Our Team

Brian Dobbin is the founder of Citizens International and was born in Ireland and raised in Canada. Coming from an entrepreneurial family Brian began his own business 20 years ago and has had significant success internationally in property development and sales.

Now living in the Caribbean, he has worked across borders his adult life and first became familiar with citizenship investment in the 1990’s in Canada, creating a citizenship program with a provincial government and providing jobs for hundreds of families there which still exist today. From this he assisted governments in the creation of citizenship programs in the West Indies and Ireland, and understands intimately the benefits of being an international citizen and the impact of their investment.

Born and raised between France and England, Kal has straddled two cultures her entire life. Based between Antigua and Canada, she is an honours graduate having studied at university in the U.K. and France.

Kal is a founding partner and a key part of the Citizens International team since its inception and has led the expansion of the business beyond the Caribbean to Europe and North America. She has been deeply involved with Caribbean citizenship services for the past 7 years and her career in sales, marketing and design for destination developments has spanned 15 years in partnership with her husband Brian.

With an established reputation in both citizenship services and development design and marketing, she travels internationally to meet clients, business partners and attend promotion and/or industry events. She has authored many articles mostly about life in the Caribbean and has been a vocal advocate of the region. Having moved there in 2005 she is able to promote the lifestyle and benefits of residency on the island effortlessly, as she is reminded of them every day.

Born in Scotland, Jimmy Webster practised as a corporate lawyer with CMS Cameron McKenna before working in investment banking in London. Starting his own advisory boutique firm in London offering corporate finance in the mid-2000’s, he worked with clients in many countries.

Jimmy joined Citizens International as a founding partner upon its creation in 2011. He has spoken at many conferences internationally promoting the benefits of citizenship by investment and oversees all business with professional firms for whose clients Citizens International provides bespoke citizenship and/or residency services. Living and raising a family in both the UK and the Caribbean, he truly appreciates the freedom of being a global citizen and the consequent benefits.

Raised in Spain and qualified in the EU as an international lawyer, Jose has followed a career path first and foremost that has let him experience the world. Jose has worked for multi-discipline law firms in South America and Eastern Europe, and in the United States whilst working with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

For the last number of years he has been located in Asia and now resides in Bangkok, representing Citizens International for the ASEAN region. With his broad experience in jurisprudence around the world Jose understands the safety and support offered to successful individuals through a second citizenship, and knows firsthand that the lifestyle and opportunity in the Caribbean are second to none.

Abi Mansoor, Director (Antigua) is a qualified Licensed Agent and has over 15 years experience in business consulting. Abi oversees all client applications in Antigua & Barbuda and is our resident expert on all things Antigua including, Real Estate and Business Investments which qualify for citizenship.

Abi travels to industry events internationally and liaises with the government almost daily to track our client applications. She has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to process and efficiency in Antigua & Barbuda and also runs Citizens International’s bespoke concierge service for our high net worth clientele who have a personal foothold in Antigua. The concierge team assists with many services from bank account openings to luxury home searches to private jet charters and yachting experiences.

Nienke was born in Germany and grew up in The Netherlands. Her career path in high-end hospitality created an opportunity for her to move to the Caribbean in 2011 and through her extensive experience working in some of the island’s top resorts, she has become an expert on all things lifestyle-related in the region.

Fluent in English, German and Dutch, her management pathway led her to citizenship and lifestyle services with Citizens International in 2019 and she is now a senior citizenship consultant for the region assisting clients from all over the world with their Caribbean citizenship, residency and offshore financial foothold and lifestyle needs.

Jie Chu has a Masters degree from Peking University, and Bachelors degree from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She also studied in France and the U.S. while at university, and is a Level III CFA qualified investment professional.

Based in Beijing, Jie Chu has over five years experience working across China’s major cities assisting clients and professional partners with Caribbean, North American, European and Australian immigration programs and investment opportunities. Fluent in English and Mandarin, Jie Chu is a keen traveller having most recently explored South America and she also coordinates informative and fun inspection trips to the Caribbean for our Chinese clientele.

Alex Thomas has been working in Europe, Middle East and India for over 20 years in various international companies & currently running a boutique alternative investment consulting firm based in India. He is involved in advising clients in India the investment opportunities and Citizenship programs in Europe & Caribbean countries.

He has been promoting foreign investments and advising on company formation in Middle East and Europe for various Indian HNIs and companies. He is well versed with the investments and FDI norms in various countries. He has been successful in creating joint working relationship with various Business councils, Industry associations, and business chambers around the world and also member of various Associations in India. He successfully completed Masters in Finance from India and also Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hull (United Kingdom). He has extensively travelled over 50 countries for leisure as well as for business and is the Director for India for Citizens International regularly advising high net worth individuals and families across the country on their international citizenship and investment options.

Kim is a lawyer with more than 20 years experience in the citizenship and residency industry. Through his law firm, he has a long history of providing diligent and reliable services, and has a network of satisfied clients. Over the years, he has assisted clients from over 70 different countries, with respect to services related to Canada, the USA, St. Kitts & Nevis, Cyprus, Dominica and other jurisdictions.

Laura Alan, Director (South Africa) is an experienced professional based in Cape Town. Born and raised in South Africa, Laura has lived in North America and Europe for many years and now leads our client services in South Africa with a wealth of experience as an international citizen.

A citizen of the U.K., Canada and Barbados, Sean has extensive international experience managing teams for two prominent U.K. real estate companies selling prime London property, and travelling the world in competitive yacht racing. He was appointed Director of Business Development for Citizens International in 2016.

With an engaging personality and a very easy charisma Sean is well versed in the lifestyle and benefits of international citizenship. He is an avid sportsman having taken a year to tour the world in 2016 with the Volvo Ocean Race. Based in Barbados, he advises our professional network and clients, and travels frequently through Europe, the Middle East and Africa representing the company.

John Moore, Director (Cayman Islands) is a seasoned investment specialist and oversees Citizens International’s clients’ offshore structuring services in the Cayman Islands, the world’s fifth largest financial centre.

As a former private banker in Luxembourg looking after UHNW clients and families, he has many years experience working across Europe, the Middle East Caribbean and the UK predominantly in asset-backed investment opportunities denominated in GBP and USD. John heads up a boutique consultancy firm working in partnership with Citizens International since 2016.