Mr. Hooper has 24 years experience in international banking and financial services. After 5 years in commercial banking in Spain he moved to South America. During the last 24 years, traveling extensively throughout the continent, he has been involved with project finance and investment banking and more recently private and offshore banking and financial services. Mr. Hooper also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Winterbotham Trust Company (the Administrator of the Fund).
Before establishing Winterbotham in 1991, Mr. Hooper was Vice President & Senior Area Representative for Lloyds International Private Banking, a part of Lloyds Bank Plc. In this capacity he was a director of Lloyds IPB (Americas) S.A. Prior to this, Mr. Hooper was Managing Director of NatWest International Trust Corporation (Uruguay) S.A., [previously RoyWest Trust Corporation (Uruguay) S.A.], a part of National Westminster Bank Plc.
Fred Reinertz
Dr. Fred Reinertz PhD. has had an impressive career in banking and fund management: a former investment banker with long standing experience in the Pacific rim (Japan) as a former General Manager of Global Funds Management Company S.A. (with assets of US$ 22.5 Billion) belonging to The Nomura Securities Company, Tokyo and a confirmed corporate banker, holding positions of high responsibility with Banque de l'Indochine et de Suez (now Credit Agricole Indosuez, Paris), Banque Internationale ? Luxembourg (now DEXIA BIL), Banque Bruxelles Lambert and Nomura Banque Luxembourg.
Dr.F.Reinertz has managed several corporate investment funds in various jurisdictions; he has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of ALFI, the Luxembourg Investment Funds Association, of the Executive Board of Directors of ABBL, the Luxembourg Bankers' Association - in both bodies as a member of the Legal and Regulatory Commissions. Also served as a member of the sub-Committee on capital markets regulation at the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and as Director in the Board of Directors of AGDL, the Luxembourg Bankers' Associations' Mutual Deposit Guarantee Scheme (a self-regulatory body in Luxembourg with functions similar to the US FDIC system).
