Jersey Finance – Perspectives: Women in Leadership – Jeddah

Tuba Terekli is an international business development and investment expert with a focus on futurism, innovation, tech development and equity investments. She is an avid supporter of entrepreneurs across borders and an angel investor. She also serves on many for-profit and non-profit boards, locally and internationally. Her current roles are the Executive Advisor for Fakieh Group and GM of Avon Saudi Arabia and is the MENA Ambassador of the Women Entrepreneurship Day Organization. She is also known for her following roles; Former Advisor to the Governor of Saudi SME Authority, Co-founder of Qotuf Al Riyadah Development Company, the first Private Entrepreneurship Foundation in KSA and established the First Tech Accelerator in Saudi Arabia Flat6LabsJeddah among many other initiatives that she has brought to the entrepreneurial ecosystem since 2011. She was also selected to be among the 2030 Leaders to serve the Vision 2030 of Saudi Arabia.

Sophia is an Associate Director at Alvarez & Marsal’s Turnaround and Restructuring practice in Saudi Arabia. She is a Saudi national with 10 years of international experience in Turnaround and Restructuring, Insolvency and Liquidations, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets. Prior to A&M, Sophia worked at Big Four accountancy firms in the British Virgin Islands, in Jersey (Channel Islands), in the UAE and in Saudi Arabia working on public and private sector clients. Sophia’s experience includes non-contentious and contentious in-court and out-of-court restructuring, insolvency, transformation and turnaround. Sophia earned a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in Finance and Accounting from Siena College in Albany, New York. She is a CPA, licensed in NY, USA and in the process of obtaining the SOCPA certification in KSA.

Kim is a Senior Manager in PwC's Middle East Entrepreneurial Private Business & Family Office team. She has over 15 years’ experience advising families and the owners of multi generational family businesses across all industries in the Middle East and worldwide. Kim specialises in understanding the specific challenges families face and supports ultra high net worth private clients, private businesses and family offices in navigating the increasingly complex global tax landscape. She is experienced in designing bespoke solutions to achieve families’ long term objectives (such as asset protection, wealth preservation, succession planning and tax optimisation) and in the creation and optimisation of global ownership structures and family offices, including the use of corporate entities, trusts and foundations across multiple jurisdictions.

Janice is a law graduate starting out as a trustee some 20 years ago pursuant an earlier career in publishing and running her own business. Janice’s vocational qualifications were earned via the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and International Compliance Association. Her own family having had interests in a variety of different jurisdictions, she is well versed in dealing with international assets and assists wealthy families in matters of dynastic importance - succession planning, asset protection, family governance and philanthropy. Janice is a Director in one of the Private Wealth departments and heads a team providing virtual family office services to a significant single family office.

Katherine advises professional trustees, settlors and beneficiaries on matters relevant to trusts and foundations, including drafting trust deeds and advising on complex structures including employee reward schemes, JPUTs and pensions. Katherine joined Ogier in 2012 having previously been a Partner at Harvey Ingram Shakespeare; working in their Leicester and Birmingham offices advising a variety of high net worth private, charitable and commercial clients on contentious and non-contentious issues. Katherine graduated from the University of Lincoln with a BA Hons in Law and French and completed her academic training at College of Law, York. Katherine is a member of the International Pension and Employee Benefit Association Lawyers (IPEBLA), the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), the working party for charities legislation in Jersey and until leaving the UK in 2012 was the Vice Chair of the Law Society of England and Wales Private Client Section.