Mrs. Watson is an engineer and former regional banker with over 30 years in the banking and finance sectors. She is the founder and CEO of ShredWIZ Limited, an information security company, and a Director of the National Health Fund. She chairs the DBJ’s Audit & Corporate Governance and the Private Capital Oversight Sub-committees and is a member of the Human Resource & Compensation, and Enterprise Risk Management Sub-committees.

Mr. Shaw is an accomplished Chief Executive Officer with extensive international and regional experience at the corporate group level and within the financial services sector. He has had a 25-year career as a regional banker with experience in retail and commercial lending, and a record of strong relationship building and finding solutions to assist customers. Much of his commercial lending experience was with Scotiabank in Canada, Jamaica and Barbados. Several of the companies which he has led are based in Barbados and include MAS Corporate Consulting, the Nation Group of Companies, and Signia Financial Group Ltd. Mr. Shaw has also worked in senior management positions at RBC Royal Bank across seven Eastern Caribbean islands; and at KPMG Peat Marwick, Chartered Accountants, in Jamaica and in Canada.

Ms. O’Connor is a Chartered Accountant and holds an FCCA, FCA, and a B.Sc. in Management Studies. She is Deputy Financial Secretary (Public Enterprises Division) in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, a director of the board of Air Jamaica Ltd./Air Jamaica Holdings and a director of the Public Accountancy Board. Ms. O’Connor is a member of the Audit & Corporate Governance, and the Private Capital Oversight Sub-committees of the DBJ Board.

Dr. Stokes is the CEO of Quantas Capital, an Alternative Asset Management Company. A former Group Strategist for the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica, he has significant experience in Investment Management, Product Development, Corporate Strategy, and Risk Management.</p> <p>He holds a Ph.D. in International Finance from the University of Manchester and an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of the West Indies.In addition to the Private Capital Oversight Committee, he chairs the Enterprise Risk Management Sub-committee of the DBJ Board.

Mr. Collister is the Executive Chairman of the ATL Pension Fund, a J$13 billion dollar fund representing the employees of the Sandals Group companies in Jamaica. He is also Chairman of the Sandals Foundation, and Director of Special Projects in the Finance and Planning Division of Sandals Group. He writes for the Jamaica Observer as a financial journalist (having previously written for the Financial Gleaner), as well as having written for international publications including the Financial Times owned Banker Magazine, Latinfinance and Latintrade. Mr. Collister has been associated with the DBJ’s Jamaica Venture Capital Programme, for several years, and is a Director of the Caribbean Alternative Investment Association. He chairs the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Economic Affairs and Taxation Committee, and is now in his sixteenth continuous year as a member of the PSOJ’s Economic Policy Committee. He is a director of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (Statin), publicly quoted Eppley (a non-bank financing company), Consolidated Bakeries, and Key Insurance.

Mr. Chaplin is Vice President of Portfolio Management at Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, a Public-Private Partnership between the City of Philadelphia and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. He leads a team that manages over US$400 million in loans in the CIty of Philadelphia. He has served as Jamaica's Honorary Consul to Philadelphia since 2019. He currently serves as President of the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia (CCAP), the oldest consular corps in the United States. CCAP has eighty-one diplomatic members from around the world. Mr. Chaplin is married to Dominican born Margaret and the couple has two adult sons.