Board and Committees

Jamie Cayzer-Colvin    
Chairman

Jamie Cayzer-Colvin joined the Board on 13 May 2011 and was appointed Chairman on 30 September 2011. He is an executive director of Caledonia Investments plc. He joined the Caledonia group in 1995, initially working at its Amber specialty chemicals subsidiary before becoming an investment executive at Caledonia in 1999. He was appointed an associate director in 2002 and a director in 2005. He is a non-executive director of Close Brothers Group plc. Among other appointments, he is a director of Polar Capital Holdings plc and of a number of unquoted companies.

James Nelson joined the Board in 2002. He is the Company's Senior Independent Director. He was formerly an executive partner of Graphite Capital and is a former chairman of the BVCA. He is a director of Intermediate Capital Group PLC. 

Keith Percy    

Keith Percy joined the Board in 2006. He is Chairman of Brunner Investment Trust plc and a director of JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust plc, Standard Life Equity Income Trust plc and The Children’s Mutual.
 

Mary Ann Sieghart    

Mary Ann Sieghartjoined the Board in July 2008. She was Assistant Editor of The Times from 1998 to 2007. She is also a former City Editor and Lex columnist. She sits on the Council of Tate Modern and the Advisory Council of IntoUniversity and is a Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust and Vice-President of the National Association for Gifted Children. She writes a weekly column for The Independent. 

Beatrice Hollond    

Beatrice Hollond joined the Board on 23 July 2010 and became Chairman of the Audit Committee on 24 September 2010. She is deputy chairman of Millbank Financial Services, an independent family office, and chairman of Millbank Investment Management Limited, its investment management subsidiary. She is also a director of Keystone Investment Trust plc, ORA Capital Partners Plc and Oldfield & Co. (London) Limited. Among other appointments she is a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Chairman of the Investment Committee, and an Advisory Fellow, of Pembroke College, Oxford.