Andrew H. Longhurst

Santander UK Plc provides banking services. It offers a range of personal and commercial financial products and services. The company operates through the following segments: Retail Banking, Corporate & Commercial Banking, Corporate & Investment Banking and Corporate Centre. The Retail Banking segment offers products and financial services to individuals and small businesses through a network of branches and ATMs, as well as through telephony, digital and intermediary channels. The Corporate & Commercial Banking segment offers products and financial services provided by relationship teams that are based in a network of regional CBCs and through telephony and digital channels. The Corporate & Investment Banking segment provides clients with products to manage currency fluctuations, protect against interest rate risk, and arrange capital markets finance and specialist trade finance solutions. The Corporate Centre segment is responsible for managing capital and funding, balance sheet composition, structure, pension and strategic liquidity risk. The company was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

United Assurance Group Plc provides financial services. The firm provides underwriting of the main classes of life assurance business and property insurance in the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Wilmslow, UK.

Hermes Focus Asset Management Ltd. (HFAM) is the asset management subsidiary of RWC Focus Asset Management Ltd.., itself a subsidiary of RWC Partners Ltd. in Great Britain. The Hermes group originated as the investment management team of the Post Office Staff Superannuation Fund, and was formally established in 1983 when the fund split into the Post Office and British Telecommunication Staff Superannuation Schemes. In 1995 the Hermes group became a wholly-owned subsidiary of their largest client BT and HFAM was established in 1998. Located in London, the firm provides investment management services to institutional clients, primarily in Great Britain. They manage shareholder engagement funds and have established a strategic alliance with US-based Relational Investors. They also manage a Japanese shareholder engagement fund jointly with Japan-based Nissay Asset Management Corp.