Tim Woodcock – Chair
Tim Woodcock qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PwC. He is an experienced company director who has held a number of main board roles for both public and private companies. He also has considerable Investment Management experience – in 2008 he co-founded Oakfield Capital Partners, a private equity firm specialising in investing and developing fast growing UK smaller companies.
Josephine Tubbs
Josephine Tubbs is an independent non-executive director and a practising lawyer. Josephine has over 30 years’ experience as a lawyer and regulatory adviser in the authorised funds and asset management sector having started her career in private practice. For 25 years Josephine worked as Head of Legal, initially for Framlington Group and then AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), where she was promoted to General Secretary UK in 2020. During her time at AXA IM, Josephine served on its Executive Committee and the board of several authorised Irish investment funds and management companies. At the end of 2022 Josephine left AXA IM to focus on several part time roles. She holds a law degree from Bristol University and qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons in 1992.
Julian Bartlett – Audit Committee Chair
Julian has significant financial, assurance and advisory experience gained from over 30 years as a partner at Grant Thornton UK LLP and from former roles at RSM Robson Rhodes and Deloitte. He has been a non-executive director since 2017. He has specialised in financial services throughout his career with a focus on investment management. Julian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Tamara Sakovska
Tamara has over a decade of board experience in private equity-backed and public companies listed on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange and between 2016 and 2022 served on the board of JP Morgan Emerging Europe, Middle East & Africa Plc. With a strong background in global financial markets with over twenty years of blue-chip institutional investing experience in Europe and North America gained at Goldman Sachs, HarbourVest, Warburg Pincus, Permira, Eton Park and GFP Tamara is well placed to help steward the Company through the next stage of its journey. Transaction experience covers a broad range of sectors including consumer, TMT, utilities, natural resources, financial services and real estate across developed and emerging markets. Tamara is the author of The Private Equity Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Deals Done from Sourcing to Exit.