Simon Pryce

Mr Simon Pryce is currently the Chief Executive of Ultra-Electronics plc, the FTSE 250 specialist defence electronics and software solutions provider, which employs over 4500 people in North America, the UK and Australia, of which over 1500 are qualified engineers. Prior to his appointment in June 2018, he was Group Chief Executive of BBA Aviation plc for 10 years.  BBA Aviation was a £5.6bn FTSE 100 listed, US based group that employs some 14,000 people at over 200 locations around the world. Simon led the migration and growth of BBA Aviation from an industrial conglomerate to the world’s leading aviation support and aftermarket services company, before its sale in 2021 to US infrastructure funds. Simon is currently also a Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents plc, the global, high-service industrial and electronic products distributor, Chairman of its Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees. He was appointed to the Board in September 2016. 

Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. After graduating from the University of Reading in 1983, Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the UK before working at the global investment banking firms of Lazards and JP Morgan, in London and New York, and at the international automotive and engineering group GKN plc in the UK and Germany in a range of international corporate finance, finance and general management roles. Simon has also chaired or been on the Board of numerous trade bodies including the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and was an Associate Director of Alvis plc prior to its acquisition by BAe in 2004. 

Simon is a member of the Council of the University of Reading and of its Strategy and Finance Committee.

Simon lives in London with his two sons. When not working or parenting, he is a keen sportsman, although a lot less active than he used to be, a member of the MCC and a lifelong Saracens and Tottenham Hotspur fan!