Management Board

Michael Lafferty, co-chairman, is chairman of Lafferty Group, an international research and publishing house with a world-wide clientele. He founded Lafferty Group in 1981 when he left the Financial Times, where he was responsible for banking coverage. He worked on the LEX team and the City Desk and was accountancy correspondent. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Lafferty Group occupies a pre-eminent position in global retail banking, cards and payments, and wealth management – providing financial services groups with research, intelligence, conferences and councils. For more information, please visit their website: http://www.lafferty.com

David Marsh, co-chairman, is Senior Advisor to London-based asset management company Soditic CBIP LLP and chairman of the advisory board of independent investment bank London & Oxford Capital Markets. He is also chairman of management consultancy SCCO International. Previously he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint and German management consultancy Droege. He worked for the Financial Times between 1978 and 1995, including in France and Germany, becoming European editor.

Marsh is a board member of Henderson Eurotrust, British Chamber of Commerce in Germany and  Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs, deputy chairman of German-British Forum, advisory board member of Centre for European Reform and honorary professor at the University of Birmingham. He was made Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and was awarded the German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2003.