Mark Wills MBE MA FCSI

Investment Adviser Royal Star & Garter and Canford CISI Mentor

London, England, United Kingdom

About

A Chartered Wealth Manager and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment with over 40 years’ experience in Wealth Management, Institutional Asset Management and Fixed Income and with leading City firms and in client facing roles throughout. A Royal Engineer and Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society for 40 years and a Charity Non-Executive Director and Trustee for 21 years.

Experience

  • Royal Star & Garter (21 yrs 5 mos)
    • Investment Advisor
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      Investment Adviser to Board & Finance Committee on £110m Portfolio of Investments

    • Vice Chair
      May 2019 - Apr 2026 · 7 yrs

    • Non Executive Director / Governor / Trustee
      Mar 2005 - Apr 2026 · 21 yrs 2 mos

      Main board, Care, Remuneration, Strategy, Finance and Investment Management Committee member. Top rated care provision for ex-service women and men, their spouses and civil partners, specialising in dementia care. Responsible for £110m (part of a balance sheet of £151m) asset allocation oversight with investment consultants PRS and 3 external investment managers, Sarasin, Evelyn and Ruffer. Oversight of the implementation of 15 year strategy to sell the eponymous and iconic building in Richmond for £65m and the building and launch of three new care homes in Solihull (2008), Surbiton (2013) High Wycombe (2020) and new HQ in Hampton (2013). In 2025 we merged RS&G with the Care for Veterans charity https://www.careforveterans.org.uk giving us a fourth care home in Worthing with specialist expertise in Acquired Brain Injury.

  • Investment Adviser at Canford School
    Jul 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for £15m of Invested Assets - asset allocation oversight and advice to the Board of Governors including monitoring and management of the external asset managers

  • Mentor at The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (The CISI)
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Volunteer mentoring of mid-career investment and Client service Professionals

  • MA War Studies Graduate - Distinction at King's College London
    Aug 2023 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Two year part-time Masters with lectures, seminars, essays and a 12,000 word dissertation. Modules: Theory & Practice of War - Professor David Betz et al. Contemporary Wars & Warfare - Dr Simon Anglim, Dr Ksenia Kirkham et al. Espionage: A Global History - Dr Huw Dylan et al. Cyber Diplomacy - Dr Joe Devanny. History of War - Professor William Philpott, Professor Andrew Lambert et al. Dissertation: 78% Distinction 'Why did the British open a southern front in the Falklands War of 1982?" supervisor Professor David Betz.

  • MA Military History - Associate Student at University of Buckingham
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos