We’re delighted to announce Stuart Pinnington as the new Global Head of Asset Owners at IQ-EQ. Having been with the business since 2018, Stuart will lead this key service segment into our next phase of commercial evolution, upholding and further honing a strategic focus on family offices and institutional wealth holders.
“In line with Stuart taking on global leadership of the segment, we’ve relabelled it from ‘Private and Institutional Asset Owners’ to simply ‘Asset Owners’,” notes Richard Surrency, IQ-EQ’s Group Chief Commercial Officer. “We feel this more neatly reflects our complete offering in this space, which serves all wealth holders including single- and multi-family offices, pension and sovereign wealth funds, as well as ultra-high-net-worth families looking for multi-generational governance and reporting. We’re providing a single point of entry for the full spectrum of asset owners.”
Sharing insight into his top priorities in his new role, Stuart says: “As the profile and needs of asset owners become ever-more sophisticated, and we continue to streamline our operations globally, my overarching focus will be to provide our asset owner clients with increased access to all relevant services and products available at IQ-EQ, regardless of which segment they’re badged as. My aim is to cut across traditional service silos so we can better respond to the evolving needs of wealth holders everywhere.”
He continues: “IQ-EQ is exceptionally well-equipped to meet the requirements of these investors now and into the future, and I see great potential to further expand our market coverage among large family offices and institutions, strengthen our collaboration with banks, and achieve accelerated growth across key regions globally.”
Since beginning his career as a lawyer working for some of the top London and offshore law firms, Stuart has garnered over 15 years’ leadership experience in the investor services space, including both operational and client-facing roles. Before IQ-EQ, he was Group Head of Institutional Services for another prominent administrator. Stuart joined our Jersey office in January 2018 as Group Managing Director of Corporate Services and since then has held a series of leadership positions, most recently Head of Alternative Assets.
Praising Stuart’s fit for the Global Head role, Richard adds: “Stuart is well-known for his operational knowledge, commercial leadership and deep industry expertise and I’m confident in his ability to lead our Asset Owners segment towards further innovation and success as we progress our growth strategy and maintain our commitment to commercial excellence. I’m particularly pleased to be able to recognise and promote internal talent into this important leadership role and would like to take the opportunity to congratulate Stuart on his well-earned progression.”
