Senior Advisor

Tamara is part of the Hanover Group Board and serves on the Investment Committee for Credit investments.

Tamara is a Partner at Reed Smith LLP where she is a leader in structured finance. Previously she was Managing Partner for EMEA for Reed Smith’s Structured Finance Team and Chair of the firm’s Financial Industry Group. 

Tamara is a recognised authority in the area of securitisation, having been regularly named a leading practitioner by each of the International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Structured Finance and Securitisation Lawyers, The Legal 500’s Legal Experts, Chambers’ UK Guide and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.

Tamara is a non-executive director, trustee and advisor to multiple organisations including Interpath Advisory, the Chartered Management Institute, gynaecological cancer charity Eve Appeal, children’s charity Theirworld, and is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the 30% Club. 

Senior Advisor

Sir Donald is part of the Hanover Group Board and serves on the Investment Committee for Private Equity investments.

Donald brings a wealth of experience gained on the boards of several listed companies across a wide range of sectors, as well as significant knowledge and understanding of the finance industry.

He currently serves as Chair of the technology businesses Tide, PrimaryBid and Adarga. He is a past Chairman and Chief Executive of both BZW Investment Management Ltd and AXA Investment Managers SA and was acting CEO of BZW. He was also Chairman of London Stock Exchange Group, the Sage Group, London Metal Exchange, Smiths Group plc, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc, Amersham plc, Royal Mail Group plc, and the London Institute of Banking & Finance.

Senior Advisor

Terri is part of the Hanover Group Board and serves on the Investment Committee for Credit investments.

Terri is an award-winning educator and a TEDx speaker. She is the Non-Executive Chair of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Ltd and is on the boards of Morgan Stanley International where she chairs the Risk Committee, Rathbones plc, a FTSE250 UK Wealth Manager, and Wise plc, a global fintech. She has a prominent role in education as an Associate Fellow at The Said Business School, is part of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee and is a motivational speaker for Speakers for Schools.

Terri started her career at JPMorgan where she joined from MIT as a derivatives trader. She was part of the team that pioneered the credit derivative market place, as documented in Gilian Tett's Fools Gold and on PBS Frontline.

Senior Advisor

Susan serves on the Investment Committee for Private Equity investments.

Susan is an entrepreneur in residence, corporate director, angel investor and executive educator. She began her career on Wall Street where she was a Partner of Capital Z Financial Services Partners, a $1.9B private equity fund focused on investing in financial services firms and an Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Susan has served on the board of seven publicly traded companies, and is a current director of RLI Corp. and Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.

After leaving Wall Street in 2003, Susan earned a Ph.D. in Management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management where her research focused on better understanding the factors contributing to the dearth of women in leadership positions.

Senior Advisor

Brett is part of the Hanover Group Board.

Brett was CEO of Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) in London, having sold his Wealth Management business, ACPI, to UBP in 2018. Brett joined ACPI as Managing Partner in 2007 and prior to that was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

Brett is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a B.Com and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town.

Senior Advisor

Michael serves on the Investment Committee for Private Equity investments.

Michael is the founder and principal of Sofaer Capital Inc. following its inception in 1986, as the first Asian-orientated hedge fund with offices in London, New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. Prior to this, Michael was a securities analyst with the Schroder Group in London before establishing the research department for Schroder Investment Management in Hong Kong, where he managed two unit trusts.

Michael has served on several company boards internationally and is an active investor in both private and public companies.