Non-Executive DirectorKrishnan Muthappan
Krishnan is a Singaporean serial entrepreneur. He is passionate about building businesses and has successfully founded, managed and sold several in the agricultural, financial services, technology and recycling sectors in Singapore and abroad over the last two decades.
Most recently, Krishnan successfully exited his investment in remittance banking to a global provider of foreign exchange services and his agri-business in Papua New Guinea to the world’s biggest plantation group.
Krishnan is a board member of two Singapore Government Statutory Boards: the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the Hindu Endowment Board (HEB).
Before his own ventures, he worked in the Gulf and Singapore in management consulting, corporate finance, investment banking and commodity trading. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Cost and Management Accountant.
Non-Executive DirectorNeil Shillito
Neil’s first career was as a Navigating Officer in the merchant navy, first as a Cadet with P&O Lines and then with Blue Star Line, mainly on refrigerated cargo vessels sailing worldwide. He qualified as a Master Mariner in 1982.
He joined a leading insurance company in 1986, advising individuals and corporates on pension schemes and investment planning. In 1996 he became a partner in an established independent practice.
In 2001 he founded SG Wealth Management Ltd based on the principles of complete openness and transparency and a culture of “clients come first”. The company grew to a business with 33 employees, two significant offices in East Anglia and £350m of client assets under management.
In 2015 Neil joined Downing LLP, managing his investment fund, which was launched in 2007. Alyx Wood was appointed co-manager of this fund and worked closely with Neil for three years until 2018.
Non-Executive DirectorCarol L’Heveder
Carol is a corporate and financial services lawyer with over 30 years of international experience, notably at Linklaters, as European general counsel for Merrill Lynch private banking, head of legal EMEA for State Street and head of regulatory affairs at Invesco Asset Management.
She is currently a partner at Gunner Cooke LLP, advising investment firms and entrepreneurs on FCA regulatory and conduct matters, corporate governance and senior management responsibility.
She is also a non-executive director and is currently the shareholder representative on the board of Flarin Holdings Limited, which is part of Infirst Healthcare, an OTC pharmaceutical group based in the UK and the US.
Independent AdviserGraham Smith
Graham has been a professional trader for over 25 years and was last Head of Execution at investment bank Liberum.
Graham joined Dillon Read as a graduate in 1996 before moving to Salomon Brothers a year later as a specialist Scandinavian and French trader. He started the TMT sector pitch at Salomon Smith Barney, later to become Citigroup, where he was promoted to Managing Director, running the Pan-European and UK Mid Cap cash trading teams.
After Citi, he became Global Head of Cash Equity Trading at Unicredit, running the Trading and Sales Trading teams until 2012. Graham then moved onto the buy side to work for Trafalgar Capital in London.
