Roger Mountford, Chairman
Appointed: 2004; aged 58.  Roger Mountford has over 30 years’ financial experience, latterly as a managing director in the corporate finance department of SG Hambros.  He now serves on a number of boards, including the Civil Aviation Authority, and is chairman of Enterprise LSE Ltd.

Timothy Amies
Appointed: 1991; aged 68.  Timothy Amies is a chartered accountant with over 30 years’ experience of working in the City.  He was a partner of stockbrokers Laurie Milbank & Co for 16 years prior to its acquisition by Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was a director of Chase Investment Bank involved in mergers and acquisitions.

Piers Brooke
Appointed: 2001; aged 64.  Piers Brooke worked for 38 years in commercial and merchant banking, holding a variety of general management positions in the UK, continental Europe, the Far East and North America; most recently he was the Director of Financial Strategy at National Westminster Bank.  He is a non-executive director of Focus Solutions and other companies.

Richard Brooman
Appointed: 2007; aged 52. Richard Brooman was appointed to the Board on 11 October 2007. He is a chartered accountant and is Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust Plc. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer of Sherwood International Plc and Group Finance Director of VCI Plc. Prior to this, he served as CFO of the global Consumer Healthcare business of SmithKline Beecham and held senior financial and operational positions at Mars after qualifying with Price Waterhouse.

Peter Gale
Appointed: 1991; aged 50.  Peter Gale has worked in many of the divisions of National Westminster Bank, specialising in investment management.  In 1990 he became responsible for the investment management of National Westminster Bank Group Pensions Funds (now RBS Pension Trustee Ltd).  Upon the purchase of Gartmore Investment Management plc in 1996, he became a principal of the enlarged fund management company and in 2003 became managing director of Gartmore Private Equity.

Andrew Murison
Appointed: 2004; aged 58.  Andrew Murison was senior bursar of Peterhouse, Cambridge for nine years and previously, for twelve years, a principal in private equity partnerships in the USA.  He serves on a number of boards and is chairman of the JP Morgan Fleming Continental European Investment Trust plc.