The Team

| Name | Chris Oulton |
|---|---|
| Title | CEO |
| chris.oulton@ prime-rate.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7255 |
Chris Oulton has been involved in the liquidity funds industry since 1998 and was a founding member of IMMFA (Institutional Money Market Funds Association) in 2000. He is currently Deputy Chair. He has over 25 years experience in banking and asset management, most recently Head of Money Market Sales at Insight Investment which he joined in 2004. As an independent consultant he successfully launched the Abbey AAA rated MMF. Chris is the founding partner of PRCM.

| Name | Henry Buckmaster |
|---|---|
| Title | Sales Director |
| henry.buckmaster@ prime-rate.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7257 |
Henry Buckmaster joined PRCM from Investec Asset Management where he had been head of UK Institutional liquidity sales with specific responsibility for the Money Market Funds. He was a director of the AAA rated fund and a committee member of IMMFA. Prior to this he had 21 years experience in banking and asset management including at Banque Paribas and Barings as an Assistant Director.

| Name | Judith Benson |
|---|---|
| Title | COO |
| judith.benson@ prime-rate.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7256 |
Judith Benson was money market product manager at Insight Investment from August 2004 until she joined PRCM in June 2007. Prior to joining Insight, Judith was a principal consultant at Demica, a specialist software consultancy, providing securitisation solutions to investment banks, corporates and their advisors from 1998 to 2004. Prior to this she had 15 years experience in banking at Kleinwort Benson and Den norske Bank. She holds the IMC from the UK Society of Investment Professionals and is a member of IMMFA's technical committee.

| Name | Dennis Gepp |
|---|---|
| Title | Portfolio Manager |
| dennis.gepp@ prime-rate.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7258 |
Dennis Gepp was Treasurer of Brown Shipley & Co Ltd, private bankers, responsible for the management of the bank’s liquidity and asset and liability management from 1992 until he joined PRCM in May 2007. During the previous 19 years he held senior positions in the Treasury departments of CIBC (Europe), Middle East Bank, Baring Brothers, Iran Overseas Investment Bank and Bank of America International. Since 2004 he has been Hon Treasurer of ACI UK – the Financial Markets Association, the world’s largest association of financial markets practitioners.

| Name | Gary Skedge |
|---|---|
| Title | Portfolio Manager |
| gary.skedge@ matrixgroup.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7259 |
Gary arrived at PRCM from HSBC Investments where he co–managed the AAA rated Sterling Liquidity and Sterling Plus funds along with numerous segregated insurance money market funds. Gary, with 18 years experience within the banking and investment management sector, was Director of money markets and foreign exchange at Robert Fleming with further market experience with JPMorgan Chase and Invesco Fund Managers.

| Name | John Parker |
|---|---|
| Title | Sales Director |
| john.parker@ prime-rate.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7260 |
John Parker joined Prime Rate from HSBC Bank plc where he was a Director in Global Financial Institutions. He has over 30 years of experience in banking, asset management, treasury and capital markets, and previously held senior positions at HFC Bank, AIM Global, Hill Samuel and Chemical Bank, having begun his career at Phillips & Drew and the Bank of England.

| Name | Joanne Bartell |
|---|---|
| Title | PA |
| joanne.bartell@ prime-rate.co.uk | |
| Phone | 020 3206 7261 |
Joanne joined PRCM in September 2007. Prior to joining Joanne worked at various financial institutions including Brown Shipley, Goldman Sachs and an Omani investment company, MIIC UK Limited.