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Chair of the Board and the Management Engagement Committee

Monica joined the Board in May 2024 and has been Chair of the Company since June 2026. She has over 20 years’ experience working with funds, and investment trusts in particular, across a wide range of asset classes and geographies.

Monica built her expertise in a variety of roles, which gave her varied insights into the sector. She started her career on the buy-side at Killik & Co Wealth Managers as a funds analyst and assistant portfolio manager. She then moved to the sell-side where she was Head of Investment Companies Research at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, and where she was a no.1 Extel-rated alternatives funds analyst. She then co-founded the Investment Companies Team at finnCap (now Cavendish Capital Markets) and worked in Corporate Broking, Investor Relations, Business and Product Development, including IPO’s, and advising Boards and Fund Managers on matters of Business Strategy, Marketing and Investor Relations and Communications.

Monica was previously a non-executive director of European Assets Trust PLC and is a member of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) Statistics Committee. She was a CFA Institute charterholder from 2005 to 2026 and has a degree in Banking and Capital Markets from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania. Monica is a UK resident.

Chair of the Audit Committee

Helen joined the Board in April 2025. She is a Chartered Accountant and was employed by Saffery, a UK top 20 firm of Chartered Accountants, from 1984 until her retirement in March 2026.

Helen qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988 and became a partner in the London office in 1998. Helen has a background in audit from her time working for Saffery in London which culminated with her being an audit partner before her move to Guernsey in 2000, where, until her recent retirement, she was an executive director of Saffery Trust, a GFSC regulated fiduciary business. She has extensive experience in corporate governance through her roles as non executive director of listed investment companies over the last 15 years including abrdn China Investment Company Limited, UK Mortgages Limited, John Laing Infrastructure Fund Limited and CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income PLC (where she was chair until her retirement in December 2024).

Helen currently sits on the boards of Achilles Investment Company Limited and JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets Limited, both of which are listed on the London Stock Exchange, and is Chair of Landore Resources Limited, which is quoted on AIM. Helen is a Guernsey resident.

Chair of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee

Christopher joined the board in March 2026. He is Chair of Crystal Amber Fund Limited and a non-executive director of a number of unlisted companies.

Previously Christopher was a non-executive director of Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited, UK Mortgages Limited and JZ Capital Partners Limited. He has over 35 years’ experience as an investment manager, specialising in fixed income, hedging strategies and alternative investment mandates and until 2013 was Chief Executive of the Edmond de Rothschild Group in the Channel Islands. Prior to joining the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 1999, he held investment management positions with James Capel, Bank of Bermuda, the Jardine Matheson Group and Fortis. From 2014 until 2020, he was the non-political member of the States of Guernsey’s Investment and Bond Sub-Committee.

A graduate of the University of London and Cranfield University, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment. Christopher is a Guernsey resident.

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