The Board
The Directors, all of whom are non-executive, are responsible
for the determination of the investment policy of the Company and for
the overall supervision of the Company's activities. The Board of the
Company has been assembled to give shareholders the benefit of international
real estate, fund management and financing experience.
The Board has established an audit committee, comprising
David Jeffreys, Serena Tremlett and Roddy Sage. The committee will
be responsible for ensuring that the financial performance of the Company
is properly reported on and monitored. Additionally it will review the annual
and interim accounts, results, announcements, internal control systems and
procedures and accounting policies of the Company.
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David Jeffreys
Director (Chairman)
David Jeffreys qualified as a Chartered
Accountant with Deloitte Haskins and Sells in
1985. He is the Managing Director of EQT
Funds Management Limited, the Guernsey
management office of the EQT group of
private equity funds, and is a Director of eight
EQT fund general partners. David also works as an
independent non-executive director to a number of other
Guernsey based investment fund companies and managers.
He was previously the Managing Director of Abacus Fund
Managers (Guernsey) Limited between 1993 and 2004, a third
party administration service provider to primarily corporate
and fund clients.
David is a director of the following listed
companies: Alpha Pyrenees Trust Limited, Argo Real Estate
Opportunities Fund Limited, Ingenious Media Active Capital
Limited, PFB Regional Office Fund Limited, PFB Data Centre
Fund Limited and Tetragon Financial Group Limited.
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Jeff Chowdhry
Director
Jeff Chowdhry is currently Head of Emerging
Market Equities at F&C Asset Management
plc, with overall responsibility for investments
in global emerging markets. Previously, he
was a director of Sun F&C Asset Management
(India) Limited and also managed the Indian
Investment Company SICAV, an open ended investment fund
registered in Luxembourg. Prior to this, Jeff managed the
India
Fund Inc, a closed ended investment fund listed in New York
that seeks long-term capital appreciation through investing
primarily in Indian equities.
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Phillip Rose
Director
Phillip Rose has 25 years' experience in the real estate,
funds management and banking industries in Europe, the USA
and Australasia. He has been the Head of Real Estate for ABN
AMRO Bank, Chief Operating Officer of European shopping centre
investor and developer TrizecHahn Europe, Managing Director
of Lend Lease Global Investment and Executive Manager of listed
fund General Property Trust.
Phillip is currently a non executive director of Great Portland
Estates and a member of the Management Committee of the Hermes
Property Unit Trust.
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Roddy Sage
Director
Roddy Sage is currently Chief Executive
Officer of the AFP group of companies,
providing corporate and taxation advisory
services in Asia. Prior to that he spent 20
years with KPMG Hong Kong, 10 years of
which were as Senior Tax Partner for Hong
Kong and China. He has held Chairmanships within KPMG
and outside as Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber
of Commerce’s Taxation Committee and is a non-executive
director of Tai Ping Carpets International.
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Serena Tremlett
Director
Serena Tremlett has over 20 years’ experience
in financial services, specialising in closedended
property and private equity funds and
fund administration during the last 12 years.
She is a Guernsey resident and Managing
Director of Morgan Sharpe Administration, a
third party fund administrator, which was acquired by her
and
her team by way of management buy-out in April 2008 and is
a non-executive director on three fund general partners.
She
was previously company secretary (and formerly director)
of
Assura Group, a company listed on the London Stock
Exchange investing in primary healthcare property, pharmacy
and related medical businesses and ran Assura’s Guernsey
head office. Prior to working for Assura, Serena was head
of
Guernsey Property Funds at Mourant Guernsey for two years
and worked for Guernsey International Fund Managers (now
Northern Trust) for seven years where she sat on a number
of
both listed and unlisted fund boards.
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