Bob was until January 2009, Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe, Middle East and Africa. During his time at Merrill Lynch, he also sat on the Boards of LCH. Clearnet plc and Euroclear plc. Between 2006 and 2009, Bob was a member of the Court of the Bank of England and of its Risk Policy and Audit Committees. Bob is an investor in, and on the Advisory Board of, the venture capital firm Bluegem Capital Partners LLP and is the European financial services operating partner of Advent International plc. Currently, he is on the Advisory Council of Business for New Europe and a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University. Bob is also Chairman of Oxford University Saïd Business School Centre for Corporate Reputation, Chairman of the Green Investment Bank Commission and Chairman of the National Employers’ and Education Taskforce. He is the Immediate Past Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers. He is non-executive Chairman of eXpansys plc, a director of Orca Exploration Group Inc, and non-executive Chairman of Stonehaven Search LLP. In January 2011, Bob became a Trustee of the Peter Jones Foundation.

Bob is a graduate of Bath University with a business degree and an honorary doctorate.

Bob is a member of the Remuneration Committee and is Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

Libby is currently Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, a position she took up in March, 2011. Previously, Libby held senior marketing roles at Barclays Bank plc, which she joined in 2006 as Chief Marketing Officer for Barclaycard, later also becoming Chief Marketing Officer for the Global Retail & Commercial Banking arm in 2008. At Barclays she led a range of strategy, product development and marketing activities, including the launch of a range of innovative payments initiatives in the UK and US markets.
 
Between 2004 and 2006, Libby held the post of Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at global legal firm Bingham McCutchen, a role that she inaugurated. Previously, she was with Bank of America as Enterprise Marketing Executive, and the Reader's Digest Association, in roles that encompassed strategy, new business development and leadership of various start-up activities, as well as leading various cost re-engineering programmes. Libby was a Partner at McKinsey & Company between 1995 and 1998, initially joining the firm as a Summer Associate in 1989.
 
Libby graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and Political Science. She also has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
 
Libby is a member of the Remuneration Committee.

John is Chairman of Inchcape Shipping Services, and a non-executive director of postal/courier company, DX Group, both private equity-owned businesses. He is a non-executive director of Ashley House plc, an AIM-listed company involved with the primary care sector of the NHS in the UK. John is also a non-executive director of Freight Transport Association Ltd.

John is former Deputy Chief Executive and Group Finance Director of Exel plc, where he spent 11 years. Prior to Exel/Ocean Group plc, he spent seven years with Tomkins plc in various financial roles, having joined them after eight years with Arthur Andersen, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. John is a graduate of University College Cork.

John is Chairman of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Nomination Committee.

Toby is a partner at Virgin Green Fund (VGF), a private equity fund that invests growth capital in renewable energy and resource efficiency businesses. Prior to VGF, he spent eight years in senior executive roles at Yahoo!, including Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe & Canada (2007-2008), Chief Strategy Officer (2006-2007) and Senior Vice President Corporate Development (2001-2006). Prior to Yahoo!, Toby was a co-founder of Windsor Media, a media-focused investment company and also previously held finance and investment roles with Allen & Company and Goldman Sachs International. Toby is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a member of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute. Toby has a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Toby is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, and a member of the Nomination Committee.

Carlos is the former President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Espana, SA. Carlos is a director of the following companies: Acciona, Schindler Espana, La Fraternidad, INDITEX, and ARCADIS. He was formerly a director at DaimlerChrysler Espana, SA and Gonzalez-Byass.

He has worked as a Professor of Economy at ICADE in Madrid and as a consultant for the European Union for the study of the future of the aeronautic industry. He was a member of the NATO "Wisemen Group" for the analysis of European industry.

He trained as a lawyer, graduating in Law and Corporate Management and Marketing. He is a graduate in Business Science (ICADE). He holds an MBA from Northwestern University, Chicago and is a Senior State Economist.

Carlos is a member of the Audit Committee.

Kathleen is currently a non-executive director of Inmarsat plc, a position she has held since 2006. Kathleen was Chief Marketing Officer of AT&T Corporation from 2004 to 2005 with full marketing responsibility including product, pricing, promotion and placement. She was President and Chief Operating Officer of Winstar International from 1998 to 2001 and held a variety of roles at MCI Communications Corporation from 1981 to 1998. She was associated with BT Group plc, first as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Concert (a BT and MCI joint venture) from 1993 to 1995, then as Marketing Director for BT Business from 1995 to 1997.

Kathleen was an independent, non-executive director of CMS Energy and its subsidiary, Consumers Energy from 1995 to 2004, and an independent director of Gentek Inc from 2003 to 2009 and a non-executive director of Marconi Corporation plc from 2003 to 2006.

She graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, with a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences.

Kathleen is a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Richard Hooper is Senior Independent Director of VocaLink Holdings Ltd, a privately owned company. He is Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group and a lead mentor for Bird & Co Board and Executive Mentoring. Richard chaired the Independent Review of the Postal Services Sector for both the former Labour Government and the coalition Government.

Until May 2007, Richard was the Chairman of Informa plc and spent nine years on the Board. From 2002 to 2005 he was Deputy Chairman of Ofcom and Chairman of its Content Board. From 2000 to 2003 he was Chairman of the Radio Authority.

Richard is a member of the Nomination Committee and the Audit Committee.