HICL Infrastructure Co. Ltd.
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HICL Infrastructure, formerly known as HSBC Infrastructure Company Limited, was launched on 29 March 2006, and was the first infrastructure investment to list on the London Stock Exchange. The company describes itself as a long term investor in public infrastructure, working with the public sector to deliver high-quality infrastructure projects.
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Board of Directors
Graham Picken
Chairman of HICL Board of Directors
Graham is an experienced banker and financial practitioner and has been Chairman of HICL since its launch. Appointed a non-executive director of Skipton Building Society in January 2012, he was formerly a non executive director of the Derbyshire Building Society, where he became Chief Executive in February 2008 and led the society to a merger with Nationwide Building Society in December 2008, before standing down at the end of March 2009. Until 2003, Graham’s career spanned over thirty years with Midland and HSBC Banks in senior positions across retail and commercial banking. He is a resident of the UK.
Sarah Evans
HICL Director
Sarah Evans is a Chartered Accountant and a non-executive director of several other listed investment funds, as well as the Guernsey subsidiary of a global bank and an unlisted fund of hedge funds. She is a member of the Institute of Directors. Sarah has spent over six years with the Barclays Bank PLC group from 1994 to 2001. During that time she was a treasury director and from 1996 to 1998 she was Finance Director of Barclays Mercantile, where she was responsible for all aspects of financial control and operating risk management. Prior to joining Barclays Sarah ran her own consultancy business advising financial institutions on all aspects of securitisation. From 1982 to 1988 Sarah was with Klienwort Benson, latterly as head of group finance. She is resident in Guernsey.
Susie Farnon
HICL Director
Susie Farnon, resident in Guernsey, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and qualified in 1983. She was a Banking and Finance Partner with KPMG Channel Islands from 1990 until 2001 and Head of Audit KPMG Channel Islands from 1999. She has served as President of the Guernsey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants and as a member of The States of Guernsey Audit Commission and The Guernsey Public Accounts Committee. She is Vice-Chairman of The Guernsey Financial Services Commission and a Non-Executive Director of a number of property and investment companies.
John Hallam
HICL Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee
John lives in Guernsey, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and qualified as an accountant in 1971. He is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, having retired in 1999 after 27 years with the firm spent both in Guernsey and in other countries. John was, until January 2006, Chairman of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and is currently a director of a number of financial services companies, some of which are listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Frank Nelson
HICL Director
Frank a UK resident and a qualified accountant. He has over 25 years of experience in the construction, contracting, infrastructure and energy sectors, and was Finance Director of construction and house-building group Galliford Try Plc from 2000 until October 2012. He was previously Finance Director of Try Group Plc from 1987, leading the company through its flotation on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and the subsequent merger with Galliford in 2001. Following his retirement from Galliford Try, he took on the role of interim CFO of Lamprell plc, where he helped to complete a complex refinancing and turnaround, before leaving in October 2013.
Chris Russell
HICL Director
Chris is a Guernsey resident non-executive director of investment and financial companies in the UK, Hong Kong and Guernsey. He is also Deputy Chairman of the UK trade body, the Association of Investment Companies. Chris was formerly a director of Gartmore Investment Management Plc, where he was Head of Gartmore’s businesses in the US and Japan and before that was a holding board director of the Jardine Fleming Group in Asia. He is a Fellow of the UK Society of Investment Professionals and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Ian Russell
HICL Director
Ian Russell CBE (British), is resident in the UK and is a qualified accountant. He worked for Scottish Power plc between 1994 and 2006, initially as Finance Director and from 2001 as its CEO. Prior to this he spent 8 years as Finance Director at HSBC Asset Management in Hong Kong and London.