October 12th, 2018
| TIME | TOPIC | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00AM | WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS | Bruno Roberts AIBT Co-Chairman |
| 9:05AM | SESSION 1: A Call to Action |
SPEAKER(S): Brian Moree, QC Senior Partner McKinney Bancroft & Hughes MODERATOR: |
| 9:35AM | SESSION 2: REDUCING THE RISK PROFILE OF THE BAHAMAS |
SPEAKER(S): Charles Littrell Inspector of Banks & Trust Companies Central Bank of The Bahamas MODERATOR: |
| 10:15PM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:30AM | SESSION 3: MITIGATING IDENTIFIED RISKS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE NEW PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT |
SPEAKER(S): Garvin Gaskin Director of Public Prosecutions Office of the Attorney General MODERATOR: |
| 11:10AM | SESSION 4: THE FUTURE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES THROUGH MY EYES |
SPEAKER: Dr. Iyandra P. Bryan Executive Director, General Counsel Gonet Bank and Trust Limited |
| 11:45AM | SESSION 5: AUTOMATION OF SERVICES AND THE IMPACT ON FINANCIAL SERVICES [PANEL DISCUSSION A]: Panel Discussion |
SPEAKER(S): Gowon Bowe Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) Clarence Russell MODERATOR: |
| 12:30PM | SESSION 6: AUTOMATION OF SERVICES AND THE IMPACT ON FINANCIAL SERVICES [PANEL DISCUSSION B]: Panel Discussion |
SPEAKER(S): David McGibbon Ernst & Young LLP Dennis Deveaux MODERATOR: |
| 1:15PM | LUNCH PRESENTATION: WTO ACCESSION AND SERVICES |
SPEAKER: Ava Rodland Ministry of Financial Services, Trade & Industry and Immigration |
| 2:30PM | SESSION 7: THE NEW OPERATING ENVIRONMENT |
SPEAKER(S): Samantha Rolle Deloitte Michael Paton MODERATOR: |
| 3:15PM | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:30PM | SESSION 8: MINISTERS ON A MISSION: POLICY POSITIONS FOR THE WAY FORWARD Panel Discussion |
PANELISTS: Hon. Carl W. Bethel, QC Attorney General Hon. Brent Symonette Hon. Darren Henfield MODERATOR: |
| 4:45PM | CLOSING REMARKS & VOTE OF THANKS | Ivan Hooper AIBT Co-Chairman |
Veronica Sherman has worked in the financial industry for over 30 years. She started her career as a Corporate Officer with Bahamas International Trust Company Limited, the first trust company in the Bahamas and eventually matriculated fully into the arena of trust administration. She was elected Professional Of The Year by the BFSB in 2010 and currently serves as a Director and Secretary of STEP Bahamas.
Sharmon Y. Ingraham is a Senior Associate at Higgs & Johnson in the firm’s Private Client and Wealth Management practice group. Her practice includes advice to trust companies on matters concerning trust administration and creation, estate administration, private client wealth management, wills, company law and international commercial contracts. She also has experience in trust, commercial and maritime litigation, ship financing and registration matters, and banking and insurance regulatory matters.
Dr. Iyandra P. Bryan is the Executive Director, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Head of Document Management at Gonet Bank and Trust Limited.
Sean McWeeney QC, a senior partner in the law firm of Graham 
Ms. Christina R. Rolle is the Executive Director of the Securities Commission of The Bahamas, having been appointed effective 26 January 2015. Ms. Rolle has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Over the course of her career, Ms. Rolle has acted as Director and Deputy CEO for a prominent international private bank and held various senior managerial positions with local and other international institutions including Head of Trust and Fiduciary, Head of Risk, Compliance and Corporate Governance and Manager of Banking Services. She is highly skilled in quantitative and statistical analysis, marketing, operations and business strategy.
Ask Stacia Williams about Image Management, and you will enter an intriguing discussion on why image matters and the importance of branding to achieve “top of mind” status with your target audience. Stacia is the Group Human Resources Director at Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) Ltd. and a Corporate Image Consultant. Competitive by nature, she is highly focused on empowering individuals and organizations to develop strong brand identities that will outclass the competition and catapult their careers or businesses to the next level. Now mix that with over 20 years’ corporate experience in the tourism and banking industries along with her passion for excellence, and you will soon understand why Stacia is the only choice for Image and Career Management consulting in The Bahamas.
Michael is Partner at Lennox Paton, a full service commercial law firm with offices in The Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands. He is head of the firm’s Corporate & Commercial, Investment Funds and Banking & Securities Group and has specialist experience with wealth management structures. Ranked Band 1 in both Chambers Global and the Chambers High-Net-Worth Guide, he is considered one of the top lawyers in The Bahamas. Michael is former chairman of the Bahamas Financial Services Board, current deputy chairman of the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, a member of the government Tax Steering Committee and a qualified Certified Public Accountant (non-practising) in the USA.
Cecil Ferguson currently serves as a Bank Examiner at the Central Bank of the Bahamas, with specialist skills in the areas of trust, fiduciary and compliance matters. Mr. Ferguson is also a licensed Real Estate Agent with Clare View Realty and has spent more than 20 years in the financial services sector in various managerial roles.
Minister Darren Henfield was born in Abaco, The Bahamas on 16th April 1962. He is a graduate of Abaco Central High School (1979). In 1981, Minister Henfield enlisted in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) as a marine recruit. As a young marine recruit, Minister Henfield served his country with fortitude and excellence. Minister Henfield’s excellent work ethic and dedicated service enabled him to be promoted to the rank of Petty Officer with the subsequent opportunity to undergo the Special Duties Officers’ Course at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England in 1998. Upon successful completion of this course, Minister Henfield was commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant. During his near 36-year career in the military, Minister Henfield served in many billets and appointments at sea and ashore. He greatly values his six months tour of duty (peacekeeping) in the Republic of Haiti (1995) where he served as a member of the CARICOM battalion under the aegis of United Nations mission to the country. This is by far, one of the most notable highlights of his military career.
Educated: Queen’s College, Nassau; Wilton House; Yateley Manor, UK; St. Andrew’s School, Nassau; Lester B Pearson College of The Pacific (United World College), Canada (International Baccalaureate); London School of Economics, (University of London)(LLB (Hons.)); Holborn Law Tutors, London, England (CLE).
Samantha is a Manager in the Risk Advisory and Consulting Practice at Deloitte where she serves as a Leader with experience in a variety of sectors, including financial services and public policy and management. In her role, Samantha works closely with Deloitte’s Global Tax and Economic Group advising in areas of tax policy, public financial management and economic strategy development.
Dennis D. Deveaux is CFO of Doctors Hospital Health System. He was previously the Head of Data & Analytics (“D&A”) at KPMG in The Bahamas, where he was responsible for KPMG’s D&A practice. Dennis also headed up the Management Consulting function and led a variety of large scale engagements in the healthcare, infrastructure, insurance and strategic planning space.
Bernard serves as of CEO UBS Trustees (Bahamas) and Head UBS Wealth Planning Trust and Fiduciary Solutions in the Caribbean Region.
Bruno A. Roberts qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in 1989, was appointed a Manager of Ernst & Young in 1991 and a senior Manager in 1994. His principal areas of expertise are Management Consultancy and the provision of corporate advice.
Gowon N.G. Bowe is the Group Chief Financial Officer for Fidelity Bank & Trust International Limited, including its publicly traded subsidiary Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) Limited. Prior to this role, he was a partner and Advisory Leader with a Big Four (4) accounting firm. In that firm, Gowon had been on a fast track through the ranks in both The Bahamas and the United Kingdom firms.
David McGibbon is a Partner/Principal in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP. He has over 14 years of professional experience in the Banking and Capital Markets financial services industry, with a focus in serving business, digital, and technology strategy and transformation, regulatory response and risk management, program and organizational change management, complex consumer / retail, business, and commercial / wholesale banking channels processes, target operating model development, assessments and post-merger integration.
Ivan, has more than 18 years of International banking experience in Europe and the Americas. Currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of The Winterbotham Trust Company Limited. He holds a BSc. in Business Administration from the University of Bath, a MBA Wealth Managers , Fiduciaries and Trustees from the University of Manchester , and is a graduate of Harvard Business School on the Owners Presidents Management program.
The Honourable Brent Symonette presently serves as the Minister of Financial Services, Trade & Industry and Immigration. In May 2017, Minister Symonette was elected as the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of St. Anne’s, Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas. An alumnus of Brunel University in Middlesex, England, he graduated with a BSc (Hons.) in Law and Political Science. He is a Barrister-at-Law having been called to the Bahamas Bar in 1978.
The Hon. K. Peter Turnquest was born on August 22nd, 1964 in the Bahamas and earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Prairie View A&M University, and his MBA from Nova Southeastern University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has been in public and private practice for over 30 years in the area of financial accounting and reporting, audit, corporate services, merges & acquisitions, receiverships and liquidations. Mr. Turnquest has had wide business experience having led international sales and manufacturing operations in several countries.
Senior Partner of McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes, Counsel and Attorneys-at-Law, Nassau, The Bahamas. Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Area and the Financial Services & Regulation Practice Area. Ranked as a Band 1 lawyer by Chambers and Partners and a Leading Lawyer by IFLR 1000.
Charles Littrell is Inspector of Banks and Trust Companies for the Central Bank of The Bahamas. Prior to joining the Central Bank in June 2017, Charles spent 15 years as Executive General Manager for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). At APRA he was responsible for Australia’s prudential policy in the banking, insurance, and pension industries, for managing the Australian national statistical agency for the financial sector, and for APRA’s supervisory risk specialist teams. Charles represented Australia in a number of international forums, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and that body’s Policy Development Group.
Antoinette Russell is the Managing Director of Credit Suisse Trust Limited, Bahamas enjoying a career in financial services that spans over 25 years.
Ryan Pinder has been a partner in the law firm of Graham Thompson and member of the firm’s Corporate and Financial Services Practice Group since January 2016. His practice comprises banking law, corporate and commercial law, investment funds, securities law, capital markets, taxation, trusts and estate planning and structuring. He specialises in financial services solutions, planning and wealth management for high net worth private clients.
Ambrosine Huyler was born in Nassau, Bahamas and spent her formative years on Grand Bahama Island. She moved to Nassau in 2002 to pursue her tertiary education and obtained an Associate’s Degree with Credit in Law & Criminal Justice from The College of The Bahamas in 2004. In September 2009, Ms. Huyler was awarded the Council of Legal Education Certificate from the Eugene Dupuch Law School which qualified her for admission to the Bahamas Bar after obtaining her LLB Degree with Honors from The University of the West Indies.
Khrystle is an Attorney-at-Law and Manager of Legal Affairs at Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) Limited. She attended The College of The Bahamas obtaining an Associate of Arts Degree in Law and Criminal Justice, continuing her studies at The University of Buckingham, England, where she obtained her LLB (Hons.). After completing the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, London, England, Khrystle was admitted to The Bahamas Bar and the Bar of England and Wales in 2007.
Tanya McCartney was appointed CEO of the Bahamas Financial Services Board in December 2015. She is a UK trained barrister and chartered banker. Her professional career began in 1997 as Assistant Counsel in The Office of the Attorney General. Since 1999 she has held senior positions in financial services.