Jonathan Howell

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales ensures that its members, students, and affiliates maintain the highest standards of professional competency and conduct to protect the public interest. The non-profit company is based in London, UK, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. With over 150,000 members, the institute provides technical information, helplines, and communities to its members.

Part of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Sage South Africa (Pty) Ltd. is a South African company that provides enterprise resource planning software. The private company is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company was founded in 1981 by David Goldman, Graham Wylie, Paul Muller. Steve Hare has been the CEO of the company since 2014. Sage South Africa (Pty was acquired by Automatic Data Processing Ltd. from The Sage Group plc on April 04, 2022.

Close Brothers Ltd. provides merchant banking services. It offers specialist financing, asset financing, treasury, and deposit taking. The company was founded on February 9, 1924 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

FTSE International Ltd. is the brokerage subsidiary of FTSE Group in Great Britain, a global leader in indexing and analytical solutions which calculates thousands of unique indexes that measure and benchmark markets and asset classes in countries worldwide. Established in 1995, FTSE International Ltd. creates, manages and provides a range of equity, fixed-income, real estate, currency, commodity, non market-cap, regional and partner, alternative, responsible investment, investment strategy, and customized indexes on a standard and custom basis. Their indexes are used by investors for investment analysis, performance measurement, asset allocation, portfolio hedging and for creating a range of index tracking funds. Based in London, the firm has additional offices in London, Beijing, Dubai, Milan, Mumbai, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Shanghai, and Tokyo. They also publish and distribute monthly and annual performance and research reports.

Ascential Group Ltd. provides multi-platform events, information and publishing services. The firm's brands include i2i, Lions Festivals, WGSN, EMAP, Glenigan, MEED Projects, Groundsure, Planet Retail and DeHavilland. The company was founded by Richard Winfrey in 1947 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.