Caroline Foulger
Ms Foulger was appointed Chair of the Board in 2022 after being appointed as an independent Director in 2019. Ms Foulger is a Chartered Accountant and an experienced company Director on boards of both listed and unlisted companies, which includes Oakley Capital Investments Limited and Mosaic Insurance where she holds the role of non-executive Chair.
Ms Foulger spent the bulk of her executive career as a partner with PwC Bermuda, where she led the insurance and government practice areas. She has been a non-executive director on multiple boards since retiring from PwC in 2012, and in addition to the above roles has chaired or been a member of governance, remuneration and risk committees.
William Salomon
Mr Salomon was appointed Deputy Chair in 1995. In addition, he is a Director of Wilson Sons Holdings Brasil S.A., Chair of Hanseatic Asset Management LBG, Senior Partner in Hansa Capital Partners LLP, as well as a Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited.
Mr Salomon received undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1987, Mr Salomon joined Finsbury Asset Management, which was merged in 1995 into Rea Brothers Group, of which Mr Salomon became Chair until the company was sold to Close Brothers Group in 1999.
Andrey Berzins
Mr Berzins was appointed as an independent non-executive Director in 2014 and is Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee as well as the Company's senior independent Director. In addition, he holds directorships and chairs the audit committees on several investment funds domiciled in Luxembourg that are managed by the Aberdeen Group.
Mr Berzins is a Chartered Accountant and holds a degree in statistics from the University of Bath. He spent the majority of his professional career in the Asian private equity industry working for the French based Suez group both in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Fiona Beck
Ms Beck was appointed as an independent non-executive Director in 2020 and is Chair of the Remuneration and Management Oversight Committee. In addition, she is a Director of Atlas Arteria International Ltd, Oakley Capital Investments Ltd, IBEX Ltd and the Bermuda Business Development Agency.
Ms Beck is a Chartered Accountant and was formerly the President and CEO of Southern Cross Cable Network, a submarine fibreoptic cable company. Her experience provides strategic insights particularly in technology, cyber security, data analysis, and infrastructure asset management in a global environment.
Christopher Townsend
Mr Townsend was appointed as a non-independent Director in 2012. He also serves as a Director for Wilson Sons Holdings Brasil S.A. and is the Investment Director at Hansa Capital GmbH.
Mr Townsend is a qualified solicitor. He has an MA from Peterhouse, Cambridge and an MBA from London Business School. He previously worked as a principal in the investment team at Coller Capital Limited and as a solicitor at Ashurst Morris Crisp.
Leslie Rans
Ms Rans was appointed by the Board as Chief Operating and Financial Officer in 2021. She was previously Chief Executive Officer at Digicel Bermuda Limited and at Bermuda Aviation Services Limited, and was Chief Financial Officer at One Communications Ltd. She is a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Bermuda Aviation Services Limited and is also a Director of LOM Group.
Ms Rans has extensive experience in both financial and operating environments with a strong focus on corporate governance and improving financial reporting and compliance. For the majority of her career, she has worked for publicly listed companies on the London and Bermuda stock exchanges.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Finance with high honours from Florida Institute of Technology, is a Certified Public Accountant and has completed a number of certificates in finance and corporate governance.