Audit Committee
An Audit Committee has been established and currently comprises the Chairman, Geoffrey Metzger and Dr Roger Norwich. The Committee is responsible for ensuring that Nighthawk's financial performance is properly reported on and monitored and also liaises with the auditors and reviews the reports from the auditors relating to the accounts and internal control systems.
Remuneration Committee
A Remuneration Committee has been established and currently comprises the Chairman, Dr Roger Norwich and Geoffrey Metzger. The Committee reviews the performance of the Executive Directors and sets the scale and structure of their remuneration on the basis of their service agreements with due regard to the interests of shareholders and Nighthawk's performance. The Remuneration Committee also makes recommendations to the Board concerning employee incentives, including the allocation of share options to employees. Nighthawk Directors are not permitted to participate in discussions or decisions of the committee concerning their own remuneration.
ROOM 7
What is a Nighthawk? read on...........
Room seven is dedicated entirely to "NIGHTHAWKS". If Edward Hopper had painted nothing else in his life this work alone would have made him famous. Painted in 1942, when America was in a state of tension after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, it is his most popular work, especially with the man in the street, and has captured the imagination of many acclaimed writers of crime fiction, including the top selling Michael Connelly (Black Echo, 1992 and Trunk Music, 1997) and Lawrence Block (Hit List, 2000). Erik Jenderson wrote a story called 'Nighthawks' in which the main character is taken from the painting. Now let us take a look at the picture.
Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper
We are looking through the large windows of an all night bar. It is late at night and the streets are dark and deserted, illuminated only by the harsh glaring light coming from the bar. This same light shows us four people Nighthawks inside the bar, exposed to us through the clear glass window like fish in a tank. There is a couple seated at one end of the bar; a woman in a red dress who absentmindedly studies a book of matches she is holding in her right hand. She looks bored. The man beside her, reminiscent of some Bogart character wearing a fedora and with cigarette in hand, is lost in his own thoughts, yet another Hopper couple who are together but not together. At the other end of the bar, seated with his back to us, a solitary figure is hunched over the bar with nothing but his drink for company. Our fourth figure is the barman, behind the bar washing some glasses and wishing he could find a better way to make a living.
