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Professional Biography

Stella is the CEO and one of the original founders of Summit Trust International SA based in Geneva, Switzerland. She has significant experience in acting as trustee and indeed protector of various trusts holding diverse assets such as bloodstock, real estate, art & antiques, operating businesses, private equity and the like. Stella also sits on the board of various operating companies owned within structures that are administered by Summit. She is a well respected tutor for CLT International delivering the STEP Diploma Courses and is a regular speaker at international private client conferences. Stella speaks English and French.

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

Baccaro in Cayman when I am there! Otherwise Scotts in London.

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

There is always a solution, even to the knottiest of problems, you just have to find it!

What was your first job?

Waitressing to pay my way through university at a Beefeater restaurant.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

I'm a sucker after a fraught day for a mindlessly easy novel - currently reading the new Jilly Cooper!

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

I suspect that with the looming UK election we will see some last minute planning as the expectation of a Labour government and changes to the non-dom regime march ever closer.