They were entrepreneurs Jonathan Bale, chairman of Huelin-Renouf Shipping and founder of Verras Law, Jason MacKenzie, MD of OneStrategic, Matthew Robins, MD of Webreality, and JCG sixth-former Alice Ransom.
Mr Bale named four principal threats: inferior education, poor performance by States Members, the public-sector final-salary pension scheme and the excessive regulation of financial services.
Mr Robins said: ‘I would love Jersey to be a beacon of hope for free-market economics.
Jason MacKenzie hoped that the finance industry would innovate and diversify, that there would be fewer constraints on business, that the Island would co-operate more closely with Guernsey, that there would be less empty rhetoric from politicians and that the profitability of business would feed back into health, housing and social welfare.
Alice Ransom echoed Franklin Roosevelt, saying that the Island had nothing to fear but fear itself. She also talked about a dog called Theo who could not outrun other dogs but had the tightest turning circle in the world. She hoped that Jersey’s finance sector would prove as manoeuvrable.
