Donald Macpherson has more than 50 years’ experience in the financial services sector, and has been the chairman or non-executive director of many companies, including for example Fuller Smith & Turner, Homestyle, M&G Investment Trusts, MARS Asset Management and MITIE Group. He spent a large part of his career in what was to become the international investment banking arm of the NatWest Group, as Deputy Chairman of NatWest Markets and Chairman of NatWest Corporate Finance, which subsequently became Hawkpoint Partners.