John Christopher Banks

Consort Medical Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in pharmaceutical industry related activities. It focuses on the design, development, manufacture, and sale of medical drug and delivery devices. The company was founded on March 22, 1946 and is headquartered in Kings Lynn, the United Kingdom.

The Innovation Group Ltd. provides business process outsourcing and software solutions to the insurance, fleet, automotive and property industries. It provides contact centres, repair networks, process management, supply chain and technology operations and decision support analytics to support accident management, repair and estimation and claims management services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Whiteley, the United Kingdom.

Detica Group Plc provides business process consulting, information technology, and system implementation services. It also offers various solutions such as national security, compliance and risk, fraud and security, business intelligence, customer relationship management, and research authoring solutions as well as delivers transaction service level assurance. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Guildford, UK

Medical Marketing International Group Plc is a life sciences company that identifies and acquires from academic organisations, technologies that have potential to satisfy unmet needs in major markets, such as cancer and infectious disease. It also offers a range of technical support services to United Kingdom academic and commercial bodies. The Group's operation focuses on the areas of vaccines, chemotherapy and Ribozyme anti-virals. Vaccines relates to diseases such as lymphoma, prostate cancer, CEA cancer, myeloma, CMV, influenza and tubercolosis. Chemotherapy research relates to ruthenium and pineapple protease. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

The Barbara Ward Children's Foundation was founded in 2001 and is based in London, UK. The foundation is a small grant-making body that helps smaller non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world where their grants are likely to make a real difference. The foundation has reviewed over 5700 grant applications and approved almost 670 grants totalling in excess of £9.4 million to more than 375 organisations. The foundation's chairman of trustees is Barbara herself, with support from six further trustees. The foundation has made grants to support charitable activities throughout the world, helping children in various countries including Barbados, Belarus, Cameroon, Malawi, Nepal, and Zambia.