Alex Letts

After graduating from Oxford, Alex spent 15 years working in the international advertising sector. SMI Group which he founded in 1988 went on to become the largest business advertising agency in Europe, specialising in technology clients and pioneering web-based communications. SMI was bought by Groupe Publicis in 1997 where Alex served as Worldwide President and CEO of Publicis Technology.

Alex founded RI3K in May 2000 to build an electronic trading exchange for the insurance sector. In May 2007 a consortium led by Michael Spencer of ICAP and the hedge fund Eton Park took majority control of RI3K. RI3K employs about 70 staff and has a network of more than 270 companies trading on its service.

Alex is married with 4 children and lives in London.

Nick Campsie

Nick Campsie is responsible for Eton Park's private investments in Europe. Nick joined the firm in 2005 and is based in their London office. Prior to joining Eton Park, Nick worked at Terra Firma Capital Partners, a leading European private equity fund, where he was involved in completed investments with a transaction value exceeding £2 billion. Nick was focused on two main sectors, utilities and financials. Prior to Terra Firma, Nick worked at McKinsey & Company where he was focused on micro-economic analysis and projection in commodity sectors.

Nick graduated from Oxford University in 1996 with a First Class Honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He was awarded the Fitzgerald Prize in Politics and the George Webb Medley Prize in Economics.

Oliver Alexander Hemsley

Oliver Hemsley is Chief Executive Officer of Numis Securities, a quoted Investment banking and stockbroking business capitalised at more than £300m. Oliver started the company in the 1990's and has built it into one of the most profitable independent British stockbroking businesses. The company, which employs circa 150 people, has offices in London, New York and Kazakhstan, and intends to continue its international expansion in the future.

Oliver couples his commercial activities with a keen love of the countryside. He has an organic farm in West Dorset.

Both Numis and Oliver have a strong interest in renewable energy; Numis has the leading team of bankers in the sector in London and Oliver has installed both geothermal and woodchip heating systems at his house in Dorset, removing the need for fossil fuels.

Oliver is married with three children.

Robin Merttens

Robin was one of the original founders of RI3K in May 2000, and since that time, as the company's Chief Operating Officer, he has sat on the Board and Executive Committee.

His responsibility at RI3K is to ensure that all aspects of the company co-ordinate effectively to support the needs of the customers and the market in terms of quality of service and in design and development of RI3K's offering.

Since graduating with a Law Degree from St Catherine's College Cambridge, Robin has spent the majority of his career working in the insurance industry. As Group Solicitor at Lowndes Lambert, he held a key role in the MBO and subsequent IPO, and later worked on the £250m MBO of Heath Lambert. When he left Heath Lambert in May 2000 to help found RI3K, he was Managing Director of Heath Lambert Overseas.

Tom Binks

Tom Binks is a Director of IPGL, a privately held Investment Company.

Tom is a banker of many years experience, having been responsible for the derivatives activities of Manufacturers Hanover Limited, where in 1982 he transacted some of the earliest interest rate swaps, Standard Chartered and Bank of America from where he retired in 1999.

In 2000 Tom became Head of International of a start-up electronic broker for derivative products called ICor which was subsequently sold to Reuters where Tom remained in a senior relationship role until 2005 when he joined IPGL.

Kathy Lisson

Kathy Lisson is a Director of Brit Insurance Holdings PLC Board , having joined Brit Insurance as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Group's Executive Management Committee ("EMC") in September 2005.

From 2002 to 2005, Kathy was operational transformation director at Barclays PLC where she was responsible for major strategic investment programmes and operations redesign for the Barclays group of companies. She was also a director of Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited, the largest processor of cheques in the UK, from 2004 to 2005.

Kathy was an executive vice president of the Bank of Montreal from 1997 to 2002. She also spent a number of years at Price Waterhouse in Toronto as national partner of financial institution consulting. Her consultancy experience included transformational engagements within the general insurance sector. Additionally she was elected to the Price Waterhouse Policy Board which managed the Canadian practice.

Neil Eckert

Neil Eckert is Chief Executive of Climate Exchange Plc, an AIM listed company which owns the European Climate Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). ECX in a joint venture with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) trades EU ETS futures and currently trades in excess of 80% of EU volume. CCX is the only U.S. legally binding, voluntary exchange trading carbon permits and sulphur futures.

Neil is Chairman of Trading Emissions Plc, an AIM listed company which is one of the world's leading funds investing in emission reduction permits. He is also Chairman of Econergy, an AIM listed company investing in South American renewable energy projects.

Neil is on the Board of the Isle of Man Assurance Company, Ebix Inc, an insurance based software company traded on NASDAQ, and the Environmental Credit Corporation, a U.S. company dedicated to securing CO2 permits from U.S. agricultural business.

Until April 2005, Neil was Chief Executive of Brit Insurance Holdings PLC which is a UK and International insurance and reinsurance company. Neil founded the company in 1995 as an Investment Trust listed on the London Stock Exchange. There followed a sustained period of corporate activity which resulted in the company being re-listed as a publicly quoted insurance company in 1999. Following the tragic events of September 2001, which severely impacted the company, Brit undertook two major fund raisings totalling some £350 million. Brit moved into the FTSE 250 in September 2002. Neil now serves Brit as a Non Executive Director.

Neil is also Chairman of Design Technology & Innovation Limited, a patenting and intellectual property company.