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Michael Jackson
Before taking up his current Chairmanship of PartyGaming, Michael was the Chairman of the FTSE 100 software group, The Sage Group Plc, which, during his time as a director, grew from a capitalisation of £1 million in 1983 to over £3 billion. Mr Jackson is also Chairman of the venture capital and investment company, Elderstreet Investments Limited.He holds an MA in law from Cambridge University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand before spending five years in marketing for various US multi-national companies.
John Kay
John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists. His interests focus on the relationships between economics and business. His career has spanned academic work and think tanks, business schools, company directorships, consultancies and investment companies. John lectures frequently to a variety of audiences in Britain and other countries.
Lady Catherine Meyer
Lady Catherine Meyer set up Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT) after her two young children failed to return from a trip to their father in Germany in 1994, despite a court order. PACT is an international, non-profit organisation, registered in the USA and the UK. It was founded in 2000 by Lady Meyer, wife of the former British Ambassador to the United States. Its patrons are Cherie Blair, wife of the former British Prime Minister, and Laura Bush, the First Lady of the United States.
John McLaren
John McLaren is Chairman of the Barchester Group. He began his career as a diplomat, both in the Foreign Office in London and in the British Embassy in Tokyo. He then worked in investment banking, where he was a director of Barings, and in venture capital, where he was a General Partner with Hambrecht and Quist Venture Partners in San Francisco. During his subsequent time successively as a Director of Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Barchester, he has advised a wide range of companies on major merger and acquisition transactions, including DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Nissan, BBA and Siemens. |
