Mr Peter Hammonds (age 53) Independent Non-executive Director - Mr Hammonds was for four years executive chairman of Conister Trust Plc, an AIM listed bank licensed in the Isle of Man, and for nine years was group company secretary of National Westminster Bank Plc.  He was formerly a managing director of Darwin Strategy Consulting Limited and non-executive director of ProShare Limited.  He was both the UK and then international president of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).

Mr Hammonds is a non-executive director of Zurich International Life Limited and Allied Dunbar International Funds Limited, chairman of the Institute of Directors’ Chartered Director Programme and chairman of ICSA’s Worldwide Professional Standards Committee.

Mr Hammonds is a chartered director and chartered secretary.  He holds an MBA with distinction from London Business School.

Roy Tilleard (Age 59) – Chairman and Chief Executive has extensive international experience in many industries in both multinational and private business. A qualified accountant Mr Tilleard spent almost 20 years working for Unilever Plc in various locations including three years based in Hamburg before leaving to start his own industrial chemicals business. This he sold in 1990 and subsequently completed a buy out of the Deb Group, a £17m per annum revenue business best known for Swarfega. Mr. Tilleard continued in his role as Finance Director for the Deb Group increasing annual revenues to £71m in 2005 through the strengthening of market positions in a number of key geographies and implementation of a cohesive and focused strategy for the international expansion of the business. Mr. Tilleard and his business partner sold around half of the Deb Group to Barclays Private Equity in March 2004 in a £135 million transaction and subsequently sold his remaining holding in December 2006. Mr Tilleard has a number of other business interests including Callow’s Yard which is a £13 million re-development of Castletown in the Isle of Man.

Justin Martin (Age 38) - Chief Financial Officer previously served on the board of IncaGold plc, the AIM listed specialist digital content publisher and on the main board of Flintstone Technologies plc, the then AIM listed specialist investment company that he founded in 1998. During his tenure at Flintstone, the company raised over £40m in private equity, successfully launching and managing seven technology based companies, one of which, Hardide plc, was admitted to AIM in 2005. From 1995 to 1997, Mr Martin co-founded and operated the Moscow based arm of a UK stockbroking, asset management and corporate finance business. Mr Martin began his career as the Finance and Administration Director for a Moscow based subsidiary of Universal Leaf Tobacco Corporation, and previous to this was the Deputy Financial Director for the Moscow based restaurant and electronics importer JSC Rosinter. Mr Martin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Law from Plymouth University, a Masters degree in Finance and Investment from Exeter University and is an Accredited Consultant with the Isle of Man’s Department of Trade and Industry.