JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC (JHG)
Sector: Financials
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Sector: Financials
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Director information for JHG
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| JHG | Chair, Governance and Nominations Committee and Non-Executive Director; Board Member | 58 | ["Extensive experience leading and executing complex, high-profile, and transnational M&A and related equity and debt transactions","Significant international advisory and investment banking experience","Valuable knowledge of accounting standards and financial reporting rules and regulations","Qualifies as an 'audit committee financial expert' as defined by SEC rules","financially literate","audit committee financial expert"] | ["Governance and Nominations","Audit","Audit Committee","Governance and Nominations Committee"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Chair, Governance and Nominations Committee and Non-Executive Director Independent Age: 58 Director Since: 2017 Board Committees: Governance and Nominations (Chair) Audit Other Current Public Boards: Pacific Basin Shipping Limited (HKEX: 2342) Former Public Boards: Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc. (TSX: CF) 2013 2019 KEY EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS Strategy and M&A: Ms. Desai has extensive experience leading and executing complex, high-profile, and transnational M&A, and related equity and debt transactions, from her role leading Merrill Lynch s Asia-Pacific M&A business for over a decade, leading Macquarie Capital s Asian investment banking and principal investment business, and as a member of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. International: Ms. Desai brings significant international advisory and investment banking experience and broad exposure to global business markets, having served in C-level and other senior leadership roles for over two decades in the European and Asia-Pacific regions, including oversight of Macquarie Capital s risk management, compliance procedures, financial reporting, and business governance across 13 countries in Asia. Financial & Audit: Ms. Desai leverages valuable knowledge of accounting standards and financial reporting rules and regulations gained through high-level experience in various multinational financial services divisions across the globe, as well as service for UK Government Investments, the UK government s center of corporate finance and corporate governance expertise owned by His Majesty s Treasury. Ms. Desai qualifies as an audit committee financial expert as defined by SEC rules. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AND OTHER EXPERIENCE OF NOTE Director, UK Government Investments (September 2022 September 2025) Member, Takeovers and Mergers Panel, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (2007 2014) Chief Executive, Macquarie Capital Asia (2009 2013) Various positions of increasing seniority, including Head of Asia Pacific Mergers & Acquisitions group and Managing Director (since 2000), Investment Banking Division, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Hong Kong) (1998 2009) Previous roles in the Corporate Finance divisions of Barclays de Zoete Wedd (now part of UBS) (Hong Kong and London) and J. Henry Schroder Wagg (now part of Citigroup) (London) and in the Financial Services Consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (London) EDUCATION BS in Economics ( honors ), London School of Economics and Political Science Qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (London) (1991); Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales Corporate Director Certificate, Harvard Business School