Executive Team

President – Republic Financial Holdings Limited
Managing Director – Republic Bank Limited

B. Sc. (Hons.)(Econ.), M. Sc. (Econ.), A.C.I.B.

Nigel M. Baptiste was appointed to the Board of Directors in October 2003. He previously served as Managing Director of NBIC from July 1999 to July 2002. Mr. Baptiste is currently the Managing Director and President, Republic Financial Holdings Limited. He is a former Trinidad National Scholar who has distinguished himself as an academic in his career and in the fields of Banking and Economics. He holds a diploma with distinction from the American Banking Association's Stonier Graduate School and has also successfully completed the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Programme. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of England. He is also the former President of the Institute of Bankers, Trinidad and Tobago.

Chairman, Hand-In-Hand Fire & Life Insurance Group of Companies

BSc. (Food Sciences)

Mr. Carpenter holds a BSc. In Food Sciences and is Managing Director of BEV Processes Incorporated. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hand in Hand Fire and Life Group of Companies.

Director, Guyana & Trinidad Mutual Fire Insurance Company Limited

AA, FCII, FLMI, CLU

Roy Errol Cheong, a Chartered Insurer by profession, retired on June 30, 2003 as Managing Director of the GTM Group of Companies, but has since been appointed a non-executive Director of the Group. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and Life Management Institute, and Chartered Life Underwriter. Mr. Cheong has served as President of the Insurance Association of The Caribbean, the Insurance Association of Guyana as well as the Insurance Institute of Guyana. He is the Past President of the Rotary Club of Georgetown and serves on the Executive Committee of the Guyana Red Cross Society. Mr. Cheong also holds Directorships in Banks DIH Limited, Neal & Massey (Guyana) Limited and Mega Insurance Company Limited of Trinidad and Tobago. He is the recipient of the Golden Arrow of Achievement.

General Manager / Director, Label House Group Limited

HBA

Mr. Richard Lewis, a Trinidadian by birth, is the General Manager/Director of Label House Group Limited which is the largest specialist label and packaging printer in the Caribbean.

Mr. Richard Lewis holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business and is also a graduate of the Newcastle Institute of Technology. Among other Directorships, he currently serves as the Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Government Advisory Council for Competiveness Innovation, Prestige Business Publications and Carreras Jamaica. Mr. Richard Lewis is also a Director of Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited and Republic Securities Limited.

Chairman, Carib Hibiscus Development

Richard I. Vasconcellos is currently a member of the National Notary Association of the United States of America and American Management Association. He is the Chairman of A.N.K Enterprises Incorporated in Miami, Florida, and the Director of Florida Export Finance Corporation (F.E.F.C.).