forlanssister 3,059 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Crighton also sits on board of Trading Emissions plc alongside Laxey's Christopher Agar. Cheers, just noticed that, looks quite a few links between them. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 some of these new guys might be useful once the spivs are voted out. we need to take each on his merits. or rather the shareholders do. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 6,221 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Just another one who will do as he is told by the secret mafia . 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Can anyone update us on how this guy began his career in 1990, moved to work for the Rothschild family in 1993 and went straight on from there in '94 to spend 5 years as a Senior VP at Merrill Lynch? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Welcome to him 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossy 0 Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Can anyone update us on how this guy began his career in 1990, moved to work for the Rothschild family in 1993 and went straight on from there in '94 to spend 5 years as a Senior VP at Merrill Lynch? I had a look at his LinkedIn profile. First it looks like he spent 5 years doing who knows what between school and University. Second, he was only one year at Rothschild. That means he either got fired or was so good he got headhunted. You decide. Third, his LinkedIn profile only claims VP at ML, not SVP. If you have niche expertise in your industry then getting hired as a VP isn't that hard. VP isn't all that senior. To me he looks like a mid-level finance professional. Not the sort of guy who will be CEO of a blue chip investment bank but he will have done okay for himself. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13845930&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=lEhZ&locale=en_US&srchid=223789731384479644366&srchindex=1&srchtotal=2&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A223789731384479644366%2CVSRPtargetId%3A13845930%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Cheers bossy. So, what's your take on why we need this guy in as an 'independent' non-executive director to chair a new investment committee "overseeing capital projects"? Is it just a fancy way of saying that he's a name on a piece of paper with boardroom voting powers on behalf of an investor like Laxey? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossy 0 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Cheers bossy. So, what's your take on why we need this guy in as an 'independent' non-executive director to chair a new investment committee "overseeing capital projects"? Is it just a fancy way of saying that he's a name on a piece of paper with boardroom voting powers on behalf of an investor like Laxey? He may be a good guy, who knows. I doubt he is there to represent Laxey. Laxey always seems to be pretty up front from what I have seen. Not quite sure why the Board needs an 'investment committee'. I would expect capital investment requests to come from the CEO in line with a broad strategy approved by the Board. Requests over a certain amount would go to the Board for approval but not sure you need a committee for that. I worry that this is another step towards the Board becoming the effective management of the club rather than being a supervisory and advisory body acting on behalf of the shareholders. I think you need a separation between the Board and the management. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 I briefly worked in a fairly small financial company and the VP's there seemed to be more like supervisors/team leads. Whereas in Oil companies it means they are in charge of entire regions and are very senior. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juancornetto 1 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Can anyone update us on how this guy began his career in 1990, moved to work for the Rothschild family in 1993 and went straight on from there in '94 to spend 5 years as a Senior VP at Merrill Lynch? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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