Gibraltar - September 12, 2013, Gibraltar - Wishbone Gold, an exploration and acquisition company, announced the appointment of Clive Hyman as group chief financial officer.
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Mr. Hyman was a partner with KPMG in their London office, where he was a founding partner of KPMG's Transaction Services businesses. In addition, he was a founding partner of the private equity group, developing relationships in the private equity community in New York and London for the firm.
During his time at KPMG, Mr. Hyman serviced many large clients in the Corporate and Private Equity community, including, among others: Laporte Plc, Morgan Crucible, GE Capital, GE Equity, DuPont, KKR, TPG, BC Partners, ISIS Private Equity and Gresham Private Equity. He also led and founded KPMG's K-Ventures fund.
Mr. Hyman left the firm to found his own consultancy business and was interim CEO/CFO for Nick and Chris Candy of Candy and Candy. He was Group CFO of a healthcare business and became a Non-Executive and independent board member of Petrol Ofisi SA, a Turkish group majority owned by OMV AG. He became a consultant to Black Swan PLC in April 2013 and in addition has been the Wishbone Gold PLC financial controller since that date.
Training as a Chartered Accountant, Mr. Harrison previously spent 16 years at Intercontinental Hotels Corp. where he held the position of Vice President of Finance. In 1989, he joined Boddington Group plc, where he held the position of operations director of the Village Leisure Hotels division, responsible for the operation of six leisure hotels.
During his time at the Boddington Group, Mr. Harrison was finance director of the Country House Retirement Homes Limited business. In March 1997, Jonathan led a management buy-in of 25 hotels from Queens Moat Houses plc in tandem with Duke Street Capital. Six months later he managed the refinancing of the new group, County Hotels Group plc, through a listed bond offering and, in January 1999 sold the company to Regal Hotel Group plc.
In September 1999, Mr. Harrison joined Topnotch Health Clubs plc and oversaw its listing on AIM in 2000. Between 2005 and 2011, he was Finance Director of Sirius Minerals Plc during which he worked with Richard Poulden and was closely involved with its flotation and acquisition strategy. ■