Martin Edwards

Head of the JRA

Martin was appointed Head of the JRA in January 2022. Martin was a Senior Supervisor in the JFSC’s Banking Supervision team and spent 10 years in various roles across the JFSC’s Supervision Division. His main areas of expertise are in Banking and Non-Banking Prudential Supervision as well as Investment Business and Banking Conduct. Whilst at the JFSC Martin was involved in several strategic projects including development of the JFSC’s Supervisory Risk Model, implementing new prudential reporting processes and investment business mystery shopping. Martin is an accountant and prior to joining the JFSC he spent 9 years at PwC in Jersey where he gained experience across a broad spectrum of Jersey’s finance industry.

Mike Mitchell

Chair, JRA

Mike was appointed Chair of the Jersey Resolution Authority by the Jersey Government in August 2021. Mike was a Senior Advisor at the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) until he retired from the Bank in 2021. He was recruited to the Bank of England in 2009 and headed up the Bank’s Special Resolution Unit through much of the Global Financial Crisis before joining the KPMG’s Banking Risk team in 2012. He returned to the Bank as a Senior Advisor in 2014 in which role he provided challenge and support to the PRA’s banking and insurance supervision teams. From 2015 to 2017, Mike took on a front-line supervision role as Director of the PRA’s International Banks Supervision Directorate where he led teams overseeing more than 150 overseas banks operating out of the UK. During this period, he also worked for the Irish Government as a Technical Advisor on their Inquiry into the Irish banking crisis.

Prior to his regulatory experience, Mike had a long career in retail financial services including 25 years with Lloyds (TSB) culminating in executive director roles on the boards of two large subsidiaries, Lloyds TSB Insurance Ltd and Cheltenham & Gloucester plc.

Katherine Hitchins

Deputy Chair, JRA

With 20 years’ experience in finance and law, Katherine has worked for multiple international investment banks throughout her career including JPMorgan Chase Bank, where she was an Executive Director in Singapore, and as a Director of Lehman Brothers in London.

Katherine now lives in Jersey and acts as General Counsel for the Polygon Group family office. Prior to moving to Jersey with her family, Katherine was a Partner and Head of Department for a Channel Island law firm. She originally trained and qualified as a banking lawyer with Ashurst in London.

She is also currently a non-executive director for Schroders’ offshore private banking group.

Jill Britton

Director General of the JFSC

Jill Britton was appointed as a member of the Jersey Resolution Authority in 2022.

Jill is the Director General at the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC). In her role, she is responsible for leading the JFSC in its day-to-day operations as both regulator and registry, and ensuring the organisation delivers its strategic priorities. Prior to this she was the Executive Director of Supervision. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing the regulation of Jersey’s financial services industry and the supervision of other sectors for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.

With over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry in the UK, Jersey and Asia, specialising in compliance and operational risk management for global banking organisations.

Jill is passionate about learning and development and mentors a number of talented women to support them in fulfilling their potential. Jill holds a BA (Hons) in Financial Services.

Jill is also a Trustee for Jersey Hospice Care.

Monique O'Keefe

Deputy Chair of the JFSC

Monique O’Keefe joined the Board of the JRA in January 2022. She also serves as a Commissioner and Deputy Chair of the Board of the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

Monique has 25 years’ experience in finance and law. Prior to moving to Jersey in 2013, she specialised in structuring complex financing deals for international investment banks in London and New York, most recently at Goldman Sachs as a Senior Banker and Executive Director, and before that as a Director at Merrill Lynch. She began her career as a finance lawyer at Minter Ellison in Australia and Clifford Chance in London. She has experience working with a variety of organisations spanning government, international investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, major financial institutions and international businesses.

Upon moving to Jersey, she has undertaken a select number of non-executive directorships, and co-founded an investment consultancy business, Kairos Wealth Limited. She is currently an Executive Director and Chief Risk & Governance Officer of Arrow Global Group, and Chairs the fund manager for Arrow. She also sits as a non-executive director on a London-listed solar energy fund.