Lester is a Non-Executive Director of Milford Asset Management, Milford Australia Pty Ltd and some of Milford’s other subsidiary boards. He chairs the Board Investment Committee and the Private Equity Investment Committee.
Lester retired from Schroders, an international asset management group, in 2013 after working for 26 years in several senior roles based in London, New York and Singapore. From 2004 he was CEO, and from 2012 Chairman of Schroders’ Asia Pacific business, which has operations in nine countries across the region. In addition to his executive roles, Lester was Chairman of the Investment Management Association of Singapore from 2006-2013.
Lester holds a New Zealand Certificate of Engineering from the Waikato Institute of Technology and Authority of Advanced Vocational Awards, New Zealand.
