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The Directors are responsible for the determination of the Company's investment policy and strategy and have overall responsibility for the Company's activities including the review of investment activity and performance and the control and supervision of the Manager. All of the Directors are non-executive and, save for Kimberly Tara, are independent of the Manager. |
The Directors are as follows:
Hasan Askari (Chairman), Mr. Askari, the Chairman of the Company, has been an investment banker since 1975, initially with SG Warburg & Co. Ltd. (now UBS Ltd.) and subsequently, with Chase Investment Bank (now JPMorgan Chase), in Hong Kong and Barclays Capital in Tokyo and London. He was most recently at Old Mutual plc., London as a member of the Executive Committee responsible for the United Kingdom and Europe and later, for Asia-Pacific. He is an adviser to the Kotak Mahindra Group, one of India’s leading banking groups. He has an M.A. from the University of Oxford.
Mr. Jonathan Hooley, Mr. Hooley is the Chairman of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange as well as holding a number of other non-executive directorships. He retired as the senior partner of KPMG in the Channel Islands on 30th September 2007. He was a tax partner with KPMG for over 20 years, firstly in London where he was an international tax partner specialising in banking and other financial sector work and subsequently in Guernsey where he has been responsible for advising a large number of investment funds. Mr. Hooley has been a member of the States of Guernsey Fiscal Policy Technical Group for eight years and continues to act as an advisor to the States of Guernsey on external tax matters. He is also a member of the Offshore Advisory Committee of the Association of Investment Companies.
Mr. Fergus Dunlop, Mr. Dunlop is the Chairman of Avoca Senior Loans Europe Limited and also holds a number of non-executive directorships, including Resolution Limited, Princess Private Equity Holdings Limited and the Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited. Most recently, Mr. Dunlop was Managing Director and Partner at Südprojekt Gesellschaft für Finanzanalysen mbH, an award winning fund of funds and hedge fund advisory business based in Munich. He began his investment career with Mercury Asset Management ("MAM") in London, managing the firm's joint venture with Munich Re and establishing the German office, where he subsequently worked to develop its institutional business.
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