Meet the Board

Robert Chartener OBE - President

Robert Chartener has served as chairman, CEO, or CFO of several companies in the business services and consumer products sectors. He is chairman of Human Touch LLC, the leading US provider of massage chairs and other innovative wellness products and experiences. Until recently, he was CEO of Foundation Source, the nation’s largest provider of comprehensive services for private foundations. He was previously in private equity as a co-founder of Winslow Partners, based in Washington, D.C. and Prague, and as a managing partner of an investment fund affiliated with J. H. Whitney & Co.  From 1985 to 1995, he worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. in London and New York. 

Robert currently serves on several for-profit and non-profit boards, including The Hotchkiss School, Cardigan Mountain School, The Magdalene College Foundation, and The Whitehead Foundation, and he is on the finance committee of Washington National Cathedral.  He is a fellow commoner of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Tom Barry - Director

Tom Barry has thirty years’ experience in for-profit and not-for profit entities in Africa. He is Founder and Chair of Zephyr Management, LP, where he formed the first private equity fund in South Africa after the election of Nelson Mandela, and the first private equity fund in Nigeria after the transition to civilian government. Today, Zephyr Management is active in venture capital in East Africa.

Tom is passionate about economic development in emerging countries, particularly in Africa, and believes in supporting “bottom up” local solutions, aligned to local cultures and economic patterns.

Tom is a Director of several not-for-profit entities committed to economic development and active in Africa, including Technoserve and Accion. In addition to Egmont US Foundation, Tom is a Trustee of Kucetekela Foundation which supports education in Zambia as well as several educational institutions in the USA.

Tom is a graduate of Yale University and received an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Jeremy Evans - Director

Jeremy Evans is Senior Partner of Redburn (Europe) Limited, the parent company of Redburn (USA) LLC. Previously, Jeremy was Head of UK and European Equities at Flemings. Following the acquisition of Flemings by JP Morgan Chase in 2000, Jeremy was appointed Managing Director of JP Morgan and Joint Chief Executive of Robert Fleming & Co.

Jeremy is a graduate of Cambridge University. 

Robert Jaffee - Director

Biography to follow.

William Bristowe - Director

Biography to follow.