Nicholas is a Member of the Nominations Committee and Management Engagement Committee. He is a Chartered Accountant by training and has spent almost his entire working life in various aspects of investment banking, specialising in the Asian markets. In his early career he worked for a number of leading City institutions and joined Robert Fleming Securities initially as head of Asian Securities in London and then moved to Hong Kong to establish a corporate broking division for Jardine Fleming, subsequently taken over by JPMorgan, where he remained as Managing Director. In 2003 he co-founded KGR Capital Partners, a Hong Kong based Asian hedge fund of funds registered with the Securities and Futures Commission. Since that time, he has become a non-executive director of a number of diversified businesses ranging from telecommunications, investment management, hotels to age care. He continues to travel widely throughout Asia, where he has built up an impressive network of contacts.

Nicholas is a director of John Lamb Hill Oldrige Limited.