Leadership Team

Chief Executive Officer and principal shareholder of Harwood Capital Management since 2011. He founded JO Hambro Capital Management with Jamie Hambro in 1993 acting as Chief Investment Officer and Harwood Wealth with Alan Durant in 2013 until their respective sales in 2011 and 2020. He is CEO of North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust (“NASCIT”) which he has managed since 1982 and Executive Director of Oryx International Growth Fund which he has managed since 1995. NASCIT has delivered a total NAV per share of nearly 200x under Mr Mills’ management and is the winner of numerous Micropal Sunday Telegraph and S&P investment trust awards. He has sat on the Board of over 100 companies during his career including most recently Augean, MJ Gleeson, SureServe, Frenkel Topping and is currently Chairman of EKF Diagnostics and Renalytix AI. He was awarded a scholarship to go to university by Samuel Montagu and has a BA in Business Studies.

Charles has been a Director at Harwood Capital Management Limited since September 2017. Charles joined the firm in 2012 as an Investment Analyst. He is now Head of Harwood Real Estate and is responsible for all the private equity investments made by the Group which are not appropriate for our Private Equity Funds. He is a non-executive director of several smaller portfolio companies held by the Group. Charles graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2012 with a degree in Real Estate Management and holds the Investment Management Certificate (“IMC”).