Board of Directors

A FTSE 250 Company


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John Hallam
Chariman, Dexion Absolute Limited

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John Hallam, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and qualified as an accountant in 1971. He is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, retiring in 1999 after a 27 year period of service with the firm, and a past Chairman of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. He is currently the Chairman of Cazenove Absolute Equity Limited, Prodesse Investment Limited and Partners Group Global Opportunities Limited as well as being a director of a number of financial services companies including companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Mr. Hallam is a resident of Guernsey.

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Trevor Ash
Director, Dexion Absolute Limited

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Trevor Ash, has over 30 years’ investment experience. He was a director of Rothschild Asset Management (C.I.) Limited (now part of Insight Investment Management Limited), of which he was managing director until May 1999. He is also a director of a number of hedge funds and fund of hedge funds, including the Thames River Nevsky Fund Limited and Thames River Global Funds Limited. He is a founding director of Valletta Fund Management Limited, the first fund management company to be established in Malta following the introduction of financial services regulations in 1995. He is also a director of a number of venture capital, derivative and offshore funds managed or advised by the Rothschild Group and Merrill Lynch including the Insight Investment Management range of money funds, multi currency cash funds and bond funds. Mr Ash is a resident of Guernsey.

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Robin Bowie
Director, Dexion Absolute Limited

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Robin Bowie founded Dexion Capital plc in August 2000 and is principally responsible for product analysis and due diligence together with developing client relationships. He began his City career as a bond trader at Citibank in 1984, after which he worked at Goldman Sachs as a credit trader. In 1989, at BZW Robin developed their ECU and European Government Bond trading operations and in 1995 moved to HSBC where he was in charge of European Government Bond trading. From 1998 to 2000 he was Treasurer of KBC Bank in London with responsibility for the management of interest rate, foreign exchange and credit risk. He was educated at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.

Mr Bowie is a director of Dexion Absolute Limited, Dexion Equity Alternative Limited, Dexion Trading Limited, Dexion Commodities Limited and three single manager hedge funds.

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William Collins
Director, Dexion Absolute Limited

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William Collins, a Guernsey resident, has over 35 years experience in banking and investment. Since September 2007 he has been with Bank Sarasin (C.I.) Ltd as Director - Private Clients and prior to that he worked for Barings in Guernsey for over 18 years.  In 1995 he was appointed a Director and from 2003 to August 2007 was managing Director of Baring Asset Management (C.I.) Ltd.  Mr Collins is also a Non-Executive Director of Crystal Amber Limited.  There is no further information to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of Mr Collins.

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Sally-Ann Farnon
Director, Dexion Absolute Limited

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Mrs Farnon, a Guernsey resident, was a Banking and Finance Partner with KPMG Channel Islands from 1990 until 2001 and Head of Audit KPMG Channel Islands from 1999.  She has served as President of the Guernsey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants and as a member of The States of Guernsey Audit Commission and The Guernsey Public Accounts Committee.  She is a Commissioner of The Guernsey Financial Services Commission and a Non Executive Director of a number of property and investment companies.  Mrs Farnon has been appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee.  Mrs Farnon is also a Non-Executive Director of Bailiwick Investments Limited, Breedon Aggregates Limited, Cenkos Channel Islands Limited, NewRiver Retail Limited and Standard Life Investments Property and Income Trust Limited.  There is no further information to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of Mrs Farnon.

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Dr. Paul Sharman
Director, Dexion Absolute Limited

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Dr. Paul Sharman, (appointed 21 November 2006) was educated at the University of Sussex, he received a Doctorate in Physics in 1976. He spent ten years as a research physicist which included periods at CERN, Geneva, and Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble. His career in the City began in 1983 when he joined Lombard-Odier as a technology analyst, after which he joined Baring Brothers as a US Fund Manager. In 1992 he was appointed CIO at Hill Samuel Investment Management and in 1996 became CEO of SLC Asset Management, part of Sun Life Financial of Canada. From 2001 he acted as a consultant to the Fund Management Industry before being appointed as Director of Investment Management at Cooperative Financial Services in 2005. Dr. Sharman is a UK resident.