The Lok Jack GSB has re­spond­ed to the need for con­sid­er­a­tion of key en­vi­ron­men­tal fac­tors which chal­lenge the de­vel­op­ment of strat­e­gy at the com­pa­ny and coun­try lev­el. Such fac­tors in­clude the stim­u­la­tion of the non-en­er­gy sec­tor, the po­ten­tial im­pact of mo­bile bank­ing on the com­pet­i­tive and eco­nom­ic land­scape, poor work eth­ic (cul­ture) and un­cer­tain­ty and pos­si­bil­i­ty of a dou­ble dip glob­al de­pres­sion. In the cur­rent en­vi­ron­ment of un­cer­tain­ty and cau­tious op­ti­mism, the Dis­tin­guished Alum­ni Se­ries, to be held on Feb­ru­ary 2, 2012, from 5:30 pm at the Yara Au­di­to­ri­um, Lok Jack GSB Mount Hope cam­pus, fea­tures pre­sen­ta­tions by: Howard Dot­tin, pro­gramme di­rec­tor, MSc in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nance, Lok Jack GSB. Dot­tin has been in the fi­nan­cial field for more than 30 years. The theme for his pre­sen­ta­tion is: The po­ten­tial im­pact of mo­bile bank­ing on the com­pet­i­tive and eco­nom­ic land­scape.

His cre­den­tials in­clude a fel­low­ship of the Char­tered As­so­ci­a­tion of Cer­ti­fied Ac­coun­tants and an Ex­ec­u­tive Mas­ters of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion from the Lok Jack GSB, for which he was the elect­ed vale­dic­to­ri­an. Dot­tin has worked as a chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer in two of T&T's pre­mier fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, and as an au­di­tor in a top au­dit­ing firm and the Board of In­land Rev­enue. He al­so has ex­pe­ri­ence as a se­nior lender in the cor­po­rate bank­ing sec­tor, where he man­aged a port­fo­lio which in­clud­ed en­er­gy-based com­pa­nies and con­glom­er­ates. He has been teach­ing man­age­ment ac­count­ing since 1988. Dot­tin's pre­sen­ta­tion will fo­cus on the fu­ture of mo­bile bank­ing: Will it change the com­pet­i­tive and eco­nom­ic land­scape of bank­ing, pay­ment sys­tems and mon­ey trans­fer in T&T and in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries across the world?

Hi­lary Ben­gochea, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor at Sandee Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Ltd; ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor at Cus­tomer Ser­vice Acad­e­my of T&T, ex­ec­u­tive busi­ness coach and train­er, ad­junct lec­tur­er, Arthur Lok Jack GSB. Ben­gochea is an ex­pert on strate­gic mar­ket­ing with a fo­cus on en­ter­ing and de­vel­op­ing new in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets. He has over 25 years' ex­pe­ri­ence in the field and has worked with blue chip com­pa­nies, both lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly. He holds a BSc from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies and an Ex­ec­u­tive Mas­ters of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion (with dis­tinc­tion) from the Lok Jack GSB. He al­so lec­tures in the IM­BA and MM pro­grammes and is an en­tre­pre­neur who suc­cess­ful­ly op­er­ates three small and medi­um en­ter­pris­es.

Ben­gochea pre­vi­ous­ly held the po­si­tion of vice-pres­i­dent of in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket­ing with SM Jaleel and Com­pa­ny Ltd, mar­ket­ing di­rec­tor of Carib Brew­ery, Cari­com mar­ket­ing man­ag­er for Co­ca Co­la, sales man­ag­er at John­son and John­son, and ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor and chief ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Ex­port Cen­tres of T&T.

Hi­lary's pre­sen­ta­tion helps at­ten­dees dis­cov­er and learn how to cap­i­talise on the new mar­ket­ing rev­o­lu­tion.

At­ten­dees will:

• Un­der­stand how to con­vert a mar­ket­ing con­cept in­to a strat­e­gy

• Find out why the en­tire or­gan­i­sa­tion is now part of mar­ket­ing

• Un­der­stand who re­al­ly de­cides on po­si­tion­ing... the com­pa­ny or the cus­tomer?

• Learn about owned me­dia v so­cial me­dia

• Find out how their com­pa­ny can be­come part of the da­ta rev­o­lu­tion

Dr Lennox Sealy, con­sul­tant, LSA Man­age­ment Con­sul­tan­cy Ser­vices

Sealy was orig­i­nal­ly trained in the nat­ur­al sci­ences be­tween 1971 and 1975 at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), Trinidad. In 1982, he com­plet­ed his doc­tor­ate in bio­chem­istry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Nantes, France. In 1986, he ob­tained a post-grad­u­ate de­gree in man­age­ment from the UWI. Fur­ther to this, he com­plet­ed the Ex­ec­u­tive Mas­ters in Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion at the Lok Jack GSB and start­ed the con­sul­tan­cy firm, Lennox H Sealy and As­so­ciates. He has con­sult­ed with ma­jor firms such as: Ca­ble and Wire­less, Re­pub­lic Com­pa­ny, Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion, Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and In­for­ma­tion as well as in­ter­na­tion­al firms such as Norsk Hy­dro, Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors and British Amer­i­can To­bac­co. Sealy's par­tic­u­lar area of in­ter­est is in the use of chaos the­o­ry in fa­cil­i­tat­ing team-based or­gan­i­sa­tion­al change and trans­for­ma­tion.

Hay­den Kublals­ingh, di­rec­tor, EIL Group of Com­pa­nies, will be de­lib­er­at­ing on Sur­vival or Strat­e­gy. His pre­sen­ta­tion aims to help busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als an­swer the fol­low­ing:

• Are you in­vest­ing wise­ly?

• How do you grow in a re­ces­sion?

• How do you max­imise peo­ple pow­er to take your busi­ness fur­ther?

• How do you lever­age your strat­e­gy for com­pet­i­tive ad­van­tage?

• Are your prod­ucts ready for re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al ex­port?

Kublals­ingh will be us­ing the busi­ness mod­el of the EIL Group as a case study.

• For more in­for­ma­tion or to reg­is­ter, go to: www.lok­jack­gsb.edu.tt/das

MAL­COLM GLAD­WELL

Arthur Lok Jack Grad­u­ate

School of Busi­ness