Schroder Japan Growth Fund Plc

Company Directors

Jonathan Taylor Chairman
(Aged 64)
Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 29 July 1999 and as Chairman on 20 April 2004. He is Chairman and Managing Director of Dragon Partners Limited. He is a Director of Greater China Fund Inc. and member of the international advisory board, Datawind Inc. He was previously a Director of Baring Asset Management Limited (1976–1997). He is a Barrister at law.

Richard Greer
(Aged 54)
Mr Greer, aged 54 has worked in Japan for fifteen years, for Jardine Matheson and Company Limited and subsequently, as branch manager, for Baring Securities (Japan) Limited, until 1993. He has extensive experience of company research, and headed the group established by the Japanese Ministry of Finance representing the EU investment banks and brokerages. On returning to London, he was global head of research at Barings, Caspian Limited and Commerzbank AG, before becoming a partner at WMG Limited, a wealth management group, and head of marketing at Toscafund Limited.

Jan Kingzett
(Aged 51)
Appointed as a Director of the Company on 3 October 2001. He is an employee of Schroders. He is also a non-executive Director of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc and Thos. Agnew & Sons Limited.

Peter Lyon
(Aged 66)
Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 31 May 1994. He is a Director of Clay Finlay Inc., a US based institutional fund management group. Between 1990-1995 he was the Chief Strategist for Smith New Court, from 1985 - 1990 a Director with County NatWest Investment Management, and between 1975 and 1985 he was a Director, and Head of UK research, at Vickers da Costa.

John Scott
(Aged 55)
Appointed as a Director of the Company on 20 April 2004. He is a non-executive director of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC, Martin Currie Pacific Trust plc and JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trust plc, as well as being Chairman of Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC. His other directorships include Xaar plc, Endace Ltd. and Miller Insurance Services Ltd. He previously worked in the Far East for Jardine Matherson & Co, Ltd. (1974-1980) and in London for Lazard Brothers & Co. Limited (1981-2001), during which time he spent three years in Tokyo with responsibility for Lazard Brothers’ investment banking activities in Japan.

Yoshindo Takahashi
(Aged 67)
Was appointed as a Director of the Company on 19 December 2005. He is currently Director of the Office of Pharmaceutical Industry Research, a research arm of Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. He is also a member of the Management Committee of Executive Partners Inc, a consulting firm for small and emerging companies and a statutory auditor (Independent) of Netprice Corp, an internet shopping company based in Japan. He was previously Executive Director and Dean of Nomura School of Advanced Management (1996–2000) and Executive Vice President of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (1994–1996). He served as President and then Chairman of Nomura Research Institute Europe Ltd and Nomura Research America Inc. between 1980 and 1991.