Jersey Teachers' Superannuation Fund: Board of Management

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A decision made 12 February 2016:

Ministerial decision reference MD-C-2016-0013
Decision summary title Jersey Teachers’ Superannuation Fund: Board of Management
Decision summary author	Projects Director – Pensions	Is the decision summary public or exempt?		Public
Report title Jersey Teachers’ Superannuation Fund Membership of the Management Board
Report author or name of person giving report	Projects Director – Pensions	Is the report public or exempt?		Public
Decision and reason for the decision The Chief Minister approved Mr Gerald White as a nominee to the Jersey Teachers’ Superannuation Fund Management Board to act as a representative for the Employer’s side until 31st December 2018. Article 3 of the Teachers’ Superannuation Fund (Administration) (Jersey) Order 2007 gives the Minister for Treasury and Resources the power to recommend to the Chief Minister two representatives to the Board of Management to act for the Employer’s side. Mr White will replace Mr Robin Harris who recently retired.
Resource implications None.
Action required Project and Research Officer, Chief Ministers Department to advise the Projects Director – Pensions of the Chief Minister’s decision.
Signature			Position Senator I J Gorst Chief Minister

Date signed			Effective date of the decision

Jersey Teachers' Superannuation Fund: Board of Management

EMPLOYER NOMINEE

Mr Gerald White – Mr White was born in Jersey and has a science degree and a post-graduate teaching qualification.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has over 30 years broad Human Resources experience in both the Public and Private sectors, in Jersey and in London. He started his career with British Telecom in London, before returning to Jersey to join the States Personnel Department. After seven years in a variety of roles there, he joined Standard Chartered Bank in Jersey as their first HR Manager, responsible also for Guernsey and, later, the Isle of Man.

In 1994 he took promotion to the London-based role of Head of HR for Standard Chartered’s global markets businesses. In 1998 he moved to a head office role, where he helped enable the implementation of the PeopleSoft HR IT platform across 30 countries, with “back office” HR activities globally centralised to a shared services centre in India.

His involvement with Jersey resumed in 2001, when he was asked to handle the HR integration aspects of the merger of Standard Chartered and Grindlays’ European personal banking businesses in London, Jersey and Geneva, and of subsequent strategic business and organisational change. He returned to live in the island in 2002.

In 2003 he took on the role of Regional Head of HR, UK / Europe, for Standard Chartered, on a short term basis, and was appointed a Director of Standard Chartered Grindlays Offshore Ltd. in Jersey. He currently works as an HR Consultant with Hassell Blampied Associates on a part time basis. In 2015, he was appointed as a member of the States Members Remuneration Review Body.

MB/TRY/PENS

22 January 2016