The Board

Graeme Proudfoot is currently chairman of Blackrock Income and Growth Investment Trust plc and brings a wealth of asset management expertise and investment trust experience, having spent his executive career at Invesco, latterly as Managing Director, EMEA and CEO of Invesco Pensions. Graeme joined Invesco in 1992 as a legal advisor and held various roles within the Invesco Group, including General Counsel of Invesco Global, before moving to take responsibility for a number of businesses in the UK including Invesco’s investment trust business, which he led from 1999 until his retirement from Invesco in 2019, during which period it was one of the leading businesses in the industry with trusts with a range of investment styles and structures. Prior to joining Invesco, Graeme began his career at Wilde Sapte, Solicitors, practising in London and New York.

Oliver Grundy was an audit partner of Deloitte, LLP for 28 years until his retirement in November 2019. He worked both in London and New York in various roles, including leading Deloitte’s Banking Group which comprised a team of 35 partners and 500 professionals. Subsequently he became the audit and advisory partner to significant funds. From 2017 to 2019 he was the Deloitte UK ethics partner, with responsibility for all whistleblowing and conduct matters as well as the firm’s Public Interest Review Group.

Nick Campsie is an economist and investor who has held senior positions in the asset management industry, including a decade as a Partner of Eton Park Capital Management. He was previously an Associate Director at Terra Firma Capital Partners and an Associate at McKinsey and Company.

Nick is Chairman of the Legal Aid Agency, a non-executive director of HM Prisons and Probation, and an independent member of the London Policing Board, which oversees the turnaround of the Metropolitan Police. He is a trustee of the Tasso Foundation, a charity supporting disadvantaged young people, which he founded in 2019.

Mark Katzenellenbogen has been involved in financial services for over 35 years. Since 2007 he has been CEO of Auden Capital LLP, a London based corporate finance advisory firm specialising in the investment and wealth management sector. He began his career with S.G Warburg in credit and banking, prior to working for the bank’s mergers and acquisitions department.

Martin Rigby has been a venture capital fund manager for over 30 years. He is founder and managing director of ET Capital Limited, an early-stage venture investment firm based in Cambridge. Prior to founding ET Capital, he was an investment manager at 3i plc.

He is chairman of FSE Group, which manages a series of equity and debt funds across the UK with £350M AUM.  He was chairman of MJog, the medtech messaging business, and a non-executive director of Bango plc, the listed (AIM: BGO) mobile payments provider.  He is an advisory board member of The Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship at Cranfield University. He read history for his first degree at New College, Oxford, has an MBA from Cranfield, and a degree in IT and Computing from The Open University.