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Appointed Chair of Capital Gearing Trust in July 2025. Karl is also Chairman of Clipstone Industrial REIT plc and a Non-Executive Director of The Howard de Walden Estate. Prior to his non-executive career, he held a number of senior roles at Morgan Grenfell/Deutsche Asset Management between 1992 and 2004, including Chief Investment Officer for London, Australia, Europe and the Asia Pacific. He later founded the institutional asset manager Oxford Investment Partners, which was acquired by Towers Watson in 2013. Until 2025, he was Chairman of Monks Investment Trust and Apax Global Alpha, and has served on multiple investment trust boards since 2006.