Press release

Church Commissioners

The Queen has approved that Harry Bimbo Hart be appointed a Church Commissioner for three years effective from 1 January 2011 in succession to Richard Hart Powers who resigned on 31 December 2010.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Notes for Editors

Harry Hart (aged 39) is the Managing Partner of Melford Capital, a real estate investment partnership, which he founded in 2002, which is focused on turnaround investments in London and the South East of England. Melford recently completed a £125m equity capital raising for its Melford Special Situations LP fund, which was backed by a number of leading Endowments, Foundations and Family Offices. Prior to Melford Hart co-founded Gilbran Group (1996-2002) a specialist property company focused on the automotive sector and Arcadia Land (1991-1996) a turnaround value-investor.

Published 6 April 2011