Tony Gardner-Hillman is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and has a first-class honours degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University. He co-founded the Jersey Trust Company group in 1987 and was a director and shareholder for 21 years until he resigned as non-executive group chairman and disposed of his remaining shareholding in the group holding company in 2008. He was a partner of Crills, a Jersey law firm, from 1987 to 2002, and a Jersey resident non-executive partner of the international law firm Holman, Fenwick & Willan (Jersey partnership) from 1987 to 2003. Since 2008 he has worked full-time on a varied portfolio of directorship appointments (including with AIM listed companies).