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SEALE Thomas, Seale Advisory Sàrl
SEALE Thomas
Individual member
  • Certified Director
  • Fund Governance Expert
  • Biography

    Thomas Seale works as an Independent Director in the investment industry.

    Before that, he was CEO of European Fund Administration (EFA) from 1997 until 2017. EFA is a leading independent provider of fund administration services to third parties in Luxembourg.

    Thomas has been an active member of the European and Luxembourg fund industries, sitting on the Board of the Association for the Luxembourg Fund Industry from 2001-2019. He was elected Chairman of ALFI in 2003, re-elected in 2005 and also served as Vice Chairman from 2005-2009. He helped found Luxflag in 2006 and Chaired this finance labelling agency from 2012-2019.

    He is a member CSSF GFI (Asset Management) Committee and before that served on the CSSF Comité OPC from 2003-2016.

    Before EFA, he was Managing Director and Country Corporate Officer for Citibank Luxembourg.

    He completed the INSEAD International Directors Program and sat on the board of the INSEAD Directors Network (IDN) from 2018-2021. He is certified as an independent director from the Luxembourg Directors Institute (ILA). In June 2022, he was elected to the Board of the Luxembourg Directors’ Institute (ILA.)

    Thomas holds an MA in Economics and an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his BA in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and he spent a year studying abroad at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

    With his wife and three children, he founded a family olive oil business in 2010, which produces Extra Virgin Olive Oil on their farm in Provence. The oil won a Gold Medal at the 2022 French Agricultural Fair. For more information see: www.lestempliersdeprovence.com