Howard Flight, the former deputy chairman of the UK Tory party, has been appointed senior advisor and consultant of Kinetic Partners, a prof...

Howard Flight, the former deputy chairman of the UK Tory party, has been appointed senior advisor and consultant of Kinetic Partners, a professional services firm focusing on the investment management industry. Despite his stint in politics, Mr Flight is no stranger to the world of finance. He was the former chairman of Investec and was a founder of Guinness Flight, which merged with Investec in 1998. Kinetic Partners was established at the beginning of 2005 and is a joint venture between Chiltern, a UK-based tax and wealth management firm, and Raymond O'Neill, David Butler and Julian Korek, former financial services partners at management consultants RSM Robson Rhodes.