Barbados Citizen Geoffrey Cave is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cave Shepherd & Co. Limited – a Barbados-based corporation with subsidiary and associate companies located across the region.
Mr. Cave joined Cave Shepherd, which was a family-run business at the time, in 1963 and was later appointed as the company’s Managing Director then elected as Chairman. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in business, serving as Director and Chairman of several leading private and public organizations in Barbados.
In 2000, Mr. Cave was awarded the Barbados Centennial Honour and the Caribbean Master Entrepreneur Award the following year. In the Queen’s 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). More recently, in October 2009, he was appointed an Independent Senator by the Governor General of Barbados.