John Meyer - Numis Securities
John has run the resources team at Numis Securities since 2002 and has been chairman of LEG since 2001. John was voted the No1. UK small cap analyst across all sectors by fund managers in the most recent Extel Survey. He was also recognised as the leading small cap mining analyst in the same survey for 2006 and 2005. Previously, John worked in research for Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale, T Hoare & Co. and Montagu Mining finance. John’s work spans the resources sector from oil & gas to mining and renewable energy companies. John is a Mining Engineer from Leeds University and previously studied mining and petroleum engineering at the Royal School of Mines.
Toby Belsom - Morley Fund Management Ltd
Toby joined Morley Fund Management in 2000. He began his career in
1996 as a Consultant with Nortel Environment and Ethics Unit. In the
same year he also worked as a Consultant for the BT Environmental Issues
Unit. Toby started as a SRI analyst with the NPI Global Care team in
1997. He was heavily involved in the foundation of the first UK Social
Index and the early stages of the recently published DETR Global Warming
Indicator. In 2000, Toby moved to Henderson Investors' as a Company Analyst
for the SRI team. He sits on the ACCA Environmental Reporting Awards
judging panel and a number of industry sustainable development advisory
panels. Toby holds a BSc in Geography from Bristol University and a MSc
in Environment and Business from Imperial College, London.
Tom Hickey - Tullow Oil UK Ltd
Tom joined the Board of Tullow Oil in 2000 as Finance Director. A Chartered Accountant, Tom was previously an Associate Director of ABN AMRO Corporate Finance (Ireland) Ltd. In this role he advised a wide range of public and private companies in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, flotations and related transactions. Tom has sat on the London Energy Group committee since 2002.
George Latham, Associate Director, SRI Funds
George oversees the pan-European SRI portfolios. He is manager of the Henderson Global Care Managed Fund and the Henderson Global Care Income Fund, along with the segregated SRI funds. He has responsibility for directing Henderson's 'Integrated SRI' investment process, managing the integration of ethical, sustainability and responsibility factors into a single investment process, tailored to suit clients needs. George works together with the SRI analysts to integrate their analysis of companies, sectors and sustainability issues accross the market into investment decision making. With a BA (Hons) in Geography from St. Catherine's College, Oxford, George was commissioned from Sandhurst into the army. He served as an infantry officer in Germany, Bosnia, Canada and Northern Ireland before leaving the army to join Threadneedle Asset Management in 1996. At Threadneedle George worked as a fund manager on the pan-european equities team, covering a range of sectors as the in-house analyst and managing a UK growth fund. He also developed a framework for fund managers and analysts at Threadneedle to take social, ethical and environmental factors into account when making investment decisions. George joined the Henderson SRI team in 2001. He is as Associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research and holds qualifications from the UK Society of Investment Professionals.
Frank Moxon CF, FSI, FEI - Evolution Securities
Having trained as an equity research analyst at Capel-Cure Myers, he spent over seventeen years in the corporate finance departments of Beeson Gregory, SG Securities, Old Mutual Securities and Williams de Broë, where he was Head of Corporate Finance, before joining Evolution in July 2006. To date Frank has successfully completed over 115 corporate transactions raising over US1.3bn in new funds and has acted as financial adviser or stockbroker to a wide range of public and private natural resource companies. He is Chairman of the Securities and Investment Institute's Corporate Finance Forum.
Richard Slape, Analyst, Seymour Pierce Ltd
Richard Slape joined Seymour Pierce, an independent investment bank based in the City of London, in 2002. He has covered the UK's oil exploration and production sub-sector as an equity research analyst since 1986 and is a member of the Energy Institute.