Fidelity Emerging Markets Limited

Hélène Ploix (French) is a Partner and former chairman of Paris-based private equity firm Pechel Industries. She has had an extensive career in finance and investment in the public and private sectors, both in France (primarily at the French state-owned Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations) and internationally (notably as an Executive Director at the IMF, World Bank and as a Member of the Investments Committee of the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund). She is currently a NonExecutive Director of Ferring (Switzerland) and SES-imagotag, Non-Executive Chairman of Sogama Crédit Associatif and was previously at a number of other companies, including Sofina, The Boots Company PLC, BNP Paribas and Publicis. Mrs Ploix was educated at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, the University of California at Berkeley and INSEAD. She is based in France.

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee
Chairman of the Nomination Committee 
Appointed 2 November 2012

Sujit Banerji (Indian) is an independent advisor on corporate strategy to a number of companies in the finance and finance-related technology sectors globally. In 2009 he completed a 33 year career at Citigroup where he had been a Managing Director since 1996, latterly serving as Head of Strategy and Institutional M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (‘MENA’). His career at Citi covered a number of regional roles including strategy and corporate finance, and relationships with multinational clients across the MENA region. He has also served as the country and region head for Citi in India, and as the head of the corporate business in Thailand. Over the course of his career he has been based in India, Bangladesh and Thailand as well as in Europe, and is currently based in Singapore. He was educated at the University of Poona (Pune) and the University of Bombay (Mumbai)

Appointed 31 October 2013

Saffet Karpat (Swiss/Turkish) is a consultant on strategy to management teams of organisations based in Turkey. He is a Board member of Eczacıbaşı group, a Turkish conglomerate with businesses in construction materials, consumer goods, mining and medical services. Previously he worked for Procter & Gamble (‘P&G’) for 30 years in various financial and senior management roles across a number of emerging markets; prior to retiring from P&G in 2013 he was Vice President and General Manager of the Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East and Africa Division, responsible for Turkey, Central Asia, Israel and the Caucasian region. From 2013 to 2016 he was a member of the Board and the Executive Committee of Sütaş Dairy Company, and he has been an investor in agriculture in the Aegean region of Turkey since 2011. He studied Business Administration at Istanbul University and received an MBA from Lausanne University. He is based in Switzerland.
Member of the Audit and Risk Committee 

Appointed 1 October 2011
 

Katherine Tsang (Canadian) spent 22 years with Standard Chartered Bank, latterly in the role of Chairperson of Greater China, before retiring in 2014. Following her retirement, Ms Tsang founded Max Giant that trades in different markets as well as making direct investments in Asia. Ms Tsang is currently an independent Non Executive Director on the Board of China CITIC Bank International Limited and Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Limited. She also serves as a member of the Advisory Council for China of the City of London, and is an honorary Board member of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has previously served as an independent Non-Executive Director of Gap Inc., and Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Limited, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on China, and a member of Sotheby’s Advisory Board. She is based in Hong Kong.

Appointed 19 July 2017

Dr Simon Colson (British) has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets, working in investment banking, investment management and financial consulting. From 1995-2001 he was Managing Director, Deutsche Bank AG London, in charge of closed-end fund origination and distribution, and in previous roles was responsible for the launch, restructuring and repurposing of a significant number of investment companies. From 2002-2005 he was a non-executive director of The Association of Investment Companies. In 2002 he started his own FCA regulated consulting and distribution business which raised assets for emerging managers across a range of traditional and alternative asset classes (including closed-end funds). In 2017 he relinquished his FCA licence to concentrate on unregulated advisory and non-executive work. He is currently a non-executive director of the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. He is a qualified medical doctor and holds an MBA in Finance & Investment from Cass Business School (University of London). Dr Colson is based in the UK.

Appointed 1 July 2019

Torsten Koster (Swiss) has over 30 years' experience working for large multi-national companies. He spent two periods at Nestle SA (1991-1997 and 2003-2016). During his second term Torsten held the positions of Chief Financial Officer Nestle Russia & Eurasia between 2007-2011 and Chief Financial Officer Nestle Nespresso SA from 2011-2016. He also held the positions of Chief Financial Officer at Lukoil SA for three years from 1998-2000 and subsequently at ELCA lnformatique SA between 2000-2003. In 2016 Torsten founded his own consultancy business, Baussan Concept SA which specialized in providing due diligence and portfolio services to European and US based private equity firms.

Torsten has held a number of Board member roles. Director of SodaStream International from 2016-2018 (NASDAQ:SODA), Vice Chairman of Natra SA, Spain from 2019-2022. He is Chairman of the Board of Banque Heritage SA and Director of ECOM Agroindustrial SA (both of which are unlisted entities). He holds a Masters degree from HEC Lausanne. Mr Koster resides in Switzerland.

Appointed 1 July 2020
Appointed Senior Independent Director 4 May 2023

Heather Manners (British) is an award-winning market professional with some 34 years' experience of investment in Asia, mostly recently, and for the past 15 years as the co-founder, CEO and CIO of Prusik Investment Management. Heather is also a non-executive director of Montanaro Asset Management and Collidr Asset Management respectively and previously was a non-Executive Director of Aberdeen New Dawn. Heather began her career at Henderson Global Investors Limited where, latterly, she was Head of Asia and Emerging Markets.

Appointed on 5 May 2022
Appointed Chairman on 8 December 2022

Julian Healy (British) has over 25 years of experience working for large financial institutions with a focus on emerging and frontier markets, including roles at a number of investment companies and banks in Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to the roles described above, he served as a director of XacBank, a retail and business bank in Mongolia. Previously, Mr Healy led the Private Equity team at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, prior to which he spent ten years at JP Morgan Fleming Investment Management and its predecessor, Fleming Investment Management. 

Mr Healy is a chartered accountant and a graduate of Cambridge University with a BA in Modern Languages. 

Appointed 12 December 2022
Appointed Audit Chairman 4 May 2023

Mark Little (British) is a Chartered Accountant with extensive financial services experience in fund management, research, and private banking, and has a strong understanding of compliance and regulation in the modern financial services world.

He is a non-executive Director and Chairman of the audit committees of BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc, Majedie Investments Plc and Abrdn Equity Income Trust plc. Previously Mr Little was a non-executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of STS Global Income & Growth Trust plc, Managing Director, Scotland & Northern Ireland at Barclays Wealth (formerly Gerrard) and Global Head of Automotive Research at Deutsche Bank. Mr Little has a wealth of experience in the financial services sector and began his career as a fund manager with Scottish Widows Investment Management after qualifying as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1991. He subsequently worked as Global Head of Automotive Research for Deutsche Bank and joined Barclays Wealth in 2005, where he became Managing Director of Barclays Wealth (Scotland and Northern Ireland).

Mr Little is an Accountancy and Economics graduate from Aberdeen University.
 
Appointed 17 January 2024
Appointed Audit Chairman 17 January 2024