Adrian Cann

Adrian was born in England in 1946, educated in London, joined a small firm of Chartered Accountants in London, married Pamela in 1965 and qualified in 1968. Three years in South Africa followed, initially with Coopers and Lybrand and then in commerce, before he returned with his family to England for four years. They returned to South Africa in 1975 where he was an Audit Manager with Deloitte Haskins & Sells for three years before being transferred to Botswana. In 1991 he left Botswana to move to Guernsey, having been the Senior Partner of Deloitte's Botswana practice for nine years during which time there was significant growth in the region. In Guernsey, after six years trust and company experience as Managing Director of Town Mills Trust Company Limited (a Jersey General Group company), he established Cannon. His wife, Pamela, is headmistress of Melrose, the junior school of The Ladies' College. They have two daughters, both married, one a nursery school teacher with two children and the other an Audit & Advisory Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche (Guernsey) with one child.

Richard van Vliet

Richard was born in Johannesburg in 1957. He obtained a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree at the University of the Witwatersrand and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in Johannesburg in 1983. On leaving Price Waterhouse he became the sole proprietor of an audit practice in Johannesburg, with work biased towards international mergers and acquisitions, taxation and financial structures. From 1995 until mid-1997 he also represented the Jersey General group, an offshore investment group of companies, in Johannesburg. Having relocated in August 1997 to help establish Cannon, he and his family are now settled in Guernsey. They have a son at University in England and a daughter at school in Guernsey.

Jeff Corbet

Jeff was born in Guernsey in 1954 and was educated locally before joining a small local financial services company as Computer Operations Manager. In 1976 he moved to North Wales before moving to Paris where he became the technical instructor in a private Language Centre. In 1981, whilst still in Paris, he married Janie, returning to Guernsey in 1985. He moved back into the finance sector with Saffrey Champness in Trust and Company administration and was then sought by a client to become the General Manager of their international tour operations and Managing Director of their local entity. During this time his prime responsibilities, apart from building up the travel operations, were treasury management and foreign exchange dealings. In early 1995 he joined Town Mills Trust as a senior manager before leaving to help Adrian establish Cannon. His role at Cannon is to manage our internal administration, together with all due diligence, compliance and money-laundering regulatory requirements. His wife, Janie, has taken a career break after almost 20 years as principal of the St Christopher's Language Centre and is now a journalist for the Guernsey Evening Press. They have two sons, one at University in England and one currently studying for his "A" levels in Guernsey.

Cathy van Vliet

Cathy was born in Kenya in 1958, moving to Scotland for a time before settling in South Africa in 1969. She completed her secondary education at Sandringham High School, before studying at the University of Witwatersrand where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979 and completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in 1980. She joined the University of the Witwatersrand as an administrative assistant, and later became a Senior Personnel Officer in the academic staff recruitment department. Having married Richard in 1980, she left the University in 1984 to have their first child. Subsequently she worked at J Murray & Chamberlain, Richard's accounting practice, being responsible for the internal administration. Other projects included lecturing post-matric students at Rosebank Secretarial College in Office Administration & Life Skills, being responsible for the administration of a commercial game farm (Kings Camp, Timbavati), and reviewing the academic staff salary scales at the University of the Witwatersrand. Having relocated to Guernsey in 1997 with Richard and their children, she later joined Cannon, initially as a supervisor of our client administration teams but has since been made a Director. She has completed the STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) Foundation Certificate.

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