Richard Coles  

Richard acts as a Non-Executive Director for a number of mutual funds, structured finance vehicles and investment and financial sector companies.

Richard is an experienced lawyer having been a Solicitor admitted in England and a Cayman Islands Attorney-at-law and Notary Public. A former Attorney General for the Cayman Islands, Richard was also a Member of the Cabinet and Legislative Assembly and a Government Minister, a position he was appointed to at the recommendation of the British Government. He was also acting Governor of the Cayman Islands. Prior to that appointment, he was the founding partner of a substantial firm of solicitors with offices in England. Richard is also former chairman of Cayman Finance, former chairman of the Human Rights Commission and chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Richard joined Equiom following the acquisition of HF Fund Services Ltd, a company he joined in 2008. 

Richard studied at the College of Law in London and is a Fellow of the Caribbean Law Institute. He is a member of the Law Society of England, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. He also has the distinction of being a Freeman of the City of London.