Mark Greaves – Shareholder & Director

Mark C. Greaves graduated with an MA in Economics from Cambridge University in 1977 and joined N.M Rothschild & Sons Limited, spending the next 25 years with Rothschilds in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He was appointed Managing Director in 1994 at the age of just 37, and assumed overall management responsibility for all the group’s businesses in Asia, covering investment banking, treasury, private equity and related activities.

In 2002, he left Rothschild to set up Anglo FarEast Group, an advisory and consulting business specializing in transactions involving Asia and the United Kingdom. During this time Mark worked on various confidential assignments for major listed companies and investment groups in Asia and the United Kingdom. These included Hanson Capital Limited, the London-based finance house established by Lord Hanson, the founder of Hanson Trust plc and one of the UK’s most influential businessmen of the past 40 years. This led to his appointment as Chief Executive of Hanson Capital In December 2004 with the primary objective of further developing the firm’s business in Asia.

Mark, who is a member of the Institute of Directors in London, is registered with the Financial Services Authority of the U.K. and was for many years a Council Member of the Singapore Investment Banking Association. In addition to his role with Hanson Capital, he is an independent non-executive director of Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Limited, China’s largest electrical and electronics retail group which is listed in Hong Kong with a market capitalization of some US$1.5 billion.

Mark was born in Belgium, educated in the U.K. and has now lived in the Far East for over 25 years. He divides his time between Asia and Europe, keeping homes in Singapore (where he has Permanent Resident status) and London.

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