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Graham Reid, Director
Graham is a founding director of
Classic Financial Solutions NV,
and has lived in Belgium since 1969.
He is a Chartered Accountant and member of both the Taxation
faculty and the Financial Services Faculty of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Graham has many years’ experience in International Tax planning
first in the accountancy profession and then for a multinational
corporation. This was followed by a period working on the creation of
what is now Fairbairn Trust Company in Guernsey for a subsidiary of
Old Mutual.
He and his wife Els have two daughters and three grandchildren all
of whom live in Belgium.
Apart from English Graham speaks fluent French and some Dutch.
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Alan Blaszkiewicz, Director
Alan has been a financial adviser for 29 years and
holds the Financial Planning Certificate issued by the Chartered
Insurance Institute in the UK.
He ran his own financial services company in Brussels
for five years before merging his business with Classic in 1995.
Alan is a family man totally committed to a long term
future in Belgium and as testimony has four boys (all Chelsea FC
supporters) being educated in the Belgian system. |
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Michel Masson, Director
Michel has been in the Life
assurance industry since 1985, working for several multinational
providers. In 1996 he became an independent consultant specialising in
Group Assurance.
At the end of 2005 he joined CFS
having already known Alan Blaszkiewicz since 1991.
Michel is fluent in French, Dutch
and English and has a basic knowledge of Italian.
He lives in Antwerp, has one son,
Nathanaël, and is currently coaching his hockey team. He also enjoys
sailing.
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Jenny Mariën, Administrative Assistant
Jenny joined Classic Financial Solutions in February
1997 after a career of 22 years in the pharmaceutical industry.
Jenny is Belgian and graduated as Executive Secretary
from the E.C.S.E.D.I. Brussels. She is married to policeman
Walther and has a son Christophe and a daughter Anne. She is
completely bilingual and like many Belgians,
is fluent in English and has a basic knowledge of German.
She is a fount of local knowledge, and is our de
facto office and human resources manager. There is little she does not
know about how to get things done in Belgium. |
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Sarah Hannant, Client Administrator
Sarah arrived in Belgium 12 years ago as a trailing
spouse. After a career break to have a family of a son and twin
daughters, she joined the Classic team as a part-time
administrator in November 2002.
Sarah is a Chartered Accountant and Auditor by
training. Previously she worked for Deloitte & Touche in Belgium and
the UK National Audit Office in London and Geneva.
She prefers to work in English but has a working
knowledge of French. |
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Lisa Reid, Client Administrator
Lisa joined the Classic Admin team in 2008. She is
British but has lived most of her life in Belgium.
Educated in Belgium, she speaks English and is fluent
in French and Dutch.
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