Mr. Simmons is a Barrister & Attorney and is the Managing Partner of Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki, Barristers & Attorneys.  He was previously an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Company in New York, having previously been one of the founding partners of Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki in 1999.  Mr. Simmons began his legal career at Milligan-Whyte & Smith. Mr. Simmons is a Director at the Bermuda Monetary Authority where he is the Chairman of the Investment Committee, is a member of the Public Funds Investment Committee responsible for the investment of $1.7 billion in pension funds for the Government of Bermuda, and recently was appointed to the Board of the Argus Group, where he also sits on the Investment Committee. He as also previously Chairman of the Telecommunications Commission.  Mr. Simmons received a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Kent at Canterbury and was called to the Bar of England and Wales. Mr. Simmons was previously a serving Infantry Officer in the Bermuda Regiment, having completed the Territorial Army Commissioning Course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.