Marlborough

Nick has 25 years experience in an offshore financial services environment. Moving to Guernsey in 1986, he joined one of its leading law firms and was appointed to the board of their trust company in 1988 at the age of 24. In 1998 Nick accepted the role of operations director with another law firm owned trust company. After five years he had built this business from start-up to one with over 1000 clients and £2billion of assets under management.

Nick established Marlborough Trust Company in 2003 and has seen its growth from 4 to 50 staff in 5 years. Nick sits on the boards of numerous client companies covering a broad range of activities as well as on the boards of open and closed ended Guernsey Funds.

David was born and educated in Guernsey. In 1988 he joined a substantial legal practice and after two years headed up their company formation department. After completing his studies for the Certificate in Offshore Administration, David joined a law firm owned trust company as an administrative manager and in 2003 was appointed to the Board. In January 2004, David teamed up with Nick Hannah at Marlborough bringing with him over twenty years experience in the formation and administration of companies and trusts in numerous jurisdictions.

Adrian has broad experience of the finance industry having worked in fund management, investments, insurance and lending. After leaving full time education in 1988 he worked for a merchant bank in their offshore banking and investment divisions. After five years he moved into financial services and worked for an international life company providing advice on insurance and trust products.

In 2001 he accepted the position of marketing director of a local trust company associated to one of the largest law firms in the Channel Islands. Adrian left after three successful years to assist in the creation and development of Marlborough Trust Company where he is a member of the Board. Adrian is member of AMPS and a committee member of the Guernsey Association of Pension Providers

Ben is British and resident in Guernsey. He helped establish Marlborough Trust Company Limited after spending 3 years with the offshore business of Deloitte & Touche as the manager of their private client department, specialising in multi-jurisdictional tax mitigation structures for property holding and development. He started his career with an independent trust company in Guernsey and spent time marketing their services through Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a result he amassed a wealth of knowledge of offshore property structuring and management for clients around the world.

Ben currently sits on the board of a number of European and Middle Eastern property development funds and is co-chairman of Guernsey Film, a promotional body structuring international film finance.

Darren joined Marlborough in December 2009, bringing with him extensive knowledge of international wealth management and compliance. Immediately before joining Marlborough Darren was Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the Guernsey division of one of the UK’s largest banks. Prior to this appointment Darren held positions in the Guernsey retail banking sector ranging from Personal Wealth Management to Corporate Relationship Manager.

Darren has specialised in pension provision for a large part of his career and is a regular contributor to various industry publications. Darren is a member of the Guernsey Association of Pension Providers.

Nick has worked at the forefront of financial services since 2003. He began his financial career as a business development manager for a mortgage packager before rising through the ranks to head of sales. After four years Nick was headhunted to revive an ailing financial services company where he worked closely with the directors implementing a structured training, sales and reporting process, from which the company saw exponential growth.

Nick moved into the private banking market where he was tasked with launching a secured loan proposition for the B2B market. With the financial tides changing in 2007, Nick made a return to the property sector, an area he had worked in prior to coming into finance, raising finance, acquiring properties and structuring these purchases in a tax-efficient way. It was this role that brought him into contact with Marlborough, where he now acts as a specialist consultant to the company.

Tim has nearly 20 years of experience working within the trust, insurance and tax industry gaining his experience in jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Spain and the Middle East.

Having served as an officer in the South African Defence Force, Tim went on to take up a management post in Hong Kong and then transferred to Guernsey in 1997 where he studied for his Investment Management, Offshore Fund Administration and Financial Planning qualifications.  Once qualified, Tim worked for Credit Suisse as a relationship manager.  2002 saw Tim move to MeesPierson where he went on to take up the role as manager in the business development team.

Tim joined Marlborough in 2010 bringing his extensive knowledge and diverse experience to the marketing team.