2015 Voting Panel

Charlie runs a team dedicated to the largest clients of HSBC Private Bank, advising individual clients and family offices on all aspects of their personal banking and wealth management needs, involving the appropriate specialists wherever necessary. He joined HSBC in 2005.

Charlie is a qualified lawyer, his background grounded in corporate finance at Freshfields, before moving to structured finance and then private wealth management.

Charlie is an MBA, Chartered Fellow of the Securities Institute, voted Private Banker of the Year (Spears 2013 & 2010), Top 10 UHNW Index (Spears 2014 and 2015), nominated Private Banker of Year (Spears 2012, 2008/ Citywealth MagicCircle 2010); Top10 Rising Stars in European Wealth Management/ Top100 in European financial markets (Financial News). He also chairs the judging panel for the UK’s Private Business Awards.

Duncan Cheatle is currently founder and CEO of Rise To, a digital platform designed to improve employability in young people.

He is founder of the Prelude Group which delivers a range of initiatives that support high growth and advanced learning for entrepreneurs. At the forefront of that is The Supper Club, an exclusive membership club with around 350 of Britain’s most innovative, high growth entrepreneurs.

In addition to these Duncan also co-founded StartUp Britain, a private sector initiative to inspire start-up entrepreneurs, backed by the Prime Minister, and sits on the Advisory Boards of the government funded Start Up Loans Company, the Sheffield University Management School, the Legatum Institute funded Demeter Network and the Centre for Entrepreneurs.

Duncan is FCA qualified (PwC), Fellow at the RSA and a Companion of the CMI.

Jonathan is Chief Operating Officer at Accel Partners in London. The London team manages $2bn, focused on investing in early stage technology companies across Europe and Israel.

Many of Accel’s portfolio companies have defined their categories, and investments made by the London team include Atlassian, Avito, Etsy, Kayak. QlikTech, Spotify, Supercell, and Varonis.

Accel Partners was founded in 1983, and has a long history of partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally with offices in Palo Alto, London, New York and Bangalore.

Prior to joining Accel, Jonathan held a strategic role at AXA Investment Managers, and before that worked at Deutsche Bank and Mirabaud & Cie in London. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant from PwC having focused on asset management. Jonathan holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bristol.

Miriam González, co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade and Government Relations practice, advises clients on trade compliance, international and European trade. As a partner of the firm’s White Collar Crime group she specialises on trade (sanctions and export control) investigations, compliance with UK/EU financial sanctions and embargoes, export controls, foreign investment proceedings and EU internal market regulations and infringement proceedings. Miriam has provided compliance advice and led some of the most complex EU sanctions investigations in the European market. She is also the co-Chair of the Women Diversity Committee at Dechert LLP.

She previously served seven years as a Senior Member of the Cabinet for EU External Relations Commissioners Chris Patten and Benita Ferrero-Waldner (1998-2005). She was the leading Middle East and North Africa adviser to Commissioner Patten (notably on Middle East Peace Process, relations with Iran, Syria and Iraq as well as Neighborhood policy) and she was also the lead US trade adviser to Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner. Miriam’s responsibilities in this role included trade, competition and EU internal market rules.

Nick is the founding CEO of Nutmeg. Following a business degree at Exeter University, Nick worked at Barclays in the areas of product, banking and wealth management. He was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin and has an MBA from Stanford University in the United States. Nick's industry and investment views are respected globally and he frequently appears on Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and many international publications. Nick has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and London Business School and has represented UKTI around the world, promoting the benefits of doing business in Britain. He's a non executive Director at Innovate Finance, the movement helping highlight the need for customer-orientated progression in financial services.

Amanda Murphy joined HSBC in 1995 on the Bank’s Graduate Training Programme. Her first role at the Golders’ Green retail branch in London encompassed everything from lending to local businesses, helping customers buy their first homes, to cashiering at the till.

Since then Amanda has worked in many areas of HSBC's Global business including as a Relationship Director in the UK, Canada and Dubai for Corporate Banking, a Senior Risk Manager in Hong Kong, and within our Group Learning and Development Department.

Having enjoyed assignments all over the world, in 2011 Amanda took on the role as Head of Commercial Banking in Indonesia, a fast-growing and exciting emerging market, where she led the business to double digit sustainable growth for three consecutive years.

In October 2013 Amanda returned to the UK to lead the Group’s largest Business Banking segment, before taking on the role of Head of Corporate Banking for the UK in November 2014.

Chief Executive of The William Pears Group since 1984. The William Pears Group is a private family investment group founded in 1952. The Group’s principal activities are real estate investment on a global basis and asset management.

In 1992, Mark founded the Pears Foundation with brothers Trevor and David; currently the ninth largest giving foundation in the UK. Since inception in excess of £150m committed to numerous UK and global causes.

In 1995, Mark established Talisman Global Asset Management, an international fund manager with assets under management in excess of £3.0bn. A substantial seed and private equity investor; and notably founder investor in Palantir Technologies and Facebook.

In 2000, Mark founded Telereal – the UK’s largest property outsourcing company.

Throughout his career, Ian has been involved with growth companies, both public and private.

His early career was as a stockbroker, analyst, broadcaster and financial journalist in this area, and since founding The Design Portfolio Marketing Services in 1991, he has been active in helping many companies in this sector with their investor communication and corporate reporting requirements. Ian is also Chairman of Flathill Communications Group plc, President of The Design Portfolio Marketing Services Inc. and a member of the Investor Relations Society.