Janus Henderson Announces Appointment of Alison Davis to Board of Directors
February 16 2021 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
Janus Henderson Group plc (NYSE/ASX: JHG, ‘Janus Henderson’,
‘the Company’) announces the appointment of Alison Davis as an
Independent Non-Executive Director, effective today. Ms Davis will
serve as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee, Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee and Risk Committee.
Ms Davis, who is based in the US, brings to the Board extensive
financial leadership experience as a corporate executive and years
of consulting experience as a strategic advisor. In addition, she
has significant governance experience having served on boards of
directors of both public and private companies. She is an active
investor in growth companies and a best-selling author on the
topics of technology and innovation.
The Company’s Chairman, Mr Richard Gillingwater, said: “We are
pleased to welcome Alison to the Board and look forward to
benefitting from her strong insights and unique perspectives.
Throughout her career, Alison has been a trusted advisor to firms
in financial services, as well as held leadership roles as a
corporate executive and as a board director for US and global
companies. Her broad industry knowledge, experience as an investor
and expertise in technology and innovation will complement the
Board’s existing mix of skills and experience.”
Ms Davis’ appointment brings the Company's total number of
directors to ten, nine of whom are Independent Non-Executive
Directors.
About Alison Davis
Ms Davis is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era
Financial LLC, which invests in and incubates early stage
technology enabled companies. From 2004 to 2010, she was the
Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital, a regulated bank holding
company and private equity firm focused on investing in US banks
and financial services firms. From 2000 to 2003, Ms Davis was Chief
Financial Officer of Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), the
world’s largest institutional investment firm with more than US$1.5
trillion of assets under management. Earlier in her career, Ms
Davis spent 14 years as a strategy consultant and advisor to
Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey &
Company, and as a practice leader with A.T. Kearney where she built
and led the global Financial Services Practice.
She is currently a Non-Executive Director on two public company
boards: SVB Financial Group, Inc., the parent company of Silicon
Valley Bank, and Fiserv, Inc., a payments and financial technology
company. She also serves on the board of privately held data
intelligence company Collibra, Inc. as Chair of its Audit
Committee. In addition, Ms Davis serves as Chair of the Advisory
Board for Blockchain Capital, a venture firm in the blockchain
industry and is an advisor to Bitwise, a cryptocurrency asset
manager. Ms Davis received a BA Honours and a Master’s in Economics
from Cambridge University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
About Janus Henderson
Janus Henderson Group is a leading global active asset manager
dedicated to helping investors achieve long-term financial goals
through a broad range of investment solutions, including equities,
fixed income, quantitative equities, multi-asset and alternative
asset class strategies.
At 31 December 2020, Janus Henderson had approximately US$402
billion in assets under management, more than 2,000 employees, and
offices in 26 cities worldwide. Headquartered in London, the
company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
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