Peter SlaterChairman
Peter is currently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of CLS Group Holdings and Chief Executive Officer of CLS Services Limited. Prior to joining CLS he spent five years in various roles at Deutsche Bank including Managing Director, Global Cross Product Operations and Head of Global Management Services within the Investment Banking Operations and Technology Division.
Peter has a degree in Business Studies and is a Chartered Accountant. He qualified with Deloitte, Haskins and Sells and then moved to PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong for three years where he developed a passion for Asia. He has extensive experience within the financial services industry having spent seven years with the HSBC Group and seven years at UBS where he had various senior operations and risk roles at both regional and global level before joining Deutsche Bank.
Peter’s other passion is the education of disadvantaged children. He has been the Chairman of the Indochina Starfish Foundation since its creation in 2006 and has visited Cambodia 4-5 times every year since. In addition, Peter is the Chairman of Springboard for Children, a UK based educational charity helping disadvantaged children with literacy difficulties in UK’s inner cities.
Mark Ashall Mark is currently a director of Indochina Assets Limited, which owns and operates a number of hotels, bars and restaurants in Cambodia including the FCC in Phnom Penh and employs over 300 staff. He is also a director of his family property company, Ashall Plc. Previously he worked for the Swire Group in Hong Kong and other locations fulfilling a series of general management roles in the Group’s industries and aviation divisions.
Mark is married with two children of the same age as those in the ISF’s education and football programmes and is committed to help ISF provide some Cambodian children with the educational and sporting opportunities that his and other children take for granted in the developed world.
Leo BroganLeo Brogan began working in the accountancy profession in 1975 and has worked in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. He provides a range of specialist advice to his clients, especially in the areas of private client work using company and trust structures, where he can provide both financial and managerial advice.
Leo has an array of professional and industry qualifications including a Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Laws, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, as well as a Registered Company Auditor.
Leo is married with two children who both love their football!
As Chairman of the ISF Football Committee, Leo oversees the development and running of the football sponsorship programme which currently (2010) provides weekly training to 2,500 children (from 23 non-government organisations), run annual boys and girls tournaments and now a weekly football league.
He acts as trustee of Pacific Foundation and Pacific Necessitous Fund and is an active member of Legacy Australia.
Michael Brogan
Michael Brogan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Michael was a partner in a firm of chartered accountants for 14 years and has over 20 years experience as a senior executive in international and domestic banking. Michael is a former senior executive director of the FirstRand Banking Group. He is the immediate past Chairman of FirstRand International Limited and the RMB Australia Group. Michael is the non-executive Chairman of AWA Limited, a non-executive director of Oceania Capital Partners Limited (OCP), Chair of the OCP Audit and Risk Committee and Chairman of the Arts and Health Foundation. Michael is a director of the Indochina Starfish Foundation (Australia) Limited and a trustee of the Indochina Starfish Foundation (UK). Michael has extensive domestic and international business experience in the areas of strategic business development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, audit, compliance and risk management.
Martin CubbonAs Chief Executive of Swire Properties, Martin Cubbon is responsible for the management of Swire Pacific’s property assets. He was previously a Director of Cathay Pacific Airways, HAECO and, from September 1998 to March 2009, was Swire Pacific Group Finance Director. Martin joined the Swire Group in 1986 and was appointed to his current position in April 2009.
Martin was born in Britain in 1957. He graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BA Honours in Economics and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983, working for Arthur Andersen in the UK before joining John Swire & Sons in 1986.
His first assignment in the Swire Group was as Internal Audit Manager with Cathay Pacific Airways. He has subsequently held various corporate finance and treasury roles in the Swire Pacific’s Industries Division, Swire Pacific Group Finance, and Cathay Pacific.
Martin is married and has two sons and a daughter.
He is a governor of the Chinese International School in Hong Kong and immediate past Chairman of the Hong Kong Club. He sat for many years as a member of the Accounting Standards Committee of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants and was also a member of the Committee on Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Robert GazziRobert is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) in Hong Kong where he has lived and worked for approximately 25 years. He is a member of the Management Board of the China, Singapore and Hong Kong firm, where he is also the Clients and Markets Leader. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Over the last 25 years he has worked and travelled extensively throughout Asia and been visiting Cambodia since 1996, when he was responsible for the establishment of PwC’s office there.
He has long had a keen interest in helping disadvantaged children and has been closely involved with Riding for the Disabled in Hong Kong for many years. He also has held a lifelong passion for football and so keenly participates in and supports the activities of the football committee.
Robert is also an Independent Governor and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the English Schools Foundation in Hong Kong, which runs 21 schools across Hong Kong.
Paul MarklandPaul is a Master Mariner turned entrepreneur who owns and actively controls a portfolio of companies. In 1986, Paul came ashore and joined the Swire Group. During his time with Swire he worked in various postings such as Mexico, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong and was directly involved in the sale and installation of airport and airline equipment in Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.
Paul returned to the UK in 1994 to become Chief Executive of a small listed company, Ropner plc. Subsequent to a takeover in 1995 Paul purchased, with the help of 3i, three engineering companies. Since this time he has specialised in buying, growing and then selling companies ranging from Garage Equipment, Forecourt Non Oil Products, Polymer Distribution and most recently a Network Marketing company.
Paul married Myra in 1974 and they went on to have two children, both of whom are now grown up. South East Asia has featured strongly in the lives of Paul and his family and for many years Paul and Myra had been looking for a charity in this region to which they could directly contribute, as opposed to just donating money. With the formation of the ISF by Peter Slater and Martin Cubbon, Myra was asked to become a Trustee then subsequently Paul joined the team. Since that time, Paul has been specifically involved in the Education Project as Chairman and deals with the charity’s UK and Cambodian accounts. He is also acting as Company Secretary.
Myra MarklandMyra is both a housewife and mother and has devoted her married life to her children and husband, Paul. She has spent many years travelling with Paul, initially spending four years with him at sea and then latterly to Paul’s postings. Through all this she has remained the bedrock of the family unit.
Myra has a passion for people and whilst living in Hong Kong she worked for the Sarah Roe School. As a class assistant for six years Myra worked directly with children with mental and physical disabilities. Back in the UK Myra has also donated her time to volunteer with a local “Riding with the Disabled” group. Since joining ISF Myra is directly involved in the Education Project committee as well as being hands on in the area of the children’s health and welfare. She brings the female touch to the charity and ensures that the male dominated board has a feminine input.