Directors

David Curling (UK)

Board Director – Executive Chairman / Prestige Asset Management Limited

Associated with Prestige since 2007

Mr Curling is an Executive Director and Chairman of Prestige Asset Management Limited, a director of Nucleus Commercial Finance Limited (a privately owned UK-based commercial finance company) and a director of Methexis Capital Advisors LLP (a privately owned UK-based, FCA-regulated, investment advisor). Formerly a Non-Executive Director of the ARCH Group (a UK-based investment and financial risk consulting group), he has over 38 years of investment experience.  He has held a variety of senior roles at Williams de Broe (WdB) (latterly a UK-based subsidiary of ING whilst its investment management company was acquired by Investec) including those of Head of Institutional Sales, Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of the Investment Strategy Committee and whilst at WdB Mr Curling was also, for a time, a Director of Banque Brussels Lambert (Jersey).  Mr Curling entered the mutual fund management industry in 1969 before becoming a specialist arbitrage dealer for James Capel in 1971.  His early career was spent in the UK and South Africa as a practicing Chartered Accountant.  Approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Craig Reeves BA (Hons) (UK)

Board Director – Prestige Capital Management Limited., Prestige Fund Management Limited, Prestige Asset Distribution Limited, Prestige International Marketing Services Limited and various Prestige Funds

Associated with Prestige since 2007

Mr Reeves is a Director of Prestige Capital Management Limited, Prestige Fund Management Limited, Prestige Asset Distribution Limited, Prestige International Marketing Services Limited and is a Board Director of various international Prestige Funds.  Mr Reeves is also a Director of Nucleus Holdings Limited and Methexis Holdings Limited. Formerly Managing Director and co-founder of Platinum Capital Management Limited (an international asset management group) and Head of Portfolio Management and Asset Allocation at Titan Capital Management Limited (an international asset management group). Prior experience as a Proprietary Trader at Gaiacorp Trading Limited (an international asset management group); Proprietary Trader at London Currency Exchange Limited (a private client / proprietary trading house) and an internship at the Bank of America (London). Mr Reeves has also previously provided retained consultancy services to a large London based international family office, a large London based international stock broker, a London based pension consulting group and a London based international real estate investment group.  Mr Reeves has 18 years of experience as a professional investment manager, trader and investor of alternative investments, hedge funds, capital markets and real estate, and writes articles for various financial journals including the AIMA Journal.  Mr Reeves has served as a Board Director on over 20 international Funds.  He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Business Administration from Huddersfield University and a BTEC Higher National Diploma in Business and Finance from University of Greenwich (London) and also attended the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) where he studied various financial markets and derivative trading courses. Mr Reeves is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and in Malta by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA).

Deborah Hardy (UK)

Board Director – Chief Operating Officer / Prestige Asset Management Limited

Associated with Prestige since 2007

Ms Hardy is an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Prestige Asset Management Limited and a Director of Eastern Counties Finance Limited.  Ms Hardy has over 18 years experience in business development and management delivering a wide range of both client and supplier focused solutions.  Ms Hardy was formerly Director of Client Services at an international asset management group with approximately US$1 billion under management and has also held operational and management roles within supply chain and contract management at Gardline Marine Sciences (the world’s largest independently-owned marine survey company), Aviva plc (the largest UK insurance company) and the Rotch Property Group.  Approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Nicholas Peter Wride (UK)

Board Directors – Non Executive / Prestige Asset Management Limited

Associated with Prestige since 2009

Mr Wride is a Non-Executive Officer of Prestige Asset Management Limited and a Board Advisor to Prestige.  Mr Wride has over 25 years of capital markets experience focusing on foreign exchange, fixed income and hedge funds.  Previously Director of Currency Trading at Seymour Pierce Limited (a London based FCA-regulated currency fund manager and corporate finance house).  Previously Head of European Prime Brokerage, Global Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland Group, based in London.  Previously Head of Business Development and Proprietary FX Trading at Bache Financial Limited (a London-based FCA-regulated Brokerage Firm). Previously Head of Institutional Sales UK and Europe at Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ), based in London. Previously Associate Director and Head of FX Sales London/Singapore/Hong Kong at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Limited based in London. Previously Director and Head of FX at Geldermann Limited (a London-based FCA-regulated Brokerage Firm).  Previously Associate Director and Head of FX at Banque Indo Suez (an international investment bank). Approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Michael Romanek (UK)

Board Director – Non Executive / Prestige Asset Management Limited

Associated with Prestige since 2008

Mr Romanek is a Non-Executive Officer of Prestige Asset Management Limited and a Board Advisor to Prestige.  Mr Romanek is also the founder of a UK-based specialist investment boutique, Rise Partners, focusing on financing and structured products which has provided retained services to international fund management groups.  Prior to that, Mr Romanek was Executive Director of IGS Group, a boutique advisory group.  Mr Romanek was previously Director of Alternative Investments for Fortis Bank’s Merchant Banking Division where his role spanned multiple business lines of the division, providing services to the alternative investment funds sector.  Prior to this role within Fortis he was Director of Business Development-Europe of Prime Fund Solutions.  In this role he split his time between Europe and Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Fortis he was head of European operations for a listed derivatives trading platform firm, YesTrader, and was a consultant to and Business Development Manager for Group Deutsche Börse where his responsibilities included the expansion of both their Eurex and Xetra platforms.  Mr Romanek began his career in the early 1990s as a derivatives trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange followed by the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (now NYSE LIFFE). Approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Robert McGregor (UK)

Board Director – Prestige Capital Management Limited, Prestige Holdings Limited, Prestige Fund Management Limited, Prestige Asset Distribution Limited, various Prestige funds.

Associated with Prestige since 2008

Mr McGregor, a resident of Malta, is the COO of Prestige Capital Management Limited, an executive director of Prestige Holdings Limited, Prestige Fund Management Limited and Prestige Asset Distribution Limited, and a director of various internationally-domiciled Prestige Funds. Mr McGregor’s early background is in international banking as a trader in London running large proprietary trading books at Bankers Trust (an investment bank), Chemical Bank (an investment bank) and Royal Trust Bank (an investment bank). In 1994 he became a founding member and director of City Fund Management Limited, a London-based FCA-regulated investment manager, where his primary responsibilities were for operations and risk management.  In 2005 he relocated to Grand Cayman and established City Fund Management (Cayman) Limited (a financial risk management consultancy) that has been providing technical support to investment management companies in London, Cayman and the Bahamas for the past seven years.  In 2011 he relocated to Malta to help establish Prestige Capital Management Limited, Prestige Holdings Limited. and Prestige SICAV plc. Approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).  Approved in Malta by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA).

Joseph Aquilina (Malta)

Board Director – Prestige Capital Management Limited, Prestige Holdings Limited

Associated with Prestige since 2011

Mr Aquilina is a resident of Malta and has been active in the investment services industry since 1997.  He serves as one of the Investment Advisors of Prestige Capital Management Limited of which he is also a Director, and the company Money Laundering Reporting Officer.  He also serves as a non-executive Director, Investment Advisor and Money laundering Reporting Officer on a number of companies, funds, UCITS and non-UCITS, hedge funds, fund managers, SICAVS, commodity traders, as well as a local Maltese financial services and insurance plc regulated by MFSA in Malta.  In 1971 Mr Aquilina was an Alumnus of the Management Development Programme of the Cranfield Business School. Mr Aquilina is a Certified Secretary and Administrator and in 2001 he qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  Mr Aquilina, a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Management, served as that Institute’s Secretary and later as Vice-President for several years and he was also a Vice-President of the Malta Federation of Industry for some years.  Mr Aquilina has a career that spans over 40 years commencing with exposure at the highest levels of Public Service including a tour of duty at the Office of the Prime Minister under different  administrations.  He later moved over to the private sector and initially worked for 2 years in Germany and later became Malta Representative (Prokurist) and start-up General Manager of the local plant of Bogner GmbH, a top brand German Manufacturer.  Mr Aquilina then became involved with the Telecommunications Industry, initially as Malta Representative of Mtel Communications of Jackson, Mississippi, USA and as the start-up Managing Director for SkyTel paging services.  Subsequently, as Managing Director he started-up a Malta-based subsidiary company (covering the Mediterranean, Middle East and the Gulf area) of OMI Plc of London, a multi-discipline consultancy. In this consultancy role Mr Aquilina also acted as Hospital Director for Capua Palace Hospital from 1999 to 2003.  His most recent assignment saw him as CEO of Melita Cable plc, a quadruple play telecoms company, then a subsidiary of Liberty Global of Denver, Colorado. Mr Aquilina has served in a quasi-judicial capacity on various Arbitration and Appeal Boards of various public Corporations and was Chairman of an Arbitration Board.  From 2003 to 2007 he was a court-appointed Provisional Administrator of Price Club (Holdings) Limited, a landmark case for defining Directors’ duties and responsibilities under Maltese company law.

Raffaele Riva MA / BA (Hons) (Switzerland)

Board Director – Prestige Fund Management Limited, Prestige Asset Distribution Limited

Associated with Prestige since 2009

Mr Riva is a Director of Prestige Fund Management Limited and Prestige Asset Distribution Limited.  He is a resident of Switzerland and has over 12 years experience in the delivery of business advisory and consultancy services in the fields of international finance, tax management and trusts.  Mr Riva is dedicated to his client base which includes companies, corporate leaders and individuals.  He has expertise in financial and tax consulting for foreign investment plans and businesses, reorganisation and restructuring projects and family businesses.  His private firm, Aurea Consulenti Associati SA, is located in Lugano, Switzerland and is planning to maintain its boutique character.  Mr Riva started his career in Italy in one of the “Big-Four” independent international public accountant firms working from 1987 to 1992, where he trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989.  From 1992 to 1996 he held positions as senior executive and senior manager with a merchant bank group and he served on the boards of many group companies, mainly in Europe and South America.  He is an Economics graduate of the Catholic University of Milan and also attended various finance and tax courses, including two post graduate Master’s courses in international taxation.  Mr Riva is member of the Registry of Company Auditors and the National Association of CFO in Italy and the Registry of Professional Trustees in Switzerland.

Ebony Myles-Berry, BBA, EMBA, Acc. Dir. (Cayman)

Board Director – various Prestige Funds (Cayman)

Associated with Prestige since 2012

Ms Myles-Berry is an independent director of each of the Prestige Cayman-domiciled funds and has experience in all aspects of the operation of offshore investment funds including regulation, compliance, audit and administration, ensuring added value to the corporate governance of an investment fund.  Ms Myles-Berry is employed by International Management Services Limited (“IMS”), and serves as a director on the boards of alternative investment funds and special purpose vehicles.  Prior to joining IMS she was a Vice President at Maples Fiduciary Services (Cayman) Limited where she served as a director for several years on a wide range of investment funds, including multi-manager funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and segregated portfolio companies.  In addition to providing director services, she also specialised in providing fiduciary services to unit trusts. Prior to that, she worked at Walkers SPV Limited as a Business Analyst and at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) as a Treasury Analyst. Ms Myles-Berry has a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business and Finance from Florida International University and a Certificate in Executive MBA studies from the University of Toronto.  She also earned a Diploma in Fund Administration (Merit) from the University of Manchester.  She is a member of the Cayman Islands Directors Association and an Accredited Director by the Chartered Secretaries of Canada.  She is also a Notary Public of the Cayman Islands.

Luc Sunnen (Luxembourg)

Board Director – Prestige Luxco Holdings 1, Prestige Luxco Holdings 2 Sarl

Associated with Prestige since 2011

Mr Sunnen is an Executive Director of Prestige Luxco Holdings 1 Sàrl and Prestige Luxco Holdings 2 Sàrl investment leasing operating companies and also acts as a Board Advisor to Prestige.  Mr Sunnen was born in and remains a resident of Luxembourg.  He is also the Managing Partner of DMS & Associés Sàrl, a member of DFK International, a Luxembourg-based specialist accounting, tax and consulting firm with areas of expertise in business valuation, consolidation, external auditing, and business consulting, focusing on financial companies, international structures, private equity and other professionals within the financial sector.  He has extensive experience in the establishment and management of Luxembourg Soparfis and international structures.  Formally employed at Arthur Andersen & Cie, he started in the tax department then moved into the audit department and then accountancy and tax consulting.  He graduated from Université de Nancy II with Maîtrise es Sciences Economiques – mention Economie de l’entreprise. Mr Sunnen is also a Certified External Auditor, former member of the Institut des Réviseurs d’Entreprises Luxembourgeois (IRE). He is also a Certified chartered accountant and member of the Ordre des Experts Comptables Luxembourgeois (OECL).  He is fluent in French, English, German and Luxembourgish.