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Board of Directors |
Talmai Morgan | John P. Buser | Peter J. Von Lehe | John E. Hallam | Christopher Sherwell
Talmai Morgan
Chairman (Guernsey)
Talmai Morgan qualified as a barrister in the United Kingdom in 1976. He moved to Guernsey in 1988
where he worked for Barings as general counsel and then for the Bank of Bermuda as managing director
of Bermuda Trust (Guernsey) Limited. From January 1999 to June 2004, Mr. Morgan was director of
Fiduciary Services and Enforcement at the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (Guernsey’s
financial regulatory agency) where he was responsible for the design and subsequent implementation
of Guernsey’s law relating to the regulation of fiduciaries, administration businesses and company
directors. Mr. Morgan was also involved in working groups of the Financial Action Task Force and the
Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors. From July 2004 to May 2005, Mr. Morgan served as chief
executive of Guernsey Finance, which is the official body for the promotion of the Guernsey finance
industry. Mr. Morgan is now the Chairman or a non-executive director of a number of
investment-companies including companies listed on the LSE. He holds an M.A. in economics and law
from University of Cambridge.
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John P. Buser
Director (Dallas)
John P. Buser is Global Head of Private Equity Fund of Funds for NB Alternatives and a Managing
Director of NBG. He is also a member of the Investment Committee, the NB Alternatives
Co-investment Investment Committee and the NB Alternatives Secondary Investment Committee.
Before joining NB Alternatives in 1999, Mr. Buser was a partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., where he had extensive experience in the practice of domestic and
international income taxation during his 17 year tenure. Mr. Buser was admitted to the State Bar of
Texas in 1982 after receiving his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to attending law school,
Mr. Buser graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in accounting from Kansas State University and
became certified by the Missouri State Board of Accountancy
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Peter J. Von Lehe
Director (New York)
Peter J. Von Lehe is a Managing Director of NBG and a member of the Investment Committee.
Previously, Mr. Von Lehe was a Managing Director and Deputy Head of the Private Equity Fund of
Funds unit of Swiss Reinsurance Company. At Swiss Re, Mr. Von Lehe was responsible for investment
analysis and product structuring and worked in both New York and Zurich. Before that, he was an
attorney with the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York focusing on corporate finance
and private equity transactions. He began his career as a financial analyst for a utility company, where
he was responsible for econometric modelling. Mr. Von Lehe has served on the advisory committees of
a number of private equity funds in the United States and Europe. Mr. Von Lehe received a B.S. with
Honors in Economics from the University of Iowa and a J.D. with High Distinction, from the University
of Iowa College of Law. He is a member of the New York Bar.
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John E. Hallam
Director (Guernsey)
John E. Hallam is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and qualified
as an accountant in 1971. Previously, Mr. Hallam was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and retired
in 1999 after 27 years with the firm in Guernsey and in other countries. Mr. Hallam is currently
chairman of Cazenove Absolute Equity Ltd, EFG Private Bank (Channel Islands) Ltd, Partners Group
Global Opportunities Ltd and Prodesse Investment Ltd. He is also a director of a number of other
financial services companies, some of which are listed on the LSE. Mr. Hallam served for many years
as a member and latterly chairman of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, from which he
retired in 2006.
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Christopher Sherwell
Director (Guernsey)
Christopher Sherwell is a non-executive director of a number of investment-related companies.
Mr. Sherwell was managing director of Schroders (C.I.) Limited from April 2000 to January 2004. He
remained a non-executive director of Schroders (C.I.) Limited until he stepped down at the end of
December 2008. His other directorships include chairmanship of Goldman Sachs Dynamic
Opportunities Limited, a fund of hedge funds, and of the Hermes Commodities Umbrella Fund. Before
joining Schroders in 1993, he worked as Far East regional strategist with Smith New Court Securities
in London and then in Hong Kong. Mr. Sherwell was previously a journalist, working for the Financial
Times. Mr. Sherwell received a B.Sc. (Gen) from the University of London in 1968, an M.A. from the
University of Oxford in 1971 and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1973.
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