Executive Team

Nigel M. Baptiste, Managing Director, Republic Bank Limited and President and Chief Executive Officer, Republic Financial Holdings Limited since 2016, is a career banker with more than two decades of experience. Prior to his current position, he has served as Deputy Managing Director and Executive Director of Republic Bank Limited, General Manager Human Resources as well as Managing Director of the Group’s subsidiary in Guyana. Mr. Baptiste currently serves on the Boards of Republic Bank Limited, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited, Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited, Republic Bank (Ghana) Limited, and other subsidiaries within the Republic Group. He holds a BSc (Hons.) and an MSc in Economics from the University of the West Indies, is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme, holds a diploma with distinction from the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking (USA), and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (England).

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.

Riah Dass-Mungal joined Republic Bank in 2004 and currently serves as General Manager, Internal Audit, Republic Bank Limited, and Chief Internal Auditor, Republic Financial Holdings Limited.
During her career at Republic Bank, Mrs. Dass-Mungal has held a number of senior leadership positions, particularly within the Bank’s Planning and Financial Control Unit. In 2004, she joined the Bank as Finance Manager, and then became Manager, Management Reporting and Planning in 2008. She was appointed the Unit’s Senior Manager in 2011. In 2014, she moved on to the Bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking Division as Regional Manager, and would later serve as Project Manager on Republic’s Suriname acquisition in 2015.
As a Chartered Accountant, with over a decade of financial management experience in the private sector, Mrs. Dass-Mungal is a graduate of the University of the West Indies with a BSc. (Hons.) in Accounting, and a minor in Management. Mrs. Dass-Mungal, a qualified member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) since 2000, completed the Foster School of Business – Pacific Rim Banker Executive Management Program in 2015.
Mrs. Dass-Mungal brings a wealth of expertise to bear, having had extensive experience in the fields of financial reporting and auditing, management reporting, corporate and strategic planning, and regulatory reporting.

Hilton Hyland, General Manager, Commercial and Retail Banking, has been a member of the Bank’s management team for 20 years. Prior to his current role, he held several key managerial roles including Senior Manager, Human Resources. He has diverse knowledge and experience of branch banking and operations, having successfully managed small, medium and large branches of varying portfolios and complexities.
Mr. Hyland holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business.

Karen Yip Chuck, General Manager, Corporate and Investment Banking, has been a banker for over 20 years and has been part of the Executive Team for nine years. She previously held positions as General Manager Wealth Management and General Manager Internal Audit . She sits on the board of Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited. She is a graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI), The Herriot Watt University of Edinburgh, a Certified Internal Auditor and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Banking (ACIB).

Denyse Ramnarine, General Manager, Electronic Channels and Payments, brings to bear extensive experience in Information Technology (IT) Management, Systems Engineering, Systems Administration, and Project Management, having worked in the IT industry for more than 25 years. An accomplished professional, Ms. Ramnarine has served across a range of managerial posts within the Bank, including Assistant Manager, Communications; Manager, Desktop and Decision Support Services; Manager, Networking: Business Transformation; Senior Manager, Technology Advancement; Senior Manager, Application and Technology Delivery; and her most recent post as Assistant General Manager, IT. Ms. Ramnarine holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, an MSc. in Telecommunications and Information Systems from the University of Essex, a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Business IT from NCC Education, a Diploma in Business Management from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, a CIM degree in Project Management from ROYTEC, and a BSc. From the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine as a double major in Computer Science and Physics.

Parasram Salickram, Chief Financial Officer, Republic Financial Holdings Limited and General Manager, Planning and Financial Control, Republic Bank Limited, has been with the Republic Bank Group for the past 12 years. He has extensive knowledge in the areas of accounting, finance and strategic planning. Prior to his current position, Mr. Salickram worked as an External Auditor in Guyana for seven years. In the past, he also performed the role of Chief Financial Officer in the Group’s subsidiaries in the Dominican Republic and Barbados. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Chartered Global Management Accountants. Mr. Salickram is a CFA charterholder and also holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)

David Robinson, General Manager, Wealth Management, has been a banker for the past 20 years. Prior to his current role, he has held several key Senior Managerial roles, including Senior Manager, Treasury and Senior Manager, Creditor Protection Support Unit.
Mr. Robinson holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Waterloo, Canada and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder.

Michelle Palmer-Keizer, General Manager, Group Marketing and Communications, is a marketing professional with over 24 years’ experience in the credit card business. She specialises in Research Development and Financial Product Management and possesses a wealth of knowledge in credit card business, including product development, operational management and strategic management. Mrs. Palmer-Keizer is a past President of the Trinidad Hotels, Restaurant and Tourism Association (THRTA) and a current member of the Association of Business Executives, from which she received the World Prize for Quantitative Methods.

Aldrin Ramgoolam, General Manager, Information Technology Management, has been a banker for over 24 years, 19 of which have been in the field of Information Technology. He is a graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI) and the UWI Institute of Business.

Vijai Ragoonanan, General Manager, Risk Management has worked in Republic Bank’s Risk Management Department for the past eleven years. A career banker, he has gained diverse experience in positions, including Branch Manager, Area Credit Manager and Corporate Manager, before his assignment to Risk Management. In 2007, he was seconded by Republic Bank to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington, D.C. for one year as a Senior Investment Officer attached to the Global Manufacturing and Services Department. He is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago and a past Chairman of the Credit Risk Committee of the Banker’s Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

Charles A. Mouttet, General Manager, Treasury, has been a banker for the past 35 years. He sits on several boards within the Republic Bank Group and is the Chairman of the Immortelle Children’s Centre for Special Education, a non-profit organisation. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of the UK (IFS School of Finance), and has attended several courses on investment and risk management including the New York Institute of Finance and the United States Money and Capital Markets Programme.

Anna-María García-Brooks, General Manager, Group Human Resources, has been a member of the Republic Bank team for 20 years. Prior to her current role, Mrs. García-Brooks held the position of General Manager, Group Marketing and Communications. In that role, her focus was aimed at building the Group’s brand and image, leading its groundbreaking social investment programme – the Power to Make A Difference – and building its market share through the development of customer focused and innovative products and services. She is a graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI) (Mass Communications) and winner of the Pro Vice Chancellor’s Prize for General Proficiency, First Place. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the UWI Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business; a post graduate Diploma in Business Management from the University of the West Indies (UWI), and has completed executive management programmes at the University of Michigan Business School, the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2014 Mrs. Garcia-Brooks was named as one the University of West Indies’ Distinguished Alumni.

Farid Antar, General Manager – Group Enterprise Risk / Chief Risk Officer has been a banker for more than 34 years. He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Caribbean Association of Banks Inc., a Director of G4S Holdings (Trinidad) Ltd. and a Director of Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of the UK (IFS School of Finance) and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK. He attained a Diploma from the School of Bank Marketing and Management from the American Bankers Association and the FIBA’s AMLCA certification in Anti-Money Laundering.

Kimberly Erriah-Ali, Group General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Republic Bank Limited and Republic Financial Holdings Limited, is an attorney-at-law with 19 years of experience. Having received her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Hons.) from the University of the West Indies, and her Legal Education Certificate from The Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad, Mrs. Erriah-Ali was admitted to practice as an Attorney-at-Law in the Supreme Court Trinidad and Tobago in 1998.
Mrs. Erriah-Ali joined Republic Bank in 2002 as Manager, Legal Services, where she served until 2014 when she assumed the Senior Manager, Compliance, portfolio for two years before returning to take up the position of Senior Manager, Legal Services.
She has served as Corporate Secretary on the Boards of Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited and Republic Bank (Suriname) N.V., and has served as Corporate Secretary to Republic Bank subsidiaries: Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited and London Street Project Company Limited.
Mrs. Erriah-Ali holds an MBA from the Heriot-Watt University, with electives in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance, is certified under the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), and is a Certified Practitioner in Anti-Money Laundering from the Florida Institute of Bankers Association via Florida International University. She brings to bear a wide range of expertise in Corporate and Commercial Law, Conveyancing, Trusts, Landlord and Tenant Law, Intellectual Property, Estates, and Litigation.
She currently serves as a director on a number of Republic Bank boards, including Republic Wealth Management Limited, Republic Securities Limited, Atlantic Financial Limited, Republic Caribbean Investments Limited, and Republic Suriname Holdings Limited. Mrs. Erriah-Ali also serves on the boards of the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) and the Think Pink Live Well Society.

Marlon Persad, General Manager, IT Consolidation, Republic Bank Limited, is an accomplished professional with more than two decades of Information Technology and Management experience in Banking, Insurance, and Consulting. Mr. Persad has successfully served in a range of senior leadership positions including Senior Manager, Technology Advancement; Senior Manager, Corporate Operations and Process Improvement; Manager, Project Execution & IT Governance; and Manager, Project Execution.
He has chaired various sub-committees under the Bankers Association of Trinidad and Tobago, is an Anti-Money Laundering Certified Associate (AMLCA) from Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA) in partnership with Florida International University, and is certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Mr. Persad holds an Executive MBA (Distinction) in Business from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Studies both from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

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.