Executive Team

Gregory I. Thomson has over 35 years of experience in Banking and Finance. He was the Deputy Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited for seven years and retired from this position in 2012. Mr. Thomson joined the Board of Directors in 2014. Mr. Thomson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Physics from The University of the West Indies and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

FCCA, ACMA, CGMA, CA, CFA, FRM

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).

Leon D. Charles is the owner and manager of the management consulting firm, Charles and Associates (CAA), Inc. His professional training is in business and he holds a Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA) from the University of Western Ontario, and a First Class Honours Degree in Agriculture Management from the University of the West Indies. Mr. Charles is active in a wide range of business and sustainable development fields at the local, regional and international levels. Core activities include strategic planning, project development and evaluation, management training and facilitation, while the main areas of focus for sustainable development programming are poverty reduction, climate change and early childhood development.

BSc (Info. Systems and Computers), CA

Ms. Isabelle Slinger has been active in the Financial and Information Technology sectors for over 25 years, providing financial consulting services to companies in Grenada and Trinidad. She is the Managing Director of Comserv Limited and has a wealth of experience in information technology. Ms. Slinger is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems and Computers.

Graham Williams is the Managing Director and Chairman of Westerhall Estate Limited. He has extensive experience in new product development, and business expansion and development. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Windsor.

Ms. Karen Yip Chuck, General Manager, Wealth Management, Republic Bank Limited has been a banker for over 20 years. She sits on the boards of Republic Wealth Management Limited, Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited, Trintrust Limited and Republic Securities Limited. She is a graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI), the Heriot Watt University of Edinburgh, a Certified Internal Auditor and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Banking (ACIB).

Christopher Husbands is the General Manager of the National Water and Sewerage Authority, a position he has held since 2008. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Toronto, a Master of Science degree in Project Management from the Florida International University, and a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of the West Indies. Other areas of training include Multi-Hazard Building Designs, Budgeting in the Private Sector and Advanced Negotiations.
Mr. Husbands is also the Deputy Chairman of the Grenada Airports Authority, the Vice President of the Caribbean Water and Sewerage Association and is a member of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association and the Grenada Institute of Professional Engineers.

Ms. Leslie-Ann Seon is the holder of a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, both with Honours from The University of the West Indies. She also has a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School. She has been admitted to practice at the Bars of Grenada, Barbados, and the British Virgin Islands and has been practicing for 22 years and she has worked extensively with regional and international law firms as Grenada Counsel for major regional and international corporate commercial transactions, and multi-jurisdictional insolvency work.
Ms. Seon is a former Deputy Chairman of the Grenada Airports Authority, and served as the President of the Senate of Grenada. She is the former Chairman of Child Welfare Authority, and a former director on the Board of Directors of the Grenada Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Mr. Richard Lewis is the General Manager/Director of Label House Group Limited which is the largest specialist label and packaging printer in the Caribbean.
Mr. Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours from the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey School of Business and is also a graduate of the Newcastle Institute of Technology. Among other Directorships, he currently serves as the Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Government Advisory Council for Competiveness Innovation, Prestige Business Publications and Carreras Jamaica. Mr. Lewis is also a Director of Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited and Republic Securities Limited.