Sagicor Board Of Directors Profiles
Stephen D R McNamara
Chairman
Mr. Stephen McNamara is Senior Partner of McNamara & Company, Attorneys-at-Law of St. Lucia. He was elected to the Board of Sagicor Life Inc in 1997, and he is currently a Director of a number of subsidiaries within the Sagicor Group. He is also a Director of St Lucia Electricity Services (Lucelec) and several other companies within St Lucia. Mr. McNamara also chairs the Corporate Governance Committees of the Sagicor USA Group. Mr. McNamara was also Chairman of the St Lucia Tourist Board from 1989 to 1997.
Andrew Aleong
Mr. Andrew Aleong is currently the Director, Sales and Marketing, of the Albrosco Group of Trinidad and Tobago and a director of several companies within the Albrosco Group. He has spent all of his professional career in various management positions within that group. Mr. Aleong is a past president of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association. He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles
Professor Hilary Beckles earned his PhD from Hull University, United Kingdom, in 1980, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the same university in 2003. He has served as the Head of the History Department and Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, University of the West Indies. In 1998, he was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Studies, and, in 2002, the Principal of Cave Hill Campus. Professor Beckles has published widely on Caribbean economic history, cricket history and culture and higher education and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals. He has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He is also a Director of sagicor Life Inc and Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited.
Marjorie Chevannes-Campbell
Mrs. Marjorie Chevannes-Campbell holds an MSc in Accounting from the University of the West Indies and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica and of the Hospitality, Financial and Technology Professionals. She is General Manager of the Urban Development Corporation (the UDC Group), Jamaica, which is a large property owning company that manages a variety of several entities. Prior to assuming this position she worked in other positions within the UDC Group. She is a director of Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited, a subsidiary of Sagicor Financial Corporation, and also of several other private and public sector companies within Jamaica.
Dr Jeannine Comma
Dr Jeannine Comma was appointed to the Board of Sagicor Financial Corporation in June, 2007. Dr Comma is Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Cave Hill School of Business, the University of the West Indies, where she specialises in organisational development, strategy and leadership development. She has made significant contributions to the sustainable development of human capital within the regional business community.
Dr Comma holds a PhD from George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, and is also a graduate of the University of the Virgin Islands. She is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, as well as the Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM). Dr Comma has extensive experience in Total Quality Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Strategic Planning and Change Management. She has also taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels at George Washington University, Howard University, Washington, DC, and the University of the West Indies.
Christopher de Caires
Mr. Christopher deCaires is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from Henley Management College, United Kingdom. He has over 25 years’ professional and management consulting experience in Barbados and the wider Caribbean, United Kingdom and Brazil. He is currently the principal Managing Director of Fednav International Limited, and his areas of expertise include corporate finance, international taxation, financial management, mergers and acquisitions, information systems, organisational design and business planning. He is Chairman of World Cup Barbados. Mr. deCaires is a former partner of Price Waterhouse, Barbados, where he was responsible for corporate finance, business advisory, corporate secretarial and trust services.
Joyce E Dear
Mrs. Joyce Dear is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Warwick. She is also a member of the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals. She was, until 2004, a partner in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services Division of PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") in Barbados. Mrs Dear has over 31 years' experience in rendering audit and financial services to a wide variety of industries, including public companies, tourism and hospitality entities, manufacturing companies, statutory corporations and international funding agencies/government financed programs and projects. Mrs Dear was the PwC Industry lead partner for the public service assignments. She is a past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados and a former Director of a general insurance company in Barbados.
Richard M Kellman
Mr. Richard Kellman was appointed to the Board in 2008. He holds a BSc in Statistics from University College, London University, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an Associate of the Society of Actuaries. He has also attended training programs at Harvard Business School and has completed other financial, investment and management training courses. Mr. Kellman is a financial services expert with wide knowledge regionally in the areas of finance, pensions, insurance and investments. He has business experience at board level, and is a former CEO of a quoted diversified Group with interests in insurance, banking and real estate. He has also held senior actuarial positions, and prior to joining Sagicor as Group Chief Operating Officer in November 2009, he held the position of Executive Officer of the Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund with assets in excess of US $100 million, which he established managed.
William Lucie-Smith
Mr. William P. Lucie-Smith earned an MA degree from Oxford University and is a Chartered Accountant. He is a retired senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Trinidad and Tobago, where he headed the Corporate Finance and Recoveries Divisions, specialising in all aspects of business valuations, privatisation, mergers and acquisitions and corporate taxation. Mr. Lucie-Smith has been a Special Advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Government and Central Bank on divestment, and has served on several national committees, such as the Rampersad Committee, to review the Reorganisation and Rationalisation of State Enterprises of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Daly Committee on Corporate Insolvency and Company Law with special reference to severance pay. Since his retirement, Mr. Lucie-Smith has been an independent Consultant.
John Shettle, JR
John Shettle, Jr, has been an independent Director since June 2008.He received his undergraduate degree from Washington & Lee University and holds an MBA from the Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College, Maryland. He is a Senior Advisor, Lightyear Capital, a private equity investment firm providing buyout and growth capital to companies in the financial services industry. He has over 20 years’ experience in senior management positions in the property/casualty, health and insurance-related services industry. More recently, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Victor O Schinnerer Company. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer to Tred Avon Capital Advisors, Inc, a firm providing advisory services to companies and private equity firms focused on the insurance sector. He previously held senior management positions at Securitas Capital, Swiss Reinsurance Company and Frederick, the Maryland-based AVEMCO Corporation (NYSE). Mr Shettle is also a Director of Sagicor USA and a number of subsidiaries within the Group.
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