Stephen qualified as an English lawyer in 1998, specialising in private client matters. By 2003 he was a partner in a boutique law firm heading up the wealth planning and private client department. A change in direction saw him relocate to Spain and in 2004 he joined Sovereign\u2019s Gibraltar office as in-house legal counsel. In 2007 he became a director of that office and was responsible for the legal, compliance and customer service operations. Stephen transferred to Guernsey in 2010 when the Group opened its first Channel Islands office and became the Managing Director in 2012. Following a restructure of the Guernsey office in 2020 Stephen continued to head up the trust & company side of the business until March 2025 when he became the Group Risk and Compliance Director.<\/p>\n
He continues to hold his practicing certificate and is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Chartered Management Institute, the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners and the International Compliance Association. He is deputy chair of Sovereign\u2019s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee and sits on the Virtual Assets Committee. Outside of work, Stephen discovered Parkrun in 2018 and admits he\u2019s got the running bug; he also likes to travel and is a self-proclaimed bookworm. Stephen is a mental health first aider and is also a non-executive director and chair of the board of Guernsey Mind, a local mental health charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":87295,"template":"","team":[500],"class_list":["post-28652","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team-group-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n