Board of Directors
Susan Noble
Susan succeeded Strone Macpherson as Chairman in December 2017.
Joined the Board in 2012.
Age: 62
Length of Service: 10 years
Chair of Newton Investment Management Limited and Newton Capital Management Limited, an Associate Director of Manchester Square Partners and a Trustee of the Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted. Formerly Chair of Alliance Trust Investments, a Director of Alliance Trust plc, a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Head of European Equities and Head of Global Equities. Also a Director and Senior European Portfolio Manager at Robert Fleming Asset Management.
Calum Thomson
Independent Non-Executive Director
Joined the Board in April 2017.
Age: 61
Length of Service: 5 years
Non-Executive Director and Audit Chairman of The Diverse Income Trust plc, Baring Emerging Europe plc, The Bank of London, The Middle East plc, BLME Holdings plc, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited and Schroder Pension Management Limited, Standard Life Private Equity Trust and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of La Serenissima. A qualified accountant with over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including 21 years as audit partner at Deloitte LLP, specialising in the asset management sector.
Anja Balfour
Independent Non-Executive Director
Joined the Board in January 2018.
Age: 58
Length of Service: 4 years
Non-Executive Director of Martin Currie Asia Unconstrained Trust plc, Schroder Japan Growth Fund plc, and F&C Global Smaller Companies plc. Twenty years experience in managing Japanese and International Equity portfolios for Stewart Ivory, Baillie Gifford and Axa Framlington.
Graham Kitchen
Independent Non-Executive Director
Joined the Board in January 2019.
Age: 55
Length of Service: 3 years
Non-Executive Director of the Mercantile Investment Trust Plc, Invesco Perpetual Select Trust Plc and of Places for People and a member of the investment committee of Independent Age. Former Global Head of Equities at Janus Henderson Investors. Also formerly Head of UK Equities at Threadneedle and Investment Manager at Invesco Asset Management. Twenty years experience managing UK equity funds.
Neil Galloway
Age: 53
Length of Service: 8 months
Executive Vice President of IWG PLC. Formerly an Executive Director and CFO of DFI Retail Limited, a Commissioner of PT Hero Supermarket Tbk, an Executive Director and CFO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Limited, a Managing Director of ABN AMRO and ABN AMRO Rothschild and various roles within HSBC. Over 30 years experience across a range of banking and finance roles, of which over 20 years based in Asia Pacific.
