SECURED INCOME FUND PLC

David is a financial journalist and commentator for a number of leading publications including The Financial Times (the Adventurous Investor), Investment Week (The Contrarian), Money Week and the Investors Chronicle.  He is also executive director of the world's leading alternative finance news and events services www.altfi.com, which focuses on covering major trends in marketplace lending, crowd funding and working capital provision for small to medium sized enterprises.  David is also the author of a number of books on investment including the bestselling book on ETFs and their use within portfolios in Europe for the Financial Times.  Before founding www.altfi.com, David was a director at successful corporate communications business The Rocket Science Group and before that a senior producer in business and science in BBC TV.

Gaynor is a director and chair of the audit committee of Lowland Investment Company plc, a director and chair of the audit committee of Asia Dragon Trust plc (from 3 July 2019) and a director of the Foresight Venture Capital Trust plc (from 10 September 2020).  She is a director and chairs the board of The Wave Group Limited, a private company, based in Bristol building inland surfing venues and director of a number of other private companies.  She was previously the Director of Public Programmes at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew following on from 15 years as the Managing Director of the award winning Eden Project in Cornwall, and five years as the Director of Finance at Plymouth University.  A qualified chartered accountant, she has over 30 years of experience in private and public sector finance and governance.

Brett presently serves as a director of the following publicly listed companies in addition to the Company: SLF Realisation Fund Limited and Manchester & London Investment Trust plc. He is also a director of a number of unlisted and/or private companies. Brett has wide ranging closed end fund and investment trust/investment company experience both as an investor and in managing or serving on boards of closed ended funds. He has been involved (as executive and non-executive director) in the management and in some cases, the running off and realisation, of numerous LSE and AIM listed closed end funds across a wide range of asset classes including (but not limited to) HWSI Realisation Fund Limited, The Local Shopping REIT plc, China Growth Opportunities Fund, Loudwater Trust plc, Rapid Realisations Fund Limited, Ranger Direct Lending Fund plc, and EIH plc. He has considerable expertise in restructuring and re-aligning management incentives and aligning shareholder and managerial interests for both ongoing and realisation situations.