Flight lands seat on board of Aurora

Conservative peer Howard Flight, joint founder of Guinness Flight alongside Tim Guinness, has joined the board of the Aurora Investment trust.

Lord Flight has opted to take the vacant seat on the board following Alex Hammond-Chambers move to step down as chairman later this month following a nine year stint. The £30m Aurora Investment trust sits in the UK Growth sector, investing primarily in large-cap UK equities with an international focus to companies growing at a faster long-term rate than the UK. Flight has had a long and varied career, but is most renowned for being a former deputy chairman of the Conservative party. In 1986 he set up Guinness Flight with Tim Guinness which was subsequently acquired by Investec in 1...