In total more than 55 students were applauded amongst the sell-out audience of professionals in attendance at the CGI Jersey Graduation Dinner 2021.
Held at the Radisson Blu on Friday, 24th September, the event was hosted by the Jersey Branch of The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland (CGI) to recognise the achievements of graduates who qualified in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
The event also applauded CGI members who upgraded to Associate (ACG) and Fellow (FCG) status, students who had completed their IFA4 Certificate and IFA5 Diploma qualifications, and those who had achieved international and local accolade for their examination performance during this period.
The Student Excellence Award, which has been sponsored by BPP CI for the last 10 years, and based on examination performance was also awarded. As special recognition of the fortitude of students during the pandemic, the CGI Jersey Council chose to award a Student Excellence Award for each of the three examination sessions held since November 2019.
Anna Tredant ACG, the CGI Jersey Branch Chairman, said: “We were delighted to celebrate the achievements of our graduates, students and local members. Although not our usual Annual Awards event, we felt it was entirely appropriate to place this focus on the students, graduates and qualifying members, and to celebrate their hard work, especially so given the recent challenging times. We were particularly grateful to the generosity of our sponsors, Apex Group, BPP CI, Computershare, Crestbridge, First Intuition, and VG for making the event possible.”
Employees from a range of Jersey businesses were applauded. Since 2019, Jersey has achieved a total of 14 International Prize winners, each with the highest mark worldwide for their respective IFA4, IFA5 and CGQP papers.
Eight of the international prize winners attended the event, between them winning 10 international awards for their outstanding performance. International Prize winners in attendance were:
- Amira Fernandes of Aztec Group
- Chloe Knight of Ocorian
- Emily Collins of Ogier
- Hannah Penberthy of Crestbridge
- Ana Da Costa of Computershare
- Emma-Jane Berry of Computershare
- Heather Rabet of VG
- Rachel Patterson of Aztec Group
The graduation ceremony, with formal graduation attire, celebrated the Jersey-based students who graduated as GradCG or upgraded to ACG and FCG status. These included:
- Roman Siler GradCG of Intertrust
- Josephine Garnier GradCG of Alter Domus
- Tara Duncan GradCG of Langham Hall
- Natacha Hawkins Kay GradCG of Ocorian
- Ewan Powell GradCG of Alter Domus
- Debbie Sawyer GradCG of Apex Group
- Stuart Fell GradCG of VG
- Sofia Fernandes GradCG of Marwyn Jersey
- Andrew Rafferty GradCG of Crestbridge
- Rory Forrest GradCG of Mourant
- Emily Collins ACG of Ogier
- Rachel Van Neste ACG of Capvis
- Edward Fletcher FCG of Mourant
- Matthew Fletcher FCG of Rawlinson & Hunter
The Dinner celebrations also recognised students who have completed the various stages of their CGI qualifications in the examination sessions in November 2019, November 2020 and June 2021.
Students present who have completed the IFA4 Certificate in International Finance and Administration during the period included:
- Chloe Knight – Ocorian
- Jake McMichael – VG
- Amanda Burczyk – Apex Group
- Harry Messervy – Langham Hall
- Abbie Weaver – Mourant
- Stephanie Pollock – Apex Group
- Samantha Schreiner – Apex Group
- Deanna De Lemos-Cooper – Intertrust
- Jade Perez – IQEQ
- Laura Ennis – IQEQ
- Liam McGuinness – VG
- Rubina Camacho – IQEQ
- Nakita Berry – Apex Group
- Ben Kynman – Computershare
Students in attendance who had completed the IFA5 Diploma in International Finance and Administration during 2019, 2020 and 2021, were:
- Sheena Huggett – VG
- Agnese Celmina – Moore Stephens
- Hannah Penberthy – Crestbridge
- Liliana Rodrigues – Computershare
- Amira Fernandes – Aztec Group
- Charlotte Carry – Intertrust
- Evangeline Troy – Intertrust
- Emma Worley – Intertrust
- Jamie Bolton – Intertrust
- Patricia Mendes Da Costa – Ocorian
- Ana Da Costa – Computershare
- Niamh Jepson – Alter Domus
The celebrations culminated with the announcement of the Best Completions in each of the qualifications, along with the Overall Best for Jersey for each year. The winners were presented with the Student Excellence Award for their respective year.
In November 2019, the Best Jersey Completions were achieved as follows:
- Best IFA4 Jersey Completion – Chloe Knight
- Best IFA5 Jersey Completion – Helena Kergozou
- Best CGQP Jersey Completion – Emily Louise Collins
- Best Overall Jersey Completion for 2019 – Chloe Knight of Ocorian
In November 2020, the Best Jersey Completions were achieved by:
- Best IFA4 Jersey Completion – Sophie O’Halloran
- Best IFA5 Jersey Completion – Hannah Penberthy
- Best CGQP Jersey Completion – Ivana Paprckova
- Best Overall Jersey Completion for 2020 – Hannah Penberthy of Crestbridge
And in June 2021, the Best Jersey Completions were:
- Best IFA4 Jersey Completion – Samantha Schreiner
- Best IFA5 Jersey Completion – Madeleine Farrow
- Best CGQP Jersey Completion – Rory Forrest
- Best Overall Jersey Completion for 2021 – Joint Winners: Samantha Schreiner of Apex Group and Madeleine Farrow of Ogier
In addition to achieving the Best Overall Jersey Completion for their respective year, Chloe Knight, Hannah Penberthy, and Samantha Schreiner and Madeleine Farrow were also presented with the Student Excellence Award for 2019, 2020 and 2021.
The CGI Jersey Annual Awards is set to return in 2022 and a date will be announced soon.
Photos courtesy of Gary Grimshaw at Photo Reportage.
