Yves Bonavero
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Yves Bonavero – chairmanYves was born and educated in Paris. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy and German, as well as an MA, from Oxford University. Yves started his business career in commodities at ED&F Man, becoming Group Chief Executive Officer in 1987, aged 34. He retired from the City in his late thirties, and has since held a number of non-executive directorships in companies ranging from hedge fund managers in Asia to commercial property investment in the UK and food processing in Spain. Yves was a founder director of Kensington Group Plc, a start-up mortgage bank, which was successfully floated on the LSE in November 2000. In 1996 Yves helped create two major Polish businesses – Dom Development, which currently develops approximately 1,500 homes a year in Warsaw and Europa Park, the country’s premier logistics and distribution centre. Yves is currently a member of Woodsford Litigation Funding‘s investment advisory panel. Yves is also a trustee of The Brain Research Trust, which funds neurological research at London’s Institute of Neurology. He also established and helps manage the AB Charitable Trust. The Trust’s aims are the defence and promotion of human dignity and it has made grants of some £3.5m to date. Yves published his first novel – ‘Something in the Sea’ – with Bloomsbury in 2006. His second is (long) in the pipeline. |