Nicholas is a Chartered Accountant by training and has spent almost his entire working life in various aspects of investment banking, specialising in the Asian markets. In his early career he worked for a number of leading City institutions and joined Robert Fleming Securities initially as head of Asian Securities in London and then moved to Hong Kong to establish a corporate broking division for Jardine Fleming, subsequently taken over by JPMorgan, where he remained as Managing Director. In 2003 he co-founded KGR Capital Partners, a Hong Kong based Asian hedge fund of funds registered with the Securities and Futures Commission. Since that time, he has become a non-executive director of a number of diversified businesses ranging from telecommunications, investment management, hotels to age care. He continues to travel widely throughout Asia, where he has built up an impressive network of contacts.