Albion Crown VCT PLC

Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee

Ann Berresford BSc (Hons), ACA (appointed 8 November 2017) is a chartered accountant with a background in the financial services and energy sectors. She holds a degree in Organic Chemistry and trained as an accountant with Grant Thornton. After a period in audit, she moved into industry and spent over 20 years working in financial management and treasury roles, initially with Clyde Petroleum plc and then with the Bank of Ireland Group. Since 2006, she has had a number of non-executive roles, including positions at Bath Building Society, the Pensions Protection Fund, Triodos Renewables plc, Hyperion Insurance Group and the Pensions Regulator. She is currently a non-executive director of Secure Trust Bank plc.

Carolyn is a chartered accountant and Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. She is a former partner with PwC covering external audit as well as internal audit and assurance. After a period as Country Managing Partner for PwC Mongolia, she moved into industry to become the Head of Audit, Risk and Control for Centrica plc. Since 2020 she has developed a portfolio of non-executive appo intments as the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee focussed on privately owned technology companies, alongside building a boutique governance consultancy, Brave Within LLP.

Senior Independent Director

Pam Garside (appointed 1 March 2019), s an experienced healthcare investor, expert in digital health and an adviser to government, NHS and private sector organisations in the UK and US. She is a Fellow of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and a member of the investment committee of Cambridge Enterprise, the technology transfer company of the University. She is chairman of Cambridge Angels, a board member of several other healthcare companies and co-chair of the Cambridge Health Network.

Chairman of the Nomination Committee

Richard Glover, (Chairman) (appointed 8 November 2017) spent 15 years in industrial relations and HR management roles in the 1970s and 1980s first with ICI and then with Grand Metropolitan. Since 1990 he has been involved with two private equity backed businesses in the service sector: first, in 1990 the British School of Motoring (BSM), where, as MD and later CEO, he took the company through flotation and then sale to RAC; and in 2000, the accountancy training company ATC International, where he became the majority shareholder in 2003, running the business in Eastern Europe until it was sold in 2011. He has also held a number of non-executive director positions in the service sector and remains extensively involved with the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers and its education activities.

Chairman of the Remuneration Committee

Richard Wilson, (appointed 1 May 2020) is highly experienced in the asset management sector and was CEO of BMO Global Asset Management and previously CEO of F&C Asset Management plc, where he led the company’s acquisition by BMO Financial Group and subsequent integration into BMO Global Asset Management. He began his asset management career in 1988 as a U.K. equity manager with HSBC Asset Management (formerly Midland Montagu). He then joined Deutsche Asset Management (formerly Morgan Grenfell), where he rose to managing director, global equities. From Deutsche, he moved to Gartmore Investment Management in 2003 as head of international equity investments before joining F&C in 2004.