Kelly is a Jersey based compliance professional with over 16 years’ experience and joined Cyan in 2022 from our group company Altair. She has a broad range of compliance experience spanning deposit-taking business (banking), fund business, investment business and trust company business.

Kelly has spent over 10 years working with global asset management business where she held Key Person roles as Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer. Kelly has also previously held roles as Compliance Officer for FCA, SEC and CFTC regulated business, together with Ethics and Data Protection Officer. She has experience in designing and rolling out internal policies and guidance for new regulations, most recently MiFID II and Senior Managers Regime to a UK FCA asset manager.

She can grasp the complex regulatory needs of multi-jurisdictions, including expanding and contracting businesses to ensure that they meet their regulatory obligations throughout the process. Kelly has spent time working for as Trustee/Depositary Manager and served as a director within a major international bank, where she implemented AIFMD depositary policies and procedures, ensuring that an effective framework was adopted.

Kelly holds a LLB Law degree from the University of Northampton, Postgraduate diploma in Legal Practice Course (LPC), and an ICA International Diploma in Compliance obtaining a distinction and ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’.