Directors
All Directors are members of the Audit Committee, the Management Engagement Committee and the Nomination Committee.
| Hugh Aldous* Chairman Aged 64. Appointed 22nd June 1995. Hugh Aldous is a director of Henderson TR Pacific Investment Trust plc, Polar Capital Holdings plc, Innospec Inc, Melorio plc and Elderstreet VCT. He chairs a division of Capita plc dealing with the investment company industry. Recently retired as a partner in Grant Thornton UK LLP, he was managing partner of a predecessor firm and chairman of RSM International and was a member of the Competition Commission and a DTI Inspector with various appointments from 1987 to 2003. |
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| Neil England* Aged 53. Appointed 21st March 2003. He is a Director of ITE Group plc, an international exhibitions group specialising in emerging and developing markets, and a Director of Silverstone Holdings Limited. He was also appointed as a non-executive director of Wincanton Plc on 3 June 2008. He was previously Group director of Gallaher Group plc and Chairman of Gallaher's Ukrainian business and was involved in mergers and acquisitions work in Central and Eastern Europe including Turkey. He was also vice president of Mars Inc., responsible for Mars' commercial operations across the CIS, including the Russian Federation. |
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| Edmond Warner* Aged 45. Appointed 13th June 2003. Edmond Warner is chairman of Cantos, the online financial broadcaster and a non-executive director of Clarkson Plc. In 2006 he sold IFX Group plc, the financial trading and spread betting company, having been its chief executive for three years. Previously he was CEO of Old Mutual Financial Services UK, Head of Pan European Equities at BT Alex Brown, and Head of Global Research at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. In January 2007 he was appointed chairman of UK Athletics, the sport’s national governing body. |
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Rory Landman* |
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| *Directors independent of the management company. | |
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