Oryx International Growth Fund has named a new chairman after Nigel Cayzer passed away.
Jamie Brooke will succeed Cayzer, who had led Oryx – a Guernsey-based investor listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange – since 1995.
Brooke (pictured) is an existing director at the company. He has over 25 years investment experience and has been a director on over 20 boards.
He was formerly lead fund manager for the Hanover Catalyst Fund, prior to which he was at Lombard Odier where as a fund manager he specialised in strategic UK small cap equity investing, having moved with the Volantis team from Henderson Global, and before that, Gartmore.
Earlier experience was gained at 3i and Quester in the venture and leveraged buyout divisions after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte. Mr Brooke read Maths at Oxford University and is currently NED at Chapel Down Group plc and Flowtech Fluidpower plc.
Cayzer had also chaired Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC since 1995 and was a director of a number of private companies.
He chaired Maggie’s, the leading cancer charity, from 2005 until 2014.
He was 71 and father to four children.
The fund, which takes an activist approach, has a long-term portfolio of small- and mid-sized quoted and unquoted companies in the UK and the US.