Nigel P. Williams - Managing Partner

Mr. Williams co-founded the firm in 1996. Between 1997 and 2004, he was also a Director and Chief Executive Officer of European Direct Capital Management ("EDCM"), a joint venture between State Street global Advisors and Royalton Partners, which served until 2004 as the investment advisor to RCI I. Prior to forming Royalton Partners, Mr. Williams spent five years as Chief Executive Officer and was a founding shareholder of the Creditanstalt Investment Company a.s. ("CIC"), the fund management arm of the Creditanstalt Group in the Czech Republic. CIC was responsible for the management of the Czech Investment Fund. From October 1990 to August 1991, Mr. Williams served as an adviser to the Board of Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka, a.s., a major Czech bank ("CSOB"). Prior to that, Mr. Williams spent six years as Managing Director and was a founding shareholder of Williams, Cook, Lott and Kissack Ltd., a London gilt-edged broker. From 1978 to 1984, he was an associate partner with broking firm Grieveson Grant in London.

Mr. Williams serves as Chairman of the Boards of the insurance company CertAsig in Romania and City Parking Group Holdings. He used to serve as Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of mPunkt Polska in Poland, Starman  in Estonia, and Allami Nyomda, Lang Kiado & Holding and Első Lakáshitel (Ella Bank) in Hungary. He is also the President of The Lester Brewster Memorial Foundation and is a past board member of Investec Global Strategy Fund, an open-ended mutual fund quoted on the Dublin stock exchange. Mr. Williams holds a B.Sc. in Monetary Economics from the London School of Economics.

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