Directors

Directors

The directors, all of whom are non-executive and independent of the adviser, are listed below.

Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans
HICL Director

Sarah Evans qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1979 and is currently a director of two funds of hedge funds and two AIM-listed investment funds. Sarah spent over six years with the Barclays Bank PLC group from 1994 to 2001. Prior to joining Barclays, Sarah ran her own consultancy business advising financial institutions on all aspects of securitisation. From 1982 to 1988 Sarah was with Kleinwort Benson, latterly as head of group finance. She is a resident of Guernsey and a member of the Institute of Directors.

Henri Grisius

Henri Grisius
HICL Director

Henri lives in Luxembourg and is the founder and managing partner of RSM Henri Grisius & Associes S.a.r.l., as well as the director of a number of companies active in the venture capital industry. Henri is a former partner of Ernst & Young and before that was director of Dewaay Luxembourg S.A., a financial institution and registered stockbroker, where he was responsible for the wealth management and UCITS divisions of the business.

John Hallam

John Hallam
HICL Director

John lives in Guernsey, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and qualified as an accountant in 1971. He is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, having retired in 1999 after 27 years with the firm spent both in Guernsey and in other countries. John was, until January 2006, Chairman of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and is currently a director of a number of financial services companies, some of which are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Graham Picken

Graham Picken
Chairman of HICL board of directors

Graham is an experienced banker and financial practitioner and has been Chairman of HICL since its launch. Most recently a non-executive director of the Derbyshire Building Society, he was appointed Chief Executive of the Derbyshire in February 2008 and led the society to a merger with Nationwide Building Society in December 2008, standing down at the end of March 2009. Until 2003, Graham's career spanned over thirty years with Midland and HSBC Banks. He is a resident of the UK.