Board of Directors
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MR. FAAREES HOSEIN
Chairman
MRS. DAWN THOMAS
Group Chief Executive Officer
MR. GREGORY
THOMSON
DR. GRENVILLE
PHILLIPS
CBE, JP
MR. PETER G.
SYMMONDS
S.C.
MRS. RENEE-ANN
KOWLESSAR
MR. NOEL WOOD
Executive Director/
Chief Executive Officer,
The Nation Corporation
MR. DOUGLAS WILSON
Executive Director/
General Manager,
Trinidad Express Newspapers
•———THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMPRISES———•
•———EIGHT (8) MEMBERS, OF WHICH THREE ARE EXECUTIVE———•
•———AND FIVE ARE NON-EXECUTIVE.———•
MR. FAREES HOSEIN
Chairman
An Attorney-at-Law, Mr. Faarees Hosein obtained his LLB at Dundee University, Scotland and was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln’s Inn. He has been in private civil law practice since 1988 in Trinidad and Tobago and was called to the Bars of Barbados in 1991 and Grenada in 1997.
Mr. Hosein is also the Chairman of Caribbean Communications Network Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of One Caribbean Media Limited.
MRS. DAWN THOMAS
Group Chief Executive Officer
Mrs. Dawn Thomas is the Group Chief Executive Officer of One Caribbean Media Limited (OCM). Prior to this role, she served for four years as Group CEO of Caribbean Communications Network Limited (CCN), a subsidiary of the OCM Group.
Before joining OCM, Mrs. Thomas spent 15 years with the Massy Group, where she held several leadership positions, including CEO of Tracmac Engineering Limited. During her tenure, she gained extensive experience across the energy, construction, agricultural, industrial, and marine sectors. She also served as a Director on the boards of Massy Energy, Associated Brands Ltd. (Guyana), and Massy Finance.
Mrs. Thomas is the past Vice Chairman of the International Press Institute, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of OCM and the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) in Barbados. Additionally, she is a Director at RBC Merchant Bank (Caribbean) Limited and RBC Royal Bank (Trinidad and Tobago) Limited.
She holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Industrial Engineering from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and has completed an Executive Development Programme at the University of Western Ontario.
MR. GREGORY THOMSON
Mr. Gregory Thomson is a retired banker with over forty years experience in Banking, Investments and Finance. He was the Deputy Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited prior to his retirement in 2012.
Mr. Thomson holds a BSc. in Mathematics and Physics from The University of the West Indies and a MBA from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is presently on the Board of Republic Bank Limited.
DR. GRENVILLE PHILLIPS
CBE, JP
Dr. Grenville Phillips was a Principal of the Barbados and Eastern Caribbean accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand and Managing Director of Colybrand Company Services Limited. He retired on the merger of the international firms of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse and now practices as a Corporate and Financial consultant.
Dr. Phillips is also a licensed trustee under the Bankruptcy & Insolvency regime of Barbados.
He served as Chairman of the Barbados National Bank and as a Director of the Barbados Stock Exchange from its inception until 2016, the last seven years of which as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Dr. Phillips gained his Doctorate in Business Administration from Bradford University (UK) in 2004 and also holds professional qualifications in Chartered Secretaryship, Governance, Accounting and Banking.
He is a Justice of the Peace and was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s New Year honours in 2000 for his contribution to accountancy and public service in Barbados.
MR. PETER G. SYMMONDS
S.C.
Mr. Peter G. Symmonds S.C. is an Attorney at-Law who has been in private practice for forty-three years.
He is the holder of a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of the West Indies and a Masters of Laws (LLM) from the University of London and is also a Justice of the Peace in Barbados.
Mr. Symmonds previously served as a Director of Interim Investment Ltd formerly Rum Refinery of Mount Gay Limited, a privately held company, and is a Trustee of The Maria Holder Memorial Trust, and The Brewster Trust, Registered Barbados Charities. He was a Board Member of BS&T for six years prior to its acquisition by Massy Holdings Limited, and former Board Member of Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited for fourteen years and Massy United Insurance Limited for over 10 years.
MRS. RENEE-ANN KOWLESSAR
Mrs. Renee Kowlessar’s experience spans many years in public accounting in Toronto and Barbados, and in finance and management in both the onshore and offshore banking sectors in Barbados.
She holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Accounting from McGill University in Montreal Canada, a Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados.
Mrs. Kowlessar has completed the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada- Director Education and Accreditation Program.
She has served as a Director of Goddard Enterprises Limited and Director and Audit Committee Chair of First Citizens Bank (Barba- dos) Limited. She currently serves on a number of Boards in the financial services sector, as well as sits as a Trustee of The Cherry Tree Trust, a charitable organization in Barbados.
MR. NOEL WOOD
Chief Executive Officer, The Nation Group
Mr. Noel Wood is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Nation Corporation, the Barbadian subsidiary of the OCM Group. Prior to his taking up the position of CEO, he served for thirteen years as the Group Financial Controller/ Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Wood is an experienced leader, finance professional and chartered accountant with a strong record of financial management and strategy implementation. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB) and holds a MBA in Finance from City University, London. He is a Director on the Boards of The Nation Corporation, The Nation Publishing Co. Limited, Starcom Network Inc., Innogen Technologies Inc.,
and SVG Publishers Inc.
During his tenure, he completed several developmental and training programmes, including the Business Executive Program at Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada, and has played a pivotal role in several projects that have driven the success of the Nation Group.
MR. DOUGLAS WILSON
Executive Director/General Manager, Trinidad Express Newspapers
Mr. Douglas Wilson who joined the Trinidad Express Newspapers in 2014 has over twenty years of experience in the newspaper industry.
In his early professional career, he held positions in ICT, focused on business software development with a consulting firm, in banking and with a government statutory body, prior to joining the newspaper industry, and at which point shifted into Operations Management.
Mr. Wilson is the holder of BSc. Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the West Indies, a MBA from UWI Institute of Business and an advanced diploma in Accounting and Finance.
Within the Group, he presently serves on the Boards of The Nation Publishing Company Limited and One Caribbean Flexipac Industries and Solutions Limited. He also previously served as a Director of ANSA Polymer Limited.