Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, leads one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations with over 80,000 high-net-worth, expat and international investor clients in more than 100 countries worldwide and over US$10 billion under advice and management.
Yet, despite its size, deVere embodies its founding principles which are to employ the best people and provide a truly personal service to its clients – a way of working that Mr Green has stayed true to since the company was founded.
From humble beginnings, Mr Green has become an international figure, driving a global company forward from one office to well over 70 in just 14 years.
What makes his story even more remarkable is that deVere didn’t become part of a corporate conglomerate nor did it sell out to the highest bidder when the world’s financial markets were at their lowest ebb.
deVere started life in 2002 with a single office in Hong Kong. Before that Mr Green, a serial entrepreneur, had followed his father into the financial sector as an independent financial advisor in the UK. A fortuitous connection led him to a period in Bermuda where he discovered a huge potential for a new kind of financial service for offshore clients.
He quickly understood that international clients operating away from home needed a more holistic financial service offering, one that was multi-faceted and that took in the particular regional and country variations in tax law, legislation and regulations.
Instinctive and equipped with a sharp, intelligent mind, Mr Green also realised that the service would have to be personal and for that to be achieved it would be imperative that the company needed to be present wherever the clients lived and worked.
