Date of Appointment
3 September 2018

Committees
Member of the Nominations Committee, Management Engagement Committee and Audit Committee

Skills and Experience
Tim qualified as a Chartered Accountant and has worked in Australia, Hong Kong and extensively in China, where he was co-founder of one of the first private equity groups in the country. He later ran Goldman Sachs China’s distressed investment business in Beijing. He co-founded another business to originate UN carbon offsets from GHG emission reduction projects in China. Tim is Chief Resolution Officer at Peony Advisers Limited, a company which helps shareholders who have been disenfranchised by Chinese companies delisting from AIM and other markets. He was a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of Braemar Energy Ventures, a New York venture capital fund focused on energy efficiency technologies. He is the author of Mr China, Chinese Rules and Cloud Chamber.

External Appointments
Tim is Chief Resolution Officer at Peony Advisors Limited, a director of Peony Investments Limited and a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust plc.