The company retains Tim McCarthy as a special advisor. He is a graduate of Cambridge University in the UK and has an MBA from Cass Business School, City, University of London.

Tim has over 35 years’ experience as an investment banker, stockbroker for Japan and South East Asia, corporate finance specialist and entrepreneur. Previously he worked in the City of London from 1979-93 with Morgan Grenfell & Co, Bank of America International Limited , WI Carr, Swiss Bank Corporation and was a director of Asia Equity a South East Asian brokerage which subsequently merged with Banque Paribas.

He has been on the boards of public and private companies, most notably as a director of Victory Corporation plc, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin branded cosmetics and clothing company and his record label V2 Music Holdings plc. He has also been a director of a major private property group in Delhi, India - Sweta Estates Pvt. Ltd.