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RonaldF. deC. Harford
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 and hold a successful
political debate on Local Government.
DavidDulal –Whiteway
David Dulal-Whiteway, Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited,
was appointed to this position in 2005. He has been a banker for
over 20 years. He is a graduate of The University of the West Indies
(UWI) and The University of Western Ontario.
He sits on the Boards of Republic Bank (Cayman) Limited, Republic
Bank Trinidad and Tobago (Barbados) Limited, HFC Bank (Ghana)
Limited and other companies in the Group.
External Appointments
Mr. Dulal-Whiteway is the Chairman of The Foundation for
the Enhancement and Enrichment of Life (FEEL), a non-profit
organisation.
NigelM. Baptiste
Nigel M. Baptiste, Deputy Managing Director of Republic Bank
Limited, was first appointed to the 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 Bank (Guyana)
Limited, Republic Bank (Cayman) Limited and other entities within
the Republic Bank Group.
DerwinM. Howell
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, Republic Bank (Suriname) N.V. and
Republic Bank Finance and Merchant Bank 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 and Chancellor’s Representative on the UWI St. Augustine
Campus Council.
ShazanAli
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.
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