Board

Paul Compton, Chief Executive

Paul qualified as a Mechanical Engineer at The University of Cambridge and initially worked in the car industry as a Production Engineer. He was employed by Morgan Grenfell in 1986. Thereafter he worked for UBS as an engineering analyst before moving to Merrill Lynch to head up the firm's European Capital Goods team. At Merrill Lynch he was voted the UK No1 engineering analyst in a number of surveys before moving to Collins Stewart, again, as an engineering analyst in 2000. Read More

Rupert Lowe, Non-executive Chairman

Rupert worked for Phillips and Drew between 1981 and 1988, serving on the LIFFE Board between 1985 and 1988. He was a member of the Committee who created the FTSE 100 Index before joining Baring Securities in 1988, where he worked in Japanese derivatives. He joined Morgan Grenfell in 1990 and was Chairman of Southampton Leisure Holdings Plc between 1996 and 2006, serving on the Board of the Football Association between 2003 and 2006. He was previously Chairman of the Prince's Trust (South East) and is currently Chairman of Jubilee Group Holdings (Lloyds Insurance). Read More

Alan Kershaw, Finance and Operations Director

Alan qualified as an accountant (ACA) with PwC before moving to spend 10 years at Royal Liver Assurance, where he became Head of UK operations. He then spent four years at JP Morgan Invest, where he was Head of Technology and Operations. Alan has excellent knowledge and experience across a wide range of functions, particularly operations, client service, finance, technology and risk.

John Scott FSI, Head of Private Clients

John began his stockbroking career in October 1970 with Charlton Seal Dimmock & Co. He became a Partner in the same firm in 1982 and subsequently a Director of Wise Speke following an amalgamation in 1990. In August 1994, he joined Albert E Sharp, (a predecessor company to Gerrard), as a Director, where he remained until June 2007 before joining WH Ireland. In his role as head of private clients, John has overall responsibility for the firm's private client business whilst continuing to play an active part in the management of funds on behalf of clients based principally in the North West of England.

Roger Lane-Smith, Non-Executive Director

Roger was Senior Partner and Chairman of DLA Piper UK from 1998 to 2005 and was appointed a Senior Consultant to the practice in May 2005. He is a Non-executive Director of MS International, Dolphin Capital Investors, Timpsons, Avia Health Informatics and a number of other non quoted companies.

Richard E. M. Lee, Non-Executive Director

Richard is a strategy consultant with wide business experience. In his early career he worked in two stockbroking firms in the research and corporate finance departments. He has been Chairman or Non Executive Director of eleven quoted companies and a number of private companies in Banking, Finance, Invoice Factoring, Recruitment Packaging, Healthcare and a broad range of industrial areas. He was previously a member of the Investment comittee of the Lazard North West Unit Trust. Prior to becoming a Non Executive Director he was Chairman of W H Ireland Ltd.

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