Future Generation Investment Company Limited (FGX) announced the appointment of four highly experienced directors to its board. Paradice Asset Management founder David Paradice, Victor Smorgon Group chief financial officer David Leeton, Greenstone Partners' founder Scott Malcolm, and Wilson Asset Management CEO Kate Thorley will join the FGX board as non-executive directors effective 13 April 2015. FGX chairman Jonathan Trollip said the appointments would drive the company's commercial and philanthropic objectives.

With a strong investment focus, David Leeton also brings strong philanthropic credentials to FGX, as a Trustee of the Victor Smorgon Charitable Fund, a director of the Victor Smorgon Scholarship Fund trustee company, the Lighthouse Foundation and secretary of The Philanthropic Investor Club. Scott Malcolm has over 20 years of investment banking experience having advised on significant mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt transactions with a total value in excess of $20 billion. Scott is also Chairman of The CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust in New Zealand.

Kate Thorley was a driving force behind the creation of FGX in her lead role with Wilson Asset Management. Kate has over 15 years' financial accounting and corporate governance experience.