Board of Directors

Ronald F. deC. Harford, Chairman of Republic Bank Limited since 2003, is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Bankers, the Institute of Banking of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Association of Banking and Finance. The former managing director of the Republic Bank Group, Mr. Harford retired from the Bank in 2005 after 42 years of service. Mr. Harford is also the Chairman of Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited, (formerly Barbados National Bank Inc.), Republic Bank Trinidad and Tobago (Barbados) Limited and Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited.
External Appointments
Mr. Harford is the Chairman of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Development and Endowment Fund and the Campaign Cabinet for Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago. He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business – UWI; a Director of Caribbean Information and Credit Rating Services Limited and a former Director of the Grenada Industrial Corporation. He is a past President of the Trinidad & Tobago Red Cross Society, having served that body for over two decades, and a past President of the Bankers Association of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Harford is a founding Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Debates Commission and led the private sector funding that enabled the Commission to be established.

Nigel M. Baptiste was appointed Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited on February 11, 2016. He was first appointed to the Republic Group Board in 2005, as Executive Director. He is a First Class Honours Graduate of The University of the West Indies, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Banking in England and a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking in the United States of America.
Mr. Baptiste serves on the Boards of Republic Financial Holdings Limited, Republic Bank Limited, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited, Republic Bank (Cayman) Limited and other entities within the Republic Group.

Derwin M. Howell was appointed an Executive Director of Republic Bank Limited in 2012. He sits on the Boards of Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited, Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited and Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited within the Republic Bank Group. Mr. Howell is a First Class Honours graduate in Electrical Engineering and was also awarded an Executive Masters in Business Administration, from the University of the West Indies. He also holds a MSc in Telecommunications Systems from the University of Essex and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP). He is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE), a Member of the Engineering Council of the United Kingdom (Chartered Engineer) and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET).

External Appointments
Mr. Howell is the Chairman of Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago.

Roopnarine Oumade Singh was appointed Executive Director, Republic Bank Limited, on February 11, 2016. He has been a banker for over 20 years. Within the Republic Bank Group, he sits on the Board of London Street Project Company Limited and Republic Investments Limited. He is a former director of Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited, Republic Securities Limited and Republic Bank (Cayman) Limited. He served as the Trinidad and Tobago User Group Chairperson for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) for 12 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Economics from the University of the West Indies and holds a Master of Business Administration, specialising in Finance and Operations Research from the Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Shazan Ali, joined the Board of Directors in 2010. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TOSL Engineering Limited. He has a wealth of experience in the energy industry and spent the last 34 years developing TOSL Engineering into a world-class operation with interests in the wider Caribbean, the Guianas and Sub-Saharan Africa.

External Appointments
Mr. Ali is the Deputy Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Local Content Chamber (TTLCC) and a Council Member of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago (ECTT). In these roles, he aims to fashion a more pro-active energy services sector that will redound more financial benefits to the Trinidad and Tobago economy.

Peter R. Inglefield was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2015. He served as a Tax Partner and Managing Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is the author of the Trinidad and Tobago Chapter of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation’s (IBFD) publication on worldwide taxation. Mr. Inglefield has extensive experience in all aspects of doing business in Trinidad and Tobago, particularly with respect to advising incoming investors on structuring of local operations, withholding tax issues and tax treaty consideration. Mr. Peter Inglefield is a chartered accountant and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Trinidad and Tobago.

External Appointments
Mr. Inglefield is a director of the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, Murphy Clarke Financial Limited and Industrial Rubber Products Limited.

Alison Lewis was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2014. She was a governor of the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund. She has worked as an Advisor in the office of Executive Director World Bank and as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. Over the last two decades, Ms. Lewis sat on several Boards of Directors, including those of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and the Sovereign Wealth Funds Group.

Kristine Thompson joined the Board of Directors in 2011. She is an Independent Consultant and Entrepreneur. She is heavily involved in project development, particularly in the energy sector, and has extensive experience in the fields of finance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and general management. The early years of her career were spent in management consulting with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she advised Fortune 500 companies, with stints at BCG’s Toronto, New York, Buenos Aires and Melbourne offices. She then headed the business development function at Guardian Holdings for many years. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University in Canada and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

External Appointments
Mrs. Thompson currently acts as Chairman of Trinidad and Tobago’s investment promotion agency, InvesTT, and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of the Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) and the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business.

Gregory I. Thomson has over 35 years of experience in Banking and Finance. He was the Deputy Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited for seven years and retired from this postion in 2012. Mr. Thomson joined the Board of Directors in 2014. Mr. Thomson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Physics from The University of the West Indies and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Edward Ince joined the Board of Directors in August 2016. He is the currently the Founder/Joint Managing Director of PRISM services; specialising in financial services, mail processing, storage management, and customer loyalty in Central American and Caribbean regions. Mr. Ince is also the current Chairman of all PRISM subsidiaries operating in Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, and St. Lucia.

Mr. Ince has worked in the Information and Communication Technology sector for more than a decade; when most of his time was spent as General Manager, Eastern Caribbean, Fujitsu ICL Caribbean, where he oversaw the company’s operations in Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, and Dominica.

Mr. Ince serves in a non-executive capacity on a number of boards, across a diverse range of industries; including Tourism, Real Estate, Agriculture, and Offshore services. He also serves on the boards of several Barbados companies; including Cave Shepherd and Co. Limited, Barbados Sugar Industry Limited, Lynch Insurance Brokers, and Carlton A1 Supermarkets.

Mr. Ince holds a B.Sc (Hons) Computer Science from York University, Toronto, Canada, and is a former National Aubrey Collymore Scholarship Recipient for Sciences.

Jacqueline Quamina retired as Executive Director, Group General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Republic Bank Limited and Republic Financial Holdings Limited, on September 1, 2016. She was appointed Executive Director, on February 11, 2016. An attorney at law with over 26 years of experience, she received her Bachelor of Laws from The University of the West Indies (UWI) and was called to the Bar of England and Wales where she is a member of Grays Inn. Ms. Quamina holds a Master of Arts from the University of London and an Executive MBA from the University of the West Indies, and is a graduate of the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking and the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme. More recently, she participated in the Corporate Governance, Executive Education Program, Stanford University, San Francisco and has completed the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Canada Director Education and Accreditation Programme and the Certificate in Corporate Governance at the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute. A Manager at Republic Bank Limited for 20 years, Ms. Quamina has wide experience in banking and finance and corporate law in the Caribbean as well as in communications, governance and compliance. Ms. Quamina serves on the board of Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited, and is a Director of Unilever Caribbean Limited and the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute.