douglas camacho
presidenT

Mr. Camacho is the Chief Operating Officer of Guardian Holdings Ltd.  He is also Managing Director of Bancassurance Ltd, a Director of Guardian Holdings Limited, FATUM Holding N.V. and Aseguradora Mundial. Mr. Camacho serves on the Boards of RBTT Insurance Agency Ltd, Crime Stoppers Trinidad and Tobago and Servus Ltd.  He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Institute and a Board Member of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean

WILLARD P. HARRIS VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL In December 1985, Willard Philip Harris joined the COLFIRE family as the Chief Accountant. He was appointed Corporate Secretary/Chief Accountant in November 1990.  In 1994, he was promoted to Corporate Secretary/Financial Comptroller. He currently holds the position of Managing Director of COLFIRE, which he assumed in 2005.  He is also the Managing Director of Temple Properties Limited.  He is a member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad & Tobago.  He holds his Cert CII of The Chartered Insurance Institute as well as his Fellowship from the Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (FCCA).  Willard is a retired International Hockey Umpire of The International Hockey Federation (FIH).  Currently he is a practicing Tournament Director/Officer for the FIH and recently completed duty at the Beijing Olympic Games. He is committed to the professional development of staff and the corporate development of COLFIRE and the industry as a whole.

JAMES CAMACHO VICE PRESIDENT, LIFE Mr James Camacho joined the Senior Management Team of Sagicor Life Inc in May 2006 as the Vice President of Operations of the Trinidad Branch. He is also a Member of various Committees within the Sagicor Group of Companies He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Accounts and Finance and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries specialising in Pensions. Mr Camacho has about 15 years experience as a Consulting Actuary and about 15 years management experience in the Life Insurance Industry Mr Camacho was a member of the Board of Directors of ATTIC between 1998 and 2004 and since 2008. He was the Vice President Life between 2002 and 2004 and since 2009. Mr Camacho is also a Director of the Board of Maple Leaf International School and is a Member of the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors.

rani lakhan-narace
immediate past president

Mrs. Narace currently holds the position of Executive Chairman of the Reinsurance Company of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. (Trinre). Her professional career has included positions of assistant manager, Scotia bank Ltd, executive director, Budget Foods Ltd and managing director, Insurance Managers’ Ltd. She is also a Director on the Board of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean (IAC)  She is presently the chairman of the Resource Factory Limited.

Mr. Sawh is the General Manager- General Insurance Services of the Maritime Financial Group. He started his career at Maritime General and has been with the company for the past twenty-five years.

Daine Baker is Regional Manager of the Actuarial and Pensions Departments at Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited.  Before joining CLICO in 1999, he worked for three years as an Actuarial Trainee with Bacon Woodrow & de Souza Limited.  A national scholarship winner in 1991, Mr Baker has a first class honours degree from UWI St Augustine and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.  He is currently pursuing an MBA at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Hadeed’s career spans decades in the insurance industry cantered on his family’s insurance business as senior executive and director. He has served as director of many local and foreign companies including Liat & NGC.  He has also held the post of chairman of the Trinidad Energy Investments Ltd. and as director on the Beacon Assets Management Company.

Mr. Smith joined the Maritime Financial Group in 1973. He was appointed to the board of directors as director- finance in 1987, a position which changed to director- administration in mid 1991. During the years 1984-1991, Mr. Smith held the position of Chief Executive Officer/Director of Fidelity & Leasing Company Ltd. a member of the Maritime Financial Group. He has also served as President of ATTIC from 1988-1990.

Ray A. Sumairsingh holds an MBA (Finance), and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB). He has over 38 years of executive experience in banking and insurance, having worked on Wall Street, as well as in the city of London. As Sector Head for Financial Services in the ANSA McAL Group he is a Director on the Boards of TATIL, TATIL Life Assurance Limited, ANSA Merchant Bank Limited, Consolidated Finance Limited (Barbados) and Chairman of Brydens Insurance Inc. He is also a member of the Group's Executive Committee. He is a former Director of the Unit Trust Corporation. He also currently represents listed Companies as a Director of the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange. He is a Director on the Board of the Insurance Association of the Caribbean (IAC) and Association of Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Companies (ATTIC), having also served as President on both of these Boards.

Mr. Traboulay currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer of Guardian General. Prior to this appointment he was the managing director of the Trinidad & Tobago Insurance Ltd. and Tatil Life Assurance Company Ltd. He was also the former director of Ansa Merchant Bank Ltd. Before joining TATIL in 2003, he served as general manager/director of Risk Management Services Ltd. and as a director of R & M Reinsurance Ltd. Huggins Services Ltd. and General Finance Corporation. He is past member of the Board of Governors of the Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Institute.

Sub-Committees:


Claims Sub-Committee
Underwriting Sub-Committee