Officers

Directors

Mark Ian Horrocks (Non-Executive Chairman)

Mark worked as a fund manager for Guardian Asset Management, a division of GREA PLC, from 1985 to 1997. This included 7 years managing GREA's main life fund, Guardian Assurance. Since 1997, he has been involved with investing in the small company market, having jointly launched Intrinsic Value Investment Trust in 1999, and having sat on the boards of various public and private companies.

 

Dennis Vernon Edmonds (Finance Director)

Dennis practiced as a corporate solicitor in the Republic of South Africa and in England and has extensive experience of corporate acquisitions and restructurings. He was later employed at board level in the investment banking and venture capital industries. His experience includes structuring deals and running companies. In April 2004 he became CEO of Setstone Plc, an AIM listed company which was completing a reverse takeover of a gold mining company in the Kyrgyz Republic. He resigned from this post once the documentation was prepared for submission to the Takeover Panel. Dennis will assume the responsibilities of finance director.

 

Edward Bayman (Director)

Ed has worked in the Jersey finance industry since 1994. He specialises in working with private clients with a connection to the US and has worked with several high profile executives of leading quoted companies, international families and individuals based throughout North America and Europe. Within these client structures he has had experience of managing a wide variety of assets including significant holdings in private family and quoted companies, aircraft, as well as substantial diversified property and investment portfolios. He is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

 

Jamie Hamilton (Director)

Jamie has extensive experience in dealing with private clients from a number of backgrounds. During his career, he has worked with many large international families based predominantly in the UK, dealing with complex cross border planning situations as well as more traditional UK non domiciliary type planning. More recently he has specialised in servicing clients with an entrepreneurial background, including hedge fund managers and venture capital fund managers. Within these client structures, Jamie has administered a wide variety of assets ranging from standard discretionary investment portfolios to more specialised situations such as carried interests, LLPs for commercial property transactions and major holdings in family companies. Jamie is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and holds the Investment Advice Certificate from the Securities Institute.

 

Roy Pitcher (Director)

Roy specialises in working with entrepreneurial clients in areas such as software IP, know-how and unquoted tech companies as well as developing holding structures for managers of hedge funds and multinational trading companies. He has extensive experience in dealing with structures holding UK commercial property portfolios as well as working with local resident beneficiaries of international trusts. Roy is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

 

Secretary

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