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.

AICB

Mrs. Yolande M. Foo is a Non-Executive Director to the Board of Directors. This former Executive Director/Corporate Secretary, of the Bank served the Organisation for a total of forty-five years before retiring in May 2007. Mrs. Foo was reappointed to the Board of Directors in January 2008.

CEO, Massy Gas Products (Guyana) Limited

FCCA

Mr. Shameer Hoosein is an accomplished business leader with more than twenty years experience in management. At present he is the Chief Executive Officer of the Massy Gas Products (Guyana) Limited formerly Demerara Oxygen Company Limited, a position he has held since 1995. He previously served as the Finance Director of Associated Industries Limited. Mr. Shameer Hoosein is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business having completed the Executive Development Program in 2005 and is also a Fellow Chartered and Certified Accountant having obtained qualifications in Finance and Accounting through the Leeds School of Accountancy in the United Kingdom in 1978. Mr. Hoosein holds several Directorships in the Massy Group of Companies in Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados. Among other things, he is Chairman of Massy Security and Massy Industries (Guyana) Limited.

General Manager, Human Resources, Republic Bank Limited, Trinidad

MBA

Anna-María García-Brooks, General Manager, Human Resources, has been a member of the Republic Bank team for 20 years. Prior to her current role, Mrs. García-Brooks held the position of General Manager, Group Marketing and Communications. In that role, her focus was aimed at building the Group’s brand and image, leading its groundbreaking social investment programme – the Power to Make A Difference – and building its market share through the development of customer focused and innovative products and services. She is a graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI) (Mass Communications) and winner of the Pro Vice Chancellor’s Prize for General Proficiency, First Place. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business; a post graduate Diploma in Business Management from the University of the West Indies (UWI), and has completed executive management programmes at the University of Michigan Business School, the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2014 Mrs. Garcia-Brooks was named as one the University of West Indies’ Distinguished Alumni.

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.).