Mr. Lance St. S. Hylton
Chairman

Lance Hylton has been the Chairman of the Postal Corporation of Jamaica since February of 2003. and is a member of the Board of Governors of Jamaica College.

Lance is as a graduate of the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School and was admitted to practice to 1987. His legal practice covers all aspects of corporate and commercial law with specialisation in trust and estate planning. His legal practice is particularly informed by his experience in Jamaica with major joint ventures and mergers, take-over bids on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, public offers by prospectus and large commercial loans and projects. He has also served as a director of Berger Paints Jamaica, a major public corporation trading on the Jamaican Stock Exchange.

Mr. Hylton returned to Jamaica in 2002 after serving for seven (7) years in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) as a partner of that country's second largest law firm, O'Neal Webster O'Neal Myers Fletcher & Gordon, where he headed the Trust and Mutual Fund departments. For most of that time he was also the Executive Director of Coverdale Trust Services Limited, overseeing that company's offerings of trust, mutual fund, asset management, company formation and management, offshore banking and other services.

Lance served three terms as a member of the Executive Committee of the BVI Registered Agents Association and as chairman of its Legal Committee, which was instrumental in drafting the country's first money laundering laws. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the BVI branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners as well as a member of that body's Trust and Succession Law Review Committee, which worked with the Government of the BVI and proposed sweeping changes to the country's trust and estate laws. He is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association and while in the BVI was a member of the BVI Bar Association.

In addition to his roles on private and academic committees, Lance has also been called upon by various governments to serve on public bodies. In Jamaica, he has served as Chairman of the Companies Office Advisory Board, which advises the Government of Jamaica on all matters relating to the operations of the Jamaican Companies Registry and corporate legislation. In addition to his work with the Postal Corporation, he also serves as a member of the Industry Advisory Council on International Business Services of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, having been appointed in November of 2003. While in the British Virgin Islands, he served on a select financial services advisory committee formed by the Government to advise on offshore legislation and the challenges of the country's offshore industry. At the request of the Government of the British Virgin Islands he has conducted all day training seminars for public and private sector workers in the offshore industry. He is a Notary Public for life of the BVI.

Lance has also been extremely active in civic and community organisations and served, before going to the BVI, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Jamaica College and was a member of its Disciplinary Committee. Since returning to Jamaica he has been re-appointed to that Board. In the British Virgin Islands, he served as a member of the Rotary Club of Road Town and held several executive positions including President for the year 2000\2001. His outstanding service to the club and the BVI community caused him to be named Rotarian of the Year in 2001 and he was honoured by the club with its Paul Harris Fellow Award, in 2002. Since returning to Jamaica he has become a member of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew.

Lance is also well regarded for his academic writings and speaking engagements. He has written extensively on Trust, Offshore and Mutual Funds Law and his articles have been published in several international publications including Offshore Finance Canada (Canada), Offshore Investment Magazine (Ireland) and Trust and Trustees Magazine (U.K.) for which he has been a member of the editorial board and the BVI contributing trust expert. He has given public lectures in Jamaica on Landlord and Tenant law and his written works on the subject have been a part of the Norman Manley Law School's curriculum for over fifteen (15) years. Since returning to Jamaica in 2002 he has given public lectures on the Role of the Attorney in the Transition to Public Listed Company Status (Jamaica Stock Exchange Seminar Feb 2003), on Trust and Tax Planning (Jamaica Conference Board Seminar April 2003) and was a member of the expert panel at the Nov 2002 JAMPRO workshop on developing Jamaica as an International Business Centre.

He has also given lectures on aspects of Trust and Offshore Corporate and Banking law on three (3) continents including several seminars in the British Virgin Islands, as a featured presenter at the 2000 Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners International Conference in the Cayman Islands, in Guernsey (U.K. Channel Islands) and in the People's Republic of China.

Lance is a member of the Constant Spring Golf Club and enjoys table tennis, chess, squash and tennis. He is married to Judy, also an attorney-at-law, and they have three (3) children Jessica, Konrad and Benjamin.