A chartered accountant with a broad experience of banking, Corporate finance and fund management. He was, until February 2004, an executive director of Noble Fund Managers Limited. Currently, he is a non-executive director of IS Pharma plc and Foresight 3 VCT plc and is a non-executive director or Chairman of a number of private companies. His earlier career was in the City of London and included posts as an executive director of Singer & Friedlander Holdings Limited and, before that, managing director of Henry Ansbacher & Co Limited.