Russell has direct responsibility for building and implementing investment strategies. A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, Russell was formerly Head of Investments for a private bank, where he worked for 11 years, and prior to this was an Assistant Director at SG Hambros. He moved to Jersey in 1991, having completed a Lloyds Bank graduate training programme, and worked for the bank developing their client base in the UK, Europe and southern Africa.
2018 saw him awarded the Sustainable Investment Professional Certificate by the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada.