Nigel is a chartered accountant whose career was in professional services. He was a partner with Arthur Andersen for 18 years and then with Deloitte's for 2 years, before retiring from practice in 2005. Since then he has been actively involved with the venture capital sector and made a number of investments in developing companies as a business angel.
He is a non-executive director of a number of public and private companies.
Peter Davenport is one of the most experienced media and public relations (PR) specialists in the country.
For 25 years he was a senior national journalist, first on the Daily Mail and then on The Times, including a period as its defence correspondent. During that time, he covered many of the major stories at home and abroad, as well as interviewing well-known personalities from the fields of sport, film, music, business, politics and the arts. Peter travelled with Pope John Paul on his historic pilgrimage to Ireland and worked extensively on overseas assignments in the USA, India, the Middle East, the Falklands and most major European countries.
Since moving into PR, Peter has built and sold several agencies. He has devised and delivered campaigns for major clients in both the public and private sectors as well as advising on crisis management issues surrounding some sensitive and high profile cases. He has also handled PR and media relations for major sponsors of global sporting events, including the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 and the British Steel Challenge Round the World Yacht Race in the 1990s.
Peter still writes for The Times.