Board of Directors

Having read law at Oxford, Dominic went into the City in 1987 and spent 17 years working in the debt and equity corporate finance and advisory business, proprietary investment and trading in public and private equities and hedge fund investment, first at Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited in London and Tokyo and at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in London following Morgan Grenfell’s merger with Deutsche Bank. Dominic became a Managing Director in DMG’s Investment Banking Division specialising in the emerging markets of the Middle East, Africa and South America. In 1999 he established a highly successful equity special situations investment group ESSG which managed funds of over US$1 billion dollars for Deutsche and its institutional clients. In 2004 he co-founded Altima Partners LLP which took the funds of ESSG and built one of Europe’s largest and most successful hedge and private equity fund managers with over US$4.5 billion under management. At Altima Dominic specialised in the private equity branch of the business until he retired from the business in 2011. He immediately co-founded and co-managed Mandala Capital Limited, a leading Asian development capital company focusing on the Agribusiness sector which he built up to a business with nearly US$500 million under management until he sold his interest In that business in 2016. In his investment management capacity and for his own family office, Dominic has provided executive expertise and Board level leadership to a broad range of companies in sectors such as real estate investment and construction, development, building materials, agribusiness, healthcare and telecoms including positions on the boards of T-Mobile’s business in the Czech Republic, Telmex’s mobile subsidiary in Argentina and Kuwait Energy Corporation in the Middle East all of which were sold in some of the highest value private equity exits in their respective markets at that time.

A co-founder of Eco Buildings (with Etrur Albani), Dominic identified and developed the technology on which Eco Build’s GFRG building system is now based and conceived its use in providing high quality, environmentally sound affordable housing, particularly in developing markets.