Welcome

Mr. Dorey has more than 35 years of experience in financial markets. He was at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) from 1988 to 2005, where he specialised in credit-related products, including derivative instruments where his expertise was principally in the areas of debt distribution, origination and trading, covering all types of debt from investment grade to high yield and distressed debt. Mr. Dorey is the former president of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Institute of Directors.

Rupert has extensive experience as both director and chairman of exchange-listed and unlisted funds, chairing nine of the funds, of which seven have been listed and two FTSE 250 companies. He has served on boards with 18 different managers, including Apollo, Aviva, M&G, Partners Group, CQS, Cinven, Neuberger Berman and Harbourvest.

Mr. Dorey is a member of Third Point Investors Limited’s Management Engagement Committee and the Remuneration & Nomination Committee.

Mr. Boléat is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, having trained with Coopers & Lybrand in Jersey and the United Kingdom. He led Capita Group plc’s financial services client practice in Jersey until September 2007, when he left to establish Governance Partners, L.P., an independent corporate governance practice. He currently acts as chairman of CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities Limited and SME Credit Realisation Fund Limited, and audit committee chairman of M&G Credit Income Investment Trust plc, all of which are listed on the London Stock Exchange, along with a number of other substantial collective investment and investment management entities established in Jersey, the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg. Mr. Boléat was previously a director of PI Power International Limited, Phaunos Timer Fund Limited and Aseana Properties Limited.

Mr. Boléat is the chair of Third Point Investors Limited’s Management Engagement Committee and a member of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee.

Mr. Evans has more than 30 years of experience in financial markets, beginning his career as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG (then Peat Marwick Mitchell) in 1983. He subsequently worked for three years in the corporate finance department of Schroders before joining Phoenix Securities Limited in 1986. Mr. Evans advised a wide range of companies over the next 12 years in the financial services and other sectors on mergers and acquisitions and more general corporate strategy. He has been a Guernsey resident since 2005 and has acted as a professional non-executive director of a number of Guernsey-based companies and funds. Currently, Mr. Evans is a non-executive director of Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust Limited and VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Limited, both of which are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Mr. Evans is the chair of Third Point Investors Limited’s Audit Committee, and is a member of the Management Engagement Committee and Remuneration & Nomination Committee.

Dimitri Goulandris set up and runs The Cycladic Group, an investor in, and creator of businesses. Founded in 2002 to invest capital on behalf of his family and other investors, Cycladic has invested in over 60 businesses across the world, and founded eight in Europe, the US, India, Africa and Latin America. Cycladic works closely with its investee partners to help them develop and then achieve ambitious goals. In addition to founding business, Mr. Goulandris is also an active board member and investor in a number of businesses. In this capacity, he chairs several exciting emerging companies, including Plain English Finance Limited, Anemoi Marine Technologies and Talk Education, where Cycladic is typically the largest and most-active non-founder investor. He also holds significant stakes in a number of small public companies where he can be an influential and active shareholder. He previously set up and ran the European operations of the private equity firm, Whitney & Company, and spent eight years at Morgan Stanley in its private equity group, structuring derivative products and executing mergers and acquisitions both in New York and in London.

Ms. Gould is the senior independent director at Lindsell Train Investment Trust PLC and a non-executive director of Baring Emerging EMEA Opportunities PLC, Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc and National Philanthropic Trust UK. She has worked in the financial services sector since 1981. She was a founder director of River & Mercantile Investment Management Limited (1985) and served as a senior executive and deputy managing director with the group until 1994. She then worked as an independent consultant and served on the boards of a number of investment management companies, listed investment trusts, other financial companies and charitable trusts.

Ms. Gould is the chair of Third Point Investors Limited’s Remuneration & Nomination Committee, and is a member of the Audit Committee and Management Engagement Committee.

Liad Meidar is Founder and Managing Partner of Gatemore Capital Management, where he serves as portfolio manager of the turnaround and activist strategy. Mr. Meidar is also co-founder of GVP Climate, a subsidiary of Gatemore focused on early-stage clean technology investing. In 2005, Mr. Meidar founded Gatemore as an investment advisor serving high net worth families and corporate defined benefit pension funds. As part of that, he served as chief investment officer of the Gatemore Multi-Asset Fund (GMAF), an open-ended, highly diversified fund which aimed to provide institutional investors access to high Sharpe ratio returns though a single vehicle. Mr. Meidar is currently a board member of three Gatemore portfolio companies: GSE Worldwide, Inc., a fully integrated talent management and sports agency where he is Chairman; Factorial, Inc., developer of a breakthrough solid-state battery technology; and SurvivorNet, Inc., an oncology-focused digital media and pharma services company.

Mrs. Whittet is a Guernsey resident and has 40 years of experience in the banking and finance industry. She joined Bank of Scotland in 1973 and remained with the Bank for 19 years. At the bank, she was involved in lending and corporate finance while also running two city center offices. After her move to Guernsey, Mrs. Whittet became Bank of Bermuda’s Global Head of Private Client Credit. In 2003, she joined Rothschild Bank International as Director of Lending and was latterly co-head and managing director until 2016 when she became a non-executive director of the bank. She is also a non-executive director of four other Guernsey funds, three of which are listed on the LSE and one on the Euronext Amsterdam Exchange.

Mrs. Whittet is a senior independent director and is a member of Third Point Investors Limited’s Audit Committee, the Management Engagement Committee, and the Remuneration & Nomination Committee.