Dr. Cees Schrauwers
Chairman of the Commission
Cees Schrauwers was appointed as a Commissioner in July 2008. He is a Dutch citizen and has spent most of his career in London with Commercial Union ("CU"). Mergers with General Accident and Norwich Union resulted in the creation of Aviva plc. Cees has occupied a number of positions in the insurance industry, including Managing Director of CU UK and Managing Director of CGU Insurance. Following the mergers he was appointed Managing Director of Aviva International, gaining valuable experience in dealing with regulators across the globe, including North America. Cees is currently Chairman of DriveAssist Holdings Ltd, a claims management company, Senior Independent Director of Brit Insurance Holdings plc and Senior Independent Director of Record plc one of the world’s largest currency managers. He lives with his family near London.
Susie Farnon FCA
Vice-Chairman of the Commission
Susie Farnon was appointed as a Commissioner in February 2006. She was a Banking and Finance Partner with KPMG Channel Islands from 1990 until 2001. She has served as President of the Guernsey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants and as a member of the Guernsey Audit Commission and the Guernsey Public Accounts Committee. She is also director of a number of private and listed companies.
Lord Howard Flight MA (Cantab) MBA, FRSA
Commissioner
Howard Flight was appointed as a Commissioner in 2005. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005, during which time he was Shadow Economic Secretary, Paymaster General and Chief Secretary to the Treasury. From 1999 to 2004 he had Shadow Treasury responsibilities for the Finance Acts, the financial services industry, financial regulations and pensions. He has worked for over 40 years in the financial services industry, starting his career at Rothschilds. In the second half of the 1970s he worked for HSBC’s merchant bank in Hong Kong and India. In 1979 he joined Guinness Mahon and established what became Guinness Flight Global Asset Management, of which he was joint Managing Director until it was acquired by Investec in 1998. He formed, and is Chairman of, Flight & Partners, which is the manager of the Flight & Partners Recovery Fund, and is currently a director of Investec Asset Management Limited, Metrobank plc, Arden Partners, Investec Asset Management Limited and a number of other companies and investment funds.
Alex Rodger MCIBS
Commissioner
Alex Rodger was appointed as a Commissioner in February 2008. He spent over 40 years with the Royal Bank of Scotland (“RBS”) Group. Prior to moving to Guernsey in 1989 as Island Director, he occupied senior posts in relationship management and credit control in London and New York. He was executive director of RBS International from its formation in 1996 and was appointed Managing Director of RBS International Securities Services Group in April 2002. Later that year his responsibilities were increased to that of Managing Director of RBS International Corporate Banking Division with responsibility for corporate banking operations in each of Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar. He led the sale of RBS International’s Securities Services business to BNP Paribas in June 2007. He was also Chairman of RBS International Employees Pension Trust. Alex Rodger is the non-executive Chairman of advocates Collas Crill.
Richard Hobbs MCIPD
Commissioner
Richard Hobbs was appointed as a Commissioner in January 2012. His first career was in the UK Civil Service where he concentrated on a variety of consumer protection and European issues. Latterly, he was a director of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Insurance Division where he was responsible for overall supervision of the Lloyd’s insurance market during its reconstruction in the mid-1990s. He has been Head of Life and Pensions at the Association of British Insurers, and for the past decade has been a consultant advising a wide range of clients in financial services on regulatory, risk and governance issues. He is also chairman of Faber Ltd, a wholesale insurance broker, and a non-executive director of Barbican Managing Agency Limited, a Lloyd’s managing agent.
Paul Meader, MA (Oxon), Chartered Fellow of the CISI
Commissioner
Paul Meader was appointed as a Commissioner in February 2012. He has over 25 years experience in investment management and private banking in London, Dublin and Guernsey. He is presently Head of Portfolio Management for Collins Stewart in Guernsey prior to which he was Managing Director of Rothschild's Swiss private-banking subsidiary on the island. He acts as an independent director or advisor to a number of investment management companies, insurance companies and investment funds. He is a past Chairman of the Guernsey International Business Association, the International Bankers' Association and of the Guernsey Investment Managers’ & Stockbrokers’ Association.
Bob Moore was appointed as a Commissioner in February 2012. He has spent over thirty years in the financial services industry in Guernsey and internationally. From 1979 to 1997, he held positions in international banking and international private banking with the Lloyds Bank/Lloyds TSB Group in South America, the United States, the U.K. and Luxembourg. These included responsibility for Lloyds’ international private banking operations in New York and in Luxembourg. From 1997 to 2011, he was jurisdictional Managing Director with responsibility for the Butterfield Group’s operations in Guernsey, including banking, investment management, custody and fiduciary services. In June 2011, he was appointed to the position of Executive Vice President and Head of Group Trust for the Butterfield Group. He has also been a director of a number of other Guernsey banks and investment funds.