Board/Senior Management

James Mellon, Chairman
Appointed as Non-Executive Chairman in June 2006, then Executive Chairman in February 2009. James Mellon holds directorships in a number of publicly quoted companies, many of which are in the financial services sector. He is a life tenant of the trust which owns Burnbrae Group Limited which, in turn, indirectly holds approximately 20% of Manx Financial Group PLC. He is the founder, principal shareholder and co-chairman of the Regent Pacific Group, quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with total assets of approximately US$ 250 million. He is also founder, principal shareholder and a non-executive director of Charlemagne Capital, based on the Isle of Man and quoted on the London AIM market, which has approximately US$ 3.48 billion of assets under management.

Denham Eke, Chief Executive Officer
Appointed as Non-Executive Director in October 2007 and as Chief Executive Officer in February 2009. Denham Eke began his career in stockbroking before moving into corporate planning for a major international insurance broker. He is a director of many years' standing of both public and private companies involved in the financial services, property, mining, and manufacturing sectors. On the Isle of Man, he is Chairman of Webis Holdings PLC, Chief Operating Officer of Speymill PLC, Finance Director of Emerging Metals Limited and Finance Director of Copper Development Corporation - all quoted on the London AIM market. He is also Managing Director of Burnbrae Group Limited.

Arron AF Banks
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in 2005 and then CEO from April 2008 until February 2009. Previously Chief Executive Officer of Group Direct Limited, a direct insurance group incorporating Commercial Vehicle Direct, One Business Insurance Solutions, Motor & Home Direct Insurance Services, Taxi Direct, eBike Insurance, as well as other non-insurance products including Panacea Finance Limited, a premium finance company. Mr Banks has been involved in insurance since 1987, predominantly at Director level, with Lloyds, Haven (NU) and Motorcycle Direct, which he co-founded.

Donald Cecil McCrickard
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in June 2006. From 1975-1983 Mr McCrickard was employed by American Express where he successively headed their businesses in the UK, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia/Pacific/Australia and was a Director of American Express International Inc. Mr McCrickard was employed by the TSB Group PLC (now Lloyds TSB Group) from 1983-1992 and became Group Chief Executive as well as Chairman of Hill Samuel, the group’s merchant banking subsidiary. He was Chairman of the group’s Executive Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the British Bankers Association and a member of the Bank of England’s Deposit Protection Board. Mr McCrickard has since held chairmanships and directorships of a number of listed and private companies and specialises in Far Eastern affairs.

Alan Clarke (Chairman of the Audit Committee and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee)
Appointed a Non-Executive Director in 2004. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and former partner of Ernst & Young during which time he worked closely with HSBC offshore operations in both the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Since 1996 has specialised in corporate finance and strategic consultancy and is a registered auditor. Mr Clarke currently holds several Non-Executive Directorships for listed and privately owned businesses.

David Gibson (Member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee and Remuneration Committee)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in February 2009. Mr Gibson qualified as a certified accountant whilst holding posts with Shell-Mex & BP and CIBA-Geigy throughout the UK and abroad before transferring into treasury management in senior positions with Turner & Newall and Westland Helicopters where he qualified as a corporate treasurer. Mr Gibson joined the Trustee Savings Bank of the Channel Islands as Finance Director prior to becoming General Manager Finance at TSB Retail Bank where he gained his formal qualifications as a banker. Prior to retiring from executive life for family reasons he was Group Finance Director of Portman Building Society for 9 years. Mr Gibson is currently Deputy Chairman of commercial property investment companies Chellbrook Properties PLC and Mountstephen Investments Limited and a Non-Executive Director of TransSend Payments Limited and Conister Bank Limited.

Douglas Grant (Group Finance Director)
Appointed as the Group Finance Director in January 2010 having worked as a financial consultant to the Group since November 2008. Mr Grant has over 25 years experience working in finance, initially with Scottish Power before moving to the Industrial sector to work with I.C.I. and then Allenwest. Prior to joining Manx Financial Group PLC he was the Financial Controller and then Finance Director of various UK and Isle of Man shipping sector companies.

Oliver Hare (Non Executive Director)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in January 2011. Mr Hare is currently Managing Director of Commercial Intellingence Funds Group and Executive Director of Hawksburn Capital. He was previously Vice Chairman of Helvetica Wealth Management Partners S.A. in Geneva. Before founding Helvetica Wealth Management Partners in 2004, Mr Hare was a Managing Director at Banque Piguet, a boutique Private Bank in Geneva. Prior to this he was a Managing Director within the Equities division of UBS (formerly S.G. Warburg), where he worked for over 15 years. Mr Hare’s career started in UK equity trading and sales before he took on management positions, including taking charge of an equity sales team in Madrid, then the servicing institutional clients and product distribution in Paris, and, finally being responsible for institutional equity and derivatives distribution in Switzerland. He is also a partner of Unicos Partnership LLP in Singapore.

Juan Kelly (Managing Director, Conister Bank Limited)
Appointed as an Executive Director of Manx Financial Group PLC and Managing Director of Conister Bank Limited on 19th September 2011. Mr Kelly's career started with Maersk before moving into structured finance with ABN AMRO in Chile and subsequently The Netherlands. Following this he joined SG Hambros in London, acting as adviser to a range of large asset transactions. In 2004, he joined Allied Irish Banks and after 3 years he was posted to Sydney as Head of Corporate & Asset Finance in the Asia Pacific region. Mr Kelly has a wide range of experience within commercial and investment banking including building quality loan books and reviewing merger and acquisition opportunities.