Gerald has a science degree and a post-graduate teaching qualification.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management (he was Chairman of the Jersey Branch 1987 – 1990).

Gerald has over 25 years broad Human Resources experience in both the Public and Private sectors, in Jersey and in London. He started his career with British Telecom in London, before returning to Jersey to join the States Personnel Department.  After seven years in a variety of HR roles there, he joined Standard Chartered Bank in Jersey as their first HR Manager, responsible also for Guernsey and, later, the Isle of Man. 

In 1994 he took promotion to the London-based role of Head of HR for Standard Chartered’s global markets businesses.  In 1998 he moved to a head office role, where he helped enable the implementation of PeopleSoft HR across 30 countries, with “back office” HR activities globally centralised to a shared services centre in India.  His involvement with Jersey resumed in 2001, when he was asked to handle the HR integration aspects of the merger of Standard Chartered and Grindlays’ European personal banking businesses in London, Jersey and Geneva, and of subsequent strategic business and organisational change.  He returned to live in the island in 2002.

In 2003 he took on the role of Regional Head of HR, UK / Europe, for Standard Chartered, and was appointed to the Board of Standard Chartered Grindlays Offshore Ltd. in Jersey.