Board of Directors
Invista Foundation Property Trust Limited (referred to as the Company) is a closed-ended, Guernsey registered investment company which is managed by Invista Real Estate Investment Management Limited. The Company invests in a diversified portfolio of UK commercial property. The Company has an indefinite life but shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on its continuation at the Annual General Meeting to be held in 2014.
The Directors are as follows:
Andrew Sykes (Chairman), was a director of Schroders plc from 1998 to 2004, having joined Schroders in 1978. He was responsible for the group’s private banking and alternative investments businesses, including property, private equity, structured products and hedge funds. He was a non-executive director of SVG Capital plc (formerly Schroder Ventures International Investment Trust PLC) from 2002 to 2004, and he is a non-executive director of Schroder Exempt Property Unit Trust and JP Morgan Fleming Asian Investment Trust plc.
John Frederiksen, is chairman of the Danish Property Federation and of several major Danish property companies. He established and was managing director of Bastionen A/S, one of the largest Danish property investment companies from 1986 to 2001, and was Chairman of ASC, the largest property management company in Denmark, from 1990 to 1998.
Keith Goulborn, was head of Unilever’s UK Property Department for 17 years, in which capacity he was responsible for the property investment activities of the Unilever Pension Fund in the UK and for operational property advice to the UK group and its implementation. Prior to that he was a partner in Debenham, Nightingale Chancellors. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Investment Property Forum.
Peter Atkinson, was the Senior Partner of Collas Day Advocates for 14 years where he specialised in corporate and fiduciary work. He joined Collas Day in 1980 and became Senior Partner in 1992. He is now retained as a consultant to the firm and as a non-executive director of the firm’s trust company. Peter is an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He is a former Chairman of the Guernsey Bar.
Harry Dick-Cleland, is Managing Director of Cleland & Co Limited, Chartered Accountants which he founded in 2003. He was previously a partner at Ernst & Young from 1998 - 2003, having joined their Guernsey office in 1987. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
David Warr, is an Executive Director of MPR International Management Limited, a Guernsey based fiduciary services business wholly owned by Fortis plc. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and has worked for the MPR Group since 1972 specialising in Trust & Corporate work. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Marwyn Value Investors Limited and Hemisphere Defensive HF (USD) Limited.