Gael Duchenne

Gael Duchenne

ACSI, MIoD, MSc

Gael was born and raised in Mauritius. He completed his tertiary education in Cape Town and qualified with the South African Institute of Chartered Secretaries (ICSA) in 2002. He then moved to the UK to complete his Masters in Corporate Governance at London South Bank University, and worked as a company secretary for major FTSE100 companies in the UK. Before co-founding Sable’s offshore business with Rod in 2011, Gael was head of the risk and compliance division at Investec Bank (Mauritius). Gael is an associate member of the Mauritius Institute of Directors, a board member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) in Mauritius as well as an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Bridge roles in Sable / Investec / Sanlam structures (graph summary)

From the current graph and his bio, Gael Duchenne acts as a bridge between:

• Mauritius banking / risk & compliance
  • New child node: [[Investec Bank (Mauritius)]] – where Gael headed the risk and compliance division.

• Sable offshore business → Summit / Sanlam
  • Bio: co-founded Sable’s offshore business with Rod (Roderick Phillips) in 2011.
  • Roderick is linked to [[Sable Group Mauritius JV]] and is child-linked to both [[Summit Trust International]] and [[Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius)]].
  • This forms a people-level bridge Gael ↔ Sable (via JV with Rod) ↔ Summit ↔ Sanlam.

• Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius)
  • Child link: [[Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius)]], putting Gael in the same trustee management cluster as Andrew Fox, Nicholas Jeffrey, Daniel Romburgh, etc.

In short, Gael Duchenne links:

Investec Bank (Mauritius) → Sable offshore JV → Summit Trust International / Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius)

and is now tagged as a Bridge Person alongside other key fiduciary actors in this brain.

UK company link – HARON INVESTMENTS LIMITED

Companies House records show Gael Duchenne as an active director of HARON INVESTMENTS LIMITED (company no. 04128843), alongside Nirmala Bahadur:

• Both appointed 24 August 2022.
• Both use the correspondence address: Sanlam Trustees International, Labourdonnais Village, Mapou, Riviere Du Rempart, 31803, Mauritius.

This gives a concrete UK co-directorship connection between Gael and Nirmala, on top of their shared roles in Sanlam Trustees (Mauritius).