Michael Kayser
Non-Executive Director
Michael is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants.
He has extensive experience in corporate transactions, both in
quoted and private markets.
Michael has also held a variety of senior finance appointments at
Laporte PLC, Doncasters Limited, Amey PLC, Unilever and Guinness
Brewing Worldwide.
Jesper Kjaedegaard
Non-Executive Director
Jesper has more than 30 years’ experience in transport and logistics.
He has held several senior positions within A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
and was appointed Chief Executive of The Maersk Company UK
Limited in 2004.
Leaving in 2008, he co-founded Mercator International, an
independent ports and infrastructure consultancy. Currently, Jesper
is also President of the British Chamber of Shipping and Chairman
of Maritime UK.
David Beever
Non-Executive Director
David Milton Maxwell Beever is a former Vice Chairman of SG
Warburg and Co. where he was Head of Financing and handled
major corporate finance transactions for UK and International
companies. He then joined KPMG where he was a member of the
UK Board and Chairman, UK and International.
He is currently the Senior Independent Director of Premier Foods
plc. He has previously been Chairman of Volex Group plc and
London and Continental Railways Ltd. He was also a Non-Executive
Director of Paragon Group of Companies, JJB Sports, Northern
Electric, TLS Group and Servomex plc. He is a member of the Board
of Trustees, University of London, and a Vice Chairman of Royal
Holloway College, London University.
Appointed to the Board 23 May 2011.
Paul Orchard-Lisle, CBE
Non-Executive Director
Paul David Orchard-Lisle, aged 72, has nearly fifty years’ experience in
the property sector. He joined Healey & Baker in 1961 where he was
Head of Investment between 1986-1998 and Senior Partner between
1987-1999. He oversaw the Company’s merger with Cushman &
Wakefield in 1998, forming a global company, covering the entire
commercial property spectrum with a turnover in excess of $700m.
Paul was previously President of The Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors and Chairman of Slough Estates (now Segro plc) and
executive chairman of the Falcon Property Trust. He is Chairman of
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust and a Director of
Powerleague Limited, as well as Chairman of Apache Capital LLP and
a Senior Advisor to Patron Capital.
Appointed to the Board 23 May 2011.