BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PETER BUNTING
CHAIRPERSON
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CHRIS WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR
In his capacity as the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of PROVEN Group, offers executive strategic leadership for the extensive portfolio of companies with assets exceeding US $1 billion on balance sheet. He is responsible for overseeing the organisation’s complete operations, while also steering the Group’s strategic direction and leadership to fulfil its overarching goals and objectives. Williams possesses a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in strategic marketing and finance from York University. Presently, he holds both chairman and director positions across various boards, including PROVEN Properties Limited, Jamaica College Foundation, Jamaica Association for the Deaf, and Professional Football Jamaica Limited. (PR/CH)
SIMON ROBERTS
DIRECTOR
An engineering and business consultant, Simon Roberts’ focus is in the areas of manufacturing improvements, logistics, compensation, design, and project management. He spent 20 years in key capacities at the GraceKennedy Group which, comprises a varied network of some 60 subsidiaries and associated companies located across the Caribbean, North and Central America and the United Kingdom. Roberts has held the posts of head of special projects, group chief information officer, general manager of three food manufacturing plants, and chief executive officer of H&L Limited. He also led several new product and manufacturing process innovations, compensation design and implementations, major construction projects, and community development activities while at GraceKennedy. In addition, he has over 15 years’ experience in the steel industry, general management, engineering, metallurgy, customer service, quality assurance, process improvement, product development, and information technology (IT) deployment.
Roberts, a director of Roberts Manufacturing Co. Limited (RMCO), is currently the chairman of the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation, member of the Office of Utilities Regulation, director of Recycling Partners of Jamaica, CAC2000 Limited, Unibev Limited, Centurian Concrete Products Limited, chairman of Jamaica Stroke Alliance, and vice president of the deCarteret College Alumni Association. He is an honorary director, former vice-president and deputy president of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association.
Roberts holds a Bachelor of applied Science (metallurgical and materials sciences engineering) from the University of Toronto and a Master of Applied Science (management sciences and engineering) from the University of Waterloo. (PR/CH)
NERISHA FARQUHARSON
DIRECTOR
NERISHA FARQUHARSON is currently an Alternate Director at Roberts Manufacturing Co. Limited. She has over 15 years of experience in investment management and business strategy formulation, with extensive exposure spanning, public and private markets, value chain optimization, business valuation and acquisitions and mergers. The last five years she has fully immersed herself in the private capital ecosystem where she substantively functions as an Operating Partner.
Nerisha is currently CEO, Private Capital of PROVEN Group Limited, where she leads the division focused on proprietary investments in private Debt and Equity. The role includes strategic oversight and execution of the private capital life cycle from due diligence, integration, value creation and exit. She holds a BBA in Finance and an MBA in International Business, from the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is a CFA Charter Holder since 2012 and is currently a Board member of the Caribbean Alternative Investments and JMMB Group Limited.
Nerisha is a creative at heart and is passionate about ‘paying it forward’ and currently curate a few platforms which provides mentoring to teenage girls and young professionals. Her guiding mantra is ‘you may not be able to change the world, but you can make a difference one deed at a time’. (PR/CH)
ANDRE JEFFERS
DIRECTOR
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.
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.
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.
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)
ANDY MAHADEO
DIRECTOR
Andy Mahadeo joined the Roberts Manufacturing Co Limited (RMCO) Board of Directors in October 2021, representing ANSA McAL Limited, where he currently serves as Sector Head, Chemicals, heading the Group’s hemispheric expansion.
He is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree (B.Sc). in mechanical engineering and an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA).
Mahadeo has over 30 years’ experience in manufacturing, having moved across from the energy sector in 1994. He is a firm believer in ‘living in a world without constraints.’ (PR/CH)