Overview

Gender

male

Ed is chairman of investment bank Panmure Gordon & Co. Plc, derivatives exchange LMAX and the Standard Life European Private Equity Trust. He is also an independent non-executive director of Clarksons, one of the world’s largest shipbrokers, Grant Thornton LLP, the Blackrock Commodities Income Investment Trust and Chairman of UK Athletics, the sport’s national governing body.

In 2006 he successfully sold IFX Group PLC, the financial trading company, having been its chief executive for three years. Previously he was Chief Executive of Old Mutual Financial Services UK, Head of Pan-European Equities at BT Alex. Brown and Head of Global Research at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.