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Mr. Cannon Brookes is the Investment Manager at Arlington Group plc. Having been educated at Eton College, he graduated from the University of Exeter with BA Hons in Economics before working as a research analyst at BZW and then ABN Amro in Sydney, Australia. While there, he specialised in BANKING AND MINING sectors and performed a wide array of analytical duties before returning in late 1998 to begin working for Jupiter Asset Management as one of their trainee fund managers.
In January 2000, he moved to Arlington Group plc where he has been involved in all aspects of the Company's investment process, particularly in the financial analysis of potential new deals. Mr. Cannon-Brookes is also the Assistant Investment Director of both Jubilee Investment Trust plc and
Langley Park Investment Trust plc.


http://www.arlingtongroup.co.uk/management_team.html

The investment company is a newly formed London-based company that has applied for its shares to be admitted to trading on the London stock exchange as an investment trust. The investment company has been established specifically to invest in U.S. micro cap companies with long-term growth potential. The investment company expects its shares to be trading on the London Stock Exchange by Sept. 30, 2004.

In February 2004, Arlington agreed to acquire the crushing and grinding sections of the El Tambo gold processing plant located in Chile. Arlington agreed to undertake the dismantling, transportation and refurbishment of this plant before on-selling it to Archipelago's Indonesian subsidiary. Arlington has agreed to acquire up to £4 million of this mining equipment with the consideration received in the on-sale being up to £5 million.