Shires Income PLC

Robert Talbut was formerly Chief Investment Officer of Royal London Asset Management and has over 30 years of financial services experience. He has represented the asset management industry through the chairmanship of both the ABI Investment Committee and the Asset Management Committee of the Investment Association. He has also been a member of the Audit & Assurance Council of the FRC and the FCAs Listing Authority Advisory Panel. He is Chairman of Schroder UK Mid Cap Fund plc and a non-executive director of Pacific Assets Trust plc and JPMorgan American Investment Trust PLC.

Robin Archibald has a wide range of experience in advising and managing transactions in the UK closed-ended funds sector over his thirty five year career as a corporate financier including with Samuel Montagu, S G Warburg and Natwest Markets. He retired from Winterflood Investment Trusts in May 2014, where he was formerly Head of Corporate Finance and Broking. He is currently Chairman of Albion Technology & General VCT PLC and a non-executive director of Ediston Property Investment Company PLC, Capital Gearing Trust PLC and Henderson European Focus Trust plc, and serves as audit committee chair on two of those other investment companies. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Jane Pearce is a Co-opted External Member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the University of St Andrews. She had an executive career as an Equity Analyst at leading investment banks and latterly was an Equity Strategist at Lehman Brothers and Nomura International. She is a Chartered Accountant and was a Member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland from 1999-2000. She is also a non-executive director of Polar Capital Technology Trust plc.

Helen Sinclair began her career in investment banking and spent nearly eight years at 3i plc focusing on management buy-outs and growth capital investments. She later co-founded Matrix Private Equity (which became Mobeus Equity Partners) in 2000 and subsequently became Managing Director of the company before moving to take on a number of non-executive director roles. She is Chairman of British Smaller Companies VCT plc and a non-executive director of WH Ireland Group plc, BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust plc and Octopus Future Generations VCT plc.