Building an Investment Committee

Andrew Martin Smith (British) is a Director of Guinness Asset Management (GAM) responsible for AIM EIS Schemes. He was Chief Executive of Hambros Fund Management which merged with Guinness Flight in 1997. He remained with the enlarged business which was purchased by the Investec group in 1998. In 2000 he joined Berkshire Capital , a corporate adviser to the fund management industry before joining Guinness Asset Management in 2005. He is a non-executive Director of Church House Investments (a private investment management company) and has been a director of several public listed investment trusts. He was Chairman of Parmenion Capital Management (the discretionary investment management platform) from inception until its sale to Aberdeen Asset Management in 2016. He serves on the investment committee of a private family office and, as trustee or director, oversees the investment portfolios for several endowed charities and private organisations.

Anthony Brewis has had many years´ experience working with high net worth families and family offices in managing their assets. He is a former senior private client manager and business head, with extensive international knowledge and a background in many areas of banking. Anthony has been a regular speaker at conferences on wealth management in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and West Africa.Prior to his current role with Global Partnership, he organised seminars on family business succession for private groups, the Young Presidents´ Association (YPO) and a business school. Before joining Global Partnership in 2009, Anthony served as a senior member of Nean Wealth Advisors (NWA), a firm providing strategic wealth planning and succession services to international families. From 1998 until 2002, he was a Director of Scorpio Partnership Limited. At Scorpio Partnership, he was responsible for the consultancy practice and professional training services. From 1995 to 1998, he was a Director at Kleinwort Benson Investment Management, where he was head of the international private banking sales team covering Europe, the Middle East, India and the Far East. From 1972 to 1995, Anthony worked at JP Morgan, where his responsibilities included head of private banking for Southeast Asia and Head of the Zurich office for JP Morgan (Suisse) SA. Anthony also held a number of senior positions within Morgan’s capital markets, corporate finance and non-credit services operations.

Simon Minder is an independent family office advisor with over 17 years of experience in the family office industry. Primarily, he supports families and single-family offices as member of the investment committee and/or represents them as a member of the board of directors for one of their investments. In addition, he supports families in setting up their family office. As part of this offering, he helps in the selection process for a suitable software solution. He also supports existing family offices in the selection and/or replacement process of software solutions.