Corporate Governance

Sir Simon M. Robertson founded Simon Robertson Associates LLP, offering independent and trusted corporate finance advice to a limited number of major international companies, and has led the firm since its founding in 2005. Prior to founding his own firm, he was a managing director and president of Goldman Sachs Europe Ltd from 1997 until he retired in 2005. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Sir Simon served in various roles at the Kleinwort Benson Group, which he joined in 1963, working in most of the businesses of the Kleinwort Benson Group before joining the corporate finance division in 1968. He became chairman of Kleinwort Benson Group plc in 1996 and resigned from the group in 1997. Sir Simon is a director of several private companies, including Byhiras Group. He has served on the boards of numerous public and private entities in the past, including as chairman of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (2005-2013), on the board of Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd (1998-2018), on the board of The Economist Newspaper Ltd (2005-2017) and on the board of HSBC Holdings plc (2006-2016), where he was senior independent director (2007-2015) and deputy chairman (2010-2016), and on the board of Troy Asset Management Ltd (2012-2024). In 2015 he joined the International Advisory Board of Brown Advisory, from which he retired in November 2021. He is a visiting professor at King’s College London (department of political economy). He is also a member of the supervisory board of LOV Group Invest, an ambassador of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and president of the Légion d’Honneur U.K. Chapter Ltd, from which he retired in January 2022. He is now emeritus president of the Légion d’Honneur U.K. Chapter Ltd. Sir Simon was knighted for services to business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2010. He also became an “Officier” of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 2011 and “Officier” de la Légion d’Honneur in 2014.