Keith was Chief Executive of HSBC Investment Bank Plc until April 1999. He has extensive experience in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, fund raising and securities, having previously been President of Morgan Grenfell in New York and Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert and Apax Partners & Co. He is a non-executive director of a number of private and public companies with particular expertise in the sports and media sectors, having advised a number of leading UK football clubs. He is a director of Wembley National Stadium Limited.