Eric Anstee, Chief Executive.

He is a Chartered Accountant with a strong City reputation. He is currently Non-
Executive Director with 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, SSL International plc and Severn Trent plc. His early career included a period of 10 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. Prior to that, his executive positions included Chairman and CEO of Old Mutual Financial Services plc. He has been CFO of three FTSE100 companies - Old Mutual plc, The Energy Group plc and Eastern Electricity plc.

John Kent, Executive Director, Corporate Development.

He is a corporate development specialist with a background in Government, the City and
Industry. He is currently Chairman of two private equity firms and a Non-Executive Director of TTT Moneycorp Ltd, the foreign exchange business. He has led strategy and corporate finance/development for three FTSE 100 groups in the energy and financial services sectors. More recently he has been acting as a corporate development consultant, advising companies such as Close Bros, Filtronic plc. and Aga Rangemaster Group plc. His earlier career as a “fast stream” civil servant in DTI/Treasury included the initial privatization programme. This was followed by a successful spell in Lloyds Merchant Bank, where he became a main board director and the largest fee generator during the early 1990s.

Henry Lafferty, Chairman.
He was appointed to the Board in June 2006. He is the Senior Independent Director and also Chairman of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, he has experience in all aspects of corporate finance and financial management. After working for Doulton Glass in the 1970s, he spent fourteen years in senior positions at National Freight Corporation, six years as Group Finance Director of Jarvis Plc during its successful expansionary growth phase and three years as Chief Executive of PatientFirst Partnerships (now Care Capital Ltd). He is currently an Executive Director (part time) of InvestSelect Plc and its associated investee companies.

John Greenhalgh, MIPR, Non Executive Director.
He founded City of London PR in the 1970s, after an earlier career in financial and general journalism on three national newspapers. 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. He was Chairman and Managing Director of the Group on its admission to the London Stock Exchange in 1988 and served in these roles for twenty years until August 2008.

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