Guernsey Private Wealth Forum 2025 - Panel 2

Gillian leads the regulator’s supervision and policy development in respect of the Bailiwick’s Investment, Fiduciary and Pension sectors. She takes a keen interest in creating an enabling environment for growth including in relation to private wealth and supports initiatives that facilitate more effective regulation using new data-driven technology. On behalf of the Commission, she is an active participant in the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and the Group of International Finance Centre Supervisors (GIFCS). 

Gillian joined the Guernsey Financial Services Commission in July 2014 from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA; and formerly the Financial Services Authority), where she regulated a wide range of financial institutions. She started her career in the Cabinet Office, where she was a Minister’s Private Secretary and Policy Officer. Gillian graduated from Exeter University where she read History and Politics.

Edward has more than 20 years of experience of providing advice on a wide variety of tax matters to families and high-net-worth individuals. His specialism is in the field of international private client tax. He advises on offshore/onshore structuring and planning, co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional advice and has considerable experience in advising on the taxation of offshore trusts.

Edward is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation's International Capital Taxes Technical Group and sits on the ICAEW’s Private Client Committee. He is co-chair of the CLA Global Private Client Group, a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and member of the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT) and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Kerrie is a Director and Country Head at HIGHVERN in Guernsey and part of the senior leadership team in its pan-island Private Wealth business. A lawyer by background, she was called to the Guernsey Bar in 2009 and has practised at leading offshore firms, as well as running her own boutique private wealth legal practice. She has extensive experience advising on complex, high-value structures — including trusts, foundations and corporate entities — for high-net-worth individuals, families and entrepreneurs. At HIGHVERN, she draws on her legal expertise and technical skills to support clients and their advisers in establishing and administering robust structures.

Kerrie is also Chair of the Guernsey Association of Trustees, the representative body for fiduciary licence holders in Guernsey. In that role, she leads the Executive Committee in representing the industry in discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders, including the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and Guernsey Finance.

Helen McGhee is a Partner in the Joseph Hage Aaronson Contentious Tax team, specialising in UK and international tax disputes involving HNW individuals and their family or business enterprises. She is a Solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser, a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and is a CEDR accredited mediator. Helen is an industry leading specialist at running highly complex HMRC investigations (often in the context of a wider trust dispute) where she has a proven track record of negotiating very favourable settlements. While her specialism is the taxation of internationally mobile individuals and their structures, she proficiently handles a wide variety of contentious and advisory tax matters. 

Paul is a highly regarded financial services professional with more than 35 years of international experience, principally in the areas of fiduciary and administration and insolvency. He is currently an independent fiduciary consultant advising both individuals and families and institutions, and is a Non-Executive Director of Praxis Group Limited.  Paul is also a Commissioner of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Paul has actively supported the growth and development of the finance sector in Guernsey and has been a committee member and chair of the local STEP branch, the Guernsey Association of Trustees and, most recently, as chair of the Guernsey International Business Association (GIBA). He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and a member of STEP. Previously, Paul was a senior executive of Butterfield Group from 1998 to 2023 based in Guernsey.