User:Michaelsavory

Michael Berry Savory is a stockbroker and had been involved in the financial services sector all his professional life. His initial training took place in New York before he joined his family firm of stockbrokers, Foster & Braithwaite, in 1963 to specialise in research, fund management and corporate finance, becoming a partner and a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1967. He became joint senior partner of the firm in 1975, remaining with them until 1989 after the firm had been bought by Credit Commercial de France. He then joined Midland Bank becoming chairman of HSBC Bank, Stockbroker Services before he retired in 2005. He is an Associate of the Society of Investment Professionals and a Fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute. His past directorships have included being chairman of BT Batsford, book publishers; Terrafix, land navigation systems; and chairman of ProShare, which promotes financial education.

In 2006 on behalf of HSBC he took up the role of Chief Executive of Young Enterprise UK which provides enterprise education to schools throughout the country. For over thirty years he had been a member of the Executive Council of the Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen’s Families Association. He was also a member of the Council of The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and a trustee of the Hull Fishermen’s Widows and Orphans Fund for many years.

He has served as Master of two Livery Companies, the Poulters and the Clockmakers and is a freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company, a past liveryman of the Information Technologists Company, and past member of the Guild of Freemen and the City Livery Club. Michael was elected to the Court of Common Council of the City of London in 1980 becoming an Alderman for the Ward of Bread Street in 1996. He was Sheriff in 2001-2002, Lord Mayor in 2004-2005 and in 2006 received a knighthood for his services to the City of London. In 2006 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of The London Regiment which is affiliated with The Household Division.

Michael was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1943, Educated in Zimbabwe and Harrow School in the United Kingdom, married in 1992 and has two daughters. His interests include a large collection of military vehicles, The Muckleburgh Collection in North Norfolk, which he founded in 1988. He lives in both London and Norfolk.