Appointment Committee

Role of the Appointments Committee

In accordance with the AEP Tribunal and Appeal Tribunal Terms of Reference and the Actuarial and Accountancy Schemes, the FRC's People Committee have appointed individuals to form an Appointment Committee. All members of the Appointments Committee are independent from the FRC Board, Conduct Committee and Executive Counsel and are responsible for appointing members of the FRC Tribunal Panel.

Committee Members

  • Brandon Horwitz

    Member

    Brandon Horwitz is Principal Consultant at NomBon Consulting, a boutique management consultancy as well as being a Senior Adviser and Non-Executive Director of Fund Boards Council, a membership organisation focused on investment fund board governance, transparency and value. Brandon has experience as a Non-Executive Director of organisations regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), The Pension Regulator (TPR) and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).

    Brandon’s previous roles in his 20+ year career in financial services include launching the Vitality Invest proposition and being responsible for HSBC UK’s regulated financial advice proposition and conduct risk management for wealth management products. He has also worked as an asset management Technical Specialist at the FSA (now the FCA), as an Investment Banker and Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley and in investment consulting at Watson Wyatt (now Willis Towers Watson).

    Brandon is a qualified actuary and holds a M.Sc. in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics as well as a B.Sc. in Actuarial Science/Maths of Finance from WITS university. Brandon was also chair of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA) Finance & Investment Board from 2014-2016 after joining that Board in 2009. He is an active volunteer for the IFoA, regularly chairing working parties covering areas including product and investment governance.

    Brandon has also been a Trustee and Non-Executive Director of a charity which helps unemployed people build confidence and skills to find work and of a hospital school for young people with severe eating disorders.

  • Victoria Smith

    Member

    Victoria is a qualified solicitor who was admitted to the Roll of solicitors over 25 years ago. She has spent the majority of her working life firstly as a Government Legal Services lawyer and then as a Legal Advisor in the Magistrates Court advising lay Magistrates’ on the law practice and procedure in the Court room. After leaving the Court Service she joined a large national law practice where for a number of years she practiced as a private client specialist. For the last 5 years she has built a portfolio career where she sits as a decision maker for bodies such as the Ministry of Defence and National Health Service. She also works in the Regulatory sector sitting as a Legal Assessor or member of fitness to practice committees for Regulators such as the ACCA and ICAEW. Victoria has considerable experience of recruitment appointing senior lawyers as well as appointing senior leaders in the education field.

  • David Trovato

    Member

    David Trovato is a barrister and Technical Specialist at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) where he leads on all aspects of proceeds of crime investigations, litigation and policy in the context of financial services and markets. Previously, David held posts as a Case Controller at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), where he managed multi-disciplinary teams in asset recovery proceedings concerning allegations of serious fraud, bribery and corruption, and as a Specialist Prosecutor and Crown Advocate at the Proceeds of Crime Division of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), where he frequently represented the interests of overseas governments in pursuing mutual legal assistance requests for asset freezing and forfeiture. He began his career at the self-employed bar over twenty years ago, practising in general crime, extradition and judicial review.

    David’s experience includes providing advice and contributing to financial crime policy in various cross-agency and strategic roles. He has, for example, chaired the Civil Recovery Practitioners’ Group, and was an advisory member of the Joint Action Steering group for the UK’s National Assessment on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. He also contributed to the UK’s responses to both the Financial Action Task force and United Nations assessments.

    David is a co-author of a leading publication (Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime, 3rd Ed., Sweet & Maxwell). He has trained judges and prosecutors as a standing expert to the European Judicial Training Network and has presented at various forums, including at the European Commission.

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