Iain has some 20 years experience in corporate finance and investment, gained with Lazard Brothers, Robert Fleming and Fleming Family & Partners. More recently he has been involved as a director and shareholder of a range of emerging and established businesses. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1981.

After several years in investment banking in London, from 1995 to 2000 he was based in Johannesburg and was responsible for building and managing Flemings’ investment banking presence in Southern Africa. He returned to London in 2000 to join Fleming Family & Partners, the new Fleming family investment business, on its establishment in that year and until 2005 held various senior executive and advisory positions in this group.

Since 2005 Iain has focused on a range of interests, including his appointment as Director of Strategy at Good Governance Group, the independent strategic consultancy, and on his roles as Non-executive Director of Dana Petroleum plc and of Sindicatum Carbon Capital Limited. He is also Chairman of Tusk Trust, the leading UK-based charity focused on conservation in Africa, and is a Trustee of the Ackroyd Trust.