Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Jobs for the same old boys on the same old boards

THEY are weel-kent faces with safe hands trusted to firmly advise and guide enterprise. But as those same faces crop up again and again at the top companies in the UK, you have to ask the question, are they the only ones out there?

Regard the familiar phizog of Martin Gilbert, who, as well as a busy day job running one of the biggest independent asset managers in Europe – Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) – has a host of other big roles.

These include being the chairman of bus and train giant FirstGroup, and, for his sins, a director of Aberdeen Football Club.

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