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Ian Jones

Ian Wynne Jones, Managing Director of Zing Accounting Limited is a qualified Chartered Accountant with almost twenty years of post qualification experience within the Financial Services environment.  Ian has spent many of those years in senior management positions.

Ian Qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Kidsons Impey in the UK, where he gained his early experience as an auditor and tax consultant.

Working as head of fund administration for both closed and open ended funds at John Govett in London, he then moved to Jersey where he took a positions as Financial Controller of UBS International Trustees and then as Director of Asset Management at Robert Fleming Management (Jersey).

After a short stint as a Trust Director with IFM Limited, Ian became Finance Director at Barclays Private Bank in Jersey for a period of six years where, from a finance perspective, he oversaw each of the banking, fiduciary and investment management functions.  The investment management operation within Barclays included a large global custody business.

Ian held the position of Chief Operating Officer at Deutsche Bank International for two years, where he also acted as one of the executive directors of various management companies for the Deutsche managed funds.  Ian also acted as head of their Global Custody operations.

Whilst at Deutsche Bank, Ian stimulated the company’s outsourcing initiative to move banking operations to Mauritius where they already had a significant presence.  He also sponsored a project which gave customers the ability to view their custody holdings with market values online, and many other change initiatives designed to improve client service and improve efficiency.

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