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Management team
Fund director: David Rawson-Mackenzie
David is the founder and Managing Director of Centurion Group Limited, a financial services company, with fifteen years' experience in providing investment and tax solutions to both institutional and high net worth clients. In 1999 David set up Centurion Fund Managers and started researching life settlement and longevity as a new asset class. Prior to founding Centurion, David gained a wide experience of the offshore financial services industry by working for Bank of Bermuda in Bermuda, the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands.

Fund manager: David Rawson-Mackenzie
Centurion Fund Managers Ltd (authorised by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority).

Fund director: Paul Backhouse
Paul is the founder and director of Cogent, a Guernsey-based business providing mainly trust, company and related services to private and corporate clients. His business career has always been in the financial services sector, initially with the Midland Bank Group (HSBC) and then with Deloitte & Touche and The Bank of Bermuda. He is a former board member of Fortis Global Private Banking and has been a member of several advisory boards and committees of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. He is a former Chairman of the International Bankers Association in Guernsey.

Fund director: Nick Ferris
Immediately prior to establishing Cogent in 2003, Nick was the head of MeesPierson in Guernsey. He spent eleven years with MeesPierson, where he was initially responsible for operations and then took over the management of a niche trust business from Hong Kong at the time of the return of the colony to China before becoming Managing Director. Nick is a professionally qualified Chartered Director.

Fund investment adviser: Pollyanna Wan
Centurion Portfolio Managers Ltd (authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority).

Pollyanna joined Centurion Group in 2003 as technical director for Centurion Fund Managers. Over the last five years she has been responsible for the development of a number of longevity products and recently led the group's first leveraged longevity swap in the life settlement market. Pollyanna is responsible for providing investment advice to Centurion Fund Managers.