Welcome:

Meet The Board

Tom Bartlam

Chairman
Was formerly a founder and managing director of Intermediate Capital Group plc, the leading independent mezzanine provider and investor in Europe, prior to which he was a director of Charterhouse Bank where he was involved in their corporate finance and private equity activities. He is a chartered accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in the investment and financial services industry. He is currently chairman of Pantheon International Participations plc and Polar Capital Holdings plc and is a nonexecutive director of Numis Corporation plc.

John Hancox
Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
Is a chartered accountant with broad industrial and commercial experience. He is a former managing director of Charterhouse Tilney Securities Limited. He has also served as a non-executive director and chairman of a number of listed and unlisted companies. He holds an MA in economics from Cambridge University. He is currently a non-executive director of a number of private companies.

Rod Birkett
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Began his career at stockbrokers Vickers da Costa before moving to SG Warburg. He was senior fund manager, Japanese equities at Robert Fleming, and was subsequently appointed head of the firm’s closed end funds business. He then moved on to be joint head of Japanese equities at Thames River Capital. He has also served as an executive committee member of The Association of Investment Companies. He is an executive director of Trust Associates Limited.

Peter Dicks
Began his career at stockbrokers Joseph Sebag & Co, after which he co-founded Abingworth plc, a venture capital company which focused on investment in unquoted technology based companies in the United States of America. He is currently non-executive chairman of Capital Accumulations Limited, Private Equity Investor Plc, Sportingbet Plc, SVM UK Emerging Fund plc and Unicorn AIM VCT plc. He is also a non-executive director of Daniel Steward Securities plc, Foresight VCT plc, Foresight 2 VCT plc, Foresight 3 VCT plc, Foresight 4 VCT plc, Graphite Enterprise Trust PLC, Mears Group PLC, Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC and Standard Microsystems Corporation, a NASDAQ quoted company incorporated in the United States of America.

Membership Legend

Remuneration Committee

Terms of Reference

Audit Committee

Terms of Reference

Nomination Committee

Terms of Reference

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