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Executive Committee

Responsible for the stratgegy of the investment banking business

Name Charles Good
Title Chairman, Matrix Corporate Capital
Email charles.good@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7201

Charles joined Matrix in 2007. He was formerly CEO of Dexia Private Banking (UK) and Chairman of Ely Fund Managers Limited. He also gained experience in Corporate Finance from his former roles with S G Warburg & Co Ltd and J S Gadd & Co Ltd (formerly C A Good & Co Ltd). He was a founder non-executive director of Citigate (now Citigate Dewe Rogerson) and is currently Chairman of various unlisted and AIM listed companies.

Name Malcolm Le May
Title CEO, Investment Banking
Email malcolm.lemay@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7214

Malcolm Le May is CEO of the Investment Banking division. He has many years experience in the financial services industry having worked in investment and corporate banking, asset management and private equity. He joined Matrix from JER Partners, a specialist private equity real estate investor where he was President of their European operations. Prior to that Malcolm was deputy chief executive of Morley Fund Management, Aviva’s asset management arm. Prior to joining Morley Malcolm was global head of corporate and investment banking at ING Group having previously been head of European Investment Banking at UBS, joint head of corporate and investment banking at Barclays North America. Malcolm joined BZW from Drexel and started his career at Morgan Grenfell as a corporate financier. He is a qualified accountant and sits on the Advisory board of ThreeDelta , and the boards of RSA plc and Pendragon plc.

Name John McMillan
Title Head of Corporate Broking
Email john.mcmillan@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7189

John joined Matrix in May 2006 with over 20 years experience in institutional broking. This includes 12 years at Hoare Govett, where he was a senior institutional salesman and also helped establish the South African business. This was followed by several years at both Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Credit Agricole. John has extensive experience both in primary and secondary markets.

Name Chris Merry
Title Chief Executive, Matrix Group
Email chris.merry@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7126

Chris joined Matrix in June 2007 as Group Development Director and was made CEO in November 2007. Before joining Matrix he was CEO of Whitehead Mann Group Plc, the publicly listed executive recruitment firm, which was taken private by an MBI team in late 2006. Prior to that he was Finance Director of Clifford Chance LLP, the global law firm. Chris began his career with Coopers & Lybrand where he became a partner in the audit practice in 1994. He spent 2 years in New York in the late 1980s and was based in China from 1994 to 1997 as Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand’s Shanghai office.

Name John Owen
Title Chief Operating Officer & Finance Director
Email john.owen@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7079

John joined Matrix in 2009 as Group Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director. John has spent his entire career in and around the financial services industry. In the early 1990s he worked at UBS within the European Equities division and then as MD in the Global Derivatives group. In 1998, he became one of the founding partners of Capco, a leading global provider of integrated consulting, technology, and transformation services to the financial services industry. He left Capco in 2005 to join ING as Chief Operating Officer of the Wholesale Banking division.

Name David Royds
Title Chairman
Email david.royds@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7000

David Royds co-founded Matrix in 1987. Prior to that he worked at Laing and Cruickshank and the Financial Times. Non executive posts now include three VCTs, as well as several companies involved in property development, shipping and film finance.