Board of directors

Andreas is an experienced Financial Services former executive who now focusses on acting as an Independent Director on Listed and Private Funds as well as other regulated businesses. He is currently a Director and Chairman of Audit Committee for two AIM Listed Boards, a LSE listed Aircraft Leasing platform as well as a local Bank and Asset Manager.

From 1994 until 2018 Andreas was a senior executive at Deutsche Bank and was most recently CEO Channel Islands and Head of Financial Intermediaries for EMEA and LATAM. He also sat on the UK Regional Governance Board of Deutsche and the EMEA Wealth Management Exco.

He has also served on Local Government advisory committees and was for 6 years a non-executive director on the Virgin Group Board. Andreas first career was in the Oil Industry as a Geologist before moving to PricewaterhouseCoopers where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994.

He was appointed Chair of the Company as of 1st November 2024.

Ms Sally-Ann Farnon (known as Susie) is an independent non-executive director of the Company, and a member of the Company's Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Management Engagement Committee. Susie is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a non-executive director of a number of property and listed investment companies. She has served as President of the Guernsey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants; as a member of The States of Guernsey Audit Commission and as Vice-Chairman of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

All Directors are independent of the Investment Manager and free from any business or other relationship that could materially interfere with the exercise of their independent judgement.

The Directors are committed to zero tolerance towards the criminal facilitation of tax evasion.

The Board has established an Audit Committee, a Nomination Committee and a Management Engagement Committee, in each case with formally delegated duties and responsibilities within written terms of reference. The terms of reference may be requested by contacting the Company Secretary (reci@aztecgroup.co.uk or 01481 748831).

Colleen McHugh is managing director of 1818 Venture Capital, a licensed asset manager based in Guernsey. In addition, she is a non-executive director for a private investment fund. She sits on the Investment committee for Wealthify (part of the Aviva PLC group) a UK regulated Robo-adviser. Colleen has over 20 years’ experience in the investment and financial services industry having worked predominantly as an Investment Manager and Private Banker for publicly listed banks such as HSBC, Barclays and Butterfield Bank, across several regions, but with a focussed on international financial centres. She holds an economics degree from the University of Ireland (Galway) and a MBA from the University of London. Colleen is a Chartered Wealth Manager and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment.

Mark is a Guernsey resident with over 30 years experience in the offshore finance industry.  He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW), Chartered Director (IoD) and a former chairman of the Guernsey Branch of the Institute of Directors.

Mark is a non-executive director and chair of the audit and risk committees of Utmost Worldwide Limited.  He is also a non-executive director of Rocq Capital Holdings Limited and was formerly the chairman of the London listed investment company Trian Investors 1 Ltd.

Mark worked for KPMG for 31 years in London, Hong Kong and Guernsey where his roles included audit partner, head of audit and seniorpartner of KPMG in the Channel Islands.