Matthew Lawson is Chief Accounting Officer at FFP overseeing all aspects of the FFP Group’s financial accounting and reporting.
Matthew has over 25 years of financial and accounting experience and has worked in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, North America and Africa. Prior to joining FFP he was the Chief Accounting Officer of Advantage Insurance Inc., a private placement life insurance company, where he was integral in transitioning a former family business through the process of filing an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Earlier in his career, Matthew was vice president and group controller of Endeavour Mining Corporation (TSX:EDV) where he was integral in transforming a merchant banking company into an intermediate operating gold mining company through several acquisitions and mergers. He also worked for a subsidiary of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:RNR) as a senior investment accountant and was an audit manager with Ernst & Young in Bermuda in their financial services practice focusing on insurance and reinsurance clients.
Matthew is a chartered accountant and a certified public accountant. He is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Matthew has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.