Corporate Finance Advisory Board

The Corporate Finance Advisory Board consists of eight advisers, each with a specific industrial sector knowledge, all working with relevant advisory and industry sector teams.

Their broad business knowledge gives them a unique ability to advise PwC across the whole range of our business activities. It adds depth to our industry capabilities whilst at the same time broadening our contact base. Their function is fourfold:

• To add real industry perspectives to our client assignments - adding value to our clients
• To network with other members of the Board, and across the whole of PwC, to bring the full range of our expertise and services to bear for the benefit of our clients
• To advise on new business targeting plans
• To work with PwC on our approach to target companies.

Chairman and current members

  Roger Freeman - Chairman of the Board

Chairman - Cambridge University Venture
Board Adviser - ID-DAS Ltd
Non Executive Chairman - Metalysis Ltd
Adviser - RP&C (real estate)
Chairman UK and Group Director in France - Thales

  Gavin Casey - Deputy Chairman of the Board

Chairman - Corporate Synergy Plc
Chairman - Knowledge Technology Solutions Plc
Chairman - EDM Group Ltd
Director - Lawrence Plc
Director - Tellings Golden Miller Group Plc
Director - Abingdon Capital Plc
Previously CEO - London Stock Exchange Plc

  Marion Sears

Non Executive Director - Dunelm Group Ltd
Previously Non Executive Director - LGC (Holdings) Ltd
Previously MD - JP Morgan
Previously Director - Robert Fleming

  Mike Kirwan

Non Executive Director (Trustee) - National Museums of Scotland
Previously Exec Director - British Energy Plc
Previously FD - Nuclear Electric Plc
Previously Partner - Deloitte Haskins & Sells

  Sir Martin Laing CBE

President Non Exec - John Laing plc
Chairman - NHP plc
Non Executive Director - Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc USA
Non Executive Director - Eskmuir Properties Ltd

  Mike Brooke

Director - Imprimatur Capital Ltd
Director - Maxima Holdings Plc
Director - Prelude Investment Trust Plc
Director - Quester VCT3 Plc
Director - Interquad Group Ltd
Chairman - Kinetic Solutions Ltd

  Sir Nick Montagu

Non Executive Director - Investors in People
Adviser (virtual) - Networth Services Inc
Previously Chairman - Board of Inland Revenue

  Mark Sirower

Visiting Professor - New York University, Stern School
Former Global M&A Practice Leader - The Boston Consulting Group
Former Wharton Professor
Author 'The Synergy Trap: How Companies Lose the Acquisition Game'
PwC M&A Strategy Practice Leader, USA