Lorraine Kam - Chairman

"The JMMB Group manifests its "Vision of Love" by helping everyone to become better versions of themselves and making a positive impact on the world. As a Board, we play a key role in ensuring that our core values of unconditional love and mutual respect work in the best interest of all our stakeholders."

Lorraine Kam is the Chairman of the Boards of JMMB Bank (T&T) Bank Limited and JMMB Express Finance Limited and has served as an Independent Director of JMMB since 2014. She is a financial services professional with 25 years of progressive experience within the financial services sector. This experience incorporates roles in corporate governance, strategic leadership, enterprise risk management, corporate and investment banking, and business development.

 

Currently, Lorraine serves as a Non-Executive Director for companies in the financial sector and NGO space. Prior to this, most of her career was spent at Citibank in their Corporate, Commercial and Investment Banking Unit.

 

She holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from Cass Business School (London, U.K.) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine). Her training included certification by the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario, as well as being an affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom.

Wayne Sutherland - Director

“Our company was founded by the identification of an opportunity that no one else perhaps thought of or saw as possible; that entrepreneurial spirit continues to play a key part in our success today.” 

Wayne Sutherland is the Managing Director of Jamaica Venture Fund Limited, a company that makes venture capital investments. He was appointed to the Board of JMMBTT in 2003 and also served as a Director of Intercommercial Bank Limited, JMMBTT Investments (Trinidad and Tobago) Limited, JMMBTT Securities (T&T) Limited and Intercommercial Trust and Merchant Bank Limited. He is the Chairman of JMMBTT Group Information Systems Committee and also sits on the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee. A former director of Jamaica's Securities Commission, (now the Financial Services Commission), he is currently chairman of Kencasa Construction & Project Management Limited and the St. Hugh's Preparatory School Board. He sits on several other Boards including Mapco Printers Limited.

Mr. Sutherland holds a Bachelor of Science degree from UWI and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Darren Mohammed - Director

“No one can grow who does not accept his smallness.” - Pope Francis

Darren Mohammed is a Senior Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the Corporate & Government business across 33 countries, mainly within the Caribbean. Darren is also the Country Representative for Microsoft in Trinidad and Tobago. As more organizations and governments turn to technology to better Engage and Empower people, Optimize Operations and Transform Products & Services, Darren continues to build partnerships throughout the region with entities who are agents for that transformation.

Darren has a background in Computer Engineering and has been working in the ICT industry for over 26 years. During that time, the most notable tenures have been 14 years at Microsoft where he has been recognized with several service excellence awards, 6 years of entrepreneurial experience, having built a successful technology startup prior to joining Microsoft and 5 years working for a multi-national Oil & Gas company as a technologist building and supporting upstream apps. He uses that wealth of experience to assist in the development of an ecosystem of technology service companies across this complex geography, with the goal of that ecosystem contributing to the regional GDP. Darren also serves as Independent Director on the board of JMMB Bank and JMMB Express Finance in Trinidad & Tobago and on the regional JMMB Group IS Committee.

Haseeb Mohammed - Director

'My priority is to protect stakeholder confidence by insisting on transparent reporting, rigorous controls and timely remediation.'

Haseeb Mohammed serves as an Independent Director on the boards of JMMB Bank (T&T) Limited. JMMB Express Finance Limited, JMMB Investments (Trinidad and Tobago Limited), and JMMB Securities (T&T) Limited. Haseeb was a Partner at a Big Four professional services firm, where he served as the technical partner for International Financing Reporting Standards (IFRS) and led audit audit engagements across the financial services, oil and gas, retail and distribution, and manufacturing sectors. 

He also held the role of Chief Quality Officer, with responsibility for overseeing and validating the consistent application of International Auditing Standards across audit engagements. In addition, he has experience leading the accounting function for a major manufacturing company in Trinidad and Tobago. 

Haseeb is a Board Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago and serves as Chair of the Audit and Accounting Standards Committee. Haseeb is also Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).

Vijai Ragoonanan - Director

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your BALANCE, you must keep moving.”

Vijai Ragoonanan is a Retired Banker with 37 years’ experience as a risk management professional specialising the field credit risk. His career in banking was with three of the leading banks in Trinidad during which time he held positions in Branch Management, Commercial and Corporate Banking and Risk Management. A major part of his career was at Republic Financial Holdings Limited for 25 years where he held senior management positions in the risk management function. The last eight years was as the General Manager, Risk Management responsible for the credit function of the Group and a member of the Executive team. He was a member of the Asset Liability Committee and the Enterprise Risk Committee of the Bank. In 2006 he was seconded for one year to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington, DC as a Senior Investment Officer with the Global Manufacturing and Services Division. While at IFC he worked successfully with Project Teams on the financing for two investment projects: one in Egypt involving the purchase of a large retail establishment and another in Belarus for an A Class Office building.

Vijai is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he majored in Accounting. His undergraduate degree was a B.Sc. in Management Studies and post graduate degree in M.Sc. Accounting. He is a non-practice member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago. He also attended several courses in Risk Management and Credit Risk held by Euromoney. Since retirement in January 2020 Vijai has been providing Financial Consultancy on Real Estate Development projects and Consultancy to CariCRIS, the Caribbean Rating Agency. He joined the Board of JMMB Bank (T&T) Limited and JMMB Express Finance (T&T) Limited effective August 01, 2021.

Anna-Maria Garcia-Brooks - Director

"The real value of our contribution is not in how much money and how many material things that we amass, but in how many people we are able to touch positively. Be kind; be generous; show love."

Anna-Maria Garcia-Brooks is a professional with over 36 years’ experience in business and banking.  She spent 28 years leading the marketing, corporate communications and human resource functions at a leading commercial banking group in the Caribbean and Africa.  Prior to that she was a communications professional with the Massy Group, a leading Caribbean conglomerate.

A certified Changed Management Professional, Anna-Maria holds an MBA from the University of the West Indies and has completed executive education programmes at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Stanford Executive Programme at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

She was named one of the University of the West Indies Distinguished Alumni in 2014 and while at the UWI was awarded the Pro Vice Chancellor’s prize for General Proficiency – First Place in the Mass Media and Communication Arts programme. Her contributions to banking, finance and business in Trinidad and Tobago were recognized in 2021 when she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance.

Anna-Maria currently performs the role of Episocpal Delegate for Commissions with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain and is the former chair of Catholic Media Services Limited.  A founding member of the Nova Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce she has served on the board of Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited and is currently a director of the International Women’s Forum Trinidad and Tobago, chairing it’s communications committee.  She is also the current chair of the Love Movement Youth Outreach, a programme that uses music and the performing arts to reach out to, instill positive values in, and improve the lives of young people in challenging situations.  Anna-Maria is married and the mother of three young adult sons.

Farid Antar - Director

"There are two quotes I live by: (1) Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph you work with excellence (author unknown)". These I believe are relevant for our business and life in general and are aligned with Values of the JMMB Group."

A career banker with over 42 years experience, Farid Antar retired in 2022. Over this period, he held many senior management positions in various functions within the Republic Financial Holdings Group (RFHL). Prior to this retirement, he was Managing Director, Republic Bank (Ghana) PLC (RBGH) - and a key member of the Group's executive management team with responsibility for overall leadership, governance and performance of the RBGH Group, reporting to the Parent Company and RBGH Board of Directors. Prior to this appointment Farid Antar served as the Chief Risk Officer for the Republic Bank Limited and the RFHL Group. 

As a member of the Group's Executive Management Team, he gained valuable skills in Strategic Planning, Enterprise Risk Management and Project Management. 

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, UK and an Associate of the Institute of Financial Services, UK. He holds a Certificate in Business Excellence from Columbia Business School, USA. He also serves as a mentor and coach in a consultancy capacity. 

Currently Mr. Farid Antar serves as an independent director on the board of the JMMB Bank (T&T) Ltd., JMMB Express Finance (T&T) Ltd. and OWP Owners Association.

Rachel Laquis - Director

"Work is love made visible." Khalil Gibran

Rachel Laquis is an internationally experienced Corporate and Commercial Attorney at Law with over 20 years' experience as counsel and in executive leadership at major financial institutions. She is graduate of the University of the West Indies where she attained a Bachelor of Laws degree and the University of Hull in England where she attained a Master's degree in Business administration. Rachel is actively building expertise in AI law and regulation with a Masters in Law degree in Digital Law at King's College London. She is collobative, pragmatic partner with a track record of enabling business growth while managing legal risk.

Rachel Maikhoo

- Corporate Secretary

'Consistency brings progress and success in any situation.'

Rachel Maikhoo has been a practicing Attorney for over 12 years. She started her legal career as Freedom Law Chambers a law firm specializing in Personal Injury, Medical Negligence, Civil Litigation, Contract Law, Defamation, Judicial Review and Constitutional Matters. She joined JMMB then Intercommercial Bank in 2011 as Legal Officer and has continued her practice as in house counsel, holding the position on Manager Legal and presently Legal Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary. Rachel served on the Board of IGOVTT as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Tenders and Contracts Committee from 2011 to 2016. Her expertise lies in Corporate, Commercial, Banking, Conveyancing, Employment and Probate.