Guinness VCT Plc
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The City Partnership (UK) Limited
The Mending Rooms
Park Valley Mills
Meltham Road
Huddersfield
HD4 7BH
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Company Details
Registration
Registered in England: No 14220882
Registered Office: Registered Office: 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ
London Stock Exchange Ticker: GVCT
Registrars
The City Partnership (UK) Limited
The Mending Rooms, Park Valley Mills
Meltham Road, Huddersfield
HD4 7BH
Auditors
BDO LLP, 55 Baker Street
London
W1U 7EU
Board of Directors
Ewen Gilmour
Independent Non-Executive Chair
Ewen is the former chief executive of Chaucer Holdings plc, a listed Lloyd's insurer. He joined Chaucer prior to its stock market flotation in 1998; becoming managing director/chief executive officer from 1999 until 2009. While there, he also served on the Council of Lloyd's, including being deputy chairman of Lloyd's from 2006 to 2010. After graduating from Cambridge University, his early career was as an accountant at KPMG between 1974 and 1980, followed by 13 years as a corporate financier at Charterhouse Bank, the merchant banking subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland. He has served as non-executive chairman of three Lloyd's Agents: Antares Managing Agency Limited; Hampden Agencies Limited; and Starstone Underwriting Limited. Currently, he is chairman of Soteria Insurance Limited.
Joanna Santinon
Independent non-executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee
Joanna is a chartered accountant, and chartered tax adviser. She specialised in tax, transactions and private equity, and has wider experience including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, capital raisings and listings from a career spanning 24 years at Ernst & Young ("EY") where she was a member of the London Markets Board and led the Private Tax team in London through a transformation and growth period. During her time with EY Joanna played key roles in transactions in the UK and Europe. Joanna also led the EY UK Entrepreneur of The Year Programme. Joanna was a founder member of the 30% Club in the UK. She is an independent non-executive director of Octopus Future Generations VCT plc and a trustee of The Centre For Entrepreneurs and an independent non-executive director of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust plc.
Andrew Martin Smith
Non-independent non-executive Director
Andrew was Chief Executive of Hambros Fund Management when it merged with Guinness Flight in 1997. In 2000 he joined Berkshire Capital Securities, a corporate adviser to the fund management industry, before joining Guinness Asset Management in 2005 as a senior adviser. He is a non-executive director of several companies including Church House Investment Management and has been a director of several public listed investment trusts including, TR European Growth, M&G High Income and Atlantis Japan. He is a director of Guinness Ventures Limited and Guinness Asset Management and is the lead manager of the Guinness AIM EIS Service.