Advisory Board
Nicholas Bull, Chairman
Mr Bull is chairman of Smith's Corporate Advisory which was acquired by Westhouse in 2010 and chairman of Westhouse's Advisory Panel. Before joining Smith's he spent 30 years as a corporate finance practitioner with Morgan Grenfell (subsequently Deutsche Bank), Société Générale and ABN AMRO working in London, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong. He previously qualified as a chartered accountant. He is an independent director of hotels business De Vere Group and of Fidelity China Special Situations PLC and is also a member of Council of the University of Exeter, a Trustee of the Conran Foundation and of the Tallow Chandlers Benevolent Fund.
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.