John Wight

John Wight is the former Group Chairman & CEO of BF&M Limited, a publicly traded company on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.

Mr. Wight has 35 years of experience in the financial services sector in Canada and Bermuda. He became President and CEO of BF&M in 2005, and then Chairman in 2019, prior to which he held the position of Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer. He started his professional career with Ernst & Young in Montreal before transferring to Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC), in Bermuda. He holds professional designations as a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda and a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter.

Mr. Wight is past President of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, a past Council Member of the Bermuda Stock Exchange, a past member of the Ministry of Finance

Insurance Advisory Committee, and a past member of the Financial Intelligence Agency Board. He is a past Chairman of CPA Bermuda and a past President of the

Bermuda Insurance Institute. He is a director of several companies, including HSBC Bank Bermuda.

Mr. Wight was appointed to serve the Senate of Bermuda as Independent Senator by His Excellency the Governor, John Rankin in 2020.

Mr. Wight has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, with a major in Accounting from Concordia University in Montreal Canada. He also received a graduate degree in Accounting at Concordia prior to earning his Chartered Accountant Designation. He later participated in Leadership Development programs at Stanford University in Palo Alto California and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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