The Edinburgh Investment Trust Plc Annual Financial Report 2022 - Flipbook - Page 30
28 / GOVERNANCE / THE EDINBURGH INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
The Directors
All Directors are
non-executive
and considered
independent.
GLEN SUAREZ
VICKY HASTINGS
STEVE BALDWIN
Date of appointment:
Date of appointment:
Date of appointment:
24 May 2013
Became Chairman on
22 November 2017
23 May 2013
10 September 2018
Committees:
Committees:
Committees:
M Management Engagement
N Nomination
M Management Engagement
N Nomination
M Management Engagement
N Nomination
A Audit
A Audit Chairman
Glen is Chairman of Knight Vinke
Asset Management. Prior to
joining Knight Vinke, he was a
Partner in Soditic Limited and
before that he was Head of
Energy and Utilities at Morgan
Stanley in Europe. He is a Fellow
of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and
Wales and a member of the
Royal Society of Arts.
Vicky was appointed Senior
Independent Director on 25 July
2019. She has over 30 years’
experience in the investment
management industry and is a
non-executive director of Impax
Environmental Markets plc and
is chair of Henderson European
Focus Trust plc. In her executive
career, she was a European
Equity fund manager and then
held investment leadership roles
at Merrill Lynch Investment
Managers and JOHambro Capital
Management. Previously held
non-executive directorships
include Investment Trusts as well
as JPMorgan Asset Management
UK Ltd and JPMorgan Asset
Management International Ltd.
She is currently also a trustee of
Moorfields Eye Charity.
A Audit
Steve is a Chartered Accountant.
He is currently Chairman of
TruFin plc, a non-executive
director at Plus500 Ltd and a
Trustee at Howard de Walden
Estates Limited. He was formerly
a non-executive director of
Elegant Hotels Group plc and
Panmure Gordon & Co plc.
He was the Head of European
Equity Capital Markets and
Corporate Broking at Macquarie
Capital until February 2015.
Prior to this Steve was a Director
at JPMorgan Cazenove for ten
years and was a Vice President of
Corporate Finance at UBS from
1995-1998.