From 2016 – 2018 he worked at ANSA McAL’s Head Office within Group Business Development and supported the execution of several key acquisitions including Florida Beer Company, Easi Industrial Supplies Limited and the Berger Paints Caribbean Business.
Jeffers who holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in finance (Summa Cum Laude) from Howard University, began his career on Wall Street as an investment banking analyst in 2009, focusing on mergers and acquisitions advisory in the energy sector at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Subsequently, he joined Global Private Equity firm, The Carlyle Group, as an investment associate and executed several leveraged buyout transactions on their behalf, including Carlyle’s buyout of Landmark Aviation in 2012.
A director of Roberts Manufacturing Co. Limited (RMCO), Andre Jeffers is the Head of Strategy and Growth – ANSA McAL Group. In this role, he works with the executive leadership team to build and execute the strategic agenda of the Group with a specific focus on driving new growth projects, capital investments and mergers and acquisitions in the Caribbean region and beyond.
Prior to his return to the Group, he was most recently the group finance and investor relations leader at Trinidad Petroleum Holdings Limited (TPHL) where he served as advisor to the chairman of the Board and led various financing and commercial transactions across the group of companies.
Over the course of his professional career, Jeffers has successfully advised on or directly executed over US $12 billion in corporate mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments globally, bringing a wealth of experience to spearhead ANSA McAL’s new growth agenda. (PR/CH)