MY FAMILY SILVER - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founder
• Managing Director
• Member of the Management Team

Martyn read history at the University of Edinburgh before entering the silver trade with Hancocks & Co. the renowned silver dealers in London's West End. In 1993 he joined Sotheby's where he became director and head of the jewellery department in London. Martyn is a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and director of Corfield Morris Fine Art and Antique Advisers. He is a columnist on the BBC genealogical magazine Who do You Think You Are? and has published three books: Nelson's Purse (Bantam Press, 2004), The Queen's Knight (Bantam Press, 2006) and The Sultan of Zanzibar (Blackspring Press 2010)).

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team
• Chairman, Unicorn Silver Ltd

Nick stepped up from his position as a founding non executive director to chairman in September 2010 following the death of founding chairman, Dermot Chichester, who had over thirty years experience of the art industry including five years as chairman of Christie's UK. Prior to joining our board, Nick had a successful career within the Lloyds insurance market where he was CEO of Hampden Agencies Ltd, the largest members' agency at Lloyds with premium income capacity in excess of £1.5 billion. Thereafter he became CEO of the Hampden Group and remains a non executive director of Hampden Capital plc. Nick holds a number of other non executive positions.