The North American Income Trust plc

Susan Rice, appointed on 17 March 2015, is a chartered banker. She chairs Scottish Water, the Financial Services Culture Board and the Scottish Fiscal Commission. She is also Senior Independent Director of J Sainsbury's plc. Her previous roles include managing director of Lloyds Banking Group Scotland, chairman and chief executive of the bank Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, a director of the Bank of England and a non-executive director of SSE plc, Big Society Capital and Charity Bank. She sits on the advisory group to P-CAN, the UK's Place-Based Climate Action network and chairs the Global Steering Group of GEFI, the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. She was a member of the First Minister's Council of Economic Advisers and, until recently, President of the Scottish Council of Development and Industry. Originally from the United States, her early career was at Yale and Colgate universities and then at NatWest Bancorp. In 2000, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank.

Karyn Lamont, appointed on 18 September 2018, is a chartered accountant and former audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers until December 2016. She has over 25 years’ experience and provided audit and other services to a range of clients, including a number of investment trusts, across the UK's financial services sector, including outsourcing providers. She is the audit committee chairman of The Scottish Investment Trust plc, Scottish Building Society, iomart Group plc and Scottish American Investment Company plc.

Susannah Nicklin, appointed on 18 September 2018, is a financial services professional with over 25 years of experience in executive roles at Goldman Sachs and Alliance Bernstein in the US, Australia and the UK. She has also worked in the private equity sector as former Senior Independent Director at Pantheon International plc and with Bridges Ventures, the Global Impact Investing Network and Impact Ventures UK. She is Chair of Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust plc and a non-executive director of Amati AIM VCT plc, Baronsmead Venture Trust plc and Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust plc. She is a CFA® charterholder.

Charles Park, appointed on 13 June 2017, has over 25 years of investment management experience. He is a non-executive director of Polar Capital Technology Trust plc and is also a co-founder of Findlay Park Investment Management, a US boutique asset management house which was established in 1997. Prior to his retirement from the firm in 2016, he was deputy chief investment officer with joint responsibility for managing Findlay Park American Fund.

Prior to co-founding Findlay Park, Charles was an investment manager at Hill Samuel Asset Management and an analyst at Framlington Investment Management.