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Why did you choose to work in this industry initially?
Having worked for more than 20 years in the fiduciary industry, private banking is a natural fit for my skillset, training and educational background. I am passionate about developing long-term relationships with my clients and working in their best interests to ensure that they can sleep well at night. Each family is different, their fears, their dreams, their backgrounds/history—all making them unique and thus interesting to work in partnership with them to help secure financial stability.
What has been the highlight of your career so far? Pearline McIntosh
Job: Vice president, private banker Company: Butterfield Career path
2012—Vice president, private banker, Butterfield 2008—Vice president, deputy managing director, Butterfield Trust
As vice president, private banker, Pearline McIntosh is responsible for developing private client business within Bermuda.
Prior to joining the private banking team at Butterfield, she held
the position of deputy head of Butterfield Trust (Bermuda) Limited and managing director of Appleby Trust (Bermuda) Limited.
McIntosh graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor
of Arts in Economics (minor in Business Administration) in 1989. McIntosh is the first Bermudian to attain the highly accredited designation Associate Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB). She has been a full Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) member since 1997 having achieved her Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEPs) designation in 2002 by successfully completing the International Trust Management Diploma with Distinction.
McIntosh has served as an executive member of the Bermuda Association of License Trustees (BALT) and often mentors those expressing a desire to pursue a career in international trust and wealth management. She also served as executive committee member and past chair of the STEP (Bermuda) branch, regional representative on the STEP Caribbean and Latin America regional committee. She presently sits on the STEP Caribbean Conference committee and has served as president of Big Brothers and Sisters of Bermuda, a mentoring charity.
McIntosh was named on the Citywealth Leaders List 2012 as one of
the leading trustee prominent figures and listed in 2013 by Citywealth as one of the top 100 International Financial Centre Power Women.
“There have been several, but among those are being the first Bermudian to achieve the UK banking designation of ACIB, and being appointed as managing director for a well-established trust company, Appleby Trust, before the age of 40.”
There have been several, but among those are being the first Bermudian to achieve the UK banking designation of ACIB, and being appointed as managing director for a well-established trust company, Appleby Trust, before the age of 40.
What has been the biggest challenge you have encountered?
Learning not to take work life too seriously. Work does not exclusively define you as a person, it simply represents an aspect of who you are, in a certain space.
If you had chosen a different profession/career path, what would it have been?
That’s a difficult question to answer, I have had no regrets. Each career step have been strategic and well timed. That being said, if I had known what I know now, I would either own and manage a small traditional multi-family office or own and manage a coaching and mentoring business targeting university graduates and those who are considering career changes. ■
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