Board Members

Chairman
After reading physics at Corpus Christi, Oxford, Michael Spencer began a career in the City that led him to set up Intercapital in May 1986 which grew to become, in 1999, ICAP plc.

Mark Bamford was born in 1951 and educated at Millfield School.

Immediately after leaving school, he started his career with the JCB Group, where he still works. Mark is a director of 8 companies within the JCB Group and holds 4 directorships outside the JCB Group.

David is a graduate of University College London and a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School (1987). He is the Managing Director of the Bristol Port Company and was the Non-Executive Chairman of MITIE Group plc from 2003-2008.

Since 2000, Peter Chadlington has been Chief Executive of Huntsworth plc the international public relations and healthcare communications company. Huntsworth employs over 1,700 and serves over 2,500 clients through an international network of 70 offices.

In 1970, Maurice Saatchi co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi and is now a partner in M&C Saatchi. He is a Governor of the London School of Economics and a Director of the Centre for Policy Studies.

In 2004, Lord Farmer was a founding partner of the Red Kite Group of hedge funds, which provides mine finance and futures investment opportunities for funds.

Simone is a graduate of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.  She is a former government adviser on industrial relations, efficiency and civil service reform.  She qualified as an accountant with PWC in 1994.

Brandon Lewis was elected as Member of Parliament by the people of Great Yarmouth for the first time in May 2010. He took the seat from the Labour Party with a swing of 8.7%. In 2015, Brandon was re-elected with a substantially increased majority of 6,154.