British American Tobacco Caribbean - Demerara Tobacco Company

Position: Chairman, appointed to the Board of Directors of Demerara Tobacco Company in April 2020; Caribbean Head of Legal and Company Secretary, The West Indian Tobacco Company Limited.

Skills & Experience: Kathryn is an Attorney at Law with over 20 years’ corporate commercial experience. She has operated at a strategic level in various functions largely in the private sector. In her current portfolio, Kathryn provides strategic perspective to achieve the Company’s mandate of sustaining market leadership of tobacco products for the Caribbean, which includes some 24 markets. Kathryn operates at a senior management level to operationalise the mandate in various functions and is responsible for matters inclusive of legal, corporate governance, security, identification of business risks, pension plan issues. Kathryn manages Board administration in Trinidad and Tobago ensuring compliance with local statutory requirements and compliance within the BAT Group and manages share registration and shareholder relations services and brings a wealth of experience in this area.

Directorship: Kathryn has provided national service to her country as she held the position of Director on the not for profit Friends of the Blood Bank Association board until December 2019. This board provides oversight and direction to fulfil the Blood Bank’s mandate of fundraising under the Ministry of Health and collecting the nation’s blood supply. For many years, Kathryn was a Trustee serving a not-for-profit committee that had responsibility for sustaining local wildlife in Trinidad and Tobago. Vijay Singh

Qualifications: Kathryn is a graduate of The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus located in Barbados and of the Hugh Wooding Law school located in Trinidad and Tobago. She was appointed a Notary Public in 2018 and is a member of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago and of the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute. She has completed many training programmes both locally and overseas in various disciplines and obtained a postgraduate certificate in the field of Corporate Governance from the Arthur Lok Jack School of Business in 2017.

Position: Managing Director, appointed to the Board of Directors of Demerara Tobacco Company in February 2020.

Skills & Experience: Vijay most recently served as the Trade Marketing and Distribution Manager for British American Tobacco’s (BAT) interest in the English, Dutch and French-speaking Caribbean. He has been leading in this capacity for the past three years and has been instrumental in driving key business initiatives throughout the Caribbean. Specifically, Vijay was responsible for managing the French Overseas Territories through a turbulent legislative period bringing much-needed stability and clarity to these markets. He also increased and transformed BAT’s market share within this cluster. Prior to this, Vijay worked at the West Indian Tobacco Company Limited for nine years, five of which were spent as Trade Marketing Manager. He credits his beginning as entry-level management for his successful tenure there. During this time, he led his department to achieving ambitious targets which enabled the Company to earn year-on-year double digit profit growth. Vijay’s experience of managing large groups has given him a wealth of knowledge and allowed him to develop his solution-based approach to challenges. Overall, his demonstration of sound commercial acumen and delivery of outstanding results, particularly in distributor management and profit growth, has informed this appointment to Managing Director.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Sunderland.

Position: Non-Executive Director, appointed to the Board of Directors of Demerara Tobacco Company in September 2019.

Skills & Experience: Since 2014, Patricia has held the portfolios of Managing Director and Board Chairperson of Caribbean Container Inc. (CCI) – a publicly listed company engaged in Manufacturing Activities. Prior to this, she held several other positions within the Company, including Director of Administration and Chief Operating Officer, since joining CCI in 2006. Patricia has significant experience stretching across various sectors, having held Directorships on many State Boards and private sector organisations over the last 10 years. Patricia has chaired the Board of the Environmental Protection Agency and most recently, she chaired the Board of the Guyana Office for Investments (GO-Invest) for four years. Patricia has sat as a Director on the Guyana Gold Board, the Protected Areas Commission Board, the Board of Atlantic Hotel Inc. (Marriott) and the Privatisation Unit Board. She served on the Council and Executive Management Committee of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and on the Council of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI). For a few years, Patricia lectured part-time on the LLB Programme at the University of Guyana, in areas such as the Law of Corporate Management.

Qualification: Patricia is an Attorney-at-Law by training. She graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School with a Legal Certificate of Merit in 2006, having secured several academic awards – including the Government of Guyana Prize for the Most Outstanding Law Graduate. In 2004, Patricia secured her LLB at the University of Guyana, where she received the Pro-Chancellor’s Medal for the Best Graduating Law Student.

Position: Non-Executive Director, appointed to the Board of Directors on April 2, 2022; Currently Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Massy Distribution (Guyana)_Inc. and Massy Stores (Guyana) Inc.

Skills & Experience: He has over 25 years’ experience in Accounting and Finance and previously held the positions of Finance Director/Company Secretary of Massy Distribution (Guyana) Inc. Since joining Massy in 1997, he also held the following positions: Credit Manager and Accountant. Prior he held the position of Audit Senior at Barcellos, Narine & Company. He is credited as being a Forward-thinking Vice President with proven record of accomplishment in cross sector exposure during over 30 years career with a proven track record for success.

Qualification: Troy Beharry is a Fellow of ACCA: Chartered Accountant; Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – United Kingdom

Position: Non-Executive Director, appointed to the Board of Directors of Demerara Tobacco Company since February 2017; Managing Director, Carreras Limited.

Skills & Experience: Raoul joined BAT’s entity in Trinidad, West Indian Tobacco Company, in September 2002 in the role of Trade Marketing Executive, focused on the capital region – Port of Spain. In January 2004, he was seconded to the Carisma Marketing Services Unit in the role of Area Management, focusing primarily on the English-speaking Caribbean markets, specifically Barbados and the Bahamas. In April 2006, following the success in the islands, he was seconded to Guyana, and promoted to Trade Marketing and Distribution Manager for Demerara Tobacco Company delivering a strong marketing agenda with the launch of Pall Mall, which is now the biggest brand in DTC history. Following a stint in same position in Trinidad, he was seconded to the Carreras Group in Jamaica as Head of Trade in August 2009. Chief amongst his achievements was the return to positive volume performance in the market following years of decline. In February 2012, Raoul was promoted to the role of Marketing Operations Manager of British American Tobacco Pars in the Islamic Republic of Iran, leading the marketing function in the launch of a strategic portfolio in a key T40 market for the Group. Following a short stint in the Middle East Area in Dubai, in February 2014, Raoul assumed the role of Business Development Manager in Costa Rica with responsibility for the Trade Marketing Distribution and Activation portfolio for the BAT Group for the Central American and Caribbean area, leading a strong efficiency agenda in the region. Prior to his promotion to Managing Director at Carreras, Raoul served as Country Manager of Carisma Marketing Services where he led support for 21 markets in the English, French and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.

Qualification: Bachelor’s degree from The University of West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.