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Advisory Board

Douglas Hurd,
Rt Hon The Lord Hurd of Westwell
Deputy Chairman, Coutts and Co; Senior Adviser to Hawkpoint Partners. Chairman, German-British Forum. Formerly British Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Northern Ireland Secretary. Also former Chairman of British Invisibles and of the Prison Reform Trust.

Richard Holme,
Rt Hon The Lord Holme of Cheltenham
Chairman, Globescan and LEAD International. Former Board Member, Rio Tinto plc and former Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Environment and Energy Commission. Chairman, Hansard Society and Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. Liberal Democrat Peer and Chairman of the House of Lords Constitution Committee.

Christopher Haskins,
Lord Haskins of Skidby
Chairman, AirTrack, Director, Yorkshire Television, Yorkshire Regional Development Agency. Formerly British government Rural Delivery Adviser, Chairman, Northern Foods, Chairman, Better Regulation Task Force and member of Hampel Committee on Corporate Governance. Also former member of UK Round Table on Sustainable Development, and of Runnymede Trust.

Mike Welton
Chairman, Southern Water, Chairman, Global Solutions Ltd. Former Chairman, Hanson plc. Chief Executive, Balfour Beatty plc, 1995 to 2004. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Chairman of the UK Government's Railway Sector Advisory Group.

Eduardo Serra
Chairman, Eduardo Serra y Asociados; formerly Chairman, UBS Spain, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Prado Museum, President, Royal Elcano Institute; Minister of Defense of Spain, 1996-2000; previously Chairman Peugeot Spain, Airtel Spain, Cubiertas y MZOV and Telettra Spain.

Michael Bottenheim
Senior Adviser, Lincoln International. Formerly Director, UPM-Kymmene. Formerly Managing Director, Lazard Brothers. Formerly Consultant, Compass Advisers. Formerly Executive Director of Citicorp, specialising in cross border mergers and acquisitions. Formerly member of the supervisory board of Abemy BV.

Executive Team

Michael Maclay
Executive Chairman, Montrose Associates
Former diplomat, journalist and editor, later Foreign Office political adviser and special adviser/chief spokesman at Office of High Representative, Bosnia. Latterly director of one of the UK's leading strategic intelligence companies. Also Chairman, Citizenship Foundation and Senior Adviser to the Franco-German-British Club of Three.

Tom Rhodes
Chief Operating Officer, Montrose Associates
Former New York Bureau Chief of The Sunday Times and Washington Correspondent for The Times. Latterly senior executive of one of UK's leading strategic intelligence companies and Managing Director International of New York technology company, Exceed.