Jim Sutherland

Chairman

Jim Campbell Sutherland is Chairman of the Zetland Fiduciary Group Limited and a Director of Zetland Corporate Services Limited, Zetland International Trust Co. Limited, Zetland Corporate Services Pte Limited and Zetland European Administration Limited. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a Scottish Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Jim is member of the UK-based Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP) and a member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute. Jim has lived in Hong Kong for more than thirty years and founded the Zetland Fiduciary Group in 1987.

Jim's background includes a period with Arthur Andersen in London where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Subsequently Jim was employed by the Grindlay Brandts merchant bank in London (now a part of ANZ Banking Group). Jim joined Wardley Limited (the merchant banking subsidiary of HSBC) in 1979 and has extensive experience in deal-making throughout Asia for more than 30 years.

In 1984, Jim was appointed Finance Director of the Universal Matchbox Toy Group and was instrumental in the flotation of the company in the New York Stock Exchange.