Clive Carver qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in London. He then worked for two merchant banks, Shire Trust and Kleinwort Benson, before spending 5 years at PriceWaterhouse's corporate finance division. In 1994, Mr Carver joined the Bank of NT Butterfield’s London broking arm, Seymour Pierce, subsequently becoming head of corporate finance. He spent five years at Williams de Broe, which became part of the ING Group, and was head of corporate finance and corporate sales, looking after almost 70 corporate clients and a team of 40 staff. From 2006 to 2011, Mr Carver worked for finnCap where he was a main board
director and head of corporate finance. He was an AIM qualified executive for 15 years and is also a qualified corporate treasurer. Mr Carver is chair of Caspian Sunrise and non-executive chair of appScatter Group, Ascent Resources, and Tax Systems - all of which have shares quoted on AIM.