Sagicor Board Of Directors Profiles

Terrence Martins
Chairman
Mr. Martins was elected to the Boards of Sagicor Life Inc. and Sagicor Financial Corporation in 2004. He has over forty years’ experience within the financial services industry, both in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. His areas of expertise include banking, finance, administration, corporate governance, and risk management. Mr. Martins has previously held the positions of Group Chief Executive Officer of RBTT Financial Holdings Limited and several directorships within the RBTT Financial Holdings Group, in and outside of Trinidad and Tobago. He is a former member of the Integrity Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.

Stephen D R McNamara
Vice 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.

David W Allan
Mr. David W. Allan is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mutual Group, now Sagicor, a position he held for 23 years. He joined the Group in 1956 and was elected director of The Mutual, now Sagicor Life Inc, in 1986. Mr. Allan retired as President and Chief Executive Officer in 1995. He also serves as a Director of Life of Jamaica Limited and Sagicor Life Inc and is a Director of Barbados-registered exempt insurance companies. Mr. Allan is a former Barbados and West Indies cricketer.

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 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 Life of 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 Life of 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.

Dr. Oscar W. Jordan G.C.M
Dr. Oscar W. Jordan, G.C.M., MB, ChB, FRCPE, DCH, Diabetologist, is an honorary Consultant Physician, Department of Medicine of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He is Chairman of the Diabetes Foundation of Barbados and Director of Clinical Medicine in Barbados for the University of St. Georges, Grenada. A widely published and well respected physician, he is President of the Caribbean Golf Association. He became a Director of Sagicor Life Inc in 1990.

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.

Dodridge D. Miller
Mr. Dodridge D. Miller is a Fellow if the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (United Kingdom), and obtained his MBA from the University of Wales and Manchester Business School, United Kingdom. He holds an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of the West Indies. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mutual Group of Companies, now Sagicor, on July 1, 2002, having previously held the positions of Treasurer and Vice President, Finance and Investments, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Mr Miller joined the Group in 1989. He was elected a Director of the Group in 2001. He is the Chairman of the Group's main operating subsidiaries, Sagicor Life Inc, Life of Jamaica Limited and Sagicor Life Insurance Company. Mr Miller has more than 20 years' experience in the insurance and financial services industries.