Dubai Breakfast Briefing: Designing The Building Blocks For Effective Family Business Governance Structure

20+ years experience in Corporate Finance, Investment Banking & Private Equity.

Debashis has worked in leadership positions at several leading regional investment banks in the Gulf, including stints in Kuwait, Bahrain & Dubai. He has also held senior roles at a number of international banks like Peregrine Direct Investments and Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and UOB in Singapore.

Debashis brings extensive financial engineering skills and has experience of negotiating and executing investment / acquisition deals, structuring of PE investments, fund raising (equity and debt), formulation of strategic initiatives, business planning and review, valuation, due diligence, forecasting and financial modelling. Debashis has Board-level experience and has had extensive C-level interaction. He has led high calibre teams and has deal experience in several Asian & Gulf economies.

He was awarded a Business Leadership Excellence Award at the World Leadership Congress in 2015.

Debashis is an alumnus of the PGP (MBA) programme of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). He also holds a first class master’s degree in physics from the University of Calcutta.

Katherine is a luxury assets and family office services specialist. When she was appointed to the Group Board of Boston Multi Family Office in 2012 she was applauded for not only breaking the ‘glass ceiling’ but also for doing so at such a young age – an achievement recognised in 2014 through her listing by ePrivateClient as a ‘Top 35 Under 35’. Her substantial influence upon the offshore fiduciary services industry has seen her take an instrumental role in the launch and growth of the Isle of Man Commercial Yacht and Civil Aviation Registers. She is a founding member of the Isle of Man Yacht Forum, a founding member plus Chair of the Isle of Man Aviation Forum, and a former President of the Isle of Man ACCA. In the past three years she has presided over the most significant growth of new business and diversification in the Group’s history.

Nisha Mc Intyre is a marketing and communications professional, certified in innovations management. She has spent over eight years successfully launching new brands, managing government public relations, and the robust delivery of innovation projects, in Grenada, the USA, and Brazil. Mc Intyre has spent the last six months driving the marketing efforts of Silver Beach Development, the company actively promoting Silver Beach Resort and Spa – an approved real estate project included in Dominica’s Citizenship by Investment Programme.

Before joining the Silver Beach team, Mc Intyre co-managed the marketing efforts of the Grenada Tourism Authority, and was instrumental in managing the Pure Grenada brand. Her efforts in managing the launch and marketing co-op campaigns for major airlines like JetBlue Airways, Delta Airlines, and Air Canada, have led to sustained increases in tourist arrivals from the Americas to the destination.

Joanne has worked within the Offshore Finance Industry for over 25 years and is a Principal Person as defined by the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998. She has been a representative on various industry bodies including the Sub Committee which brought in changes to the Trust Law, Companies Law and the Foundations Legislation. Joanne has developed strong strategic links with key partners in the GCC; including the State of Qatar and Abu Dhabi. She has worked on listings on the Channel Islands’ Stock Exchange and overseen London Real Estate acquisitions (including some of the most noteworthy GCC investments); restructured investments for Sovereign Funds and assisted HNW families in Real Estate acquisitions and developments in Europe and India. Whilst Real Estate Director at Walbrook, Deloitte’s Trust Company, she has provided support in developing key relationships relating to Fund Service Business, which included liaising with clients and their advisers to structure Real Estate “Wrappers”.

Bruce is a chartered accountant with over 40 years financial services experience, previously a partner in PwC, latterly as Global leader of their Wealth Management practice and the key driver of their bi-annual Wealth Management Report. Bruce is now CEO of Weatherill Consulting providing advice on client centricity and wider strategic matters to wealth managers. He is the author of The Value of Trust: the quest by Wealth Managers for Trusted Advisor status and a number of other thought leadership reports. Bruce is chairman of ClearView Financial Media and Ten Lifestyle Group Plc as well as a non-executive of a number of companies including , The Wisdom Council and ComPeer.