RICHARD OGDON

Independent Non-Executive Director

Richard Ogdon is an independent board director with more than 30 years of experience in international finance, investment, and governance.

Since 2020, he has served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Ameriabank, where he chairs the Board Risk Committee and is a member of the Board Audit Committee.

Richard is also a Non-Executive Director of Altai-Global, an investment dealer regulated by the Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC) and focused on the CIS, Middle East, and Indian markets, where he supports governance and regulatory risk oversight.

His previous governance roles include six years (2012–2018) at Sova Capital, a UK FCA-regulated securities firm, where he established the Board Audit Committee and internal audit function, and six years (2017–2022) at the CIS region’s leading sovereign direct investment institution, where he served as Director of International Asset Management Operations and oversaw formal limited partner (LP) communications and reporting to sovereign wealth fund co-investors in the GCC.

Earlier in his career, Richard worked as an investment banker in Moscow and London, pioneering many of the early international capital markets transactions originating from the post-Soviet Russian Federation.

Outside finance, Richard is a Governor of United World College Dilijan and Chair of its Finance and Audit Committee. He has also worked at his alma mater, Eton College, to launch the college’s development fundraising campaign, and at an educational charity in Cambridge to introduce private-sector and commercial reforms to its business activities.

Richard holds a degree in Classics and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College). He is a UK citizen and a member of Impact Boards Emerging Markets.