Directors

Ron EmersonJohn May

Non-Executive Director

Mr Emerson, a qualified engineer, started his career at British Steel Corporation, from which he moved to De La Rue Group and Bank of America. Mr Emerson has since held a number of senior roles in the banking sector, such as Director and General Manager Banking at Nomura Bank International and more recently, various senior management roles at Standard Chartered Bank ("SCB"), where he was a Member of the SCB Group Management Committee and Group Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking.

At present, Mr Emerson holds a number of Non-Executive Directorships, which include that of ACE European Group Limited, one of the largest property and casualty insurance companies worldwide, where he also is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is also a business adviser to House of Habib, a family owned conglomerate based in Pakistan with approximately 15,000 staff engaged in the manufacturing and retail businesses as well as the company's banking operation. Mr Emerson is also an active member of the Faculty of Management Studies at Oxford University and is the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Fairfield Energy plc, an oil and gas exploration company..

Mr Emerson holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Business Studies from the University of Durham and an MLitt in Organisational Strategic Change from the University of Oxford. Mr Emerson is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts where he was a founding member of the Tomorrow's Company project.