Directors of IDJ

John Incledon

Chairman, is one of the three founders of IDJ. After military service as an RAF pilot and training as an engineer, John Incledon obtained a Master in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. He spent 4 years based in New York working in management consultancy with a predecessor firm to Ernst & Young, prior to becoming a founding director of the venture capital affiliate of N M Rothschild & Sons in 1969. He has served as a director of listed and privately held companies in the United States of America and in Europe for over 30 years. He is a member of the Deans Council of Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government.

John Folliott Vaughan

Director, has worked in the City of London since leaving Oxford in 1979 with a first class honours degree in Modern History. He spent 18 years at Kleinwort Benson, principally in project finance and corporate finance, mainly advising large public and overseas companies, before joining Albert E Sharp (now Arbuthnot Securities) to become head of corporate finance and a member of the management board. He focussed on smaller UK listed companies. He has a number of executive and non-executive directorships, including RockTron Limited and remains a trustee of The Hospital Management Trust.

Christopher Horspool

Director, has been a solicitor since 1963. Christopher Horspool has specialised in commercial law particularly in the fields of finance and intellectual property. He has, for many years, acted for substantial clients in the pharmaceutical industry and the banking sector. He is a director on a number of UK Boards, particularly in the financial sector.

David Bolton

Director, is a practising solicitor with over 35 years City experience in corporate and commercial legal practice gained with Herbert Smith and other well-known City firms. David has acted for both companies and sponsors in numerous corporate finance transactions, including IPOs, secondary issues, public and private company mergers and acquisitions, and government privatisations. David now has his own independent law practice, David Bolton & Associates. He is also non-executive chairman of Cosalt Plc.