Principal and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Stark is a Canadian lawyer with 30+ years of international experience. He has spent 7 years with Canada’s largest Bank, in Global Private Banking, and had been their Managing Director in both Barbados and the Cayman Islands. He has also spent 10 years as the President and CEO of a highly capitalized and successful multi-family office in Barbados. His firm provides bespoke succession, estate, fiduciary and philanthropic planning to ultra-high net worth multi-jurisdictional families and family offices, in addition to international and cross border structuring. He is a citizen of Barbados and Canada.
Mr. Stark has been in Barbados since 2000, and prior to that, and in addition to the Caribbean, has worked in wealth management and legal services in several jurisdictions including the United States and Canada.
Mr. Stark received his Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and his Master of Laws (specializing in Equity and Trusts) from the University of London, UK.
Mr. Stark is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, Canada (non-practicing), the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar Association, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (former Chairman of the Barbados Branch) and holds the Canadian Securities Course designation. Mr. Stark has graded papers for STEP and has been a sessional lecturer for the University of Alberta, Canada, School of Business.
Mr. Stark has extensive governance experience having served on many public company and public subsidiary Boards, including Chairman roles. He has guest-lectured at Universities in Canada and the United States, as well as extensively at various conferences and seminars on international wealth management and trust and estate planning, including the American Bar Association conference in London, England.