Group Executives
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MRS. DAWN THOMAS
Group Chief Executive Officer
MR. DOUGLAS WILSON
Executive Director/
General Manager,
Trinidad Express Newspapers
MS. KARLENE
NG TANG
Chief Financial Officer/
Company Secretary,
One Caribbean Media Ltd.
MR. NOEL WOOD
Chief Executive Officer,
The Nation Group
MRS. MIRIAM
WILSON-EDWARDS
Group Internal Auditor,
One Caribbean Media Ltd.
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. DOUGLAS WILSON
Executive Director/General Manager, Trinidad Express Newspapers
Mr. Douglas Wilson who joined the Trinidad Express Newspapers in 2014 has over twenty years’ 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.
MS. KARLENE NG TANG
Chief Financial Officer/Company Secretary, One Caribbean Media Ltd.
Ms. Karlene Ng Tang joined Caribbean Communications Network Limited (CCN Group) in 1998 as the Group Financial Accountant and assumed the role
of Group Financial Controller from 2009 to 2017.
In 2017 she was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of One Caribbean Media Limited.
Ms. Ng Tang is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and holds a MBA with a Specialism in Finance (Distinction) from
the Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She has over twenty-seven years’ experience in the media industry, including fourteen years in
executive management. Her experience includes audit, financial accounting, risk management, budgeting, treasury management and related activities.
Ms. Ng Tang serves as a Director on the Board of The Express Children’s Fund.
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 has driven the success of the Nation Group.
MRS. MIRIAM WILSON-EDWARDS
Group Internal Auditor, One Caribbean Media Ltd.
Mrs. Miriam Wilson-Edwards joined the Group in 2019 with over nineteen years’ experience in the field of internal auditing. She spent over twelve years
heading the Internal Audit Department of a Property Development Company and several years conducting audit engagements in various sectors for a
conglomerate with subsidiaries spanning the Caribbean. She also served the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Trinidad and Tobago as an Executive,
Governor and Chairman of the Board; and is a Volunteer Instructor for the IIA Inc. USA.
Mrs. Wilson-Edwards holds a BSc. (Hons) in Economics/ Finance, is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), a Certified
Internal Auditor (CIA); holds Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) and a MBA with Distinction from the Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
She is also an Associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.