APPOINTMENTS
A TRIO OF PROMOTIONS FOR STANDARD BANK ISLE OF MAN Three staff at Standard Bank in the Isle of Man have been celebrating career progression success. Neill Grimley is now Senior Manager, Business Development, Victoria Scales has been promoted to Digital Marketing Manager and Lisa Cooke to Assistant Manager, Product Control. As a Business Development Manager Neill Grimley was very successful in developing new clients from Standard Bank’s Independent Financial Advisor (IFA) contacts in the Far East. In the last year he has taken on additional staff management responsibilities and successfully participated in the Bank’s talent development programme. He has been promoted to Senior Manager, Business Development. Victoria Scales was formerly working in Sales and Marketing Support but will now be concentrating on digital projects. As Digital Marketing Manager her primary responsibility will be to lead the day to day development, management and maintenance of all digital campaigns, as well as the Personal and Business Banking International website. Lisa Cooke has been working towards her new role of Assistant Manager, Product Control for the past two years. As Finance Assistant she has been gaining the experience and undertaking the training needed to take on the managerial role and succeeded in professional examinations. Lisa is currently also a participant in this year’s Manx Executive Challenge, which Standard Bank has supported over many years. 98
APPLEBY ANNOUNCES ISLE OF MAN PARTNER & COUNSEL APPOINTMENTS Appleby Isle of Man is pleased to announce the appointment of Caren Pegg as Partner and Juan Thornley to the position of Counsel. Experienced advocate Caren (née Hyde), is a member of the Isle of Man litigation and insolvency practice group. She deals with a broad range of civil and commercial disputes, including freezing injunctions, enforcement of judgments, asset tracing, Norwich Pharmacal applications, public law issues and director/shareholder disputes. Caren also specialises in employment law. She has extensive experience in dealing with both non-contentious and contentious matters, including redundancy, employment issues related to mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and contracts of employment. Her clients range from leading global and local corporate entities to high net worth individuals. Caren has recently been appointed as Chairman of the Employment and Training Committee for the Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce. She joined Appleby in 2001. Juan Thornley is a member of the corporate and commercial practice group based in the Isle of Man. He advises on a broad range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private equity and joint ventures. He has extensive experience of advising financial services businesses and insurers on a range of matters from restructuring to ongoing compliance and he acts for fiduciary service providers and companies within the e-business sector. He joined Appleby in 2003.
NEW APPOINTMENTS FOR STANDARD BANK IOM Standard Bank, Isle of Man’s IFA distribution team is expanding with the appointment of two new Business Development Managers. The move follows the local bank’s continued growth and the success of the IFA team in building business relationships worldwide. The Standard Bank IFA team manage the relationship between Standard Bank and independent financial advisers around the world, by providing products tailor made for the IFA market. John Kilgour has been appointed Business Development Manager for Europe, and David Patterson Business Development Manager for the Middle East and India. John was formerly at Royal Skandia where he worked for eight years, most recently as a Sales Consultant for Europe. He takes over from Sheena Maddrell who will now concentrate on IFAs introducing seafarer accounts. David is replacing Simon Buckerfield who left the bank in December 2013. He was formerly at Lloyds Bank International as a Business Relationship Manager looking after a portfolio of Premier Banking clients. Both men will report to John Hall, Head of IFA distribution: ‘These two appointments will be a welcome boost to our team at a time of growth within our business. John already has relationships with IFAs in Europe from his previous role at Royal Skandia and I know will hit the ground running. David will concentrate not only on managing the existing relationships in the Middle East, but also in developing new business in India which is an opportunity we started to explore last year. ’