The Board
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Aubrey Adams (Non-Executive Chairman) Aubrey Adams, 60, is Chairman of Air Partner Plc and Adventis Group plc and a Non-Executive Director of Unitech Corporate Parks Plc and British Land Plc and is a Trustee of Wigmore Hall. He was, until May 2008, Chief Executive Officer of Savills Plc where he spent 19 years (1990 to 2008). He was formerly Senior Non-Executive Director of Associated British Ports Holdings Limited (1996 to 2006). He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Audit and Management Consultancy divisions from 1970 to 1979. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, he holds a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge. |
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Nick Leslau (Non-Executive Director)
Nick Leslau, 50, BSc (Hons) Est Man, MRICS, is a Chartered Surveyor who filled the role of Chief Executive of Burford Holdings plc for approximately ten years until his resignation from the board of Burford in 1997. He became non-executive Chairman of Prestbury Group Plc in December 1997 and was appointed Group Chairman and Chief Executive of Prestbury Group Plc on 1 January 1998. Nick has been Chairman and Chief Executive of Prestbury Investment Holdings Limited since it commenced business in October 2000. Nick is the Chairman of Prestbury Investments LLP. He has sat on many quoted and unquoted company boards and is a Member of the Bank of England Property Forum. |
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Mike Brown (Non-Executive Director)
Mike Brown, 49, BSc (Land Man) MRICS, is a Chartered Surveyor with 25 years’ experience who was a director of Helical Bar Plc from April 1998, and was its Deputy Chief Executive from 1 August 2007 until July 2009. Mike was responsible for all of Helical Bar’s investment and trading activities during this time. From 1992 to 1997 he was a director of Threadneedle Property Fund Managers, running its then largest fund. He was a board member of Investment Property Forum from 2002 until 2009. Mike is Chief Executive Officer of Prestbury Investments. |
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Keith Hamill (Independent Non-Executive Director)
Keith Hamill, 57, FCA is currently Chairman of Tullett Prebon plc, Travelodge Limited, Alterian Plc, HLG Holdings Ltd (Heath Lambert), Danoptra Limited, Deputy Chairman of Collins Stewart plc and a non-executive director of Easyjet plc and Delilah Holdings Sarl, the holding company of the Samsonite business. He is also Pro-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. He started his career at Price Waterhouse(subsequently PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 1975 and became a partner in that firm in 1987. He was subsequently Director of Financial Control of Guinness Plc, Finance Director of United Distillers and Group Finance Director of Forte Plc, Group Finance Director of WH Smith Plc and Chairman of WH Smith North America. He was also Chairman of Luminar Plc, Moss Bros Group Plc, Go Fly Limited and Bertram Books Limited and a Non-Executive Director of Electrocomponents Plc, William Hill Plc, Tempus Group Plc, Cadmus Communications Corp and TDG Plc. He is a Chartered Accountant and was a member of the Urgent Issues Task Force of the Accounting Standards Board, Chairman of the CBI Financial Reporting Panel and a member of the CBI Companies Committee. |
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Alex Ohlsson (Independent Non-Executive Director)
Alex Ohlsson, 40, Solicitor and Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey, is the managing partner of Carey Olsen, the Channel Islands based firm of solicitors. Alex joined Olsen, Backhurst & Dorey (now Carey Olsen) in 1991 and qualified as a Jersey Solicitor in 1994. The following year, he became an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey and a Partner of Carey Olsen. He specialises in finance and corporate law. He is an advisory board member of Jersey Finance Limited, independent chairman of the States of Jersey Audit Committee as well as being a member of the Financial and Commercial Law Sub-Committee of the Jersey Law Society. He is a non-executive director of Structured Finance Management Limited, Abbey National International Limited and of various companies comprised within the Somerston group of companies. |
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John Stephen (Senior Independent Non-Executive Director)
John Stephen, 60, is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and former Chairman of the English business of real estate advisers, Jones Lang LaSalle. He is non-executive independent Chairman of F & C Commercial Property Trust, an adviser to Evans Property Group, a trustee of the Portman Estate and an adviser to Lloyd's Banking Group's Corporate Real Estate unit. He is a charity trustee, a school governor and a property adviser to the Duchy of Cornwall. |
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David Waters (Independent Non-Executive Director)
David Waters, 60, FCA is a UK qualified Chartered Accountant who trained in London before moving to South Africa in 1971. During his time in South Africa, David established the insolvency and liquidation department of Dekker Nash in Cape Town (later to become Coopers & Lybrand) before becoming a Partner, and then National Partner, in Coopers & Lybrand South Africa. In 1986 David joined Ernst & Young (formerly Arthur Young) (Jersey), becoming Senior Partner in 1998. From 1998 until 2000 David was Managing Director of Ernst & Young Trust Co (Jersey) and in 2000 joined the Royal Bank of Canada as Managing Director of British Isles Trust Business, a role he fulfilled until 2003 before taking up a consultancy role with Royal Bank of Canada until 2005. David currently sits on the boards of several companies as a non-executive director including UBS Wealth Management Global Property Fund Limited and Episode Incorporated. |
