Board of Directors

Fionnuala Carvill

Interim Chair

Fionnuala Carvill is a Guernsey resident and a Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment; a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking & Finance (Chartered Institute of Bankers); a Fellow of The Chartered Governance Institute and a Chartered Governance Professional. Ms Carvill is a Non-Executive Director of Investec Bank (Channel Islands) Limited, Fair Oaks Income Limited, and The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment Future Foundation. Previous executive positions held include Managing Director of Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Investment Management Limited; Director of Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Limited; Commission Secretary and Head of Innovation at the Guernsey Financial Services Commission; and Director of Rothschild Bank (CI) Limited. Ms Carvill is a former board member of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment; a past President and committee member of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, Guernsey Branch; a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers; and was granted Freedom of the City of London in 2007. Ms Carvill sits on the board of several charities, holding roles from funding and capacity building to governance and impact assessment. She previously volunteered with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) where she took the role of Organisational Development Advisor during a placement with the Environment & Development Center of a university in the People's Republic of China, aiming to support program delivery, aid capacity building and develop knowledge of governance and fundraising. Ms Carvill holds a Master's degree in Corporate Governance (Distinction).

Merise Wheatley

Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, Management Engagement Committee

Merise Wheatley is a Guernsey resident and has over thirty years’ experience at Board level in risk financing and insurance management. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, having completed her training with Abbey Life Assurance and National Mutual Life Association of Australasia in the UK, and qualified in 1982. In addition to her directorship of Princess Private Equity Holding Limited, Merise serves as a director on the boards of a number of non-listed regulated insurance entities in Guernsey. From 1988 until June 2019 Merise worked for a number of leading insurance management service providers in Cayman, Guernsey and Malta, including Artex Risk Solutions, Heath Lambert, Marsh and Johnson & Higgins, providing strategic and operational insurance management services and serving as executive director to a portfolio of client insurance companies. Merise is a past Chairman of the Guernsey International Insurance Association. In 2007 she achieved the Diploma in Company Direction awarded by the UK Institute of Directors.

Henning von der Forst

Henning von der Forst is a German resident. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of various investment funds and investment companies. Previously he served as a Member of the Executive Board of Directors as Chief Investment Officer of Nuremberger Insurance Group. There he was responsible for the Asset Management, Banking Services and Treasury, Investor Relations and International Relations from 1992 until his retirement in 2015. Prior to this, he worked as a marketing manager at SBCI Swiss Bank Corporation Investment Banking, London, and as Head of the Group Treasury and Finance Department with VIAG Aktiengesellschaft, Bonn (E.on today). He holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Münster.