Sebastian Dovey is an entrepreneur, thought leader and board director in the fields of global wealth management, consumer insight, technology, scale-up companies and business management. Seb was the co-founder in 1998 of Scorpio Partnership, an award-winning global management consultancy and insight data business. This was acquired by Aon PLC in 2014. Seb is currently Chairman of F2 Strategy, and holds non-executive board roles at FiComm, Entrepreneurs Investment Office, and Angel Academe Nominee. He also holds advisory board seats at Moneyhub, Align 17 and Silver Lane. Separately, Seb is the Chairman of the Global Client Experience Innovation Committee for a major international bank and advises two sizeable financial families on their strategic growth for their investment offices.

Seb’s expertise spans 25 years of developing high-impact commercial strategies for private banks, global banks, asset managers, family offices, technology firms, service providers, aggregators and start-up initiatives. Seb is the 2018 winner of the Wealth Briefing Thought Leader of the Year award and he is Thought Leader-In-Residence for Fitch Learning worldwide. He is a regular commentator on the wealth management industry in the press and at conferences and academies, and has chaired and presented leading industry events in Asia, Europe and the United States. He has been a lecturer at The Swiss Finance Institute (formerly the Swiss Banking School) for its executive MBA programme. He serves as board member of the London School of Economics Generate initiative focused on entrepreneurship in the social sciences and is on the editorial board of WealthBriefing.

Ariel is currently a Partner at Davidoff Law and a former Partner at Swiss law firm LINDEMANNLAW looking after the legal requirements of international and Swiss UHNWI entrepreneurs, their companies and families. His expertise inter alia comprises M&A, corporate structuring, regulatory advice, relocation, real estate, succession planning, charity etc. He is on the board of successful Swiss, EU and UK companies.

His industry exposure is in energy, solar, water, fertilizer, wealth and asset management, banking, trust, finance instruments including NFT. Beside a doctorate of business administration, Ariel holds an MBA from Rochester NY and an LL.M. of the University of Zurich. He is a STEP, IFA and IISS member.

Sabila is CEO and Founder of Din Consultants, HQ in London and is an accomplished global business management, marketing and gender specialist. She works with global private banks, elite family offices and entrepreneurs – delivering propositions for growth. She works extensively with World Bank/IFC across EMEA, building financial capacity to drive female SME growth and gender financial inclusion. In addition to her consultancy, she also runs a ‘property private client office’. Prior to setting up her businesses, she held senior roles at ABN AMRO, Asia, JWT HK and was an Associate, IBM e-business fs consultant, EMEA.

David is responsible for Julius Baer’s business in the UK and Republic of Ireland. He is a director of the board of Julius Baer International Limited. He joined Julius Baer from Merrill Lynch International Wealth Management UK when the business was acquired in 2013. In the previous 14 years at Merrill Lynch, he held a number of roles, originally joining the business as an associate financial advisor. He sits on the British Museum Chairman’s Advisory Board.

Chris Fisher is chief executive of Multrees, a business formed in 2010 to provide independent and un-conflicted custody, trading and administration services to independent asset managers. Chris has over 25 years’ experience in asset servicing and wealth management, and the Multrees business provides services to a number of firms managing in excess of £12 billion in private client investment assets.

A graduate of ESCP Europe, Vincent Lecomte held several positions in the consulting field before joining Paribas’ securities services business in France in 1992. He then moved to Germany, where he spent three years as head of the securities business. In 1998, he joined the Investment Partners business, where he was appointed chief operating officer) and a member of the executive committee. In late 2005, he became deputy head of the personal Investors business line and deputy CEO of Cortal Consors – two roles which he would go on to hold for five years.

Since September 2010, Vincent Lecomte has been COO at BNP Paribas Wealth Management. In December 2011, he has been appointed co-head of the Wealth Management business, together with Sofia Merlo.

Duncan MacIntyre joined Lombard Odier in January 2016 as Chief Executive Officer of Lombard Odier’s Private Client business in the UK. He was appointed Global UK Region Head in 2019, and currently leads teams across London, Geneva, Zurich and the Bahamas. He became a Limited Partner in January 2024. Duncan has 30 years of experience in Private Wealth Management. Prior to joining Lombard Odier, he founded and was global head of Coutts Private Office managing Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) clients across the world. He began his career working at James Capel as an investment manager, before being recruited by Flemings to establish a UNHW private bank. His experience with UHNW clients then led him to take a senior banker role at JP Morgan. Duncan holds a BA in Latin American studies and a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Economics. He participated in the Harvard Business School Executive Education programme and is a Chartered Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute (CISI).

Daniel worked in management positions in leading trust companies in Canada prior to taking up roles in offshore trust companies in Nassau, Jersey and Geneva with Coutts International Private Bank. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, he subsequently earned his Master of Business Administration at the University of Miami. He is accredited as a member of the Financial Planning Institute of Canada and a member of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (STEP). Daniel is a founder of the Swiss Association of Trust Companies (SATC). Daniel is a Canadian and Swiss citizen and speaks English and French.

Recently recognised as “tax & trusts lawyer of the year” (Spears’ Wealth Management Awards 2022), James is the head of our private wealth team. James is widely regarded  as one of the leading practitioners in the UK and is described in the Chambers HNW Guide (2019) as “very much a figurehead of the industry…… he carries a lot of experience”.

James has a wide ranging practice, advising on UK and international taxation, residency and domicile, offshore pensions and trusts, asset protection, succession planning and HMRC disputes.

James is one of the most prominent private client lawyers in the UK and frequently appears in the press and broadcast media (Sky News, BBC TV News, BBC Radios 2 / 3 / 4 / 5, Bloomberg TV and the BBC World Service). He writes and lectures widely on tax policy. The private client publication “e-private client” names James, for the last 8 years running, as a “Top 50 Most Influential’ in the private client industry.

As well as being a solicitor, regulated by the SRA, he is a Registered Tax Technician, regulated by the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT). He is an active member of STEP and a contributing editor for Lexis/Nexis.

Michael Reed is a seasoned angel investor, board director, and sustainability strategist, specialising in aligning wealth with impact. With a 28-year career in wealth management – including 22 years in senior executive roles at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) across Canada, the US, UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore, he has built deep expertise in advising UHNW families. As former CEO of RBC Singapore and head of Southeast Asia, he led strategic growth in one of the world’s most dynamic financial regions.
He founded Family Sustainability, a firm helping UHNW families integrate sustainability into their wealth strategies. He also serves as COO/CIO of Etcho, a technology platform empowering advisors to align client investments with personal values. In his role at Imagine H2O, he mentors sustainability start-ups focused on water innovation. As a Senior Advisor to The Sustainability Board, he supports governance and impact initiatives, particularly through the Institute for Sustainable Family Business. He holds an MSc in Environment and Sustainability from University of London – Birkbeck College, an MBA from Kellogg/Schulich (Northwestern/York), and a Honours BA in Economics from Queen’s University. He is a CFA Charterholder, Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP), and holds multiple professional investment designations.

Ray Soudah is the founding partner and chairman of MilleniumAssociates, the independent international M&A and Corporate Finance Advisory firm, based in Switzerland and the UK. Founded in 2000, the firm marks twenty-two years of exceptional, independent M&A and corporate finance advisory service. Originally focused on executing M&A transactions in the global financial services industry, as the industry developed and private banks recognised the need to offer their clients more specialist corporate finance advice, Millenium Associates launched their Entrepreneurs and
Corporates Practice, extending their M&A and corporate finance services to the clients of private
banks as well as corporates and entrepreneurial business owners globally.
Ray has extensive multicultural wealth management and private banking/investment banking experience working in territories as diverse as the US, Asia, Middle East and Europe. Earlier positions include; Managing Director and member of the Private Banking Management Board for SBC/UBS AG; Chief Investment Officer, Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Board of Cedel Bank (renamed Clearstream); Chief Investment Officer for the National Bank of Bahrain including Head of International Banking and Private Banking; CEO of Hong Kong, CEO of Japan, Head of Global Capital Markets office (London) and head of FIG for Midland Montagu Investment Banking and MD/CEO of
Midland Montagu Securities as well as various senior positions within Citigroup, including Head of Asia Pacific Treasury and Capital Markets.
Ray is a Harvard Business School & INSEAD alumnus and speaks English, French, Greek and Japanese.

Iain joined London & Capital in in 2006 and became a Partner in 2008. He heads the firm’s Private Investment Office, which he founded in 2012. The Private Investment Office provides wealth management services for some of the firm’s largest clients, both UK based and international. 

Before London & Capital, Iain ran his own wealth management business, in association with Zurich Financial Services, where he built a large HNW client base. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Freeman, Farmer and Anderson Company at only 27.

Iain was named Private Client Asset Manager of the Year by Magic Circle Awards in 2021 and as Top Recommended in UNHW Wealth Managers 2022.

Iain is also a trustee for the Daniel Freedman Foundation.

David Wallace Wilson heads Schellenberg Wittmer’s private wealth team in Geneva and is regarded as a leading practitioner in this field. He is listed Tier 1 by Chambers and Partners HNW since 2015 and appears in the Private Client Global Elite since 2012. David assists private clients and their families with wealth structuring and succession planning. He also acts in family, guardianship and inheritance disputes, including domestic and international litigation. His particular expertise includes the (future) Swiss trust, relocating to Switzerland, art transactions and defending clients against automatic exchange of  information (CRS). David is the founder of www.trusts.ch, the leading website on trusts in Switzerland, served as the chairman of STEP Geneva as well as an editor of the Trust Quarterly Review.

Ian is an experienced board and executive advisor/partner to wealth and asset managers; family offices, software firms and fin-techs helping to achieve and accelerate their path to be future ready and well positioned ahead of the next wave of industry and competitive disruption. Ian provides industry, strategic, client centric and modern technology assessment, focus and implementation insights, drawing on my extensive network and wide-ranging business and technology model approaches and change experience to optimise growth, resilience and performance. Ian is recognised as a trusted advisor, having supported a range of firms both as an independent advisor, partner and as an executive of major technology and business consulting brands including EY,IBM, PwC and Orbium ,a software platform integrator, sold to Accenture in 2019 where he then held a wider European wealth industry business and technology transformation advisor role across key markets and clients, until 2023, when he became an independent board advisor and partner.

Maryann Umoren Selfe is a seasoned investment professional, writer, and executive with over two decades of experience in Private Banking and Wealth Management. She currently serves as Managing Director at Banque International à Luxembourg, Suisse, leading the Investment Solutions division. Before this, Maryann spent 17 years at Credit Suisse in senior leadership roles, focusing on European clients and advising Family Offices in the UK and Nordic regions as part of Credit Suisse’s Ultra High Net Worth Clients Group.

Passionate about impact investing, Maryann is dedicated to channelling capital toward ventures that address social and environmental challenges and sits on the board and investment committees of foundations that focus on these issues. A British and Swiss national, Maryann holds an MBA from Cardiff University and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She is married with two children, lives in Zurich, Switzerland and loves alpine sports and teaching yoga in her spare time.