Ashmore Group Board of Directors
Clive Adamson
Non-executive Chairman
Appointed to the Board: October 2015
Appointed as Chairman: April 2022
Skills, experience and contribution:
Clive Adamson has enjoyed a career in financial services for over 40 years, spanning executive roles in banking and regulation and Non-executive Director roles, including Board and Committee Chair positions, across wholesale and retail banking, insurance and asset management.
Other roles past and present:
Clive spent 20 years in wholesale banking, holding senior positions with Citigroup and Bank of America. He moved into regulation as an adviser at the Bank of England before joining the newly formed Financial Services Authority and then the FCA upon formation where he was Director of Supervision and an Executive Member of the Board. Clive was a Non-executive Director of Virgin Money plc and a Senior Adviser at McKinsey & Company. He is currently Chair of J.P. Morgan Europe Ltd and its Nominations Committee (the Chase UK digital consumer bank), a Non-executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of J.P. Morgan Securities plc, and Chair of Nutmeg Saving and Investment Ltd. He is a Non-executive Director and Chair of the Risk Committee of both M&G plc and Prudential Assurance Company Limited. Clive holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University.
Committee memberships: Nominations, Remuneration
Mark Coombs
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed to the Board: December 1998
Skills, experience and contribution:
Mark Coombs founded the business which became Ashmore in 1992 and has overseen its successful growth for over 30 years.
Other roles past and present:
Mark was appointed a Director on the incorporation of the Company and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since then. He held a number of positions at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and led Ashmore’s buyout from ANZ in early 1999. He is currently Co-Chair of EMTA, the trade association for Emerging Markets, having been on the Board since 1993. Mark has an MA in Law from Cambridge University.
Tom Shippey
Group Finance Director
Appointed to the Board: November 2013
Skills, experience and contribution:
Tom Shippey is a chartered accountant with extensive experience in investment management, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and financial and regulatory reporting.
Other roles past and present:
Tom was appointed to the Board as Group Finance Director in November 2013. Prior to joining Ashmore in 2007, he worked for UBS Investment Bank, including advising on the Ashmore IPO in 2006. He is currently a Trustee of Resurgo Trust. Tom qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999 and is a Fellow of the ICAEW. He has a BSc in International Business and German from Aston University.
Helen Beck
Non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: June 2021
Skills, experience and contribution:
Helen Beck is a commercial international adviser with significant experience in advising boards on remuneration and human resources. She has a strong executive track record in building and growing client centric businesses with extensive financial services experience across a broad range of asset management firms and banks.
Other roles past and present:
Helen was formerly a Partner and Head of Financial services remuneration practice at Deloitte LLP. Prior to joining Deloitte, she held a number of senior executive appointments in human resources, remuneration and consultancy, including at Standard Bank, McLagan Partners and Fidelity Asia-Hong Kong. Helen is currently a Non-executive Director of Funding Circle Holdings plc and Chair of its Remuneration Committee, an Independent Governor of University of Bedfordshire, and an Independent Member of the Remuneration Committee for the British Olympic Association. She was previously a Non-executive Director of Irwin Mitchell Holdings Limited. Helen holds a BA(Hons) in Social Administration from the University of Nottingham, is a Member of the Institute of Personnel Development and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management.
Committee memberships: Audit and Risk, Nominations, Remuneration
Jennifer Bingham
Senior Independent Director
Appointed to the Board: June 2018
Skills, experience and contribution:
Jennifer Bingham has in-depth experience in investment oversight of the investment portfolios of family offices and charitable foundations and in her previous executive role in the Emerging Markets fund management business.
Other roles past and present:
Jennifer is an accountant and between 1992 and 2003 she was a senior executive of Brunswick Capital Management Limited, an investment manager specialising in the Russian equity market. During this period she variously held the offices of Chief Executive, Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer. Since 2003 Jennifer has held finance, administration and investment oversight roles with investment company PCHB Limited (part of the Cundill group of companies). She is currently an Executive Director of FPC Philanthropies Ltd (the Peter Cundill Foundation) and sits on the investment committee of PCHB Limited. Jennifer is also an Executive Director of Valley Management (UK) Limited, an Executive Director of Stichting Pamina, a Dutch Charitable Foundation, and a Trustee of The Ashmore Foundation.
Committee memberships: Audit and Risk, Nominations, Remuneration
Shirley Garrood
Non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: August 2022
Skills, experience and contribution:
Shirley Garrood has extensive financial services experience built up over many years with a focus on operations, finance and risk matters within financial services and investment management.
Other roles past and present:
Shirley was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Henderson Group plc and, since finishing her executive career, has held roles at esure Group plc as Deputy Chair, Chair of the Audit Committee and Senior Independent Director; and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committees and Senior Independent Director of Hargreaves Lansdown plc. She also served as a governor of the Peabody Trust housing association; a Non-executive Director of Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, and Chair of Royal London Asset Management Holdings Limited and Royal London Asset Management Limited, also chairing their Risk and Capital Committee; and a Non-executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the BBC. Shirley is currently an Independent Non-executive and Chair of Deloitte LLP’s Audit Governance Board, providing oversight of the external audit and assurance business only. She is also Chair of Dignity Group Holdings Limited and Chair of the Audit Committee. Shirley holds a B.Sc in Economics and Accounting from the University of Bristol and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer.
Committee memberships: Audit and Risk, Nominations, Remuneration
Thuy Dam
Non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: June 2023
Skills, experience and contribution:
Thuy Dam has extensive investment and banking knowledge and has a thorough understanding of the complexity of Emerging Markets, particularly in Asia.
Other roles past and present:
Thuy began her career as an entrepreneur, co-founding Vietnam’s first private foreign investment consultancy firm. She then joined ANZ, helping to set up ANZ’s banking business in Asia and becoming the first Vietnamese citizen to lead an international bank in Vietnam. Thuy was ANZ’s Vice Chairwoman to the Greater Mekong region prior to joining the National Australia Bank as its Chief Representative in Vietnam. She has previously served as a Non-executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Ltd and was the President of the Fulbright University Vietnam. Thuy is a Non-executive Director of Thien Minh Group Limited, TASCO JSC and EQuest Education Group. Thuy holds a BA in English from the University of Hanoi and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Committee memberships: Audit and Risk, Nominations, Remuneration
(Bold denotes committee Chairman)