Victor has worked in the City and the financial industry for almost thirty years and lived in Asia for eleven of those years. Having graduated from Edinburgh University in 1977, he joined Hoare Govett Ltd, a leading stockbroker where he remained till 1987 specializing in the Far East. In 1987, he joined W. I. Carr (Far East) as Managing Director of their Far East; He remained for five years before rejoining Hoare Govett Asia as a Managing Director in a buyout of the Asian stock broking business in 1992. Hoare Govett Asia was a specialist broker and corporate finance house in the Far East area. This business was purchased by ABN AMRO in 1995. Victor retired from ABN AMRO in 1999. Subsequently, he was a partner in the corporate finance boutique firm, Leopard Rock Capital Partners, and now works at Aberdeen Asset Management in the charities, private wealth and pension areas.