Two members of the senior management team at trust and corporate services firm NWH Global have been appointed to the company’s Guernsey board.
Helen Bougourd is Head of Client Services and Adam Pickering is Compliance Manager in the Guernsey office of the group which also has a presence in the BVI, Hong Kong, Dubai, Mauritius and New Zealand.
Helen has worked for a number of fiduciary businesses in Guernsey over the past 20 years. She rose to the position of client services director before being appointed to her current role at NWH Global, formerly Newhaven Trust, in 2016. She holds the Institute of Directors Diploma in company direction, is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators.
Adam is a Professional Member of the International Compliance Association (ICA) and holds the ICA diploma in governance, risk and compliance. He was born and educated in South Africa, where he was admitted as an attorney in 2012 and is now a non-practising member of the Cape Law Society. After beginning his career as an associate at a respected South African law firm, he relocated to Guernsey in 2014 and became legal assistant to the managing director of a trust company. He joined NWH Global in 2015 where he designed, implemented and now oversees compliance policy, procedures and controls.
Charlotte Denton, Global Chief Executive Officer of NWH Global, said: “During their relatively short time at NWH Helen and Adam have both demonstrated their significant experience and they will be invaluable additions to the Guernsey board.”