Kevin Ingram of National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ltd (NCB) has been promoted to business district senior manager at the level of senior assistant general manager assigned to the Retail Banking Division. He will start the role on May 23, 2016.

Ingram is a career banker and financial specialist with more than 20 years in the industry. He started working for the NCB group in 2006 as regional sales director for the NCB Insurance Company, accordingto his LinikedIn profile. In 2009 he moved over to NCB and went into retail branch management working as a branch manager in St Anns Bay and May Pen. In 2014 he became vice-president for wealth managment at NCB Capital Markets.

Ingram holds an MBA from the Manchester Business School based in the United Kingdom, and has also had executive training at both the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Columbia University in the City of New York, both in the United States.

GENTLES APPOINTED TO SEPROD BOARD

Christopher Gentles was appointed to the board of directors of Seprod Ltd as of April 21, 2016.

Gentles is a director of Colin V Gentles and Sons, a wholesale and retail bakery in Christiana, Manchester, which is also involved in the managment of farm estates, according to his LinkedIn profile.

From 2013 to 2015 he was general manager — farms for JP Tropical Foods in St Mary. Prior to that he was director general of the Coffee Industry Board from 2008 to 2013. Other roles have included board secretary and project co-ordinator of BM Coffee Processors from 2006 to 2008, general manager of Gold Cup Coffee Company from 2001 to 2003, and produce manager for SuperPlus Food Stores during that same period.

Gentles holds an MBA from the Manchester Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy from The University of the West Indies (UWI).

BAILEY TO TAKE ON RISK

National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ltd has advised that Karlene Bailey will join the organisation as an assistant general manager assigned to the Group Risk Management Division effective June 20, 2016.

Bailey was a lectuer in the department of Finance at the School of Business Administration at the University of Technology, Jamaica from 2009 to 2012, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before that she worked at NCB Capital Markets from 2003 to 2008 as vice-presient of investments and as a research economist at the Bank of Jamaica from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2013 she sat on the board of directors at Kingston Wharves Ltd as well as the board of the Advantage General Insurance Company.

Bailey holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from The University of the West Indies, a master’s in economics from the Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and a Bachelor of Science in Managment Studies also from UWI.