About us
The board
The Board of HgCapital Trust plc consists of six non-executive Directors with a wide range of business experience, all of whom the Board of the Trust deems to be independent of the Trust's Manager.
All Directors are members of the Audit and Valuation, Nomination, Remuneration and Management Engagement Committees.
Roger Mountford
Richard Brooman
Piers Brooke
Peter Gale
Andrew Murison
Mark Powell
Roger Mountford
Chairman
Aged 63, Roger Mountford was appointed to the Board in 2004 and became Chairman in April 2005. He spent 30 years as a merchant banker in the City of London and in the Far East, latterly as Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Department of SG Hambros, leading the Bank’s practice in the private equity market. He is chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme, and a member of the Church of England Pension Board and of the Advisory Board of VenCap International plc. He holds a number of other directorships and is a Governor of the London School of Economics.
Richard Brooman
Chairman of the Audit and Valuation Committee
Aged 56, Richard Brooman was appointed to the Board in 2007. He is a chartered accountant and is Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc, and a non-executive Director of the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer of Sherwood International plc and Group Finance Director of VCI plc. Prior to this, he served as CFO of the global Consumer Healthcare business of SmithKline Beecham and held senior financial and operational positions at Mars after qualifying with Price Waterhouse.
Piers Brooke
Aged 71, Piers Brooke was appointed to the Board in 2001. He worked for 38 years in both commercial and merchant banking, holding a variety of general management positions in the UK, Continental Europe, the Far East and North America. Most recently he was Director of Financial Strategy at National Westminster Bank. He has been a director of a number of companies. He is currently a non-executive director of Lothbury Property Trust plc.
Peter Gale
Deputy Chairman
Aged 56, Peter Gale was appointed to the Board in 1991 and is Deputy Chairman of the Company. He has worked in many divisions of National Westminster Bank, specialising in investment management. In 1990 he became responsible for the investment management of National Westminster Bank Group Pension Funds, which subsequently became RBS Pension Trustee Ltd. Upon the purchase of Gartmore Investment Management plc in 1996, he became a principal of the enlarged fund management company and in 2003 became Managing Director of Gartmore Private Equity In 2010 Peter became Chief Investment Officer of Hermes GPE LLP. He is a non-executive director of Lothbury Property Trust plc and the Salvation Army Trustee Company. He is also the Investment Advisor to the West Midland Pension Fund.
Andrew Murison
Aged 63, Andrew Murison was appointed to the Board in 2004. He was Senior Bursar of Peterhouse, Cambridge, for nine years and spent the previous twelve years as a principal in private equity partnerships in the USA. Prior to that he was a fund manager, financial journalist and investment banker in the City of London. He also serves on the boards of Maven Income and Growth VCT3 plc, Brandeaux Student Accommodation Fund Limited and Brandeaux US Dollar Fund Limited, and is Chairman of JPMorgan European Investment Trust plc.
Mark Powell
Aged 66, Mark Powell was appointed to the Board in 2010. He has spent his entire career in Investment Management and retired as Chairman of Rathbone Brothers Plc in 2011. He is a former Chairman of the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers (APCIMS) and member of the Takeover Panel. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Church of England Pension Fund and is a Trustee of several charities.