Prior to joining Lutea, Jonathan Watson was the Chief Executive of HSBC Private Bank (Jersey) Ltd and HSBC Trustees (Channel Islands) Ltd.
Altogether, Jonathan spent 26 years with the HSBC Group as an International Manager, working in Asia and the Middle East. Before moving to Jersey in 2002, he had been HSBC’s Head of Private Banking in Singapore and then moved to Dubai to establish and direct HSBC’s regional private banking business in the Middle East and Levant.
From 2007 to 2011 he was also the Chairman of Ermitage Global Wealth Management Ltd, a specialist hedge fund business.