Jonathan Kestenbaum is the Chief Operating Officer of RIT Capital Partners plc and a member of its Executive Committee. He is also a Director of the company’s operating business, J Rothschild Capital Management Limited. He was created a life peer in November 2010 and became Lord Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset. He was introduced in the House of Lords on 26 January 2011 and speaks in the Lords on Economic Affairs and Innovation.