
Company Directors
Sir Paul Judge (Aged 58)
Chairman
Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 11 January 1995 and is Chairman of Teachers TV board of governors and President of the Association of MBAs. Formerly he has been a Director of WPP Group plc, ministerial adviser at the Cabinet Office, Director General of the Conservative Party, Chairman of Premier Brands Limited, and Planning Director of Cadbury Schweppes PLC.
Peregrine Banbury (Aged 59)
Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 11 January 1995 and is Managing Partner, Private Banking at Coutts & Co.
He has an extensive background in private client and institutional investments,
having been an investment
manager with Robert Fleming & Co. and a Director of EBC Amro Asset Management Limited.
Ian Barby (Aged 62)
Was appointed as a Director of the company on 31 October 2005. He practised
as a Barrister before joining Warburg Investment Management Ltd in 1985,
subsequently becoming a Vice Chairman of Mercury Asset Management
plc and latterly, until 2003, a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch Investment
Managers. He has wide experience of the investment management industry and
of the investment trust sector and is currently Chairman of Invesco Perpetual
UK Smaller Companies PLC and of Ecofin Water and Power Opportunities plc as
well as being a director of Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust plc, Pantheon
International Participations PLC and SR Europe Investment Trust plc.
Peter Readman (Aged 60)
Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 15 December 1999. He is Chairman
of Abercromby Property International and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
and a director of a number of other companies including Keystone Investment
Trust plc and Pantheon International Participations plc.
Keith Niven (Aged 59)
Appointed as a Director of the Company on 5 January 1995. He is non-executive
Chairman of Matrix Income & Growth VCT plc and Matrix Income & Growth
3 VCT plc and a non-executive Director of three other investment trusts, Schroder
UK Growth Fund plc, Impax Environmental Markets plc and Advance UK Trust plc.
Mr Niven is also an investment adviser to the Rolls-Royce Pension Fund. He
was previously a Vice Chairman of Schroder Investment
Management Limited and Chairman of Schroder Unit Trusts Limited.
David Causer (Aged 59)
Appointed as a Director of the Company on 11 December 2008. He is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of The Securities Institute. He has held a number of senior positions within financial organisations including Finance Director of Mercury Asset Management Group plc and a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers until 2001. He was Finance Director of The British Red Cross Society until December 2007.