Sir Nigel Broomfield joined the Army from Cambridge University in 1959 and retired in 1969.

He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1969 and served in London, Bonn, Moscow and New Delhi before becoming Ambassador in East Berlin from 1988 to 1990 at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He served as Ambassador to Germany from 1993 to 1997.

On retiring from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Nigel became Director of the Ditchley Foundation near Oxford, a private charity engaged in organising high level conferences on political, economic and social issues. He retired from Ditchley in 2004 and moved to live in Jersey with which he has had associations for over 40 years.

Sir Nigel is a Non-Executive Director of Cable & Wireless (Jersey); of Lancaster Management (Jersey) Ltd; and Adviser to the President of Smiths Detection (UK). He is President of the German/British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in London and since 2005 he has been Chairman of Leonard Cheshire Disability.

Ajoy Kapoor is an entrepreneur and banker in a career spanning over 25 years, with global exposure to real estate investment, development and management. Ajoy's last assignment was Global Head, Strategy & Implementation Corporate Real Estate at HSBC, UK where he was responsible for strategic management and project implementation of 75 million square feet across 79 countries. Prior to that, he was Managing Committee Member and Regional Head in India, Corporate Real Estate & Strategic Sourcing at Standard Chartered Bank, managing a mixed portfolio of over 11 million square feet. Ajoy has also been involved in development management of several million square feet of real estate during his various assignments. During 1980-1995, he built and sold Lamco, a chain of convenience stores. Ajoy is one of the leading real estate professionals in India and is an active member of this community. Within India Ajoy is well known for creating and delivering value in a complex environment.

David Hunter is Managing Director of Hunter Advisers, a Property Fund Consultancy which offers advice on the launch and operation of Property Funds in the UK and overseas. Coupled with this role, he has a small number of Non-Executive positions where he oversees the activities of Investment Managers.

David was a well-known UK property Investment Manager over 20 years up to 2005, with an exceptional track record of building and running fund management businesses. In recent years, he was responsible for managing GBP 6.5 billion in the UK and Europe with Arlington Property Investors.

He was President of the British Property Federation 2003-04 and led the property industry delegation which successfully negotiated with the UK Government for the introduction of REITs.

After qualifying at a general practice firm in 1968 Malcolm was one of the first in his profession to gain an MBA by taking a full time two-year course at the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Joining King & Co in 1970 he headed the investment part of the business for 23 years.

In 1993 Malcolm restructured the asset management side of the business, which grew the properties under management from GBP 850 million to the current level of more than GBP 10 billion.

He was Senior Partner from 1987 to 2005 and International Chairman from 1992 - 2006. In 1992 he conceived and engineered the merger of King & Co with J P Sturge to form King Sturge. During his time as Senior Partner the company's turnover increased from just over GBP 11 million to approximately GBP 100 million and a staff of nearly 1600.

He is senior Non-Executive of Redrow Plc and a Non-Executive director of a Jersey based private property company as well as the managing director of a UK based private property company and on the Property Advisory Committee of Imperial College, London.

Christopher Wright is Chairman and a co-founder of EMAlternatives LLC in Washington DC, emerging markets focused private equity asset management firm and a director of Merifin Capital Group, a private European investment firm. Until mid-2003 he served as Head of Global Private Equity for Dresdner Kleinwort Capital and was formerly a Group Board Member of Dresdner Kleinwort. He acted as Chairman of various investment funds prior to and following the latter's integration with Allianz Private Equity.

Mr. Wright has spent over 26 years financing and advising smaller and mid-sized companies operating in the USA, Canada, Asia and Europe. He joined Kleinwort Benson Limited in London in 1978 and in 1981 co-founded the Group's first office in California. In 1986 he relocated to New York to manage the Kleinwort Benson Limited portfolio of North American private equity, high-yield and mezzanine investments. He is currently non-executive Chairman of Maxcess International Corporation, a co-founding director of Roper Industries Inc (NYSE) and of IDOX PLC (AIM).

He has chaired the investment committees of and/or serves on several advisory boards of third party managed LBO and venture capital funds in North America and Europe and has advised several other financial institutions, including Hansa Capital, CdB Webtech, Standard Bank of South Africa, and IDeA Alternative Investments on their investments in private equity and other alternative assets around the world.

Mr Wright was educated at Oxford University (M.A) and holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (from the ACCA). He is Foundation Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Richard Boleat qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in the UK in 1988. He subsequently worked in the Middle East, Africa and the UK for a number of commercial and financial services groups before returning to Jersey in 1990. He was formerly a Principal of Channel House Financial Services Group Limited prior to its acquisition by Capita Group plc ("Capita") in September 2005. Richard led Capita's financial services client practice in Jersey until September 2007, when he left the company to establish an independent corporate governance practice. He currently acts as a non-executive director of a number of substantial collective investment and investment management entities.