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provided a cover that normally grey hair
would’ve provided,” he says.
After eight years at Smith Barney, Sellon and
one of his colleagues, Joshua Matthews, decided
to start their own wealth management company.
Last year they launched MASECO Financial, a
wealth management boutique focusing on US
citizens and ex-pats living in the UK.
“It was always the motivation to work
independently at some point” he says. However
it was still a big step to take: “there’s an
inherent nervousness before you do it. It’s a
move out of the comfort zone of the monthly
pay check.”
As well as managing clients’ money, Sellon fi lls
his time with skiing and windsurfi ng. He is
married with a nine month old daughter who is
just 12 hours younger than her daddy’s company.
“She’s putting on more weight than the business
at the moment” he says with a smile.
Janelle Woodroffe
e was born and raised in Trinidad.

Analyst, BP J
anelle Woodroff
She moved to the US in 2002, to complete a
double degree in Economics and Finance at the
INTERVIEW BY: MAHA KHAN PHILLIPS • PHOTOGRAPHY: ABI HARDWICK
University of Delaware. It was there that she became
interested in energy markets. “Anyone who is from
Trinidad knows that it is the mainstay of our
economy,” she says.
After completing her degree in 2006, Woodroff e
joined the Exelon Generation Company in
Pennsylvania as a trade fl oor analyst. “It was there that
I met people doing their CFA. I wanted to learn more
about derivatives,” she explains. She is now a Level II
candidate. “Th e CFA curriculum tends to focus on
equity valuations and bonds, but the energy industry
is taking some of those fundamental techniques and
applying it to their own business,” she explains.
In 2007, Woodroff e returned to Port-of-Spain. “I
wanted to move to the upstream of energy markets,
which is actual exploration and production, so I
moved back to Trinidad. It seemed that all the traders
I talked to had an excellent fi nancial base, but they
also had supplemented this with fundamental
knowledge of the energy sector, either as a drilling
engineering or exploration engineer, for example.”
Once she started, she realised she wanted to remain
on the transactional side of the business. “I found
myself doing a complete 180 degrees, because
everything was actually happening on the trade fl oor,”
she explains. Woodroff e joined BP as a fi nance analyst
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