Our Board

Jonathan has over 20 years of experience in the private wealth industry. He began his career as a solicitor in England before moving to the BVI, where he spent ten years initially practising as a BVI lawyer and later managing a trust company.

Jonathan has considerable experience working with corporate and private clients on corporate and trust matters. He has worked with a large number of private equity firms in Europe and has extensive experience with clients in the Far East. He is a member of STEP and a recommended advisor on the Private Client Global Elite Directory.

Kayla Laidlaw is a Tax Director with Deloitte BVI, and is focused on assisting clients across the Caribbean region with meeting their global tax transparency and information reporting obligations. Kayla has been with Deloitte for over 12 years, and leads the delivery of Deloitte’s FATCA, Common Reporting Standard (CRS), Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) and Economic Substance (ES) service offerings in the BVI, the Cayman Islands, and Bermuda. She has also assisted with the implementation of regulatory reporting portals and the related administration and oversight processes for various tax authorities in the region.

Sabinah has over 25 years of experience in senior management roles within the trust and corporate services industry, along with specialised experience in corporate governance, asset and fund management, corporate finance, and risk management. She joined Trident Trust in 2023 as Managing Director of the BVI office from an international trust and corporate services company.

Sabinah holds an LL.M. in Law & Corporate Governance from the University of Portsmouth, a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law, and an MBA from the University of West Indies. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland.

Fanny Evans is a Partner at Morgan & Morgan and works in the firm’s Private Wealth Law & Corporate Services practice group, specializing her practice in business and corporate law, estate planning, and company formation and management. For almost a decade, Fanny lived in the British Virgin Islands, where she serves as the Executive Director of Mogan & Morgan´s offices in that jurisdiction.

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Ayana Glasgow is a BVI regulated trust and corporate services provider.

Ayana has accumulated over twenty-five years’ experience in the BVI financial services industry, with an emphasis on regulatory matters and expertise in the administration of trust and corporate vehicles. Ayana began her career as a regulator with the BVI Financial Services Commission, having served as its Deputy Director - Banking & Fiduciary Services at the time of her departure.

Prior to joining Aleman, Ayana held compliance and private wealth roles with a Jersey based legal and fiduciary services group. Ayana holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Acadia University and a Master of Business Administration Global Management from the University of Phoenix. She is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association, a member of the Association for Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists and a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Ayana has served as a member of several government statutory boards and other regulatory committees and is currently a member of the Company Law Review Advisory Committee. She's now the Executive Director of International Business Regulations at the Ministry of Financial Services, Labour and Trade Government of the Virgin Islands (UK).

Chris is the Managing partner of Maples and Calder in the Maples Group's British Virgin Islands office where he is also co-head of the Corporate and Finance practices.

He has a broad corporate and finance practice with particular expertise in restructuring as well as advising financial institutions, sponsors, investors and borrowers on a wide range of financings. In addition to his finance practice, Chris plays an active role in the public equity group, advising companies listing on the North American exchanges as well the ongoing requirements of publicly listed BVI companies.

Chris joined the Maples Group in 2016. Prior to joining Maples, he had been in the British Virgin Islands since 2012 with another international law firm. Chris previously worked in the Banking and Corporate Recovery team at Travers Smith in London.

Christopher Simpson is a partner and head of the commercial department at O’Neal Webster. His practice focuses primarily on corporate and commercial, banking and finance, and investment funds, where he advises a client base of leading financial institutions, corporations, and law firms on all aspects of corporate finance including joint ventures, initial public offerings, private placements, mergers, arrangements, corporate restructuring, bilateral and syndicated loans, bond issues, property financing, project finance, special purpose vehicles, investment funds, including crypto funds, and general aspects of corporate law. He also advises on investment business and regulatory matters, including fintech and digital assets. Prior to joining O’Neal Webster, Christopher practised with another leading offshore law firm in both their BVI and Hong Kong offices.

Christopher is regularly instructed by clients on high value corporate, banking and investment funds transactions. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in numerous IPOs, including on AIM, TSX, NASDAQ, SGX and the LSE. He has also been involved in groundbreaking deals including one of the first ever court approved corporate arrangement schemes in the BVI, one of the largest single asset real estate financings in China, and the largest local domestic acquisition in the BVI.

Christopher is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School. He is also a graduate of the University of London where he obtained an LLM in International Business Law. Christopher was admitted in the British Virgin Islands in 2001 and was registered as a foreign lawyer in Hong Kong in 2006. Christopher is a past Treasurer of the BVI Bar Association and is a Notary Public.
 

Deon Vanterpool is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience in strategic operations and wealth management. His expertise has been instrumental in driving the success of international corporations across banking, finance, virtual asset regulation, global compliance, and artificial intelligence (AI).
As Vice President and Director of Bank of Asia and President of BOA Investment Services Limited, Mr. Vanterpool has played a key role in implementing core banking, compliance, risk management, and customer relationship management systems. A recognized industry leader, he has represented the bank on ACAMS and BVI Finance panels, speaking on compliance, funds, and digital assets. He also oversees global teams and clients, ensuring high-level results, and has successfully introduced and executed digital asset exchange clients within the BVI regulatory framework.
Before joining Bank of Asia, Mr. Vanterpool built a distinguished career in process improvement and strategic development for public and private sector projects. At ATKearney Consulting, he contributed to innovative solutions for multinational organizations, leveraging his global perspective and expertise.
Mr. Vanterpool holds an M.B.A. in Enterprise Risk Management and CRM from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, a B.A. in Finance from Morehouse College, and an ICA International Diploma in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (MICA). He is SPHR-certified in human resources and has studied in Germany, South Korea, and Brazil (University of São Paulo). His early career experience includes an internship with Chase Securities on Wall Street.

George Weston is a partner in Harney's Corporate Practice Group and advises on all aspects of BVI corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, downstream private equity investments, joint ventures, public and private share offerings, capital raisings and corporate reorganisations. Although he works with clients in a wide range of industry sectors across the globe, George has particular expertise working with leading law firms and private equity investors on cross-border corporate acquisitions and joint ventures with a technology or real estate element, and leads our BVI hospitality sector group.
Prior to joining Harneys, George spent seven years in the London office of Paul Hastings, where he worked on a number of high-profile corporate transactions and completed a secondment at JP Morgan Chase.

Iona Wright is a Senior Counsel in Walkers' Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group, based in the BVI. She has substantial expertise across a wide range of financial services regulatory matters, including the BVI implementation of OECD tax driven initiatives, anti-money laundering, public beneficial ownership registers and data protection, with a particular focus on virtual assets regulation. Iona has over 14 years' experience in advising on onshore and offshore financial services regulation, both in-house and in private practice, having worked in Walkers' Cayman office, the financial services regulatory department of Norton Rose Fulbright London and been seconded to Russell Investments and Chicago Mercantile Exchange during her career.