Mr Gillingwater is the Non-Executive Chairman of CDC Group plc, Senior Independent Director of Hiscox Ltd, Helical Bar plc and SSE plc. He was, until recently, Dean of Cass Business School. Prior to this he spent 10 years at Kleinwort Benson, before moving to BZW, and, in due course, becoming joint Head of Corporate Finance and then latterly Chairman of European Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston. He was Chief Executive and later Chairman of the Shareholder Executive and has also been a Non-Executive Director of P&O, Debenhams, Tomkins, Qinetiq Group and Kidde. Mr Gillingwater has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc with effect from 1 March 2013.

Mr Formica has been in the fund management industry since 1993. He has held various senior roles with the Henderson Group in the past 12 years and he has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2004. Prior to being appointed Chief Executive of the Company, he was Joint Managing Director of the Listed Assets business (from September 2006) and was Head of Equities (since September 2004). In the early part of his career, he was an equity manager and analyst for the Henderson Group.

Mrs Garrood is a chartered accountant and corporate treasurer and has worked in the City for over 30 years. She joined the Henderson Group in 2001 and has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2002, formerly as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this, she was Chief Operating Officer at Morley Fund Management (Aviva) and trained as an accountant with KPMG.

Mr Dolan has been in the financial industry for 32 years. Mr Dolan has held various executive positions, including as Chief Executive of the Asset Management Division of Bank of Ireland Group and Chief Executive of Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management. He spent 10 years with the AXA Group where he was Chief Executive Officer of AXA Investment Managers Paris, and Global Deputy Chief Executive Officer of AXA Investment Management. He was Chief Executive of La Fayette Investment Management in London from 2006 until 2009. Mr Dolan has been a Director on a number of boards in Europe and the US, including DLJ and Alliance Capital. Mr Dolan is the founding partner of Anafin LLC, an advisory firm specialising in the investment industry. He was appointed as a Director of Meeschaert Gestion Privee in October 2012

Mr Ferguson is an experienced actuary. Mr Ferguson’s career was in senior management of insurance companies and as a consulting actuary. He was Senior Partner of Bacon & Woodrow which became B&W Deloitte, from 1994 to 2003. Mr Ferguson is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He served on the Council of the Institute from 1989 to 2000 and as President from 1996 to 1998. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Halifax from 1994 until it merged with Bank of Scotland in 2001 and then of HBOS Financial Services until December 2007. He resigned as a Non-Executive Director of Windsor Life on 28 February 2011. Mr Ferguson is the Senior Independent Director of The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited and Chairman of both the Phoenix Group and Guardian Assurance With-Profits Committees.

Mr How has extensive business experience. He was Chief Executive of Majestic Wine plc from 1989 until August 2008 and was formerly Managing Director of Bejam Group plc. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Framlington AIM VCT 2 plc. Mr How is the Senior Independent Director of Dixons Retail plc and the Non-Executive Chairman of Downing Income VCT 4 PLC (formerly Framlington AIM VCT plc). He is also the Chairman of Rayner and Keeler Limited and Woburn Enterprises Limited and the Deputy Chairman of the Peabody Trust. He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Peabody Capital plc in February 2012.

Mr Jeens has extensive experience of financial services initially as an audit partner in Touche Ross & Co and subsequently as Finance Director of Kleinwort Benson Group plc and Woolwich plc. His previous Non-Executive appointments include the Chairman of nCipher plc and the Deputy Chairman of Hepworth plc. He was a Non-Executive Director of Dialight plc and resigned as a Non-Executive Director of Gartmore Fledgling Trust plc on 18 April 2011. Mr Jeens was a Non-Executive Director of The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited from 2003 until May 2012. He is currently also a Non-Executive Director of TR European Growth Trust plc and JPMorgan Russian Securities plc.