Sr. Vice President

Vic Holmes is Chief Executive of Northern Trust's Channel Islands businesses and Managing Director of Northern Trust International Fund Administration Services (Guernsey) Limited, based in Guernsey. He chairs both the Guernsey and Jersey fund administration companies and is a member of Northern Trust's European Executive Committee.

Prior to assuming his present role in 2007, Vic was based in Dublin where he headed up Northern Trust's Irish fund administration companies.

Vic joined Northern Trust in 2005 following its acquisition of Baring Asset Management's Financial Services Group (FSG). At FSG he was responsible for all fund administration services provided by the FSG group from London, Dublin, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey.

He joined the FSG in Guernsey in 1985 and was appointed a director of Guernsey International Fund Managers in 1986. He re-located to Dublin in 1990 as managing director of International Fund Managers Ireland Limited when the group established a fund administration business in the Irish International Financial Services Centre.

Vic was the first chairman of the Dublin Funds Industry Association (now the Irish Funds Industry Association)  in 1991, and continued to serve as a Council member until 2003. He served on the IFSC Clearing House Committee, a committee established by the Irish Prime Minister's office to oversee the development of the IFSC, for a period of 2 years in the early 90's as the representative of the Funds Industry.

Vic qualified as an ACCA in 1979 while employed by King Hope & Co, Chartered Accountants, in Cleveland UK, and for the next six years worked at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co, Chartered Accountants, in Cleveland (1979 to 1982) and Guernsey (1982 to 1985).