PAUL HARRIS F.C.A., T.E.P (Chairman)
Paul Harris is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a notary public for the Cayman Islands. He qualified with Ernst & Whinney in London before coming to the Cayman Islands in 1967 where he became the first British chartered accountant to take up residence and practice in the Islands. He is a founder member of the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants, served as secretary to the Chamber of Commerce for eight years and is presently President of the Cayman Islands Company Managers Association. He opened the first accounting office in the Cayman Islands for what is now Ernst & Young and later acted as Cayman correspondent for the international firm Ernst & Ernst for five years. He founded International Management Services Ltd in 1974.
Christopher Bowring, formerly Managing Director of Fiduciary Trust (Cayman) Limited was born in London, England and came to the Cayman Islands in November 1979. He is a fellow of the Association of Certified Accountants and Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. Mr. Bowring is a founding member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners in the Cayman Islands. He has acquired extensive experience in the management of various entities including trusts and corporations in a number of jurisdictions, in particular the Cayman Islands.
Michael J. Howard has extensive offshore experience in both the Channel Islands and Cayman Islands. He worked for a leading firm of Chartered Accountants in Guernsey after which he was employed as a Trust Officer with Roy West Trust Corporation in Jersey until he moved to Cayman and joined IMS in 1981. He is an Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors in London. As a Director of IMS he specialises in the administration and development of captive insurance companies and private client business.
IAN GOODALL.
M.A. (HONS), C.A.(Director)
Ian Goodall,
M.A. (Hons).), C.A. Director/Secretary) is a member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Scotland. He obtained an M.A. (Hons) Upper Second
in Economics and Geography at Glasgow University, qualified with Thomson
McLintock, Glasgow and obtained further accounting experience in the shipping
industry. Prior to joining IMS in 1989, he spent six years as an audit
manager with Price Waterhouse & Co. He specialises in domiciliary
services for offshore companies, yacht and ship registration and mutual
funds.
Martin Lang, B.Sc. (Hons), A.C.A. (Company Manager) is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Mathematics from Delta State University. Prior to joining IMS in 1996, he was employed as an audit manager with Deloitte and Touche in the Cayman Islands where he gained extensive experience dealing with mutual funds, captive insurance companies and banking institutions. Prior to moving to the Cayman Islands he was employed by Touche Ross in England in their corporate finance department. He specialises in mutual funds and regulated companies.
Martin Byrne
B.Sc (Hons), A.C.I.S, is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries
and Administrators and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics
from the University of Ulster. Prior to joining IMS he worked for four
years as a trust Officer with the Bank of Nova Scotia in Jersey and for
five years as Senior Trust Officer and Manager, Client Relations, International
Private Banking with MeesPierson in the Cayman Islands. He specialises
in the formation and management of complex trust and company structures,
special purpose vehicles and private trust companies.
Philip Cater, a resident of the Cayman Islands, received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting from the University of Auckland in 1984, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand. Mr. Cater is employed as a Company Manager for International Management Services Ltd., a firm engaged in the management of offshore corporations. Prior to joining International Management Services Ltd. he was the Funds Controller and Legal &Compliance Officer for UBS Fund Services (Cayman) Ltd (1999-2003), Managing Director of Dresdner Fund Administration (Cayman) Ltd (1996-1999), Project Accountant and then Joint Head of Middle Office at Kleinwort Benson Investment Management Ltd in London (1991-1996). Mr. Cater received his professional training with Ernst and Young in Auckland and the Cayman Islands.
MELANIE
HARRIS (Company Administrator)
Enquiries
from offshore management firms and professionals requiring corporate services
in the Cayman Islands should be directed to Melanie Harris. Prior to joining
Corporate Filing Services Ltd, a subsidiary of International Management
Services Ltd, she spent five years as office manager for a Cayman Islands
Law Firm and two years as a senior trust and company administrator with
a Cayman Islands Bank. Melanie, who is a Notary Public for the Cayman Islands, specialises in providing services to groups of client companies on behalf of professional management companies located in offshore financial centres around the world, particularly Asia and the Far East. Melanie was educated in Holland and England.
ENOLA MARTIN L.L.B.(Hons), L.L.M.
Enola Martin is the Compliance Officer and Internal Legal Counsel for IMS and
its subsidiaries. She holds a LLB (Hons) from the Cayman Islands Law School
and an LLM from the University of Liverpool. She is a member of the
Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn and was admitted as a member of the Bar
of England and Wales in November 2002. She is a Notary Public
in and for the Cayman Islands. Prior to joining IMS she was Head of
Compliance at Deutsche Bank (Cayman) Limited.
Geoff Ruddick a resident of the Cayman Islands, is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, and a fellow of the International Compliance Association. Mr. Ruddick is employed as a Senior Company Manager for International Management Services Ltd. (“IMS”), a firm engaged in the management of offshore corporations. Prior to joining IMS he was the Managing Director of Hedgeworks Fund Services Ltd. and before that, he was a Director and Compliance Officer with Derivatives Portfolio Management Ltd. (now DPM Mellon). Prior to entering the commercial side of fund management, Mr. Ruddick worked with KPMG in Vancouver auditing mutual funds, banks, and insurance companies and later with KPMG in the Cayman Islands, where he worked in the Corporate Recovery department involving the liquidation of mutual funds and other regulated entities.
Michael O’Connor, B.Com, C.A is the Financial Controller and IT Manager for IMS and its subsidiaries and is responsible for IMS accounting, data processing, storage and retrieval, disaster recovery and IT supervision. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia. and obtained his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Tasmania majoring in accounting and human resource management. Prior to joining IMS in 2006, he spent six years as an audit manager with WHK Denison the fifth largest accounting firm in Australia. He worked on a large portfolio of clients including superannuation funds, public companies, statutory bodies and other regulated entities. He has extensive knowledge of financial reporting guidelines and International Financial Reporting Standards, and has knowledge of accounting standards in several jurisdictions. He also has experience in forensic accounting and other internal assurance services, including information systems auditing.
International Management Services Ltd
P.O. Box 61,
Harbour Centre
George Town,
Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands
Phone: 345 949 4244
Fax: 345 949 8635
Email: ims@candw.ky
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