Neil Record founded Record in 1983 and has been its principal shareholder and executive Chairman since then. Prior to founding Record he was an economist at the Bank of England and worked in the commodity and currency trading department at Mars, Inc.’s UK subsidiary. He is the author of Currency Overlay, the first book on this specialist topic (published by Wiley, 2003) and of numerous articles on currency and other risk management topics and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars worldwide.

Leslie Hill joined Record in 1992 and was appointed Head of Sales and Marketing in 1999. She has spent 15 years at Record. Her prior experience includes working at Wells Fargo, Lloyds Bank and Merrill Lynch where she was Director and Head of Corporate Foreign Exchange Sales worldwide.

Peter Wakefield joined Record in 1999 and was appointed Director responsible for product and strategy development and consulting in 2000. He has spent eight years at Record and previously worked at Morgan Grenfell and Deutsche Bank from 1984 to 1999 in various roles in export financing, structured banking transactions, interest rate swap and options and credit derivatives.

Mike Timmins joined Record as Finance Director in 1992 and was appointed to the Board in 1995. He has spent 15 years at Record and previously worked for Cadbury Schweppes where he held various financial positions and became Group Treasurer of Premier Brands Limited when the Tea and Food division was the subject of a management buy-out.

Bob Noyen joined Record in 1999 with responsibility for Investment & Research. He has spent eight years at Record and previously worked as Assistant Treasurer for Minorco (now part of Anglo American plc).

Cees Schrauwers became a non-executive director of the Company in 2007. Cees has more than 30 years financial services experience, most recently as director of Aviva International and managing director of CGU Insurance. Prior to this, he was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand. Cees is currently the senior independent director of Brit Insurance Holdings PLC and chairman of Drive Assist UK Limited.

Andrew Sykes became a non-executive director of the Company in 2007. He was a director of Schroders plc from 1998 to 2004, having joined Schroders in 1978. He was responsible for Schroders’ fixed income businesses (including Treasury and Foreign Exchange) until 2000, and subsequently for private banking and alternative investments, including hedge funds, property, private equity and structured products. He is a non-executive director of Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited and Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited, chairman of Invista Foundation Property Trust Limited and Absolute Return Trust Limited, and chairs the investment committee of the Schroder Retirement Benefits Scheme.