Alan Barber, aged 64, joined the Board in April 2005 as a non-executive director and was appointed Executive Chairman on 19 February 2008. He relinquished his executive duties on 31 December 2010 and is now non-executive Chairman. He is a non-executive director of JP Morgan, Japanese Investment Trust PLC, Western & Oriental PLC, Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC and Impax Asian Environmental Markets PLC. He is a former non-executive director of lastminute.com PLC and Teather & Greenwood Holdings PLC and was a partner in KPMG's London office until 2004. He is a member of the Nominations Committee.

Nicholas Stagg, aged 52, was appointed Executive Director on 21 October 2009 and Chief Executive with effect from 1 July 2010. He graduated in physics at University College, London and joined Thomson McLintock in 1981, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He worked in property investment companies before becoming group managing director of Lambert Smith Hampton PLC. Subsequently he was managing director of W S Atkins International PLC and then first COO and then CEO of Teather & Greenwood Holdings PLC, where he was responsible for the development of the business and its eventual sale to Landsbanki in 2005 and then Straumur in 2008.

Chris Povey, aged 50, was appointed Finance Director on 31 October 2010 having previously been the group's head of Corporate Finance. He graduated in History from Brasenose College, University of Oxford, in 1982 and joined KPMG where he had a career of over 20 years, first qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and subsequently in the unit providing transaction support services to clients. He joined Management Consulting Group PLC in 2005.

Luiz Carvalho, aged 54, was appointed an Executive Director on 19 March 2008. He has dual US and Brazilian citizenship and resides in the US. After attending Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, he joined Alexander Proudfoot in 1982 and, following a series of promotions and international assignments, was appointed President of the Proudfoot American operations in 1999 and Chief Executive of Alexander Proudfoot worldwide in 2002. He is a member of the World Presidents organisation.

Chiheb Mahjoub, aged 48, was appointed Executive Director on 10 November 2009 and is the current CEO of Kurt Salmon. He holds an MBA and an MS from Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées and Ensimag in France. In 1988 he started out his career in the derivatives industry initially as a trader and then as a manager and founder of a leading trading software company Summit Systems (NY/LDN/PAR). In 1995 he joined the Capital Markets team in Deloitte Consulting and was the lead partner of Capital Markets for Continental Europe and subsequently head of the banking and Insurance team in France. He was one of the founding partners of Ineum Consulting in 2003 and was responsible for the development of the Global Financial Services team. As a senior partner, he advised large financial institutions in their strategies and major transformation projects across Europe, USA and Asia. In 2007, he became a Managing Partner, in charge of the international development of Ineum Consulting and then CEO in 2009. Following the merger of Kurt Salmon Associates and Ineum in 2011, he became the CEO of the resulting entity Kurt Salmon.

Marco Capello, aged 51, joined the Board on 18 June 2010. He is the founder and managing partner of BlueGem Capital Partners LLP. From 2002 to 2006 he was a managing director of Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. Previously he worked for over 18 years at First Boston, Wasserstein Perella and,since 1994 at Merrill Lynch. During his career in investment banking he worked primarily in mergers and acquisitions both in New York and London. Mr Capello holds an MBA frm Columbia University in New York. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino. He is a board member of Olicar S.p.A, The Private Clinic Limited, Fintyre S.p.A, Neomobile S.p.A., Liberty Ltd and Ufi Filters S.p.A. He is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee.

Stephen Ferriss, aged 66, joined the Board on 3 March 2006. He is a US citizen. He spent 17 years at Bank of America working in the United States of America and latterly in London and Madrid. In 1987 he joined Bankers Trust and served in various roles including managing director and partner of the Bankers Trust's Global Investment Bank in London and New York. He spent three years from 1999 to 2002 as President and CEO of Santander Central Hispano Investment Securities Inc. He is a non-executive director of several privately owned companies. He is Chairman of the Nominations Committee and a member of the Audit & Risk Committee and the Remuneration Committee. He is the Senior Independent Director.

Emilio Di Spiezio Sardo, aged 34, joined the Board on 18 June 2010. He is a partner of BlueGem Capital Partners LLP. Before joining BlueGem as a partner, in 2007, he worked in London as a hedge fund manager at York Capital Management, a global multi-strategy hedge fund with approximately US$10 billion under management. Before that he worked for six years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in London and Rome. Mr Di Spiezio Sardo graduated summa cum laude in Economics and Finance from Bocconi University in Milan. He is a board member of Olicar S.p.A, The Private Clinic Limited, Fintyre S.p.A, Neomobile S.p.A., and Liberty Ltd.

Andrew Simon, aged 66, joined the Board on 3 March 2006. He spent 23 years as the managing director, chief executive and chairman of the Evode Group PLC. He holds an MBA from Wharton School of Finance in Philadelphia and has a diversified range of non-executive director and chairman positions. He is a non-executive director of Exova Group plc and Travis Perkins PLC in the UK and of Finning International Inc. in Canada. He sits on the supervisory board of SGL Carbon SE in Germany. He is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee.

Julian Waldron, aged 47, joined the Board on 8 October 2008. He is a UK citizen residing in France. He is currently chief financial officer of Technip, a French listed group providing project management, engineering and construction services for the oil and gas industry, which he joined in October 2008. Prior to this he was a managing director in corporate finance at UBS Warburg and the chief financial officer of Thomson SA. He is Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee.