The Team

The EEA Life Settlements Fund brings together individuals with enormous amounts of credibility, expertise and successful track records. Some brief team biographies can be found below:
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Simon Shaw

Director

Simon Shaw is the Chairman and principle shareholder of EEA Fund Management Limited. Simon was awarded an honours degree in Mathematics and Statistics from QMC University of London in 1981. Employed in Equity and Law's investment department after graduation, Simon left to join the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund in 1987. In 1992, he was recruited to join Clerical Medical Investment Management, subsequently to become Insight Investment, part of the Halifax Bank of Scotland, one of the UK’s largest retail financial services groups.

Simon successfully managed a range of UK equity mandates for over 10 years at Clerical Medical Investment Management/Insight, having individual responsibility for mandates worth approximately £3 billion and reporting responsibility for approximately £9 billion of UK equities. Simon's responsibilities, at various times included, Director of Research, Head of Group funds, Director of Clerical Medical Investment Funds Ltd and Joint Head of U.K equities.

Simon left Insight in 2003 to establish EEA Fund Management Ltd.

Peter Winders

Peter Winders

Director

Peter joined EEA in January 2007. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Fund Consulting Limited, a company that focuses on assisting asset managers build distribution and gather assets. He has been in the fund management industry for over 35 years majoring on the sales and marketing side of the business and has held senior positions with a number of institutions. Peter has focussed on promoting funds, segregated accounts and investment services in the UK and Middle East, for example Bank Sarasin, Phoenix Home Life (Aberdeen Asset Management), Scottish Equitable and Legal & General.

John Buttress

Sales & Marketing Director

John Buttress has responsibility for all sales and marketing of the EEA Life Settlements Fund. John has over 20 years experience within the financial services sector having held senior positions both on a domestic and international basis. Before joining EPIC he worked for a leading Luxembourg based insurance company on their strategic positioning within UK and previous to that he was Managing Director of a large international financial advisory group.

Alison Simpson

Director

Alison Simpson is a director of the Company and the Manager. In addition, she is a director of a number of Guernsey-based investment management companies and funds. She has eighteen years’ experience in the fields of offshore banking and fund administration services and co-founded the Administrator in February 2000. Prior to this, she spent ten years at Guernsey’s largest fund administration company where she was responsible for a variety of clients and offshore fund structures, both open and closed-ended.