Executive Team

Nigel M Baptiste, a Banker for the past twenty-six years, holds the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Republic Financial Holdings Limited and Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited. A graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme, Mr Baptiste also holds a diploma with distinction from the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking (USA), he is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (England), and holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from the University of the West Indies.
Mr. Baptiste joined Republic Bank in 1991, after spending two years at the Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados where he was employed as a Country Economist. Prior to assuming his current position of Managing Director, he held the positions of Deputy Managing Director, Executive Director, Managing Director of the Group’s subsidiary in Guyana and General Manager, Human Resources.
Mr. Baptiste currently sits on the board of the Group’s subsidiary in Ghana, Guyana, as well as various other subsidiaries in Trinidad.

Mr. Derwin Howell is a graduate of the University of the West Indies with a first class honours degree in Electrical Engineering and an Executive Masters in Business Administration. He also holds an MSc. in Telecommunications Systems from the University of Essex. Since joining the Republic Bank Group in 1997 he has held a number of General Manager positions including Information Technology Management; Business Transformation and Commercial and Retail Banking. He also served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Barbados National Bank (now Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited). He is currently an Executive Director at Republic Bank Limited, Trinidad and Tobago and provides oversight for a number of areas including Information Technology, Commercial and Retail Banking, Electronic Channels and Payments, Marketing and Overseas Operations. Mr. Howell sits on several other Boards within the Republic Financial Holdings Group.

External Appointments
Mr. Howell is the Chairman of Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago and sits on the Campus Council of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine as a Chancellor’s nominee.

Jacqueline Quamina is an Executive Director of Republic Bank Limited and also holds the position of Group General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Republic Bank Limited. An attorney at law of over 25 years, she received her Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies and was called to the Bar of England and Wales where she is a member of Grays Inn. Ms Quamina holds an Executive MBA from the University of the West Indies, is a graduate of the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking and of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme.

Ms. Debbie A.P. Fraser, LL.B. (Hons.) joined the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited on December 15, 2017. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica where she received the Legal Education Certificate of Merit. She is a partner with Clarke, Gittens and Farmer Attorneys-at-Law and the Deputy Chairman of the Financial Services Commission of Barbados.
Ms. Fraser is a former Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal of Barbados and previously lectured in various aspects of law at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus, Jamaica) and the Mona Institute of Business.

Mr. King joined the Board of Directors in 2004. A Barbadian national, he has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science. He has served as Chairman of Neal & Massy Eastern Caribbean, CEO of Barbados Shipping and Trading Group (BS&T), and as an Executive Director of Neal & Massy Holdings. Mr King retired in 2012 and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of Massy Holdings Ltd. in Trinidad as a Non-executive Director. Mr. King has also served on the Boards of several companies including as Chairman of Banks Holdings Ltd and Chairman of Barbados Dairy Industries Limited. He has also been associated with various private sector organisations including the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC). He is currently the Chairman of the Tourism Development Corporation (TDC) and a Director of the Barbados Private Sector Association, the umbrella private sector body in Barbados.

Robert Carter is Principal of Robert A. Carter Associates, a financial consulting firm. In 2010 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arnott Cato Foundation. He has extensive experience in business and finance in the Caribbean, with a career spanning over 30 years in financial management and the provision of financial and business advisory services.
He served as partner responsible for business advisory services of the Eastern Caribbean practice of Coopers and Lybrand. He has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of a number of leading companies in Barbados including Sagicor Life Insurance, and CIBC West Indies Holdings Limited which was responsible for the operations of CIBC in the Caribbean (now known as CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank). Mr. Carter graduated from the University of Waterloo, Canada where he obtained a Bachelor of Mathematics degree and qualified as a Chartered Accountant of Ontario. He is a member of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants of Barbados and Ontario.

William Layne joined the Board of Directors in 2000. He is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Consultant with a distinguished record in the Public Sector of Barbados serving as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance & Economic Affairs, Director of Social Security Financial Controller of Social Security and Supervisor of Insurance.
Mr. Layne is also a member of the Board of Directors of Crane Resorts Holding Company Ltd., Mventures Inc., and Cricket Franchise (Barbados) Inc. He is currently the Chairman of the Practice Review Committee Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados, and a Member of the CARICOM Audit Committee. He is a former Council Member of the InterAmerican Center for Tax Administrators (CIAT), and Chairman of the Tax Committee appointed by the Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs to review IMF Tax recommendations.
Educated at the University of the West Indies, the University of Connecticut and Harvard Universities in the United States, Mr. Layne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Sociology, is a Certified Management Accountant, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Accountants and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He has authored several articles including Financing of Social Security published in the Journal of International Social Security Association (ISSA) 1990, Reform of Barbados Tax System presented at the 2003 National Consultation on the Economy, Investment of Social Security Funds presented at joint ISSA InterAmerican Centre for Social Security Studies Conference (CISS) 1997 in Montevideo and Financing Pension Plans in Small countries presented at the 40th Anniversary Conference of the Curacao Social Security Board in 2000.

Ralph S. DeC. Williams was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2005. He is the founder and Chairman of Williams Industries Inc., a pan Caribbean conglomerate employing over 750 team members in manufacturing, electrical contracting, real estate development, water desalination, sewage treatment, tools and equipment rental, well drilling, garbage recycling, metals merchandizing, hardware and lumber distribution, renewable energy generation and development, buildings rental, shopping malls development and management. Williams Industries through its company Williams Solar is now the largest producer of renewable energy in the Caribbean south of Puerto Rico.
Mr. Williams was named Ernst & Young Caribbean Entrepreneur of the year in 2000, and also received the award for multiple enterprise creation and management at the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year ceremony in Monte Carlo in 2001. He was awarded the Barbados Gold Crown of Merit on November 30, 2002 in recognition of his contribution to business and industry in Barbados. He holds an honours degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the West Indies. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary DSc by the University of the West Indies.

Andrew Hutchinson joined the Board of Directors in November 2012 bringing more than 40 years of consulting engineering experience on projects in Barbados and across the Caribbean as the Senior Principal of Stantec Consulting Caribbean Ltd.
A registered Professional Engineer (Barbados) and a Chartered Engineer (UK), he holds a BSc. (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and a Post Graduate Diploma (Dist.) in Sanitary Engineering from the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Delft, Netherlands. Andrew was President of the Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (1983-84); Chairman of the Engineer’s Registration Board, Barbados (1994-97); President of the Caribbean Water & Wastewater Association (CWWA) (1994-96). He received an award from the UWI on the 25th Anniversary of the Faculty of Engineering (April 1987): "In recognition of the contribution to the national development of your country within the Caribbean region". In October 2000 he received the Gold Award from the CWWA for his “Contribution to the Caribbean Water & Wastewater Sectors”.
He is a Director of ‘Millennium Heights Condominium Home Owners Association’, Barbados; and Director/Chairman of ‘Rockley Orange Hill Condominium Home Owners Association’ Barbados. He was Commodore of the Barbados Yacht Club (2012-2015) and since 1991 has been the ‘Honorary Foreign Port Representative’ for the Royal Cruising Club, UK.