Aztec Group has announced a round of senior promotions within its Jersey office.
Emily Sturgess becomes Director, Operational Resilience. Since joining the Aztec Group in 2010, Emily has led the growth and development of several client relationship teams, and spent a period of time leading the fund services offering in Sweden. In her new role, Emily will lead an operational resilience team focused on the development and oversight of the oroup’s operating controls.
Phil Whittock has been promoted to Director and Head of Infrastructure and Information Security. Joining the group in 2017, Phil was recruited to drive the information security strategy and lead the information security team. In his new role, his brief is broadened to include overall responsibility for the group’s IT infrastructure.
Nadia Assaadi-Irtizaali moves up to Associate Director within the Group’s Private Equity team. Nadia joined the Aztec Group as a Client Relationship Manager in 2013 and has played a pivotal role in growing the core client team and developing internal controls and wellbeing initiatives.
Also promoted to Associate Director in the Private Equity team is Fe Sapalo, who joined Aztec as a Financial Reporting Manager in 2015. With over 10 years’ audit and accounting financial services experience, Fe oversees the operations of several teams administering funds for a significant client.
Within the Training and Development team, Gary Millns has been promoted to Associate Director. Gary joined Aztec in 2017 as Senior Training and Development Manager, and has helped develop its training centre. Responsible for the professional development of over 900 employees across seven offices, Gary will continue to oversee the training team and develop leadership and management training programmes.
Pictured (l-r): Emily Sturgess, Phil Whittock, Nadia Assaadi-Irtizaali, Gary Millns and Fe Sapalo