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Professional Biography

Jo qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2008, working as a private client solicitor in the UK before beginning her trust career at Summit Trust International SA in Geneva in 2011. Jo has a wide range of experience in trust and company management, providing bespoke private client trusteeship to ultra-high value, complex international trust structures, within which an array of real assets are managed, including fine art, vintage cars, shipping fleets, yachts, private equity, operating businesses and commercial and residential property.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Scott's Mayfair

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Listen more than you speak.

What was your first job?

Sweeping floors in the local village shop at age 14.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

As regulation increases, consolidation is inevitable, although that isn't necessarily a bad thing.