Ramcharan
Kalicharan
Managing Director
Ramcharan is a qualified chartered accountant and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada and is also a CFA charter holder. Ramcharan has previously worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Trinidad as a senior auditor, Scotiabank in Toronto, Canada, as a corporate banker involved in structuring syndicated debt, and at a leading Broker-Dealer in Trinidad as Chief Operating Officer where he was responsible for Risk Management, Operations, Finance, Information Technology and other support functions. Ramcharan served as a Governor on the Board of the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund of Trinidad & Tobago from 2012 to 2015.
Brent is responsible for the management of long-term third party client portfolios. This includes institutional investors such as pension funds, corporate and credit union portfolios in addition to retail client funds. He has managed large national and multi-national pension funds such as those of The National Gas Co., Unilever Caribbean, BGTT, Atlantic LNG and National Flour Mills to name a few in addition to some of the largest credit unions in Trinidad. Brent’s qualifications include obtaining a BBA (Economic & Finance) from the University of New Brunswick while he is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is certified in Financial Modelling and Valuations, Mergers & Acquisition and leveraged buyouts.
Brent
Salvary
Director, Portfolio Management
Robert
Balgobin
Director, Fixed Income
Bob is the Director, Fixed Income, responsible for managing the repo portfolio and fixed income desk. Prior to joining KSBM, Bob was Vice President for Trading and Corporate Client Services at CMMB. He was responsible for building and managing a bond portfolio in excess of USD one billion (US$1 Billion). He also served as General Manager of CMMB (Barbados) Limited and Country Manager CMMB (Trinidad). Bob is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (Bachelor of Arts major Economics) and has completed further studies at the New York Institute of Finance and The American Institute of Banking. He was also a registered broker on the NYSE and NASDAQ. Bob is currently a director and Treasurer of the Securities Dealers Association of Trinidad & Tobago.
Robert obtained his B.A. (Econ and Math) degree from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Robert is well known as a veteran in the securities industry having worked for over thirty years in the field of equity trading at certain leading brokerage firms in Trinidad & Tobago as well as a Consultant. He has extensive experience in securities trading, portfolio management and fund management. Most recently, he served as Managing Director of CMMB, a brokerage firm with TT$8 billion in assets under management.
Robert
Mayers
Chairman
Carolyn
John
Independent Director
Ms. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (F.C.C.A.) and a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago. With more than thirty five years of experience in the Financial Services sector, Ms. John has a broad range of knowledge in several areas including Real Estate, Investment, Health services and Education. After retiring early in 2005, Ms. John remained fairly active as a private consultant. She returned to the work force in February 2009 when she was appointed Finance Director of Colonial Life and Chairman of British American by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. John has also previously served as a member of the Boards of several public companies within Trinidad and Tobago.
Hugh Lennox Edwards is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, a position he held from August 1982 until his retirement in December 2007. Since then, he has been employed as a Consultant and Corporate Secretary to the Issa Nicholas Group of Companies. Hugh graduated from Fatima College in Trinidad in 1961 and from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, in 1969 with a Bachelors of Business Administration Degree in Accounting. After receiving his education, Hugh worked as an Auditor from 1969 to June 1972 with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Touche) one of the big eight Accounting firms in New York.