Trinidad Cement Limited
Annual Report 2012
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Group Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Rollin Bertrand
is the Chief Executive Officer of the
TCL Group. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund and Chairman of
Trinidad Aggregate Products Limited. He was formerly the
General Manager of Arawak Cement Company Limited
(1994 – 1998), President of the Association of Cement
Producers for Latin America and the Caribbean, President of
the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (2003
– 2005) and Chairman of the Water and Sewerage Authority
(2006 – 2008) and a Director of the Trinidad and Tobago
Stock Exchange (2002-2011).
Dr. Bertrand obtained a BSc (Sp. Hons.1979) Degree and
PhD in Geology (1984) from the University of the West
Indies, Mona, Jamaica as well as an Executive Master’s
Degree in Business Administration (EMBA 1993) from the
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He was among
fifty distinguished alumni who were recognised at UWI’s
50th Anniversary Celebrations, for excellence in career
achievements.
Group Manufacturing Development Manager
Jinda Maharaj
was appointed Group Manufacturing
Development Manager on 1 May, 2012. He was formerly the
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October, 2010. Mr. Maharaj possesses a wealth of knowledge
and experience, having been with the TCL Group for more
than twenty years. He has held various positions throughout
theGroup,includingEngineeringServicesManager,Materials
Manager, Production Manager, Operations Manager (all at
Trinidad Cement Limited) as well as General Manager and
Operations Manager at Arawak Cement Company Limited
and Operations Manager at Caribbean Cement Company
Limited.
Mr. Maharaj holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an
MSc in Production Engineering and Management, both from
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
General Manager, Arawak Cement Company Limited
Rupert Greene
assumed the position of General Manager
of Arawak Cement Company Limited in June, 2008. Mr.
Greene has been a part of the Arawak family since April 1995,
when he joined the company as an Accountant. He was then
promoted to the position of Finance Manager in July 1997,
a position he held for eleven years. He has several years of
accounting experience, having held various senior positions
before joining Arawak Cement Company Limited.
Mr. Greene graduated with honors from the University of the
West Indies with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.
Group Human Resource Manager
David Caesar
joined the TCL Group on 1 March, 2010 in the
position of Group Human Resource Manager. He possesses
over sixteen years’ experience in the Human Resource field,
enabling him to bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to
the Group, particularly in the areas of organisational change,
cultural transformation and performance management.
Mr. Caesar holds an MSc in Organisational Development
from the American University – Washington DC, Post
Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the Heriot
– Watt University, Scotland and a BSc in Mathematics and
Economics from the University of the West Indies.
General Manager of TCL Packaging Limited & TCL Ponsa
Manufacturing Limited
Derrick Isaac
has been with the Group for over sixteen years
and has held managerial positions at Caribbean Cement
Company Limited, Jamaica and Trinidad Cement Limited,
Trinidad. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of
Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago (ICATT).
He holds a Master’s of Business Administration from the
University of New Orleans and is also an Associate Member
of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
About our Group Executive Committee
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