Author Lok Jack, Chairman,
Trinidad and Tobago Citizen
In 1998, Mr. Lok Jack was elected to the Board of Neal & Massy Holdings Limited and was appointed Chairman in June 2004. He is also the Executive Chairman of the Associated Brands Group of Companies and Chairman of Guardian Holdings Limited and Caribbean Airlines Limited. He serves on the Boards of many other Caribbean companies. In 2001, he was voted Master Entrepreneur of the year and in 2002, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws and recognised as a Caribbean Luminary by the University of the West Indies. Mr. Lok Jack is also a recipient of the prestigious Chaconia Medal (Gold) for his contribution to business development in Trinidad and Tobago.
E. Gervase Warner, Trinidad & Tobago Citizen
Prior to his appointment as Group CEO of the Neal & Massy Group of Companies in December 2009, Mr. Warner held the post of Executive Chairman of the Energy/Industrial Gases Business Unit. He joined the Neal & Massy Group in 2004.
He has over 20 years of international experience, having worked in the USA, Latin America and the Caribbean, and brings a wealth of expertise in the financial, ITC and petroleum sectors. Prior to joining the Neal & Massy Group, he led the Puerto Rico office of McKinsey & Company Inc.
Mr. Warner holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and BES Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
He currently serves on the Trinidad & Tobago
Board of Citigroup Merchant Bank Limited, Caribbean Airlines and the Trinidad
and Tobago Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Rolph Balgobin, Trinidad & Tobago Citizen
Dr. Rolph Balgobin is the Executive Chairman of Quicksilver Convenience Ltd. and a director of several family-owned businesses. He previously held the posts of Executive Director at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Project Director in the Global Business Services Unit of Proctor & Gamble for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, and General Manager of Electrical Industries Limited and TEMCO.
He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from the Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester, as well as an EMBA and a B.Sc. in Industrial Management from UWI. He also holds an ACCA Diploma in Corporate Governance.
Dr. Balgobin serves as Chairman of the Point Lisas Industrial Port Development Company (PLIPDECO), Deputy Chairman of Electrical Industries Limited, and is a Director of the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad & Tobago (TSTT) and Youth Business Trinidad and Tobago. He is an Advisory Trustee of Caribbean and Central American Action and has served as a Director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago as well as an occasional Independent Senator over the past six years.
Robert Bermudez, Trinidad & Tobago Citizen
Mr. Bermudez is the Chairman of the Bermudez Group of Companies. He is also associated with several other corporate bodies in and out of Trinidad and Tobago.
Earl Boodasingh, Trinidad & Tobago Citizen
Earl Boodasingh is currently the Executive Chairman of Neal & Massy’s newly-formed Distribution, Food Manufacturing & Logistics Regional Business Unit.
Mr Boodasingh joined the Neal & Massy Group in 1981 and has held many senior positions across the Group throughout his tenure. His career within the Group began at Neal & Massy Industries Limited as a Cost and Management Accountant. He went on to hold the positions of Financial Comptroller and Financial Director for a number of companies and major divisions, including the Marketing & Distribution Division and the Hi-Lo Food Stores Division. He later served as CEO for both divisions, consecutively. In 2003 he was appointed as the Transition Manager for H.D. Hopwood & Company Limited in Jamaica.
In 2005, Mr. Boodasingh was appointed as the Executive Chairman of the Neal & Massy Automotive & Industrial Equipment Business Unit. In 2007, he assumed the position of Executive Chairman of the Group’s Retail, Distribution & Logistics Business Unit.
Mr. Boodasingh is a graduate of South West London College, Henley Management College, and recently completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.
Geoffrey Cave, Barbados Citizen
Geoffrey Cave is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cave Shepherd & Company Limited – a Barbados-based corporation with subsidiary and associate companies located across the region.
Mr. Cave holds a B. Comm from McGill University in Canada and joined Cave Shepherd, which was a family-run business at the time, in 1963. In 1970 he was appointed as the company’s Managing Director and in 1975, he was elected as Chairman.
Mr Cave has enjoyed a distinguished career in business, serving as Director and Chairman of several leading private and public companies in Barbados, as well as several governmental and non-governmental organisations. He also serves as a Justice of the Peace as well as an advisor and trustee to numerous schools, colleges, universities and charities.
Mr. Cave was awarded the Barbados Centennial Honour in 2000 and in the following year, he was honoured with the Caribbean Master Entrepreneur Award. In the Queen New Years’ Honour’s List in 2003, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and in October 2007 the University of the West Indies conferred on him an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD).
Sir Allan Fields, Barbados Citizen
Sir Allan Fields joined the Neal & Massy board in 1998 to 2008, and was reappointed in 2009. He was the Chairman of the Barbados Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd. (BS&T).
Formally trained in Mechanical Engineering, he has served as Managing Director of Lucas Industries Barbados’s operations, BS&T and Banks (Barbados) Breweries Ltd.
Sir Allan serves on many Boards in Barbados, including the Barbados National Insurance Corporation, First Caribbean International Bank, the Barbados Employers Confederation and the YMCA.
He is also Past President of the Private Sector Organization and Chairman of Banks Holdings Limited, Barbados Dairy Industries Ltd. and Cable & Wireless (Barbados) Ltd. He was recently appointed Chairman of the Caribbean broadcasting Corporation. He is Barbados’ non-resident Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China. He also serves as an Independent Senator in the Barbados Parliament.
G. Anthony King, Executive Director, Barbados Citizen
G. Anthony King has been the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Shipping & Trading Company Limited (BS&T) since October 1, 2004.
Mr. King is also a Director of several other publicly traded companies in Barbados such as Banks Holdings Limited, Almond Resorts Inc. and the Barbados National Bank. He is also the Chairman of the Tourism Development Corporation in Barbados and a Director of the Barbados Private Sector Association.
His business career spans almost 35 years, 23 of which were spent with the Neal & Massy Group, initially as the CEO of one of Neal & Massy’s subsidiary companies in Barbados, and subsequently as the Executive Chairman of Neal & Massy’s Eastern Caribbean Group of Companies, before departing to take up the BS&T appointment.
He has been associated with various private sector organisations, as a Past President of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry as well as a Director of the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC). He continues to participate in the community as a Trustee of the Barbados Youth Business Trust.
Mr. King holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Computer Science from the University of Essex, England and the chartered designation of CITP.
William Lucie-Smith, Trinidad and Tobago Citizen
Mr. Lucie-Smith is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a former Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Trinidad) where he headed its Corporate Finance and Recoveries practice. Mr. Lucie-Smith has accumulated extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, taxation and valuations and holds an MA degree from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He currently serves as a non-Executive Director on a number of Boards including Republic Bank and Sagicor Financial Corporation.
Paula Rajkumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago Citizen
Paula Rajkumarsingh is a Corporate Financial Executive, with over 10 years of experience at a senior management level, and the Group’s Chief Financial Officer.
She is currently a Director on the Parent Board of First Caribbean International Bank in Barbados and First Caribbean International Bank in Trinidad & Tobago. She is also a Director of a private Equity Fund (DevCap) and served on the board of Sugar Manufacturing Company for four years
Brian Young, Jamaica Citizen
Mr. Young is the Chairman of Neal & Massy Group (Jamaica) Limited, Cool Petroleum Limited, an associate company of Neal & Massy Holdings Limited and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Neal & Massy Holdings Limited. A former Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Jamaica), Mr. Young has held his position on the Board of Neal & Massy Holdings Limited for the past 12 years. He is highly experienced in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and management information systems, with 45 years of management consultancy experience. Mr. Young is currently on the Boards of Trinidad Cement Limited, Caribbean Cement Company Limited, RBC Financial (Caribbean) Limited, Bermudez Holdings Limited and has served on many Jamaican Government teams.