Kate Bolsover ^1,2 serves as a Director of TR Property Investment Trust PLC, Baillie Gifford & Company Limited  and is Chairman of Invesco Enhanced Investment Trust. 

She worked for Cazenove Group plc and J.P. Morgan Cazenove between 1995 and 2005 where she was managing director of the mutual fund business, and latterly director of Corporate Communications. Prior to this, her work involved business development and mutual funds experience covering countries in the Far East.  

Appointed as Director on 1 January 2010.
Appointed Chairman on 9 December 2014.

All the Directors are non-executive directors and are all independent.

¹ Chairman of the Nomination Committee
² Attendee of the Audit Committee

Grahame Stott ^1,2,3 is a non-executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of China Motor Bus Company Limited.  He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and an Affiliate of the ACCA. He spent 20 years at Watson Wyatt in Hong Kong, during which time he became the regional director for 12 countries across Asia Pacific. He also served as the head of Watson Wyatt’s Global Investment Consulting Business. His background is working with fast growing listed companies. 

Appointed as Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee on 24 September 2013.

All the Directors are non-executive directors and are also independent.

¹ Members of the Management Engagement Committee
² Members of the Nomination Committee
³ Members of the Audit Committee

Michael Warren ^{1, 2, 3} is a non-executive director of Carrington Investments and a non-executive Board member of Rathbone Unit Trust Management Limited. He worked for Thames River Capital from 2007 until 2012 as Investment Director. Prior to that he worked at HSBC Investments, where he was responsible for Institutional and Retail distribution, and before that Deutsche Asset Management, where he was a main board member. Latterly, he has served as managing director of the UK mutual fund business, DWS.

Appointed as Director on 29 September 2014.

All the Directors are non-executive directors and are also independent.

¹ Members of the Management Engagement Committee
² Members of the Nomination Committee
³ Members of the Audit Committee.

Tim Scholefield ^{1, 2, 3} is a non-executive Director of BMO Capital and Income Investment Trust PLC, Jupiter Unit Trust Manager Ltd and Standard Life UK Smaller Companies PLC.  He is Chairman of City Merchants High Yield Trust Ltd and a member of the Investment Management Certificate Panel. He has had over thirty years’ experience in investment management, latterly as Head of Equities at Baring Asset Management until April 2014.

Appointed as Director on 30 September 2015.
Appointed as Senior Independent Director on 22 April 2020.

All the Directors are non-executive directors and are also independent.

¹ Members of the Management Engagement Committee
² Members of the Nomination Committee
³ Members of the Audit Committee.

Clare Brady ^{1, 2, 3}  is a governance professional with 30 years’ experience in banking and financial services. In the private sector, she headed audit and oversight functions at Barclays Capital, HSBC and Republic National Bank of New York. She was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in London and Singapore. In the public sector, she was the Head of Audit at the Bank of England representing the UK on the European Systems of Central Banks (“ESCB”) and also at the G10 meetings of Central Banks. She was Auditor General at the World Bank and held the position of Non-Executive Director of the Institute of Internal Auditors (“IIA”) and also was a Director of the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”), both in Washington D.C.

Appointed as Director on 1 August 2019.

All the Directors are non-executive directors and are also independent.

¹ Members of the Management Engagement Committee
² Members of the Nomination Committee
³ Members of the Audit Committee.