Murray Income Trust PLC

Neil was appointed a Director on 26 November 2013 and became Chairman on 6 November 2017.

He is former Head of the Global Equities Team at both Gartmore and Henderson and former Head of International Equities, as well as a former member of the Investment Division Executive Committee, at Gartmore. He has previously managed Fleming Far Eastern Investment Trust and, while at Touche Remnant, he worked on TR Pacific Basin Investment Trust, TR Technology Trust and Bankers Investment Trust.

Donald Cameron was appointed a Director in September 2012. He qualified at the Bar of England and Wales in 2002. Having transferred to the Faculty of Advocates, he was called to the Scottish Bar in 2005, and now practises as an Advocate in Scotland. He is a non-executive director of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust plc.

Stephanie was appointed a Director on 2 August 2018. Just prior to this she retired from being Head of Specialist Funds Company Secretariat and Accounts at Invesco Perpetual, where she had worked since 1996 specialising in the asset management industry with particular focus on investment trusts. Her career spans over 30 years working in financial services including roles at UBS, Wardley Investment Services International and KPMG. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a member of the Technical Committee of the Association of Investment Companies.

Alan Giles was appointed a Director on 17 November 2020 after serving as a director of Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust plc from November 2015. He is Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the remuneration committee of Foxtons Group plc, Chairman of The Remuneration Consultants Group, an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and an honorary visiting professor at The Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London. He was formerly Chairman of Fat Face Group Limited, Chief Executive of HMV Group plc, Managing Director of Waterstones, and an executive director of WH Smith plc. He previously held non-executive directorships at The Competition & Markets Authority, Rentokil Initial plc, The Office of Fair Trading, Somerfield plc and Wilson Bowden Plc.

Appointed a Director in July 2012 and Senior Independent Director in November 2018, Jean is an independent non-executive director of Admiral Group plc and NHBC. She was formerly Group Chief Risk Officer at Phoenix Group until June 2013 and previously Risk Management Director of the Insurance and Investments Division of Lloyds TSB and Head of Compliance and Audit at Scottish Widows.

Merryn Somerset Webb was appointed as a Director on 7 August 2019. She is the Editor-in-Chief of UK personal finance magazine Money Week and comments regularly on financial matters across radio and television. She brings a wealth of investment trust experience as well as a particular knowledge of, and interest in, developing the links between investment trusts and their current and potential retail investor base.

Peter was appointed as a Director in November 2017, having recently retired from the Nestlé Group where he was initially Head of Investments for the Nestlé UK Pension Fund and then CEO & CIO of Nestlé Capital Management. Prior to Nestlé he worked for many years in the investment management industry managing portfolios for investment trusts, pension funds and charitable foundations.

During that time he was a Managing Director at BlackRock International and, before that, a Director of Dunedin Fund Managers and a portfolio analyst at Scottish Widows Life Assurance Fund. Prior to working as an investment manager, Peter worked for five years as an economist in the agricultural industry.