Board
OIT has an independent Board of Directors with a wide range of business experience
The Board have overall responsibility for the Company’s activities including the review of investment activity and performance. All Directors are members of the Management Engagement Committee and the Audit and Disclosure Committee.
Each of the Directors has agreed to invest their Directors’ fees (net of any applicable taxes) into OIT.
Linda Wilding
Chair
Linda Wilding
ChairLinda is currently a non-executive director of Sherborne Investors (Guernsey) C Limited and Wesleyan Assurance Society and has held a number of non-executive director roles previously including on the boards of Electra Private Equity plc and UDG Healthcare plc. The majority of Linda’s executive career was spent within the private equity division at Mercury Asset Management plc. She is a Chartered Accountant and holds a PhD in Biochemistry.
Peter Hewitt
Chairman of the Management Engagement Committee
Peter Hewitt
Chairman of the Management Engagement CommitteePeter has 35 years' investment management experience. In 1983 he joined Ivory & Sime managing first US equities and then moving onto UK smaller companies from 1987 - 1992. He then focussed on management of UK pension fund accounts until 1996. He moved to Murray Johnstone as Head of UK Equities with a focus on UK income funds. In 2000 he re-joined Friend Ivory & Sime and specialised in management of investment trust funds and products. In 2008 he launched the CT Global Managed Portfolio Trust onto the LSE and remains the current investment manager of the trust. He is Director, Global Equities of Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
Richard King
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Richard King
Chairman of the Audit CommitteeRichard spent 35 years with Ernst and Young LLP becoming deputy Managing Partner of UK & Ireland and a member of both the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) Board and Global management group. Since leaving EY, Richard has been involved either as chairman or non-executive director on a variety of private and public companies and has been involved in company disposals in excess of £400 million. Richard is also the Chair of Trustees for the Willow Foundation, Chair of Finance, Audit and Risk at FareShare and Ark Schools, and a partner of Rockpool Investments LLP and Beach Private Equity LLP.
Neil Mahapatra
Neil Mahapatra
Neil has over 20 years finance and investment experience. He began his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. In 2008, he joined J. Rothschild Capital Management, where led the private investment activities for Lord Rothschild and RIT Capital Partners plc. In 2013, Neil established Kingsley Capital Partners LLP, a family office backed private investment firm that creates and builds businesses from inception. Through Kingsley, Neil has created numerous companies across different sectors, including FTSE-listed biotechnology firm Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies and UK wholesale fibre internet business Spring Fibre. Outside of work, Neil is Chair of the MASS Design Group, working with the two founders for over a decade to grow the organisation into one of the leading architecture & design firms in the world.
Michael Sayers
Michael Sayers
Michael brings thirty-eight years of experience in investment banking and fund management, with deep expertise in governance, and board-level engagement. He began his career in investment banking in 1986 as a Graduate Trainee with Phillips & Drew and most recently served as Senior Governance Advisor at Fidelity International, where he spent fourteen years in a variety of senior roles. During his tenure, he initially managed teams of analysts and fund managers before his appointment as Senior Governance Advisor in 2019, a role in which he led board-level engagement on governance and strategy, providing active consultation on a wide range of shareholder matters, including acquisitions and disposals, balance sheet restructuring, management and board changes, and unsolicited bids.
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