Jan J. Spiering, F.C.A. has served as a Director of W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. since September 2004. Mr. Spiering is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bermuda, and is the retired Managing Partner and Chairman of Ernst & Young Bermuda, a firm which he joined in 1979. Previous to Ernst & Young, he was employed by Robson Rhodes, a United Kingdom firm of Chartered Accountants with whom he qualified. Additionally, Mr. Spiering has served as a director of numerous companies and in particular within the investment industry. Currently he is President and a director of several privately held investment companies as well as a director of a Bermuda reinsurance company. He has served on various public boards and committees including Deputy Chairman of Bermuda International Business Association, Chairman of Bermuda's International Business Association Mutual Funds, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Bermuda College and Chairman of Bermuda's International Business Forum. |