilled in business recovery, growth and product innovation, as well as building multi-channel go-to-market models.

Dave began his career in the engineering sector with Rolls Royce before moving into more commercial roles in a variety of high growth technology businesses including Symbol Technologies and Honeywell where he has led significant business growth in often challenging markets. Prior to joining De La Rue, Dave worked as Vice President – International for Array Technologies where he worked as part of the team taking the business public on NASDAQ in 2020 and where he grew sales substantially across EMEA and Latin America.

Dean is a chartered accountant with over 35 years of public company experience in companies operating in many different sectors and environments. He is a highly respected finance professional and non-executive director with a proven track record.

He was previously chief financial officer at Dignity plc, Cineworld plc (on an interim basis), N Brown Group plc, T&S Stores plc and Graham Group plc, and formerly Non-Executive Chair at Tuxedo Money Solutions Limited and independent Non-Executive Director at Dignity plc.

Extensive experience working internationally across the Manufacturing, Secure Printing and Technology industries, Natasha has operated at both Executive and Board level and has extensive experience leading large-scale change and strategic initiatives including M&A activity. She is well versed in a wide range of HR and business activity including Strategic Business Transformation and Organisational Change Management. During her 16 years with De La Rue she has held senior HR positions in Cash Systems, Cash Processing Solutions and the Identity businesses, as well as leading a number of major change initiatives for the group, she took up the Group role in January 2020.

Jon joined De La Rue as the General Counsel and Company Secretary on 3rd April 2023 and has over 20 years’ experience in Company Secretarial, Legal and Governance, having held numerous executive roles in both listed FTSE 250 and private companies operating in industrial, manufacturing, property, security and the defence sectors. 
 
His most recent role was as Group General Counsel & Company Secretary with QinetiQ Group plc, a multi-national FTSE 250 operating primarily in the defence, security and critical national infrastructure markets. Jon is highly experienced on both strategic and tactical levels, having run the commercially-focused Legal & Governance team for the last 11 years, which included leading multi-disciplinary teams on project execution and problem resolution, legal advice and facilitation. Prior to joining QinetiQ, Jon had General Counsel & Company Secretary roles at Chloride Group plc, St Modwen Properties plc, Molins plc, and Group Lotus.