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Earning Your Trust

At the St James Group, our mission is simple, Create Value, Preserve Wealth. To achieve this, we work to fully understand our clients’ unique financial needs and objectives. We recognize that this understanding can only occur if, pervading in every communication, instruction and decision, is the single intangible element that is the foundation of any successful relationship – Trust.

 

We pledge that we will thrive to maintain this trusting relationship with you.

 

Our success is your success, plain and simple. Your needs and objectives are the starting point for customized solutions in a highly complex and regulated financial products and services world. Trust the companies of The St. James Group as your one-stop destination for financial solutions that meet your multiple, complex financial challenges.

 

Expertise and devotion to your individual financial needs breed trust. Count on The St. James Group earning your trust every day of our relationship.
Management Team
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Professionals You Can Trust
With decades of experience behind them, the management team at The St James Group will guide you through a menu of solutions that we will uniquely tailor to meet your individual and corporate financial challenges. Meet the executive team at The St. James Group.
Christopher J.N. Towner

Founding Chairman

With more than two decades of international business and captive management experience, Christopher specializes in providing individuals and corporate enterprises with solutions to their complex financial needs. Christopher is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB). He is also a past President of the Barbados International Insurance Association (BIIA), now the Barbados International Business Association (BIBA).

 

Clark Hollands

Director
 
A Canadian Chartered Accountant who spent his 25-year career as an international tax partner with KPMG in Vancouver, Clark advised Canadian-based multinational groups on their international tax arrangements. After leaving public practice in 2008, Clark devoted his time to a variety of businesses and investments and to interests in which he is a partner. He also works with his family’s charitable foundation, and is a Director and advisor to other large Canadian-based private foundations.

Alice B. Austin

President

Alice originally joined the Towner Management Group (until recently a sister organisation to the Group) in 2001 as Vice President where she has been responsible for providing management services to International Business clients in a variety of industries. She brings over 30 years of financial and business management experience, both in Barbados and in London, England. Alice has held various CFO, Financial Controller, Management Accountant, Internal Audit and Financial Analyst positions and has lived and worked in Barbados since 1996. She holds an honours degree in Business Studies from the University of Hertfordshire and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB).