Andrew Barker (Chairman)
Aged 63, was appointed as a non-executive Director and
Chairman of the Company on 10 January 2001.
He has been
involved in investment management for more than 38 years,
having joined Foreign & Colonial Management Ltd in 1970. He
was a director of Foreign & Colonial Ventures Ltd from 1980 to
1998, which is a specialist provider of private equity finance to
small and medium sized companies. He was responsible for
Foreign & Colonial’s North American investments from 1985
until he retired from Foreign & Colonial in March 2000. His
former directorships include The Bankers Investment Trust PLC
and Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust PLC. He is Chairman
of the British Portfolio Trust plc, JPMorgan MidCap Investment
Trust plc and Morant Wright Japan Income Trust plc. He is also
a director of Renaissance US Growth Investment Trust PLC.
Alan Clifton
Aged 61, was appointed as a non-executive Director of the
Company on 21 February 2001.
Mr Clifton was previously the
Managing Director of Morley Fund Management, the asset
management arm of Aviva plc, the UK’s largest insurance
group. He is currently Chairman of JPMorgan Fleming
Japanese Smaller Companies Trust plc and of Schroder UK
Growth Fund plc and a director of several other investment
companies. Until July 2008, he was Chairman of the Strategic
Investment Board at the Ministry of Justice.
David Clough
Aged 62, was appointed as a non-executive Director of the
Company on 25 February 2004.
Dr Clough was Director of
Research at Roche in the UK between 1986 and 1999. He was
responsible for over 300 staff with departments covering
chemistry, biology and pre-clinical development.
Peter Collacott
Aged 64, was appointed as a non-executive Director of the
Company on 11 April 1994.
He is a director of Jordan/Zalaznick
& Co. Limited, a FSA-regulated investment company. He was
formerly company secretary of JZ Equity Partners plc, a listed
private equity investment trust, with responsibility for finance
and administration and director of product development with
State Street Global Advisors (UK) Limited.
He was appointed chairman of the Audit Committee
on 19 April 2004.
Alex Hammond-Chambers
Aged 65, was appointed as a non-executive Director of the
Company on 21 February 2001.
After graduating in Economics
at Cambridge University in 1964, Mr Hammond-Chambers
joined the investment management firm of Ivory & Sime in
Edinburgh, Scotland. Following his formal training period, he
became the fund manager of British Assets Trust and
Edinburgh American Assets Trust. He became a partner in
1969 and in 1985 Chairman of Ivory & Sime PLC. From 1984 to
1987 he served as a governor of the NASD.
In 1991 he retired from Ivory & Sime and has since pursued a
second career as a professional non-executive director. He is
currently Chairman of Fidelity Special Values plc, Aurora
Investment Trust plc, and Hansa Trust plc. He is a director of
Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust plc.
Ian Macgregor
Aged 71, a Chartered Accountant, was appointed as a
non-executive Director of the Company on 21 February 2001.
He has focused on investment management for more
than 20 years. In 1985 he joined The Wellcome Trust, and as Chief
Investment Officer he oversaw an increase in the Trust’s
investment assets from £1 billion to £14 billion, before retiring
in 2000. The Trust is a major investor in private equity, with a
focus on biotechnology both in the UK and the US, and he has
served on a number of advisory committees in the private
equity/biotechnology area.
He also serves on the supervisory board of a number of
Common Investment Trusts for Charities.
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