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Advisory Panel

Christopher Holdsworth Hunt

Mr Holdsworth Hunt was co-founder and managing director of KBC Peel Hunt, a stockbroker specialising in corporate broking to small and medium sized companies. He was head of corporate finance and responsible for overseeing numerous flotations and secondary fund-raisings, especially of companies admitted to trading on AIM. Prior to founding Peel Hunt in 1989 he was a director of Morgan Grenfell Securities, having previously been a managing partner of Pinchin Denny & Co. He is a former member and deputy chairman of the Stock Exchange Domestic Equities Rules Committee.

Christopher Munro

Mr Munro is a director of Beckwith Asset Management and Pacific Capital Partners and a non-executive director of Jupiter Second Enhanced Income Trust. Previously he was chief executive of River & Mercantile Investment Management, a director of Robert Fleming Holdings with responsibility for the UK and European stockbroking department of Robert Fleming Securities and a director of Jardine Fleming Holdings, based in Hong Kong.

Tim Stephenson

Mr Stephenson is chairman of Stephenson & Co, a niche executive search firm that specialises in filling board appointments in the financial services sector. He started his career in the Army where he spent 7 years with the Welsh Guards. He then joined Gallahers where he held a number of senior production and human resource appointments and was a founder member for the Board Of The Labour Relations Agency (ACAS) for Northern Ireland. He was later chief executive of Grafton Inc, a specialist supplier to the IT industry, which was sold in 1986.