Advisors

Christopher is the Compliance Officer and money laundering reporting officer of Prestige Capital Services Limited.

He has over 20 years’ compliance experience gained mainly at Lazard Brothers London assisting the Group Compliance Director. More recently he has been a consultant providing compliance services, including monitoring, to small regulated firms of asset managers, venture capitalists and corporate financiers. He specialises in money laundering awareness training and regularly provides training to small regulated firms.

He is a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) who changed career in 1993 to specialise in Compliance.

Approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)to perform a Senior Management Function.

Craig is the Founder of Prestige Capital Management Limited, Prestige Fund Management Limited, Prestige Asset Distribution Limited, Prime Holdings Limited and is a Board Director of all Prestige Funds. He is also a Director of Nucleus Holdings Limited and is a Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director of OpenFunds Investment Services AG.

Craig was formerly the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Platinum Capital Management Limited, an international asset management group. Formerly, he was Head of Portfolio Management and Asset Allocation at Titan Capital Management Limited, an international asset management group. Prior experience includes serving as a Proprietary Trader at Gaiacorp Trading Limited (an international asset management group) and Proprietary Trader at London Currency Exchange Limited (a private client / proprietary trading house).

Craig has over 25 years’ experience in financial services as a professional investment manager, trader and investor in alternative investments, hedge funds, capital markets, and real estate and has written several articles for various financial publications including the AIMA Journal. He has served as a Board Director on over 20 international funds.

Craig graduated with a BA (Hons) in Business Administration from Huddersfield University and has a Higher National Diploma in Business and Finance from the University of Greenwich (London). He also attended the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF) where he studied financial markets and derivative trading and is also a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).

Craig is authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), approved in Switzerland by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), approved in Luxembourg by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), is a certified individual for UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) purposes and is registered with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA).

Graham serves as the Company Secretary of Prestige Capital Services Limited, Privilege Holdings Limited, Privilege Asset Finance Limited and Privilege Project Finance Limited as well as various subsidiaries and special purpose vehicles and is also a Prestige Board Advisor. He acts as internal legal counsel for Prestige Funds. He is a qualified lawyer, conversant in all areas of law, but with particular emphasis on hedge funds and alternative investments. He has over 25 years of experience in the alternative investments business, including international experience as a practicing attorney in the Cayman Islands, where he advised on banking, insurance, trusts and mutual funds.

From 1989 he was based in the UK as a lawyer and manager for Gaiacorp, the currency hedge fund, and subsequently from 1994 as Managing Director of its London subsidiary, Titan Capital Management, where he played a key role in developing the firm’s global business, including creating and managing global investment management, fund administration and independent financial advisor networks. He then helped to coordinate its sale in 2002. He has worked extensively as a consultant in the City of London, including with Mottram Partners and Millers Associates, and is currently director of the hedge fund consultancy, Hawksmoor Partners.

He is a practicing consultant solicitor with Charterhouse Law and has an MA in Law from Cambridge University.

Iain is a Director of Prestige Fund Management Limited and affiliated companies and Cayman-domiciled Prestige Funds, Board Advisor to Prestige Capital Services Limited and Prestige Fund Management Limited.  He was formerly Chief Operating Officer of Prestige Capital Management Limited.

He previously worked for Investcorp Bank in Bahrain, before moving to Merrill Lynch and then to Wellington Management International, both in London. He then moved to London based Otkritie Securities Limited, a firm of stockbrokers, before joining London based Sberbank CIB (UK) which was formerly known as Troika Dialog.

His background includes asset management; sales and trading; operations, finance and management within asset management and fund structures; and extensive corporate governance, risk planning and management of capital adequacy.

He has a BA in Business from the University of Strathclyde and is a UK qualified accountant (FCCA).

He is approved in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a Certified Individual and is registered with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA).

Stuart is an experienced marketing and communications professional with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has spent over 10 years as a journalist and editor, covering wealth management, cross-border fund management and investment banking. More recently he has worked in communications and digital marketing roles within the investment banking, fintech and forex trading sectors.

He has written books on trading and offshore funds and continues to advise clients in the asset management, financial data and commodities trading industries.