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Neville Bain has extensive experience at board level. He was Group Strategy Director and later Deputy Group Chief Executive and Finance Director at Cadbury Schweppes in London. Following this he became CEO of the textile, clothing and fashion business, Coats Viyella. He is also chairman of the Institute of Directors, and the author of Successful Management, Winning Ways through Corporate Governance and The People Advantage .

Roger Barker trained initially as an economist and went on to hold several senior investment banking roles in both the UK and Switzerland. He has a doctorate in corporate governance from Oxford University, and has also acted as an adviser on corporate governance to the EU Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. He isi also a visiting lecturer at the Said Business School (University of Oxford) and the Ministry of Defence.