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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 and President

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.

J. Andrew Marryshow

Director

Andrew retired as senior partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers – East Caribbean in 2007, after more than five years in the position. Including PwC’s predecessor companies, he spent almost four decades in service with PwC.

 

A fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Andrew’s experience spreads across the audit, accounting and tax disciplines. He has worked with onshore and offshore insurance companies, banks, International Business Companies and Societies with Restricted Liability. Prior to becoming partner, Andrew was PWC’s insurance industry leader and its accounting and audit technical leader.

 

Ricardo O. Knight

Director 
 

Ricardo is Director of The St. James Group and President of The Towner Management Group. He joined the Group in 1994 and has provided uninterrupted stewardship since. Ricardo is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) and of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB). He is also Chairman on the Joint Policy Working Group on International Business and Investment Promotion for the government of Barbados, as well as past President of the Barbados International Business Association (BIBA).

 

Sheik N. Ahmad
Vice President, Business Development

After managing a joint venture between Prudential and The St. James Group for three years, Sheik joined St. James in 2009 after Prudential purchased full interest in the venture. During the previous ten years, he worked in accounting, finance and business development roles in the professional services, financial services and tourism sectors. Sheik is a member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB).
Stacey E. Johnson
Vice President, Accounting and Administration

Stacey joined The St James Group in 2008 and is responsible for providing accounting, administrative and corporate services to the group’s portfolio of international insurance and business companies. Prior to joining the Group, Stacey spent thirteen years in the financial services and international business sectors. She holds degrees in Economics and Accounting from the University of the West Indies. Stacey is also a member of the Certified General Accountants’ Association (CGA) of Canada and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB).