Crestbridge, a provider of administration, management and corporate governance services, has announced that John Harris, the former director general of the Jersey Financial Services Commission, will join the group in the New Year.

After 12 years at the JFSC, he will join as the non-executive Chairman of the Crestbridge Group on, or perhaps just after, 1 January. The Group, which now employs over 280 staff in its offices worldwide, hopes that his extensive private and public sector experience in international financial services institutions will serve him well in is newly created job. The press release hints darkly at his status as a non-executive director on other boards.

Before he rose to rule the JFSC, Harris was the director of international finance for the Government of Jersey, with responsibility for all policies that bolstered Jersey’s position as an offshore centre. He spent his earlier career at NatWest Bank where he was a manager in the UK, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Nassau and the Channel Islands.

Crestbridge has a family office arm and manages complex structures for HNW clients, corporations, sovereign wealth funds, groups of investors and asset managers. It provides fiduciary, administrative, accounting and compliance services. It is regulated in Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, London and Luxembourg by the Central Bank of Bahrain, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, the Jersey Financial Services Commission, the Financial Conduct Authority and Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier or CSSF.