A director of a number of public and private companies including R K Carvill (International Holdings) Ltd and Jet Press Holdings BV, Sir Michael was formerly Chairman of ICL plc, Chloride Group plc, Dunlop Holdings plc, Mercury Communications Ltd and British Leyland. He has served as a member of the CBI's President's Committee, is a founder member of the Queen's Award for Industry Review Committee and a Vice-Chairman of the British Institute of Management. Sir Michael has also served as President of Comité des Constructeurs d'Automobiles du Marché Commun, the European Advisory Council Board and Rockwell International.
Tony Caplin has held appointments as Chairman and Non-Executive Director at Panmure Gordon. He has helped numerous companies on the road to success and has also held a number of senior management positions with Manchester News Ltd and Pacific Telesis, amongst others. He is currently the Chairman of North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, Chairman of the Audit Committee on the Medical Research Council and is a Non-executive Director of Northamber plc and Alternative Networks plc.
Founder and former Chief Executive and latterly Executive Chairman of the original Strand Partners Limited (now Strand Hanson Limited). Richard Fenhalls has also held senior positions in the Banking industry as Chief Executive of Henry Ansbacher Holdings Plc and Executive Chairman of Henry Ansbacher & Co Ltd. Prior to this Richard was Deputy Chairman of Guinness Mahon Holdings Ltd, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of Guinness Mahon & Co Ltd, and a Director of Guinness Peat Group plc. He was a Senior Vice President of American Express International Banking Corporation in charge of merchant banking world wide. Prior to this, a Senior Vice President of Marine Midland Bank with Citicorp Leasing International Inc and a practising attorney in South Africa.
Andy Wilson is a Non-Executive Director of Impellam Group plc, London Town plc, Mavinwood plc, GHP AB, Digital Marketing Group plc, Consolidated Asset Management plc, Shellproof Limited and Shellshock Limited. He is also a Non-Executive Director of a number of private companies, including Priory Investment Holdings Limited, Artefact Partners Limited and Pluto Capital Limited.
James Thornton started his investment banking career at Morgan Stanley from 1990 to 1995. He was subsequently Head of Finance at BAT Industries PLC, where he managed the demerger of its financial services interests and their merger with Zurich Financial Services. He was Deputy Group and UK Finance Director at Old Mutual PLC from the time of its listing, and also for a time Vice Chairman of its UK wealth management subsidiary Gerrard PLC, and a Director of Old Mutual Asset Management and Old Mutual Securities. Since then he has led the turnaround of IFX's Foreign Exchange Division prior to IFX PLC's sale and was most recently a Director of Global Health Partner PLC. He is currently a Director of Consolidated Asset Management (Holdings) plc, Biteback Media Limited and Spoken Entertainment Limited. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Harvard MBA.