Schroder AsiaPacific Fund Plc

Company Directors

The Hon. Rupert Carington*+ (Aged 59)
Chairman

Was appointed as a director of the Company on 18 September 1995. He has run his own financial advisory business since leaving Morgan Grenfell, the merchant bank, in 1987 after a career of 17 years including a period as Chief Executive of the Hong Kong office. He has considerable experience of investment trust companies having been Chairman of the Korea Asia Fund for ten years and Chairman of the Schroder Emerging Countries Fund for seven years as well as a director of the Fleming Natural Resources Investment Trust. He is also a director of an open ended investment company. He sits on a number of corporate advisory boards including those of two Asian businesses.

The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cromer*+ (Aged 62)

Was appointed as a director of the Company on 24 November 1995, and is Chairman of the Audit Committee and the Management Engagement Committee. He is a former director of Inchcape Pacific Ltd. in Hong Kong and worked in the Far East for 28 years. He is currently chairman of the JF China Region Fund Ltd. and Pedder Street Asia Absolute Return Fund Ltd. He is also a director of the Western Provident Association (WPA), China IPO Limited and the Japan High Yield Property Find Limited.

Jan Kingzett+ (Aged 53)

was appointed as a director of the Company on 18 September 1995. He has worked for Schroder Investment Management in London, Tokyo and Singapore since 1977. He is also a non-executive director of Schroder Japan Growth Fund plc, Thos. Agnew & Sons (Holdings) Limited, Agnew’s Property Investments Limited and a trustee of the Psychiatric Research Trust.

Robert Binyon*+ (Aged 57)

Was appointed as a director of the Company on 17 February 2000. Until March 2003, he was a Managing Director of CDC Capital Partners responsible for CDC’s investments and operations in the Asia Pacific region. He continues to be based in the region and to serve as a director on a number of funds and companies in Asia.

Anthony Fenn*†(Aged 66)

Was appointed as a director on 1 June 2005. He retired at the end of 2003 after 38 years as an Investment Executive with Sun Life Financial of Canada. He held various positions in the course of his career and was for the last 6 years Head of Investments, Asia, in which he oversaw the setting up of a mutual fund management company in the Philippines. He also has investment experience in Hong Kong, Japan, China, Indonesia and India.

Robert Boyle (Aged 61)

Was appointed as a director of the Company on 26 November 2009. He is a Chartered Accountant and was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he was responsible for multi-national client accounts, specialising in the telecoms and media sectors: he was chairman of the PwC European Entertainment and Media Practice for twelve years and retired in 2006. He is a non-executive director, and chairman of the audit committee, of Maxis Berhad (in Malaysia), Witan Investment Trust PLC, Prosperity Voskhod Fund Ltd (an AIM listed company) and the Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the independent member of the audit committee of the National Trust.

 

* member of the Audit Committee and the Management Engagement Committee.
+ member of the Nomination Committee.