Board of Directors
Henry Lafferty, Chairman.

Henry joined the Board in June 2006 and was appointed Non-Executive Chairman in September 2009. A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School, he has experience in all aspects of general management, corporate, project finance and financial control.

After an early career with Doulton Glass, he spent fourteen years in senior positions at the National Freight Corporation, including five years as Finance Director and four years as Managing Director of its property arm. He later spent seven years as group Finance Director of Jarvis plc during its successful growth phase and three years as chief executive of PatientFirst Partnerships (now part of CareCapital plc). He is also a director of InvestSelect PLC and a number of private equity and management services companies.

Henry is Chairman of the COLG audit, nominations and remuneration committees.
Eric Anstee, Chief Executive.

Eric was appointed to the Board as Chief Executive on 11 November 2009. He is a chartered accountant with a strong City reputation. He is currently non-executive director of the Financial Reporting Council, Insight Asset Management (the UK institutional investment wing of Bank of New York Mellon) and with PayPoint plc, as well as serving on the Takeover Panel Appeals Board. His past non-executive positions have included chairman of Mansell plc and a director of SSL International plc and Severn Trent plc. His early career included a period of ten years as a partner with Ernst & Young and a three-year secondment to HM Treasury. Until the end of 2006 he was chief executive of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Prior to that, his executive positions included chairman and CEO of Old Mutual Financial Services plc. He has been CFO of three FTSE 100 companies, Old Mutual plc, The Energy Group plc and Eastern Electricity plc.
John Kent, Executive Director, Corporate Development.

John Kent was appointed to the Board as Corporate Development Director on 11 November 2009. He is a corporate development specialist with a background in Government, the City and industry. He is currently chairman of Penta Capital Partners, a private equity firm. He has led strategy and corporate finance/development for three FTSE 100 companies in the energy and financial services sectors. More recently he has been part time chairman of Rockfield Energy Investments, a private equity firm and he has been acting as a corporate development consultant for companies such as Close Brothers, Filtronic plc and Aga Rangemaster Group plc. His earlier career as a "fast stream" civil servant in Department of Trade and Industry/Treasury including the initial privatisation programme. This was followed by working for Lloyds Merchant Bank, where he became a main board director and the largest fee generator during the early 1990s.
Howard C Goodbourn, Group Finance Director.

Howard was appointed to the board as Group Finance Director on 24 October 2011. He is a Chartered Accountant and joined from Southern Water Services where he was appointed Group Finance Director in 2004 by RBS private equity. Southern Water Services has an enterprise value of c.£4bn and was sold in 2007 to a consortium of infrastructure funds. He has a wealth of experience in managing Finance functions having worked in senior finance and treasury roles for Eon UK, TXU, The Energy Group plc and Eastern Group plc. He has a background in the city working in corporate finance for Deloitte and Charterhouse Bank Ltd. He also has considerable corporate treasury experience managing debt issuance in the debt capital markets of over £1bn and managing a bank and debt portfolio of over £3bn.
John Greenhalgh, MIPR, Non Executive Director.

John founded City of London PR in the 1970s, after an earlier career as a financial and general news journalist and was Chairman and Managing Director of COLG on its admission to the London Stock Exchange in 1996. Before setting up City of London PR, he created the financial public relations division of the Exchange Telegraph Company, the UK news wire service now merged with Thomson Financial and Reuters. Since August 2008, John has served as a Non-executive Director of COLG and acts as a senior adviser to the Board on portfolio investments.
Tony Brierley, Non Executive Director

Tony Brierley, previously General Counsel and Company Secretary of 3i Group plc and a member of its management committee, will join the Board on 1st December 2011 and will take over the Chairmanship of the Audit and Risk Committee. Tony is currently also a Non-Executive Director of The Pensions Regulator, a Trustee Director of the 3i Group Pension Plan, a member of the Court and Council of the Royal College of Art and a member of the Board of Governors of Nottingham Trent University. Tony brings his extensive legal and regulatory experience to the Board.
John Williams, Non Executive Director

John Williams graduated from the London School of Economics in 1978 with an M.Sc. (Econ). He then joined HM Treasury where he spent 8 years in a variety of posts including a secondment to the IMF in Washington, as well as having considerable involvement in the Government's privatisation programme during the 1980s. In 1986 he joined Kleinwort Benson where he spent 14 years advising principally financial services organisations on all types of corporate finance transactions. He spent 1996/7 in New York running the investment banking operations of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, before moving to Lehman Brothers in 2000, where he remained until 2003. He then joined Gleacher Shacklock LLP where he is currently a Senior Adviser focused on the financial services sector.

Senior Management
Trevor Hanham, General Manager.

Trevor Hanham joined COLG after 27 years in the telecommunications industry, most of it with BT, where he gained experience across a broad range of disciplines. As Managing Director of the East & West African element of BT's global venture with AT&T, he was responsible for the successful establishment and development of business relations with twenty countries, following the liberalisation and opening up of telecommunications markets during the 1990s.