Stephen Ainsworth

President

[email protected]

Stephen is the Senior Partner of the BWCI Group. He is also a past Chairman of Abelica Global, the international organisation of consultants and actuaries and is a member of its Council.

He has had extensive experience of advising clients over the whole range of the Group’s business. He specialises in international work and presented an award winning paper on international pension plans to the International Association of Consulting Actuaries in 2002. In addition to advising a wide range of insurance and pensions clients of his own, he is also responsible for chairing each of the Group’s operating subsidiaries. Stephen also holds a number of non-executive directorships for Guernsey based insurance companies and employee benefit trusts. He is a past President of the Channel Islands Actuarial Association.

Stephen became a Partner of the Group upon its establishment in 1979, and has been Senior Partner since 1991. Before joining the Group, Stephen spent six years with Bacon & Woodrow in the UK, where he qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1977. He is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute, the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Royal Society of Arts and is a Trust and Estate Practitioner.

Roger Berry

Vice President

[email protected]

Roger Berry is a qualified accountant with extensive experience in personal pension and fiduciary solutions for clients, co-author of the UK pension industry anti-scam guidance – PSIG of which he is a technical and full committee member.

Roger was an original founder of the Concept Group and was its long-standing Managing Director until the change in the Groups ownership in 2021, now working as a non-executive director and consultant.

Roger has sat and contributed to numerous Guernsey and UK Pension Committees including government and regulatory working parties including meetings with HMRC on QROPS. He has chaired the GAPP QROPS sub-Committee and speaks widely on the subject of QROPS, QNUPS and International Pensions. Directly contributing to the drafting of Guernsey pension legislation and active in combating pension scams and pension liberation through membership of The Pension Scams Industry Group (PSIG).  He has detailed knowledge and understanding of the law and framework surrounding Guernsey personal pensions.

He notes his career highs being pioneering Guernsey’s first local personal pension multi member 157A scheme soon followed by the innovative and similar QROPS in 2006. Instrumental in the development of QNUPS, both Trust and Contract based, and their use in international wealth and estate planning.

Ian Robinson

Honorary Treasurer

[email protected]

Ian has worked in the pension industry for over 30 years. He works as a consultant for Utmost Worldwide advising their occupational pension division. He has a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.

Damian Wallen

Honorary Secretary

[email protected]

Damian is a Senior Consultant for Rossborough Financial Services Limited.

Damian has worked in the finance sector for over 20 years and has a wealth of experience and expertise on the local pension and corporate financial services market and in his role as Senior Consultant has responsibility for the provision of advice and services to both Guernsey private and corporate clients on pension and employee benefit solutions.

Sean Gillease

Executive Committee Member

[email protected]

Sean is Managing Director of Sovereign Pension Services (CI) Limited, the Guernsey based pension operation of the Sovereign Group.

Sean has worked in the pensions industry in Guernsey for circa 15 years, during which time he has dealt with a mix of domestic and international pensions business for both corporate and individual clients.

Rob Shipman

Executive Committee Member

[email protected]

Rob is a specialist in cross border international employee benefits and trusts specifically for US persons, South Africans and UK residents and UK expatriates. Having developed a number of high profile employee benefit products over the last sixteen years in a number of international finance centres for individuals and corporate clients.

Professionally full member of STEP, Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Directors, and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

Andrew Bannier

Executive Committee Member

[email protected]

Andrew is Head of Pensions for FNB International Trustees. He is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute and earned an ACIB during his early career in banking and offshore funds.

Andrew has significant international experience having worked overseas for 15 years.

John Lewis

Executive Committee Member

[email protected]

John Lewis is a lawyer with over 30 years' experience and particular expertise in pensions and insurance, acting mainly for employers and pension trustees.  He is a Guernsey Advocate and partner in the Corporate practice group of Mourant in Guernsey, where he advises on a broad range of financial services, corporate and finance matters.

Before moving to Guernsey in 2002, John worked in the UK and Australia for leading law firms Allen & Overy and Minter Ellison as well as for ING Bank as an in-house lawyer. John has sat on the GAPP committee for several years and is a member of the International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association (IPEBLA)

Rachel Pettitt

Executive Committee Member

[email protected]

Rachel is a member of the GAPP committee, joining in 2021, having been a member of the Technical Sub-Committee since 2019. Rachel has over 25 years’ experience in Fiduciary Wealth Management with over 22 of those years in the International Pensions and Savings business.

Rachel was born in Guernsey and is a full member of STEP having qualified with the Diploma in 2003.

Nick Slinn

Executive Committee Member

[email protected]

Nick is a Director of ZEDRA Guernsey, and is responsible for developing and managing ZEDRA’s international retirement and savings business.

Over the past 25 years, Nick has obtained extensive knowledge of international retirement plans and group life as well as disability products which are often utilised by employers in conjunction with such plans.

Prior to joining ZEDRA, following the Interben Trustees Limited acquisition in July 2019, Nick worked for Nordben Life and Pensions for over 20 years, as General Manager and then as CEO. During this period Nick has assisted many companies, including large multinationals, with establishing and operating their international retirement plan arrangements.

Nick is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurer.

DAVID DORRITY

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER

[email protected]

David is a Director of Praxis Pensions & Employer Solutions and has over 25 years’ experience of the Guernsey financial services industry, 16 of which have been exclusively in the international and domestic pensions arena. He is a member of the GAPP Executive Committee and is also the current Chair of the GAPP PR & Marketing Sub-committee.

David was born in Guernsey and is a full member of STEP having qualified with the Diploma – he also sits on the Guernsey STEP Executive Committee.