Claims Management Services Tribunal Chairmen

Chairmen

Lay members

Ian Abrams
Actuary with career as stockbroker followed by investment banking. In latter capacity CEO and managing director responsible for a number of bank’s activities in debt, equity and treasury markets and derivatives. Background in financial services.

Maurice Bates
Career experience with an international financial services company in the United Kingdom. The group’s business activities included life assurance, pensions, investment management and banking. His career and management experience spanned a number of functions (investment, finance, IT, banking and legal) before he assumed the role of Chief Executive in the U.K. Other roles included chairing an authorised banking subsidiary managing directorships of unit trust and mortgage subsidiaries. For three years he served as a member of the Law Society’s Compliance and Supervision Committee adjudicating on matters of solicitors’ professional conduct and service.

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Peter Burdon
Actuary with a long career in life assurance, both mutual and proprietary. MD of life assurance company from 1991–6 with directorships in investment subsidiaries and building society. Exposure to compliance following dealing with lautro, imro, etc.

Christopher Burbridge
A career in underwriting, marine and non-marine. Experience in insurance arbitration.

Terence Carter
Chartered accountant and insolvency practitioner. Recently with major firm of accountants. Specialized in corporate restructuring and company recovery programmes. Experienced in the commercial sector. Worked a lot with wholesale and retail bankers. Currently engaged in Corporate Restructuring.

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Christopher Chapman
30 year City career trading sterling money market instruments. From 1977, Director, later MD and chairman of discount house and its funds management and broking subsidiaries, with responsibility to its US and French owners respectively for trading and credit risk, compliance and relations with the Bank of England and SFA/FSA. Since 1998, led projects with financial services companies in Russia, Madagascar and Vietnam involving strategic reorganisation, compliance, risk and funds management, and advising on regulatory and supervisory policy.

Nick Douch
Most of career in retail banking. Special experience of foreign exchange and interest rate markets including derivatives. Special experience in areas of high-risk investments and strategies.

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Catherine Farquharson
Chartered Accountant. Head of compliance for investment banking globally with UK bank until 1998; latterly part-time senior compliance adviser to that Bank until 2002. Compliance director 1995-1996. Compliance director, investment bank 1985-1998. Various industry roles during compliance career including chairman of the Securities House Compliance Officers’ Group; represented British Bankers’ Association on the FSA Handbook advisory Group; member of the LIBA compliance committee.

Ruthven Gemmell
Edinburgh Writer to the Signet particular experience in investor compliance and protection and dealing with consumer complaints on investment business. A recognised expert within the Scottish legal profession on financial services regulation and practice.

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Michael Hanson
Chartered Accountant, Member of the Institute of Bankers and Financial Planning Certificate. Building society experience. Chief executive of Building Society. Experienced in building society operations including regulatory issues.

Peter W F Laing
Career with Building Society 1976-2001; latterly director and deputy chief executive. Member of both asset & liability and interest rate committees and trustee of society’s pension & assurance scheme. Non-executive director 1988-2001 of wholly owned estate agency subsidiary of the building society. Versed and involved with building society regulation. Closely involved with general insurance products both to sell onto members and to manage business risks. Involved in late 1980’s with decisions consequent upon the Financial Services Act including a decision to become an appointed representative of a life office. Involved in the acquisition of a subsidiary IFA and was a one time non-executive Director.

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Andrew Lund
Chartered loss adjuster and Chartered Insurance Practitioner. Based in Yorkshire. A career in loss adjusting and claims management. A Past President of both the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters.

Mrs Joanne Neill
Chartered Accountant. 1983-1999 responsible for the auditing of merchant banks, venture capital companies and investment management companies. Special interest, since 1987, in financial services. Experienced in the operation of the financial services industry and financial services regulations generally.

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Sandra (Sandi) O'Neill
Formerly an investment manager specialising in private equity for institutional clients. Compliance director for the division. Latterly finance director for private investors division, which encompassed private clients, retail funds and charities. Currently a lay member of the Law Society’s Compliance Board. Also a Board member of the Housing Corporation, the government agency investing in and regulating housing associations, and a member of its Regulations & Supervision and Audit & Risk Committees.

Keith Palmer
Having qualified as a solicitor, worked in the banking industry for nearly 30 years initially in a legal adviser role and more recently between 1990 – 2002 as a Head of Compliance in three large banks. He is currently a consultant on compliance and financial services regulatory matters and continues to chair the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the Foreign Banks Association. He has been a co-author/consultant editor of a leading work on banking and financial services regulation and is a member of both the Law Society and the Securities Institute.

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John Parsloe
Solicitor. 1959 Employed by firm of Investment Managers. Director from 1980. Group compliance director, head of corporate services and director of unit trust management company. Member of FSA Practitioners Group on market abuse. Member of Fund Manager’s Association Regulation and Taxation Standing Sub-Committee. Recently an adviser on pension and savings reform, regulatory Developments, and corporate governments.

Colin Senior
Retired Investment Banker. After a business degree at MIT (USA), became a management consultant. In 1975 joined investment bank in London transacting mainly loan syndications before becoming executive director responsible for asset trading and trade finance. In 1986, moved to different bank as a banking director in the corporate finance department, transacting mainly acquisition finance. Responsible for property, leasing and project finance advisory services before becoming managing director, structured finance and leasing. From 1999-2003 was Board Member of the Civil Aviation Authority, responsible for the financial supervision of airlines and tour operators.

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