David Pinckney

David Pinckney retired as Vice Chairman of AXA Investment Group in December 2003. He was formally senior Audit Partner for the investment management arm of the AXA Group, an ex-senior audit partner for France and French speaking Africa with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG). He was Managing Director of Wrightson Wood Financial Services Limited, Joint Managing Director of Thornton Management Limited (a subsidiary of Dresdner Bank) and was chairman of the AIM-quoted Park Row Group plc. He is a Director of Close Brothers Development VCT plc, and he is Chairman of Syndicate Asset Management Plc and Chairman of Rutley European Property Ltd.