Our People

Martin began his career in the London insurance market in 1970 as an aviation facultative broker with Lloyd’s broker C E Heath. In 1983 Martin moved to Guernsey to join Transglobe Underwriting Management (Guernsey) Limited and was then appointed Managing Director of Polygon in 1995, who were the majority capacity provider to Transglobe.

In 2001 Martin orchestrated the management buyout of the fee-based companies from Polygon which formed the basis for a new company, Heritage Group Limited.  In 2005 Martin also led the buyout of the Hiscox group’s shareholding of the Heritage Group and was instrumental in the Heritage Group’s expansion. During this time Martin was Chairman of Heritage Trust Company, Heritage Fund Admin, Heritage Insurance Brokers and Heritage Captive Management.  Martin then organised the sale and purchase of the airline founder’s shareholding in Polygon.

In 2008, Martin stepped down as Chief Executive Officer, moving to the role of Non-Executive Chairman of Heritage Group until 2014. Polygon then sold its shareholding in the Heritage Group and Martin purchased the rest of management's shareholding in Polygon, making the Polygon Collective a family office. Martin now focuses exclusively on the development of the Polygon Collective.

Polygon Collective has grown enormously since then and Polygon Serviced Offices are now the Channel Islands largest supplier of serviced offices and Polymetrix is the largest and most respected data and benefits survey company in the Channel Islands. With the re-branding of the Vantage companies to Polygon, we are a strong player as a pension trustee in Jersey and one of the fastest growing insurance brokers in the Channel Islands.

Martin also holds the chairmanship for the Guernsey Nature Commission and is a president of the Guernsey Rugby Club.

After Alex graduated, he pursued a career in the wine trade for 10 years. He then returned to university where he graduated with an MBA and returned to the Channel Islands to work in the Groups’ property portfolio.

He led the development of Forum 3 on Grenville Street as well as the adjacent property Forum 4. Serviced offices have become a significant feature in both properties representing 4 of the 10 floors. The tenants of these buildings range from blue chip, listed companies to technology start-ups, as well family offices and Government organisations including Digital Jersey. Alex also developed the group’s acquisition in Anley Street in 2019 which is let to 2 financial services providers as well as group owned companies, Polygon Insurance Brokers, Polygon Pensions, Polymetrix and and Polygon Uderwriting. He then went on to lead the developments of Les Vardes House, Bucktrout House and Hadlsey House which are operated purely as serviced offices in Guernsey. The six properties amount to approximately 60,000 square feet and are currently fully let to over 60 tenants.

Alex is also currently on the board of BookingTek Ltd which is a significant group investment. The company has featured on the Sunday Times top 100 fastest growing companies and supplies software to hotel chains.

Verienne is a Chartered Marketer and has over 18 years’ experience in the industry.

She previously ran the marketing department for a multi-jurisdictional financial services business for 10 years and following this set up a marketing company as subsidiary business of the Polygon Group in 2014 operating in the Channel Islands.

Verienne joined the board of Polygon in September 2015 as an Executive Director. She was appointed Managing Director of Polymetrix Limited in 2018, a leading provider of remuneration surveys and benchmarking services in the Crown Dependencies. In this time she has developed the offering significantly in the Isle of Man and launched and iGaming survey in Malta.

On a day to day basis, Verienne leads and develops Polymetrix, ensuring the services offered evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of the client and the unique environments in which they operate.

Paul joined Polygon Group as the Chief Operating Officer in 2018 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in February 2020. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in his home, New Zealand, before re-locating with KPMG to Guernsey.

With more than 25 years’ experience, Paul brings with him strong commercial finance experience having worked as Finance Director for Blue Diamond Group for over a decade driving significant growth and profitability and subsequently as Finance Director for International Energy Group, a multi-jurisdictional role where he was instrumental in the restructuring and sale of the company delivering significant value to the shareholder.

Paul has a wide-reaching responsibility for the Collective including responsibility for its finance and operational functions as well as having significant involvement in its investment portfolio.  He is a director of Polygon (Jersey) Limited, Polygon Pension Trustees Limited, Polygon Insurance Brokers Limited and also Polygon Insurance Company Limited which is a Guernsey regulated insurance company.

Paul is member of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Joanna is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has over 20 years’ experience in providing, implementing, and supporting a wide range of software solutions in both the commercial and financial sectors.

She joined Polygon Group Limited in 2008 working for one of the investment companies as the Accounting and Technical Officer and became IT Director of the Vantage Group in 2017 (now Polygon).

Joanna is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She was appointed to the Board of Polygon Collective in 2020 and her role has wide-ranging responsibility including infrastructure and system development coupled with her group accounting role.
In 2022, Joanna became a Director of the Vantage regulated businesses.

Liaising with external IT providers, she maintains the group’s Cyber Essentials Certification and leads the data protection team.

Jo is a Director on the following regulated companies:

• Polygon (Jersey) Limited
• Polygon Pension Trustees Limited
• Polygon Insurance Brokers Limited

Amanda has been assisting Martin Belcher for over 25 years with the administration, marketing and strategic aspects of the Polygon Group.

She now focuses exclusively on the running and development of the family-owned investment company Polygon Collective.  Amanda has a wide-reaching responsibility for the Collective including company administration, company secretarial, property management, personal assistant and secretarial services.

She began work in the insurance industry with Martin after completing a Diploma in secretarial studies and has completed the Institute of Directors Company Direction programme.

Born and educated in Jersey, Wayne is an experienced international business development professional who has led in regulatory and inward investment areas.

Wayne’s career initially commenced at Barclaytrust International in Jersey as a Trust and Company administrator which included a secondment to Guernsey to open up the office there. Having then worked for his family retail business, Wayne joined the States of Jersey at the Viscounts Department before moving on in 1997 to work at the Office of the Chief Adviser and Chief Executive to the States. As Executive Officer reporting to senior politicians of the Policy & Resources Committee, Wayne headed up the Regulation of Undertakings and Development Office team which regulated business and staffing licence approvals and worked closely with private sector businesses to break down barriers and misperceptions.

From 2007, Wayne was a Director at Jersey Enterprise before successfully establishing and heading up Locate Jersey which was tasked with attracting high value business and economically active HNWIs to the Island and promoting Jersey as a place to do business. This entailed developing public/private partnerships locally and in the UK and overseas. Wayne led government/business overseas delegations to China, India, South Africa, Israel and France resulting in new business opportunities arising and was a speaker on the “Jersey proposition” at seminars and conferences.

In 2017, Wayne became business development manager for an Indian HQ digital business which he had helped set up an office in Jersey many years previously. Wayne joined Polygon as Business Development Lead in 2023.

Outside of work, Wayne enjoys travel and sport and has represented Jersey at cricket and football and is a member at Royal Jersey Golf Club.

With over 20 years of experience in Business Development in both the financial services and commercial sector, Bahar joined Polygon Collective in 2019.

Prior to her time with Polygon Collective, her roles included Guernsey Finance the quasi-government agency for the finance sector where she led international delegations to Asia, Middle East and Europe working closely with the investment funds, private client, banking and insurance industry. She was key in the liaison with industry to deliver the jurisdictions’ development plans globally and subsequently gained further experience with a private client firm.

As head of relations, Bahar is responsible for Polygon Collective’s clients and stakeholders, including the management of the Polygon Serviced Offices property portfolio and tenants in Guernsey.

She is also responsible for the philanthropic partnerships and activities for the group and sits on the board of Art of Guernsey. Bahar is studying towards the Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland qualification.

Andrew has held senior positions across a range of sectors including logistics, online retail, and Insurtech. His experience spans operations, project management, tech development and delivery, and the day-to-day workings of start-up businesses.

His previous positions include Operations Director for a large 3PL logistics company, overseeing blue-chip clients across the Channel Islands, UK and Switzerland. In 2014 he co-founded Petwell.co.uk, one of the largest online pet retail stores in the UK, which was successfully exited to Vital Pet Group. In early 2018 Andrew became COO of Found, an Insurtech startup that leveraged AI, machine learning and other technologies to create lost property solutions and insure personal items, such as tech and bikes.

Andrew joined Polygon Collective in July 2020 with his current role Head of Digital and Technology. 

Andrew holds an investment diploma from the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and a diploma in governance, risk and compliance from the International compliance association. 

Ed is a NED for the Polygon Collective, but his primary role is as Deputy Chairman of the Polygon Collective’s Jersey based Insurance and Pensions businesses.

Additional to this, Ed works with a small portfolio of high growth companies who are looking for early-stage capital. He has developed a strong network of sophisticated investors and works with businesses from a range of commercial sectors but focuses on technology companies.

Ed has been an Executive and Non-Executive Director to several businesses and has also provided project management and consultancy services to private and public sector organisations. He is currently on the Board of Calligo Limited and is also President of the charity EYECAN and a Governor of St Michael’s School.  His early career was with the Ford Motor Company and on returning to the Channel Islands he was the HR Director of the Le Riche Group Limited prior to becoming Managing Director of C.I. Hospitality, the Channel Islands’ largest pub estate. He led this business through major change prior to its ultimate acquisition by the Liberation Group.  In a consulting role he has assisted in the creation of Digital Jersey, Visit Jersey and Jersey Sport.

Ed holds an MBA from Ashridge Hult Business School.

Hiren has been practicing law since 1991. He is a corporate lawyer with specialist practice areas in structured finance, capital markets, funds and insurance.

He is admitted to practice law in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Bermuda, and has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, having lived and worked in several offshore jurisdictions.

He currently practices English and Welsh law from his own law firm and prior to this he was a partner in MJ Hudson, Walkers and Applebys.

Hiren’s client base includes banks and companies involved in infrastructure, oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and reinsurance, shipping and aviation and building projects worldwide.

His main client base is in India, China and the Far East. These clients focus on structuring inward and outward investments into these regions, listings on stock exchanges and the expansion of their Asian businesses.

Simon has had a 27 year career in the City of London in Investment Banking the majority of which was spent as a managing director of Citigroup where he built their local currency Emerging Markets business.

He now works as a trusted advisor with a number of Family Offices and consults in private equity. He has an extensive network in this area globally.

He is also a non executive director for a number of investment companies and family offices based in Guernsey.