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 Deputy Chair of Business in the Community, 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 Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers. He is non-executive Chairman of Sovereign Reversions plc, and in July 2010, he was appointed non-executive Chairman of eXpansys plc.

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.

Tim is a partner at Balderton Capital. Prior to joining Balderton, Tim was a partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent eighteen years. At Goldman, Tim held various roles including Global Head of Equity Capital Markets (2002 to 2005) and Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International (2005 to 2006).

Tim is a Governor of Wellington College and the Wellington Academy; a Trustee of the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity and a Trustee at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Tim is Chairman 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 eleven 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 a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee.

Joachim is currently the owner and President of Oxnard European Motors LLC and adviser/ consultant to a number of companies in Europe and the US.

He is the former SVP and global CMO of LexisNexis (a division of Reed Elsivier plc), a business information based B2B technology company. Prior to joining LexisNexis, he was Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing and Service for DaimlerChrysler Motors LLC in the US. Until 1 June 2003, he was President and CEO of DaimlerChrysler UK Limited, a position he held from November 1999. He is formerly a non-executive director of a number of DaimlerChrylser owned subsidiaries. Joachim holds a Master of Arts degree from the Academy for Administration and Economics in Stuttgart, Germany and an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.

Joachim is a member of the Audit Committee.

Carlos is President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Espana, SA. He is also 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.

Richard Hooper is Senior Independent Director of VocaLink Holdings Ltd, a privately owned company. He is a lead mentor for Bird & Co Board and Executive Mentoring. Richard has recently chaired both the Independent Review of the Postal Services Sector for former Secretary of State Lord Mandelson, and the panel to select three independently funded news consortiums, in a pilot scheme to replace ITV’s regional news service in Scotland, Wales and the Tyne-Tees and Borders regions.

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 Hooper is a member of the Nomination Committee and the Audit Committee, and is our Senior Independent Director.