Mr James Thornton

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Bio

James Thornton started his investment banking career at Morgan Stanley from 1990 to 1995. He was subsequently Head of Finance at BAT Industries plc, where he managed the demerger of its financial services interests and their merger with Zurich Financial Services. He was Deputy Group and UK Finance Director at Old Mutual plc from the time of its listing, and also for a time Vice Chairman of its UK wealth management subsidiary Gerrard plc, and a Director of Old Mutual Asset Management and Old Mutual Securities. Since then he has led the turnaround of IFX's Foreign Exchange Division prior to IFX plc's sale and was most recently a Director of Global Health Partner plc. He is currently a Director of Consolidated Asset Management (Holdings) plc, Biteback Media Limited and Spoken Entertainment Limited. James is a Chartered Accountant and a Harvard MBA.

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