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 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.
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.
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. 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.