Mr. Arun Goyal - Trinidad Cement Limited

Patricia Narayansingh

2020-01-28T14:07:51-04:00

Patricia Narayansingh, FCCA, ACIB is passionate about utilizing the extensive knowledge, skills and hands on experience gained during her 40+ year career in accounting, auditing, banking and financial and administrative management, to positively impact and uplift the level of corporate governance in T&T and assist the next generation of leaders in their journey to self improvement and self fulfillment. She is committed to excellence and has established a reputation for attention to detail, critical analysis and an excellent work ethic.

Having held positions ranging from Chief Financial Officer and Manager, Corporate Lending of Republic Bank Limited and Chief Internal Auditor and subsequently Chief Administrative Officer of the RBC Financial Caribbean Group as well as being a Member, Chair and Audit Committee member on the boards of a number of companies within the RBC Financial Caribbean Group and Aon Energy Caribbean Limited, she has an in-depth appreciation of organizational realities.

She currently sits on the Boards of The Heroes Foundation and the Water and Sewage Authority and is also an alternate director on the National Insurance Board. Additionally she volunteers as a Financial Consultant for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain.

Claudia Emmanuel

2020-01-28T13:54:05-04:00

Claudia Emmanuel was appointed as a Director of Trinidad Cement Limited on September 25, 2018. Ms. Emmanuel is a multi disciplinary and multi jurisdictional Lawyer and Director with a BA Hons in Economics who possesses two decades of solid corporate and commercial experience.

Ms Emmanuel was the former President/Cofounder of Emunite Fiscal Solutions Limited and Emunite Energy Solutions Limited. These companies focused on economic development via sustainable renewable energy projects. She served as the CEO of the Trinidad and Tobago Securities Exchange Commission, and assumed executive responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Commission and responsibility for the regulation of the securities industry within Trinidad and Tobago.

Ms Emmanuel was a Director and Head of Legal for State Street Global Advisors Limited (an asset management company), State Street Unit Trust Management Limited (a unit trust company) and Managed Pensions Funds Limited (an insurance company). Her remit spanned Europe, the Middle East and Africa wherein she advised these financial institutions and investors on all legal, risk management and regulatory aspects of transactions and corporate activity within the financial markets.

Upon qualification as a lawyer, Ms. Emmanuel joined the law firm Clifford Chance LLP where she advised on various private equity and corporate projects.

Ms. Lucy Rodriguez

2017-09-13T13:42:19-04:00

Lucy Rodriguez was appointed to the Board effective September 8, 2017. She is a Managing Director of CEMEX located in the New York office.

Lucy has over 25 years in international finance and capital markets experience. She joined CEMEX in 2006 in the Investor Relations Department where she has been involved in more than $15 billion of equity and fixed income fundraising efforts. In addition, she represents the company in the international financial community. Prior to CEMEX, Ms. Rodriguez spent 15 years at Citibank where she worked in capital markets origination, debt syndicate and securitization financing for Emerging Market issuers. In her early career, she worked for KPMG in their Audit Department.

Ms. Rodriguez holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College (Hartford Ct.), a Masters in Business Administration from New York University and a Masters from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She is a Certified Public Accountant (lapsed).

Mr. José Luis Seijo Gonzalez

2016-05-27T15:39:42-04:00

José Luis Seijo González is the Director at the TCL Group. He initially joined as Group CEO on May 4, 2015 and was later appointed a Director on the TCL Board and consequently, Managing Director of the company on May 20, 2016. He has had many years of experience in the cement industry, having worked in several key cross postings at CEMEX. The most recent posting, before taking up his appointment at TCL, was that of Head - Strategic and Financial Planning for Spain and the Mediterranean region.

Mr. Seijo joined CEMEX in 1999, initially in the area of production before moving to strategic planning at the company's operations in Spain. His vast experience incorporates assignments in Mexico in corporate strategic planning, in Israel as Chief Financial Officer, in Bangladesh as Chief Executive Officer and in Latvia, also as Chief Executive Officer.

He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

Mr. Bryan Ramsumair

2016-03-12T02:56:28-04:00

Mr. Bryan Ramsumair was appointed to the Board in July, 2015. He began his career with RBTT Merchant Bank and was involved in the origination, structuring and transaction execution for over US$2 billion transactions, involving sovereign debt issues, real estate and energy project financing, corporate bond issues, and equity capital market transactions. Mr. Ramsumair subsequently formed a corporate finance boutique, which was later sold to a large regional Caribbean conglomerate after consummating US$150 million in transactions in its first two years of operation.

Since 2011, Mr. Ramsumair has been Chief Financial Officer of Trinity Exploration and Production, and was part of a team which took the company public in 2013 on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, where it was nominated for AIM Deal of the Year 2014. In that time, he also assisted Trinity in raising US$58 million in debt financing and was involved in M&A deals valued over US$110 million.

Mr. Ramsumair is currently the Chief Financial Officer of DeNovo Energy Limited, an independent upstream oil and gas company location in Trinidad and Tobago, pursuing opportunities related to the exploitation of stranded oil and gas reserves.

Mr. Ramsumair holds an honours degree in Business Administration and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University.

Ms. Kathryna Baptiste Assee

2015-09-23T18:03:54-04:00

Kathryna Baptiste Assee joined the Company in September, 2012. She is an Attorney-at-Law with over nineteen years’ experience in various facets, including corporate, commercial and employment Law. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Baptiste Assee was the Manager Legal/Company Secretary at Trinidad and Tobago National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited from October 2005 to April 2010 and conducted private practice in the areas of corporate and commercial law from June 2010 to August 2012.

Ms. Baptiste Assee obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Honours) Degree from the University of the West Indies and a Legal Education Certificate (LEC) from the Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She also holds an Executive Masters of Business Administration (Distinction) Degree from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad (EMBA Class Valedictorian, 2011). Ms. Baptiste Assee is a member of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago, the Association of Caribbean Corporate Counsel and the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute.

Mr. Francisco Aguilera Mendoza

2014-08-21T15:15:42-04:00

Mr. Francisco Aguilera Mendoza was appointed Managing Director of the TCL Group on December 1, 2020. He has served the TCL Group as a member of the Board of Directors since 2014. Prior to this appointment, Mr Aguilera was the Vice President of Planning - CEMEX South, Central America and the Caribbean Region.

Mr. Aguilera Mendoza joined CEMEX in June 1996, and has held positions in various areas throughout CEMEX’s US operations including: Logistics Manager, Sales Administration Director, Aggregate Operations VP, and VP & General Manager for the Concrete Pipe Division. Prior to his current role, he was VP of Trading for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, based in Madrid, Spain. He has extensive experience in the building materials industry, especially in fields such as General Management, Logistics Operations, International Commerce and Post-merger integrations.

Mr. Aguilera Mendoza holds an MBA with a Major in Operations from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, and a B.Sc in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico.

Ms. Alison Lewis

2014-08-21T15:14:29-04:00

Ms. Alison Lewis was appointed to the Board in August 2014. She is a former Public Servant who served for over twenty-nine years in the Ministry of Finance and rose to the position of Permanent Secretary of that Ministry, a position that she held for eleven years. She has served as a member of a number of Boards of Directors including the Boards of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, the Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission, the Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation and the Heritage and Stabilization Fund. Ms. Lewis has recently been appointed to the Board of Republic Bank Limited and is a member of the Economic Development Advisory Board. During the period 2001 to 2003 Ms. Lewis served as advisor to the Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington DC returning home in 2003 shortly before being appointed Permanent Secretary.

Ms. Lewis holds a BA in Economics and Management from the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine and became a distinguished awardee on the occasion of the UWI Alumni’s 25th anniversary. In addition, Ms. Lewis is the holder of the Public Service Medal of Merit (Gold) for outstanding and meritorious service to Trinidad and Tobago.

Mr. Nigel Edwards

2014-08-21T15:14:05-04:00

Mr. Nigel Edwards was appointed to the Board in August 2014. He is the Vice President – Finance at the Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation. Mr. Edwards began his career at the Ministry of Finance in 1993 where he worked on several areas of government policy in relation to financial services. In his early career, he worked on originating global equity transactions from emerging markets for an international merchant bank in London. He later spent over fifteen years working in various areas of the financial services sector of the ANSA McAL Group of Companies and has worked in the areas of investment banking, corporate finance, structured lending, investment management as well as accounting and finance before moving on to be the Chief Executive of the ANSA McAL Group’s life insurance subsidiary. He has been involved in several advisory mandates for mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and equity issuance.

Mr. Edwards graduated from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, with a B.Sc. degree in Management Studies and subsequently attained an M.Sc.in Finance from the London Business School.

Mr. Wilfred Espinet

2014-08-21T15:03:20-04:00

Mr. Wilfred Espinet was appointed to the Board in August 2014. He is a businessman with considerable international experience in Manufacturing, Shipping and Retail industries in several countries. He is a former Director of Associated Brands Industries Limited; Managing Director of Consolidated Biscuits Ltd. and Chocolate Products Ltd. in Malta and President Director General of Cheval Blanc S.A. in France. He is a Past President of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association.

He is also the Chairman of Aeromarine International Logistics Company, which has operations in North America, Central America and the Caribbean and Mayfair, a Cosmetic Retailer with outlets throughout the Caribbean.