Sharon A. Beesley, BA (Hons) LLM

Sharon Beesley is an Executive Director, General Counsel and one of the co-founders of ISIS Limited and the ISIS Foundation. Sharon is also Director of The ISIS Foundation (UK).

Sharon has two upper second degrees (a Master's Degree in Law from Cambridge University and a BA (Hons) in Law from the University of Westminster), and is qualified to practice law in the UK, Hong Kong and Bermuda. She spent 8 years with one of the leading English international law firms, Linklaters and Paines, working in their City of London Head Office and in Hong Kong, where she worked primarily in the fields of banking and capital markets' transactions. In that capacity she advised international banks and lead managers in large-scale international finance transactions. Prior to coming to Bermuda, she worked in South Africa with Denys Reitz advising on corporate cross border transactions.

Before joining ISIS, Sharon was head of Banking at the Bermuda law firm, Mello Jones & Martin and was the principal, external counsel for one of Bermuda's banks, Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB). Sharon advised BCB in all its corporate areas, including treasury, custody, fund administration and trusts in all its major transactional work. Sharon's other practice areas were predominantly offshore investment funds and general cross-border transactions.

Sharon is the Chairman of the Collective Investment Schemes Committee for the Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA), which represents all aspects of the investment fund industry in Bermuda, and Director of the Association of Bermuda International Companies (AIBC) and a member of the International Business Forum (IBF) in Bermuda.

She is also a Director of the following publicly listed investement funds: Martin Currie Sino-American Fund Corporation Limited; Macquarie Airports Holdings (Bermuda) Limited, and; Macquarie Equinox Limited.