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A. Norman Sabga
Chairman & Chief Executive

He is Chairman of the Executive Committee, Compensation Committee and holds directorships on the Boards of ANSA McAL  (Barbados) Limited, Carib Brewery (St. Kitts and Nevis) Limited, ANSA McAL (Guyana) Limited, ANSA McAL (US) Inc.,Trinidad Lands Limited and Grenada Breweries Limited.

 

 

David B. Sabga
Deputy Chairman

David B. Sabga is Deputy Chairman of ANSA McAL Limited. He is also the Sector Head of the Automotive Sector and member of the Executive Committee. He holds a BA (Economics) from Windsor University, Canada. Mr. Sabga previously held Chairmanships at Standard Equipment and Crown Industries Limited.
 





 


Gerry C. Brooks
Chief Operating Officer

An Attorney-at-Law, Gerry Brooks is the Group Chief Operating Officer of the ANSA McAL Group. Educated in the Caribbean and North America, he is also the holder of an MBA, Columbia University, (Dean’s Honour Roll).

He has recently assumed the additional responsibility of  Manufacturing Sector Head and is Chairman of Penta Paints Limited, Sissons (Trinidad) Limited, Sissons (Grenada) Limited, ANSA Chemicals Limited, ANSA Polymer Limited, ABEL Business Solutions. 

Mr. Brooks is also Deputy Chairman of the Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund and he holds additional directorships in the Group including McEnearney Alstons (Barbados) Ltd., Tatil and Tatil Life, and is a member of the ANSA McAL Group Parent Board and Executive Committee.

Mr. Brooks is Chairman of the Family Planning.  He is a past Rotary President and has also served on several Cabinet appointed committees. He has been honoured by the First QRC Scouts Association and by Rotary.

 


 


Dr. Anthony N. Sabga, CMT, Hon LL.D (UWI)

Chairman Emeritus

Dr. Anthony N. Sabga is the Chairman Emeritus and founder of the ANSA McAL Group of Companies. He is also the Chairman of ANSA Merchant Bank Limited, Chairman of The ANSA McAL Foundation and the Patron of The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards For Excellence.   Dr. Sabga has achieved quite a lot. He was awarded the Trinidad and Tobago Chaconia (Gold) Medal in 1998. In October of the same year he was named Master Entrepreneur at the Annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Awards Ceremony and later that month he was the recipient of a Doctor of Laws Degree, Honoris Causa, from the University of the West Indies.

In 2002, Dr. Sabga was recognised as one of Trinidad and Tobago’s Icons in the “Thinkers, Movers and Shapers” Category. In 2004 Dr. Sabga was also honoured by the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies for his Outstanding Contribution to the Caribbean. He also received the Prime Minister’s Award for Innovation and Invention, Lifetime Achievement Award (Manufacturing Sector) in 2004. In 2008 Dr. Sabga was inducted into the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce Business Hall of Fame.
  


 


Nicholas V. Mouttet
Director/ President and Chief Executive Officer of the ANSA McAL (Barbados) Ltd

Effective August 1st, 2011, Mr. Mouttet assumed the post of President and Chief Executive Officer of the ANSA McAL (Barbados) Ltd. Group of Companies.

Previously, he held the positions of Group Marketing Manager at the Bermudez Group Limited, and General Manager of Bermudez Biscuit Company before joining the ANSA McAL Group in 2003.  He is the former Managing Director of Abel Building Solutions (ABS) Group of Companies, the third largest subsidiary in the Group, comprising 5 divisions in the manufacturing and construction sectors and employing approximately 700 people. His leadership at ABS allowed for the successful commissioning and pay back of two of the largest block plants in the region and the world and the award of the largest supply contract in the Trinidad and Tobago's history valued at BDS $67,000 (TT $200 Million).

Mr. Mouttet previously held the position of Senior Sales & Marketing Manager for the Caribbean for Nabisco and Kraft International and has over 16 years experience in marketing and sales regionally.  He has over the years developed a strong background in development, implementation and/or restructuring of sales and distribution systems, and has a proven track record in new product development and launch execution, with special emphasis on the Caribbean marketplace. Mr. Mouttet holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration with a minor in International Business from Florida International University.



 


Ray A. Sumairsingh

Director/Sector Head - Automotive

Ray Sumairsingh - MBA (Finance), Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB), holds directorships on several ANSA McAL boards including ANSA McAL Limited (Parent Board), TATIL, TATIL Life Assurance Ltd and Consolidated Finance Ltd (Barbardos). He is also the Chairman of Brydens Insurance Inc and is Deputy Chairman of ANSA Merchant Bank Limited.
 
Mr. Sumairsingh is a former Director of the Unit Trust Corporation.  He presided as President of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean (IAC) and currently holds directorship with the Association as well as the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange.  A former President of the Association of Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Companies (ATTIC), Mr. Sumairsingh continues to be a very active Director on ATTIC’s Board.

 


 


Andrew N Sabga 
Director/ Sector Head - Brewing/Chairman, Carib Brewery Limited

Andrew Sabga is the Sector Head–Beverage for the ANSA McAL Group of Companies.  He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Development Company Limited from August 2003 to April 2007.

Mr. Sabga has over twenty years of industry experience in the Manufacturing Sector of the Group, having previously held senior managerial positions at Carib Brewery Limited, as well as directorships at Carib Glassworks Ltd, Caribbean Development Co Ltd, Carib Brewery Ltd and Trinidad Match Ltd.  He was the former Chairman of Alstons Marketing Co. Ltd., and is currently the Chairman of Carib Brewery Ltd, Grenada Breweries Ltd, Carib Brewery (St Kitts & Nevis) Ltd and Carib Glassworks Ltd. 

He is a Director of ANSA McAL Limited and the newly appointed President of the T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

He holds an MBA, Marketing from the University of Miami and a B.Sc. – B.A. Marketing / Finance from Boston University.


 


Aneal Maharaj

Director/ Group Finance Director/ Sector Head - Retail

Mr Aneal Maharaj was appointed as the Group Finance Director in February 2008. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA) and has over 20 years experience in the energy sector and business advisory.

Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Maharaj was the Vice President, Finance at BHP Billiton and has held a variety of senior finance and planning positions with BP, AMOCO and Deloitte & Touche, in Trinidad, the UK and USA.

Mr Maharaj, a former island scholarship winner, has served as a member of Council of ICATT, as Chairman of ICATT's Taxation Committee and a former member of the Energy Committee of the T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce.(IAC).
 


 


W. David Clarke

Director

Mr. W. David Clarke, MA (Cambridge), is an Attorney-at-Law and is one of the Senior Partners at JD Sellier & Co. He is most involved with corporate and commercial transactions, conveyancing, mortgage, debenture and other security instruments, loan agreements, international finance transactions, insurance law, petroleum, gas and oil law, environmental law, joint venture transactions, land development schemes, admiralty matters, civil litigation and arbitration.

Mr. Clarke is a member of the Group's Audit Committee. Mr. Clarke has represented Trinidad and Tobago on a regular basis in contract bridge over the past 25 years.
 


 


Imtiaz Rahaman

Director

Imtiaz Rahaman is the Chief Executive Officer of Ramco Industries Limited, Olympic Manufacturing Limited, Industrial Gases Limited (Jamaica) and Cedi Holdings Limited. He also holds Directorships on the Boards of Rahamut Enterprises Limited, Rahamut Service Stations Limited, Rahamut Motor Supplies Limited, Olympic Security Services Limited, Caribbean Metal Industries Limited, Bourse Securities Limited and Restaurant Holdings Limited.

Mr. Rahaman obtained his Bachelors of Science (Civil Engineering) from the University College University of London where he was the recipient of the Chadwic Prize for Academic Excellence. He graduated from MIT with a Masters in Civil Engineering and Business Administration. During the period 1988 to 1991 Mr. Rahaman worked at Citibank in their Corporate Finance department in Florida, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
 


 


Teresa White

Group Human Resource Director

Teresa White has extensive experience of strategic human resource management, organisational transformation and change management. She has successfully led her own independent regional consulting practice and her client base spans the major energy sector companies, notable financial sector players, professional services and regional telecommunication companies. Prior to this, she held posts as a Senior Management Consultant at Ernst & Young, the Group Human Resource Manager at ANSA Mc AL Ltd and the Senior Manager of Change Management at the Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago.

Teresa is also active in human resource and employee relations matters at the Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Industry & Commerce and the South Trinidad Chamber of Industry & Commerce. She has represented the former on the Vision 20:20 Labour & Industrial Relations Sub-Committee, on the Minimum Wages Board and on the Police Service Commission Monitoring Group. She sits on the Council of the South Trinidad Chamber and is their representative on the Industrial Relations Tri-partite Committee at the Ministry of Labour. She has recently joined the Board of the Family Planning Association of Trinidad & Tobago.  
 


 


Anthony E. Phillip
Director
 
Mr. Anthony E Phillip, is the Chairman of West Indian Tobacco . He was the Managing Director/Deputy Chairman prior to his retirement in 2006, after 33 years of service at West Indian Tobacco. During this period he completed secondments to British American Tobacco, Kenya and British American Tobacco, Malawi where he held the position of Chairman and Managing Director.

Mr. Phillip began his career as an Industrial Chemist at Caroni Limited, holds an Executive MBA(UWI) and has had substantial training and work experience in Reputation Management, Corporate Social Reporting, in addition to core disciplines of Consumer Marketing and Operations Management.


 


Steve Bideshi
Director


Mr. Steve Bideshi is currently the head of Bespoke Capital, a boutique advisory firm specializing in Corporate Finance and Liability Management.Steve Bideshi spent the majority of his working life with Citigroup. When he left Citibank after 28 years in August 2009 to return to his native Trinidad, he was the Division Executive in charge of Turkey, Israel and Central Asia. Mr. Bideshi worked at Citibank Trinidad from 1982-2004 (22 years). In 1995, after managing several departments he was selected as the Chief Country Officer of Trinidad, being only the second local in the country’s thirty-five year history. Over the next nine years, he expanded the Citibank footprint to include the Bahamas, Barbados and the non-presence Eastern Caribbean islands.

 

During his tenure in Trinidad he personally structured and led over US$2 billion in capital market transactions for Citibank and was designated a Senior Securities Officer joining a select group of risk officers globally.  Steve was also a Senior Credit Officer of Citibank.Steve was very instrumental in the 2007 US$3.2 billion acquisition of AKBANK, Turkey’s most profitable private sector bank. Mr. Bideshi holds a B.Sc. (Industrial Management) from the University of the West Indies (1979) and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the University of Western Ontario, Ivey School of Business (1982).

 


 


Frances Bain-Cumberbatch

Group Corporate Secretary/ Head of Legal

An Attorney-at-Law, Frances Bain-Cumberbatch is the Group Corporate Secretary of the ANSA McAL Group. Prior to joining the ANSA McAL Group, Bain worked at J.D. Sellier & Co. as an Advocate Attorney-at-Law. She gained invaluable practical knowledge and experience in several areas of law including Intellectual Property, Corporate/ Commercial and Industrial Relations.

She holds a BA Double Major in French and Spanish from UWI, St. Augustine, a LLB from University of London and a Legal Education Certificate from the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School.


 

 

 

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