BURFORD CAPITAL LTD (BUR)
Sector: Financials
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Financials
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Director information for BUR
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUR | Non-Executive Director | 70 | ["Investment banker with over 25 years at UBS", "Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, and Joint Global Head of Investment Banking", "Chartered Accountant", "Chair of UK Export Finance board", "Non-executive chair of Spirit Yacht Holdings Ltd.", "Former non\u2010executive director of NatWest Group plc", "Director General of the UK Takeover Panel", "Non-executive director of Citizens Financial Group Inc. and Ashurst LLP", "Non-executive chair of Boat Race Company Ltd. and Somerset House Trust"] | ["Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee", "Audit Committee"] | 2026 |
Companies shown below are based on exact name match for the selected Director
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CFG | Director; Board member; Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Bank | 59 | ["Qualified as a chartered accountant","Experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers","Specialized in corporate finance at SG Warburg","Director at SG Warburg in 1987","Managing Director of U.S. investment banking business at SG Warburg in 1989","B.A. in Economics from the University of Durham","A.C.A. from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales"] | ["Executive"] | 2015 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Gillespie is an independent non-executive director and the Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. He has served as a director on the Board of Directors since May 2020. Mr. Gillespie had a lengthy career as an investment banker, spending more than 25 years at UBS and its predecessors in a range of senior positions, including Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, and Joint Global Head of Investment Banking, while also serving on the Group Managing Board and the Management Committee for many years. Mr. Gillespie started his career as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Gillespie is the chair of the board of directors and a member of the audit committee of the UK Export Finance, a ministerial department of the UK government that functions as the export finance agency, and also serves as the non-executive chair of the board of directors of Spirit Yacht Holdings Ltd. He has previously served as a non executive director of NatWest Group plc (formerly known as Royal Bank of Scotland plc) and certain of its principal subsidiary companies and was the chair of NatWest Group plc s remuneration committee and a member of NatWest Group plc s audit, risk and nominating and governance committees. In addition, Mr. Gillespie also served as the Director General of the UK Takeover Panel, a non-executive director of Citizens Financial Group Inc. and Ashurst LLP, a law firm, and as the non-executive chair of the board of directors of Boat Race Company Ltd., Somerset House Trust and the Council of Durham University, from which he graduated with a degree in economics. Mr. Gillespie s extensive experience in finance, accounting, risk management and governance and years of experience serving on the boards of directors of both public and private companies make him a valuable member of the Board of Directors.