Our Team
Ben Ashby
Partner
Ben has had a distinguished career at two of the world's largest investment banks, J.P.Morgan & HSBC. He has extensive experience dealing with troubled asset portfolios, including complex credit portfolios at JP Morgan and Sovereign/Emerging Markets. Ben sits on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Financial History at the University of Cambridge and he Co-heads of the CFA UK's working group on the 'Future of Money'.
Ben@GoodGovCap.com
Calvin Man
Partner
Calvin is a finance professional and business leader with over 20 years of experience in M&A advisory and corporate and investment banking. Previously with HSBC in London and China, he was Head of Multinationals Corporate Banking and Executive Committee member for HSBC China, He started his professional life as an Officer in the British Army, serving on operations in Iraq.
Calvin is a Governor of a boarding school in Surrey and a former Trustee of Combat Stress, the UK’s leading military veterans mental health charity.
John Purcell
Partner
John joined Collett Dickinson Pearce (now part of Dentsu) as a grad trainee going on to become a strategic planner. He then went to Oxford for his MBA, joining PA Consulting, upon graduation, as Principal Consultant in the strategy & marketing practice. He subsequently joined J Sainsbury plc as a senior risk manager.
In 2003 he co-founded Purcell & Co, an international advisory firm assisting clients with governance, succession, public affairs and corporate facilitation.
Priya Nair
Senior Advisor
Priya is Senior Investment Director at Abrdn Infrastructure. Previously she was a senior MD with RBC working across Private Capital and Capital Markets, MD and Head of Origination, Structuring and Syndication of Structured Credit at Citi. Priya began her career in the graduate training programme of Deutsche Bank.
She is a Board Trustee of the multi-sport charity Sported and a Non-Executive Director of Heylo Housing Group.
Gerard Fox
Senior Advisor
Gerard Fox is a Consultant at Good Governance Capital. He is a Director of the Regulatory Policy Institute. He Chairs the East Sussex Pension Fund Committee and has steered major changes to the Fund seeking to better align it with the challenges and opportunities associated with the Energy Transition.
A member of the Corporate Programme Advisory Group for the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), he is a Chapter Zero member. He is a former Managing Director at Credit Suisse.
Alex White
Senior Advisor
Alex is a Partner at Flint Global, a leading strategic consulting firm. Previously he was MD at the Economist Intelligence Unit. From 2007-10 he was Head of Investment Banking at HM Treasury where he helped lead the UK's response to investment bank failures during the financial crisis. He designed and instituted the investment bank resolution regime for the UK and contributed to the London G20. Additionally he helped establish the Financial Stability board.
Previously he was Chief Political Analyst at JP Morgan. Alex holds an MA in Modern History & Politics from Oxford University.