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Office of the Chairman and CEO
Office of the Chairman and CEO
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Mr Phillip Thorpe
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
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Mr Thorpe began his career as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand, before moving to Hong Kong to take on various senior posts with the Hong Kong Securities Commission. He was later appointed the CEO of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange. In 1989 he moved to London as CEO of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers, and subsequently became an Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Authority of the UK. Following this post, he served as CEO to the London Commodity Exchange, Chief Executive of IMRO (the fund management regulator), and Managing Director of the then newly formed Financial Services Authority in the UK. More recently, Mr Thorpe has held the post of Chief Executive of the Institute for Financial Markets (Washington DC) and the CEO of the Dubai Financial Services Authority. |
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Mr Jeremy Hunt
Head of Corporate Communications |
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Jeremy joined the QFC Regulatory Authority in February 2010, bringing with him a long track-record in the media and communications industries. Jeremy began his career in commercial property journalism during which time he won several accolades, including in 1996 the coveted magazine industry titles of both Best New Business Journalist and Best New Magazine Journalist. In 1998, Jeremy joined Sunday Business as part of its launch team and later enjoyed stints writing for both The Times of London and the Financial Sunday Express (for which he was nominated Business Journalist of the Year in 2004) before being appointed Deputy Editor of European Business. In 2004, Jeremy left journalism to join Sovereign Global, a multi-billion dollar private investment group based in Dubai. As VP of Communications, he was responsible for the communications surrounding one of the largest proxy battles in Asia of the last decade. Jeremy joined Bell Pottinger in Dubai in early 2006, moving to Doha in September 2006 to establish Bell Pottinger’s operations in Qatar as a licensee in the Qatar Financial Centre. Jeremy’s client work while at Bell Pottinger included the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, Bahrain’s Economic Development Board, the Qatar Foundation; HH Sheikha Mozah’s Silatech initiative and frequent consultative visits to Abu Dhabi counselling both government and private sector clients. |
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Mr AbdulHamid Seedat
Head of Internal Audit |
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Mr. Seedat holds Bachelor Degrees in Commerce and Accounting and is a qualified Chartered Accountant from South Africa where he obtained the highest marks in Auditing, country wide, in the final qualifying examination CA (SA). He began his career at KPMG, and later worked for Deloitte & Touché and Central Bank Organisations in Botswana and Bahrain.
With over 20 years post qualification experience in a number of different capacities in Financial Administration and Auditing, Mr. Seedat spent the latter part of his career heading the internal audit function with the focus on developing the scope of audit to cover all operational areas and governance processes and to ensure a risk based and value added approach. Some of his significant achievements have been the detection of a number of frauds. |
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Mr Derek Oliver
General Counsel |
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A graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge [M.A. (Law)], Mr. Oliver was admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in April 1979. He has gained professional experience in a variety of capacities, including a period of three years working for the Hong Kong Government from 1982 to 1985. Mr. Oliver has worked in the financial services field since 1986 with the majority of his experience in the capacity of Director of Legal and Regulatory Compliance at two of the derivative exchanges in London, during which time he gained significant exposure to the evolution of the regulation of exchanges and markets and clearing houses, both domestically and internationally. |
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