Courtney Campbell, chief executive officer of GraceKennedy Financial Group, will take on the lead role at First Global Bank as CEO next month. He takes over from Maureen Hayden-Cater, who has resigned from her role as president in the midst of a restructuring exercise at the GradeKennedy Group.

Campbell has more than 25 years of experience in retail, corporate and investment banking. He has held the role of CEO for GraceKennedy Financial Group since 2008. Prior to that he was general manager of retail banking at the Natioanal Commercial Bank (NCB), where he worked for 23 years.

Hayden-Cater has also worked in the financial sector for more than 20 years, and was hired by GraceKennedy in 2010 to take on the role as president of First Global Bank.

“I really want to thank Maureen for her years of committed service to First Global Bank and the Group, and I wish her all the best in her future endeavours,” said GraceKennedy CEO Don Wehby in a news release on Thursday.

Prior to First Global, Hayden-Cater worked at Citibank NA Jamaica for 22 years in a number of executive positions, including head of global transaction services and commercial bank, head of risk management and head of international trade finance. She also served as corporate bank head and country risk manager in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for four years.

A graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Hayden-Cater holds a Master of Science degree in economics, specialising in quantitative economics and econometrics, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and mathematics.

Harris steps up to general manager at SSL

Lamar Harris, has been promoted to the additional role of general manager for the financial company. She also serves as corporate secretary for the SSL group.

Harris started the role on March 2 and she will oversee the day-to-day administration affair while developing the team of financial professionals.

Harris has worked for more than 10 years in the financial sector. She started at SSL in 2012 as a manager of investment banking, according to her LinkedIn profile, moving up to vice-president of client services in July 2014.

Prior to SSL she was an executive at JP Morgan Chase and also worked as a law clerk for the Florida department of financial services from 2009 to 2010. Prior to that she worked in private banking at Dehring, Bunting and Golding (now Scotia Investments) from 2006 to 2008, her LinkedIn profile says.

Harris is a registered attorney-at-law in both Jamaica and the US state of Florida. She attended the Norman Manley Law School at the University of the West Indies, and received her doctor of law from the Florida State University College of Law in 2011. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University based in Florida.

Duncan-Price selected to prestigious World Economic Forum group

Senator Imani Duncan-Price is now part of a group of 187 professionals under the age of 40 who have been selected to become the 2015 Young Global Leaders (YGL) of the World Economic Forum. She is the only professional from the Caribbean this year.

“This is a great chance for me to further improve my leadership skills while meeting other like-minded people who want to help change the world. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I am honoured to be a part of something that has the potential to create an incredible impact on the global agenda. I am looking forward to gaining as much as I can from this experience so that I can continue to contribute to Jamaica’s development and growth in the best way possible,” she said in a recent news release.

Duncan-Price, daughter of government MP and former minister of mobilsation DK Duncan and of Joan Duncan, founder of JMMB is group chief strategy officer of JMMB, having previously worked as group marketing manager of the JMMB Group.

Duncan-Price is also board director of the Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) programme, vice-chairman of the Kingston YMCA and a director of the National Parenting Support Commission.

In her varied career, Duncan-Price has also worked with Boston-based OntheFrontier as a management consultant on competitiveness and growth in developing countries, including the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and Rwanda. She has also served on the board of directors of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ). She previously owned and operated the luxury adventure destination management company “My Tropic Escape”. She co-founded the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI).

Duncan-Price first gained national recognition in 1995 when she won the title of Miss Jamaica (World).

Duncan-Price holds a Master’s of Public Administration in international development from Harvard University in Boston, US. She also holds a BA degree in economics, philosophy, government and history, from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in the US.