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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 was born in Jersey in 1963.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, having trained with Coopers & Lybrand in Jersey and the United Kingdom. After qualifying in 1986, he subsequently worked in the Middle East, Africa and the UK for a number of commercial and financial services groups before returning to Jersey in 1991.  He was formerly a Principal of Channel House Financial Services Group from 1996 until its acquisition by Capita Group plc (“Capita”) in September 2005. Richard led Capita's financial services client practice in Jersey until September 2007, when he left to establish Governance Partners LLP, an independent corporate governance practice. 

His current relevant experience includes acting as audit committee chairman of M&G Credit Income Investment Trust plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and audit committee chairman of Odin Re Limited, a Bermuda domiciled Class 3A reinsurance company regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

He is regulated in his personal capacity by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

Mr. Boléat is the Chair of the Audit Committee, the Chair of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee, and a Senior Independent Director.

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.

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.