BVCA announces membership of Sir Mike Rake’s Guidelines Monitoring Group

The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has announced that Alan Thomson, former group finance director of Smiths Group, and Jeannie Drake, retiring deputy general secretary of the CWU (the Communication Workers Union) have been appointed as independent members of the new monitoring body set up in response to Sir David Walker's recommendations on increasing transparency and disclosure by the private equity industry. Robert Easton, managing director at The Carlyle Group, and David Blitzer, senior managing director at The Blackstone Group, will represent the private equity industry.