Christopher Zacca was born in Kingston on August 10, 1959 to parents Hope Haddad Zacca and now retired Chief Justice Edward Zacca, who stamped on the psyche of their son that a man’s worth is in how he gives of himself.

Christopher Zacca was a brilliant child who sailed through St Cyprian’s Preparatory School; Mt Alvernia Prep; Sts. Peter and Paul Prep; Campion College and then the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1976 from which he brought home a BSc in mechanical engineering in 1979.

In 1980, he joined Desnoes and Geddes (D&G) as trainee plant engineer and left 10 months later to do his MBA at the University of Florida. Upon completion he rejoined D&G, as project engineer in 1982 and sped through the ranks to become vice-president of engineering in 1989.

Three years later, he moved on to become managing director of Caribrake after an interview with Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart under whose tutelage the name Chris Zacca would become a national entity.

By 1994, he had become managing director of the ATL Group and appointed a member of the board of

Jamaica Observer, a director of the Sandals Group and in 1997 Deputy Chairman of the ATL Group with oversight responsibility for Appliance Traders Limited, ATL Automotive, Caribrake, BML, andJamaica Observer.

In 1996 he was appointed to the board of then Air Jamaica and became its deputy chairman and CEO two years later.

Two years after the Air Jamaica assignment, he was elected by his peers to be President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ),

serving until 2009.

In 2010, he ignored the personal math and accepted Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s invitation to be his special advisor on the economy, business climate and energy, marked by his chairmanship of the crucial LNG project.

He also served on several state boards, including the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ); Factories Corporation of Jamaica; National Education Trust and Jampro, until a new administration in 2012, at which time he was recalled to the presidency of the PSOJ.

At the helm of the PSOJ, he advocated for a dramatic change in the way the energy sector in Jamaica was being developed and the Electricity Sector Enterprise Team (ESET) was born.

On July 31 2013, Zacca created history when he, on behalf of the Jamaican private sector, signed the Partnership for Jamaica Agreement, along with members of the Government, academia, and civil society.

He is currently chairman of the NDB and the National Health Fund where he is spearheading a National Health Insurance Plan for Jamaica, as well as a director of YUTE, Youth Upliftment Through Employment.

In recognition of his invaluable contribution to the private and public sectors, Zacca was awarded the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander (CD) on August 6, 2014.

.Among his proudest achievements, he boasts, is his family – wife, the former Gillian Levy and three children.