The Future of Jersey International Finance Centre Summit

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Chris Usher (Chair)

Director at Cavenwell Group & Non-Executive Director at the School of International Financial Services

Chris is a director at Cavenwell Group, where he works with a diverse range of wealth management professionals, supporting clients ranging from multi-generational High Net Worth (HNW) and Ultra High Net worth (UHNW) families to digital entrepreneurs around the world.

Chris also works with private banks, lawyers, accountants, and other financial services professionals to support them and their clients in protecting their wealth through the efficient use of wealth structuring vehicles.

With over 25 years experience in offshore financial services, Chris previously held senior wealth management roles with Barclays Wealth and Santander. During this time, he advised private clients and corporates on a wide range of global investment solutions to meet their often-complex needs. With a deep understanding of geopolitical and economic dynamics, Chris helped clients to navigate the ever-changing international wealth structuring environment, whilst maximising tax efficiency of their position. Additionally, Chris was the Chief Executive of Jersey International Business School and then Managing Director of BPP, specialising in the education of offshore financial services. Chris is a non-executive director at the School of International Financial Services (SIFS), a leading provider of training and education in 15 jurisdictions around the world.

Chris has trained over 6,000 people in qualifications for the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI) in wealth management and is a well-regarded member of the Institute. He also serves on the committee of the Channel Islands Wealth Managers Association and is a member of the Institute of Directors.

Cavenwell Group is an owner-managed, independent and digitally enabled fiduciary business specialised in providing global wealth structuring and administration solutions to entrepreneurs, high-net worth individuals and their families.

Alexandra Ruddy

Director at Oben & Chair of the Institute of Directors, Jersey

Alex is Chair of the Institute of Directors Jersey branch and sits on the Board of Governors of Victoria College and its preparatory school.

Alex is also a director at Oben Regulatory. Prior to the establishment of Oben, Alex spent most of her career in practice with two of the big four accountancy firms. Choosing to specialise in forensic accounting and regulatory consulting she held a senior position in Deloitte’s Reorganisation, Forensic and Regulatory Services department. Throughout this period, she worked closely with financial services businesses and their legal advisers in relation to financial irregularities, controls and governance matters. The broad spectrum of engagements undertaken included the appointment as reporting professional and co-signatories on the instruction of the JFSC, in addition to assisting law firms in respect of complex investigations such as fraudulently altered and incomplete records, or indeed in relation to matrimonial matters.

At Oben, Alex assists financial services businesses to find bespoke solutions to regulatory issues working closely with board members and key persons. She is well versed in assisting businesses strengthen their governance framework and control environment and presents a pragmatic approach to corporate governance issues. Alex has considerable experience with AML/CFT/CPF and sanctions issues, policies and procedures, fraud and asset-tracing and providing litigation support, including assisting her colleagues in the law firm with accounting matters. She also delivers effective training for a range of audiences from board to more bespoke training and also to employees in relation to the embedding of new controls.

Alex is regularly appointed to the role of reporting professional, inspector and skilled person by regulatory authorities in relation to trust company businesses, fund services businesses and insurance businesses. This often comprises the review of complex structures and opining on compliance with the relevant legal and regulatory regime. She has also assisted clients subject to enforcement action supporting Oben Law.

She regularly assists financial services businesses with designing remediation plans, undertaking remedial actions and is often instructed to perform validation exercises post remediation.

Joe Moynihan

Chief Executive Officer at Jersey Finance

Jill Britton

Director General at the Jersey Financial Services Commission

Jill Britton is the Director General at the Jersey financial Services Commission (JFSC). In her role, Jill is responsible for leading the JFSC in its day-to-day operations as both regulator and registry, and ensuring the organisations delivers its strategic priorities.

Jill was the Executive Director of Supervision between May 2016 and September 2021. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing the regulation of Jersey’s financial services industry and the supervision of other sectors for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. She initially worked in our Supervision team from 2002 to 2004.

Jill has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry in the UK, Jersey and Asia, having specialised in compliance and operational risk management for global banking organisations. She was the Chief Risk Officer for Coutts Asia between 2009 and 2011 and the Head of Operational Risk for South East Asia at Standard Chartered between 2011 and 2013. At the end of 2013 she became the Head of Risk and then Head of Compliance for UBS AG in Jersey.

Jill is passionate about learning and development and mentors a number of talented women to supporting them in fulfilling their potential. Jill holds a BA (Hons) in Financial Services.

Deputy Elaine Millar

Minister for Treasury and Resources and Assistant Minister for External Relations and Financial Services at the Government of Jersey

Elaine was elected as one of four deputies for the district of St John, St Lawrence and Trinity in June 2022. She was appointed as Minister for Social Security and Assistant Minister for Treasury and Resources in July 2022. Elaine also took on the roles of Assistant Chief Minister with responsibility for Financial Services (from May 2023) and Vice-Chair of the States Employment Board (from November 2023). In January 2024, Elaine was appointed as the Minister for Treasury and Resources and appointed as the Assistant Minister for External Relations and Financial Services.  

Helen De La Cour

Director of Financial & Professional Services at the Government of Jersey

Helen was appointed as Director of Financial and Professional Services in October 2024, having previously headed up the Financial Services Directorate and worked in both the Government of Jersey’s Financial Services Policy and Financial Crime Strategy Teams, providing broad experience of the policy and legislative agenda relevant to the financial services sector. Helen was called to the Bar in 2009 and admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2012. Prior to joining Government, she worked for a leading offshore law firm and more recently, Jersey Finance.

Nicola Ingram

Director at Oben Regulatory & Chair at the JCOA

Prior to becoming a director of Oben, Nicola served nearly 18 years as a regulatory supervisor at the Jersey Financial Services Commission. She worked in the Investment Business division, Enforcement, Funds (dealing with funds and fund services businesses) and in heightened supervision dealing with a myriad of issues in differing types of businesses facing challenging regulatory circumstances.  She has also undertaken many regulatory examinations of different regulatory and market sectors.

Nicola has considerable experience working with businesses that have had deficiencies in systems and controls and where there have been material conduct risk issues. She has the skills to routinely identify, analyse and advise businesses on regulatory issues and the course of action to strengthen their governance, operating and control environment. Having a depth of expertise dealing with complex structures and challenging regulatory issues she is adept at understanding the root cause and finding solutions. This often means working with board members, senior leadership and key persons to addressing issues of  corporate governance, and conveying a clear understanding to participants which then enables practices and controls to work effectively.

Platinum Sponsor

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Gold Sponsor

Cavenwell Group

Cavenwell Group is an owner-managed, independent and digitally enabled fiduciary business specialised in providing global wealth structuring and administration solutions to entrepreneurs, high-net worth individuals and their families.

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Bronze Sponsor

Kendrick Rose

Kendrick Rose is an executive recruitment consultancy based in Jersey, specialising in matching the needs, culture, and ambition of its clients with those of its candidates.

Smart clients need smart candidates, so we make the whole process simpler for everyone by being a smarter recruitment company. We specialise in connecting talented individuals to top-level organisations offering jobs that will challenge, excite, and fulfil.

Ambitious candidates don’t stand still, so neither do we. At Kendrick Rose we focus on excellence – recruiting excellent candidates and looking after them at every stage in the recruitment process.

We are discrete, reactive, professional, and approachable, using our industry expertise to advise clients and give a higher level of personal insight into how to position jobs in Jersey.

At Kendrick Rose, recruitment is not just finding people for roles, it’s finding the right people for the right roles. Recruitment Excellence in the Channel Islands, Kendrick Rose style.

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Bronze Sponsor

HIGHVERN

HIGHVERN is a leading, award winning provider of bespoke solutions in fiduciary, corporate and fund services. The company is known for its discretion, and strong focus on quality and compliance. With a strong team of 160 employees, HIGHVERN combines deep industry expertise with the latest technological support to offer efficient and transparent solutions that meet the unique needs of its clients. With a customer-focused approach, HIGHVERN is a trusted partner for long-term value creation and sustainable growth. HIGHVERN currently has offices in Jersey (HQ), Guernsey, Ireland, Cayman Islands and UK.

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 Educational Partners 

Institute of Directors (IoD) | Jersey Branch

IoD Jersey was founded in 1966 and has over 820 members from all sectors of the business community and is at the forefront of promoting business and ethical leadership in Jersey. It is presently chaired by Alex Ruddy with the support of the Branch Officer, Zoë Wauton and is comprised of the main committee and eleven sub-committees. IoD Jersey has a significant voice and lobbies government on behalf of its members. The Institute also sets the highest standards for corporate governance, through its professional training programmes.

For more information, please visit: www.iod.je

IoD members qualify for a 20% discount when registering to attend this event.

Jersey Compliance Officers Association (JCOA)

The Jersey Compliance Officers Association is a professional body which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. The JCOA actively encourages, and provides the environment for those 'experienced' or 'new to' compliance and risk professionals, both from within and outside financial services and the other regulated industries in Jersey, to support others for the benefit of the compliance and risk profession and the Jersey. For more information, please visit: www.jcoa.co.uk

JCOA members qualify for a 20% discount when registering to attend this event.