Charles’ business career ranges from media to hospitality. He is especially known for his contribution to the television industry, having played a key role in the creation of ITV. He is a Chair of Balfour Beatty Plc, THG Plc and the Invictus Games Foundation. He is also a Senior Director of Global Media & Entertainment Limited. He was a former Chairman of Granada Media plc, Chief Executive of Granada Group plc and ITV plc and Chairman of EMI Music, Endemol, The British Red Cross, 2 Sisters Food Group and ISS A/S.   He has also served on the board of Tesco plc, Virgin Media and GET AS, and been Chief Adviser to the Home Office and a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs and Advisory Chairman at Moelis & Company. Charles was Vice Chairman of the London 2012 bid company, non –executive director of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and Chairman of the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002. In 2002 he was awarded a CBE for his services to Sport and Community and in 2012 he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for his services to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He was given the Freedom of the City of London in 2006. In 2013 Charles was given a peerage and sits on the Labour benches. 

Vindi Banga serves as Chair of Haleon PLC, Chair of Council for Imperial College London, and Chair of U.K. Government Investments. He is a Partner at Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), a leading global private equity firm where he has been Chair or a Board member of several portfolio companies. He is also Chair of the Sustainability Council at CD&R. His executive career was with Unilever, where his last role was President Global Foods, Home & Personal Care and a member of its Executive Board. He has also been Chair and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. He was the Senior Independent NED on the Boards of Marks & Spencer PLC for 7 years, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and Haleon PLC prior to becoming its Chair. He is a NED on The Economist Group board, and a Commissioner at The Global Commission on Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking. Vindi is a Trustee of The Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust focusing on cancer research, thought leadership, and education through the arts. He holds a B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for service to business which is one of India’s highest civilian awards. 

Sir Ian Cheshire is an experienced Chair and business leader with an extensive career spanning retail, real estate, governance and sustainability. He is currently Chair of Landsec, Anglian Water Group, Ofcom, the Institute for Government, the King Charles III Charitable Fund and We Mean Business, a global coalition focused on corporate climate action. Previously, Sir Ian served as Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc from 2008 to 2015, having earlier led B&Q as Chief Executive. He has held numerous senior board positions, including Chair of Channel 4, Spire Healthcare and Barclays Bank UK, alongside non-executive roles at Whitbread and BT Group. He has also served as Lead Non-Executive Director at the Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions. A longstanding advocate for responsible business and sustainability, Sir Ian was knighted in 2014 for services to business, sustainability and the environment. He is also a Chevalier of France's Ordre National du Mérite.

Sherry Coutu CBE is an entrepreneur, investor and chair with over 30 years’ experience building businesses and leading boards across technology, financial services and education. She founded and chaired Interactive Investor and the ScaleUp Institute, has made 70 direct investments and is an LP in five global venture capital firms. She is Senior Independent Director of Raspberry Pi and a director of Pearson and Standard Life, chairing all three remuneration committees. Her previous boards include London Stock Exchange Group and Zoopla. She chairs Cancer Research UK’s Global Campaign Leadership Board and is a Global Ambassador for Endeavor, the leading global community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Sherry brings a founder’s ambition, an investor’s discipline and the boardroom judgement to help organisations grow. She holds a Harvard MBA and was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship.

Annemarie is current Board Chair of Yorkshire Building Society; and SiD & Remco Chair at Persimmon PLC. She is also an executive coach/mentor working with C-suite executives at inflection points in their career. Annemarie’s previous Board roles include Santander UK PLC; Petershill Partners PLC, WHSmith PLC;  Ladbrokes Coral PLC; & Fleming Family & Partners Ltd. She has also chaired Cater Allen (Private Bank) Ltd; Merryck & Co Ltd; and the Listing  Authority Advisory Panel. Annemarie has 40 years of international retail, corporate and commercial banking experience. From an executive perspective, the bulk of Annemarie’s banking career was at Standard Chartered PLC holding a wide array of roles culminating in being a member of Standard Chartered’s Group Executive Committee. She is a qualified barrister & solicitor with degrees in law & commerce and a MSc in Executive Coaching. Outside of work, Annemarie is a mother, wife, grandmother and a keen tennis player with interests in a wide array of health & fitness pursuits.

Doug is Director of The Natural History Museum and Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority.  Previously, Doug was Country Manager of Amazon UK and President of Amazon China. Earlier roles included the civil service, partner at McKinsey and Company, Director at Asda-Walmart, founder CEO of internet start-up Blueheath, Chair of The Alan Turing Institute, Chair of the British Heart Foundation and Chair the Science Museum Group. He has degrees in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Computing from the University of Edinburgh, and previously taught mathematics and computing at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is a former Scottish international triathlete, 13 times Ironman, keen ski mountaineer with over 20 first ascents, and an enthusiastic mountain runner. 

Bea is Chair of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation where she is also a Trustee and member of the Investment Committee. Bea is a main Board Director and Chairman of Remco (US) and Chairman of the International Advisory Board (UK) of Brown Advisory; and Chair of Millbank Financial Services Limited. Bea serves as Chair of Smedvig AS and advises a private family office, where she chairs the Investment Advisory Committee and sits on the Remuneration and Governance Committees. She is Chair of Newcore Capital Management LLP and a Non-Executive Director and Chair-elect of The Brunner Investment Trust plc. Bea holds a Supernumerary Fellowship at her alma mater, Pembroke College, Oxford, where she also serves on the Investment Committee. In addition, she is a Trustee of The Prudence Trust and a member of the Finance and Audit Committees of the National Gallery.

Ilse is an experienced chair and NED and winner of this year’s Sunday Times FTSE AIM NED of the year award.  In her executive career she was one of the founders of Freeview, leading it from start-up to becoming the UK’s most successful TV  joint venture.  She has a track record of delivering mass consumer growth and driving value from commercial partnerships in complex stakeholder environments. Currently, Ilse is Chair of Frontier Developments PLC, one of the UK’s leading independent computer games developers where she has overseen the company’s transformation and return to profitable growth.  Previous NED roles include chairmanships at Community Fibre, one of the UK’s fastest growing high speed fibre businesses, at the EDT, the global education advisory business, and at Unicef UK, the UN’s global children’s charity. Ilse is a keen dinghy sailor and has recently volunteered with the Samaritans.

Dr. Annalisa Jenkins, OBE, MBBS, FRCP, is an internationally recognized leader dedicated to harnessing the power of data to unlock insights and improve outcomes in healthcare around the globe. Throughout a 30-year career spanning clinical medicine, biotechnology, and leadership across industry and the public sector, she has focused on connecting people and organizations with the capacity to translate leading science into groundbreaking products that support healthy aging and human flourishing. Dr. Jenkins graduated in Medicine from the University of London and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London. After service as a medical officer in the British Royal Navy during the Gulf Conflict, she held senior positions at Merck Serono and Bristol Myers Squibb, and later served as CEO of Dimension Therapeutics, taking the company public on NASDAQ and through acquisition. Returning to the UK, she has cultivated roles across Genomics England, The King's Fund, the British Heart Foundation, Tessa Jowell Foundation and chairs YouBelong, a leading mental health charity. Operating at the intersection of technology, innovation, and healthcare delivery, Dr. Jenkins builds and connects global ecosystems—across private, public, non-profit, and government sectors—aligned toward advancing better futures in mental health, women’s health, cancer, cardio-metabolic disease, and global health. As a board member and investor for multiple companies and funds, and Honorary Professor at St. Mary's University, London, she is a champion for data-driven leadership, diversity, and purpose-driven innovation. In 2025 she was awarded an OBE for services to life sciences.

Justin is currently Chair of Allwyn Entertainment and Dexters and Non-Executive Chair of Itsu Grocery and a Senior Adviser to Snappy Shopper and Rezolve. He has 40 years’ experience in food and retail and previously held senior positions in Sainsbury's, Asda, M&S, Häagen-Dazs, PepsiCo and Mars and was Vice Chairman & Senior Adviser at Terra Firma, serving as director on several boards within the TF portfolio, the LOCOG and Staples.  He also sat on PWC’s Public Interest Body and was a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group. He is an advocate for responsible business and has a long established and public interest in the sustainability of modern food supply chains. Justin was awarded a CBE in HM The Queen’s New Year Honours List 2011 for services to the retail industry and named Most Admired Business Leader by Management Today in 2013. He also launched Made by Sport in 2019 and having raised and distributed over £6m to charities that use sport for social good, MBS has handed over to Sported to take the campaign forward.

John is Chair of Barclays Bank UK PLC. He served as Chair of Legal & General Group Plc between October 2016 and May 2026, during which time he oversaw the Group’s strategic development, including growth in international markets and the expansion in pension risk transfer and asset management. Before joining Barclays, he was also Chair of Tesco Personal Finance plc between 2020 and January 2023. John had a long Whitehall career, where he was Second Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and was also closely involved in the UK response to the financial crisis, handling the resolution of Northern Rock and leading negotiations with RBS, Lloyds and HBOS on their £37bn recapitalisation. He was also the first Chief Executive of UK Financial Investments Ltd (UKFI), and from 2010-2012, he was Global Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Rothschild. From 2016 to 2021, John was the first Chair of UK Research & Innovation, which oversees Government science funding of c£8bn a year. Key current appointments: Trustee & Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees, The National Gallery, and Trustee, Rothschild Foundation.