CIBC Caribbean Announces Country Management Reshuffle

l-r: Donna Wellington, chief country management officer; Kemar Polius, managing director for Barbados and OECS; Annique Dawkins, head of country for Jamaica; Gemel Sobers, head of country for The Cayman Islands

CIBC Caribbean has announced a change to its country management that is set to place greater emphasis on relationships with key stakeholder groups, including its employees, clients and the community.

The changes were announced on Wednesday.

Chief executive officer, Mark St. Hill says leading the regional country management team, is the bank’s newly appointed chief country management officer, Donna Wellington.

Wellington who joined CIBC 20-years ago was previously managing director for Barbados and the OECS.

Mr. St. Hill says CIBC Caribbean’s managing directors in The Cayman Islands and Jamaica, Mark McIntyre and Nigel Holness, will be appointed the chairmen of the Cayman and Jamaica businesses respectively, while taking early retirement from their day-to-day duties.

Additionally, he says their managing director in the Bahamas, Dr. Jacqui Bend, will take early retirement and transition to an assignment designed to assist in its transformation and governance programme.

The CEO says their managing director in Trinidad, Anthony Seeraj, will remain with the bank until the end of the fiscal year.

During this time his new remit will be to help the bank secure a new head of country for Trinidad, while assisting in a number of business development activities in Trinidad, after which he too will take retirement.

Meanwhile, CIBC Caribbean has also appointed a new crop of heads of country to take over in five jurisdictions.

The bank says Kemar Polius will succeed Ms. Wellington at the helm of the bank’s Barbados operations, Gemel Sobers has been appointed the head of country for The Cayman Islands and Annique Dawkins is the head of country for Jamaica.