Mervyn Davies was appointed Non-executive Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC in November 2006. Immediately prior to this Mervyn had been Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC since November 2001, having joined the Board as a Group Executive Director in December 1997.

He has a wide ranging banking background in the UK, US and Asia.

Mervyn joined the Board of Tesco as a Non-executive Director in July 2003. He was appointed Non-Executive Director to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in June 2004.

In April 2005, Mervyn accepted the role of Chairman to the Appeal Fundraising Board of Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

He completed the Programme for Management Development at Harvard Business School and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers.

Mervyn was awarded a CBE for his services to the financial sector and the community in Hong Kong in June 2002. He is married with two children and is a fluent Welsh speaker. He is a keen sportsman and is interested in Welsh art, music and reading. Mervyn was born in 1952.

Robin served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1991-1995, and as British Ambassador to South Africa from 1987-1991. He was a director of Robert Fleming Holdings from 1995-2000 and was appointed Deputy Chairman in 1999. He is a currently Vice Chairman, Investment Banking of J P Morgan plc. He is a director of a number of companies including British Airways, BHP, Billiton and South African Breweries. He is a Trustee of The Economist. Robin was appointed Deputy Chairman of Fleming Family and Partners in 2000.

Guy Beringer QC became a partner in Allen & Overy LLP in 1985 and developed a broad corporate and M&A practice across a wide range of business sectors. He was elected Senior Partner in 2004 for a four year term ending in 2008. In October 2006, Guy Beringer was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) for his contributions to pro bono and legal services

Commencing with Citibank, Gareth has had a long career in both commercial and investment banking. He joined Standard Chartered (SCB) in early 1996 as the Chief Executive, UK/Europe Region, and shortly afterwards moved to Hong Kong as Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking, HK, China and N.E. Asia. During this time he was also Chairman of the Financial Services Committee of the Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries and a Director of SCB’s subsidiary, Chartered Trust plc. In May 1998 he assumed the role of CEO, Africa, based in London, with overall responsibility for SCB’s operations in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. He opened new operations in Ivory Coast and Nigeria as well as founding the Community Partnership, the forerunner to the Group’s approach to community involvement. In September 2001 he became Group Head of Technology and Operations (CIO) with overall responsibility for the Group’s systems strategy and its implementation as well as for the development of the Global Shared Service Centres in India and Malaysia. In January 2003 he was appointed a Director of SCB and in November 2003 he became Group Head, Strategy to help lead the Group’s ambitious growth plans. He was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Spirax Sarco Engineering PLC in May 2005 and in January 2006 was appointed a Non-Executive Director of FF&P after SCB took a 20% shareholding in the firm.

Mark has had a long career in the fund management industry. Currently, he is Executive Chairman of Thornhill Holdings Limited and prior to this spent 29 years at the Gerrard Group, where he became Chief Executive in 1996. He remains a non-executive director of Old Mutual Financial Services which acquired Gerrard Group in 2000. He joined FF&P in 2003.

Philip Fleming started his career in financial services with Brompton Investments where he spent six years as an executive. He joined Robert Fleming in 1993. He worked initially with Fleming Private Asset Management as an assistant fund manager and then transferred to Fleming Investment Management where he worked as an analyst on the American desk. In 1998 he became Marketing Manager for Robert Fleming & Co Ltd Private Banking. Philip holds directorships in Robert Fleming Trustee Company Ltd and the Leach Corporation.

Val joined Robert Fleming in 1957 and spent the next fifteen years as an investment analyst and investment trust manager until 1972. In 1972 Val was appointed manager of the Electronic Trust, which ultimately became the Fleming Technology Investment Trust. In 1975 he became responsible for the Fleming Enterprise Trust and, in 1984, for The Fleming Fledgling Investment Trust. Val was appointed Director of Robert Fleming Holdings Limited in 1974. He has had other directorships of various quoted and unquoted companies.

Mark is qualified as a doctor of medicine and holds a degree in Psycho-Neuro Endocrinology. He was the Vice-Chairman of the USSR National Centre of Psycho-Endocrinology. During the Gorbachev era Mark started two of the first joint ventures between Soviet and American companies - Sovaminco (book publishing and printing services) and Mebinvest (inventions in medicine, biology and environmental issues).

Mark is an expert in natural resources, with a focus on oil production, processing and transportation. In 1987 he founded one of the first private oil companies in the Soviet Union. Between 1993 and 1996 he was Advisor to the Minister of Fuel & Energy of the Russian Federation. Mark was a Board member of the Russian Government's Economic Policy Commission and the National Fund for Strategic Resources.

In 1995 Mark started, in partnership with an Anglo-Swiss financial group, MC Securities, an investment banking business (brokerage and corporate finance), which grew to be the third largest brokerage house in Russia and was bought in 1998 by Robert Fleming & Co. Mark is an executive director of FF&P and responsible for operations in Russia.

William was for seven years a Cabinet Minister and now holds the following Directorships and trustee positions: UBS Investment Banking Department (Vice-Chairman), The Biotech Growth Trust (non-exec Director), Bergesen Worldwide Gas ASA (Nominations Committee), Teijin Group (International Advisory Board), National Museum of Science and Industry (Chairman), Rhodes Trust (Chairman), Mandela-Rhodes Foundation (South Africa) (Trustee), Eton College (Fellow).