Graham Paterson

Graham joined the Board on 15 October 2019 and was appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee on 11 June 2020. He is an investment and financial services professional with over 25 years' experience in the private equity industry. A Chartered Accountant Graham was one of the founding partners of SL Capital Partners LLP (formerly Standard Life Investments (Private Equity) Ltd), where he was a partner and board member until 2010. During his 13 years at SL Capital, he was one of the managers of Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc and was a member of the advisory boards to a number of leading private equity fund managers. In 2013, Graham co-founded TopQ Software Ltd which was acquired by eVestment Inc (now part of NASDAQ Inc) in 2015. Graham is a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc, The Income & Growth VCT plc, Diaceutics plc and HgCapital Trust plc. He is also non-executive chairman of Datactics Limited.