Archives: Speakers

James Sellon– After graduating in Financial and Business Economics, James began his career at Salomon Smith Barney in 1999 and joined their International Private Wealth division in London. He jointly set up the US ex-pat wealth team in 2001 and built up this team before leaving to co-found MASECO in 2008 on the advent of the new non-domicile tax changes in the UK.  With these new non-domicile tax changes afoot James enabled a range of low-cost US mutual funds to become tax efficient in the US and the UK paving the way for a new model of investing for Americans living in the UK.  In 2009, James went on to co-found MASECO Switzerland (now Pilotage Private Wealth AG), followed by MASECO Asia and MASECO Asset Management in 2016.

James holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®), Certified Financial Planner (CFP™) and Chartered Wealth Manager (CWM) qualifications and is considered an expert in advising ultra-high net worth international and US families with multi-faceted and challenging investment and structuring requirements. James is often asked to speak at industry forums and global conferences on wealth planning considerations for international families.

Over the last five years, James has been recognised by Spears by winning the High Net Worth Asset Manager of the Year, twice named as one of the UK’s 50 Most Influential by PAM and was named as Entrepreneur of the Year by Citywealth’s Future Leaders.

James passionately believes that firms in the twenty first century should have a wider social responsibility that looks beyond simply profit maximisation and has a social purpose and as such was instrumental in MASECO becoming the first financial services B Corporation in the UK in 2013. These underlying values and principles run through MASECO, resulting in a team of individuals that share a common perspective.

Dominic Tong is a Product Manager with GlobalData’s Medical Devices team. Based in Toronto, Canada, Dominic currently oversees the Medical SKU team, which uses real-word US healthcare facility invoicing data to provide actionable market intelligence to medical device manufacturers and professional services. Previously, Dominic lead the Diagnostic Imaging, Neurology, and Wound Care therapy areas, building out 39-country market models across key medical device markets

Grant Parkinson is the Head of Consumer, Private and Business Banking for Europe. He joined Standard Chartered in 2020 as Head of Private Banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and shortly moved into his current role. Based in London, Grant is responsible for the region’s Priority and Private Banking business operations in Jersey, the United Arab Emirates and UK that serve emerging markets clients across Africa, the Middle East, UK and Turkey. Grant has over 25 years of financial services experience. He joined Standard Chartered from Brewin Dolphin where he was Chief Operating Officer and led development of technology solutions for client-facing colleagues and digital. Prior to that he worked at Coutts, also as Chief Operating Officer, where he successfully ran multiple business development, change and remediation programmes. Earlier in his career, Grant worked at Barclays Wealth and McKinsey & Company.

Srihari has worked mainly in Women’s Health and Dermatology/Quality Of Life improvement; Cardiology, Oncology and Orthopedics. He has performed Front End Research, Conceptual Design, IP Generation, Multi-generational prototyping, Design Improvements, Verification and Validation (V&V), Assembly Process Design, Design Transfer, New Product Introduction, Manufacturing Process Development/Improvement and Service Process Development. Srihari is a Certified SolidWorks Expert, and carry several other CAD certifications and several thousands of hours, with experience ranging from Design, to Solution Implementation, Troubleshooting, Product Data and Lifecycle Management. He also has experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), ranging all the way from simple linear analysis to non-linear analyses. He has worked with several customers, across various industries, helping them solve complex modeling, analysis, and product data management issues.

Dominic Tayler- In 2006 Dominic left UBS to join Cheviot as one of the founding partners. He specialises in investing for private clients, offshore and charities and in particular religious orders. He also sits on the Asset Allocation and UK Equities Committees.

He began his investment management career at Clerical Medical Investment Group in 1991, before joining Credit Suisse Asset Management in 1993, becoming an associate director in 1995. He took his team to Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management in 1999 as an investment director. Following the acquisition of Laing & Cruickshank by UBS in 2004, he was appointed executive director.