CIBC Caribbean Bank LTD has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of a new di­rec­tor to its board, as the re­gion­al fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion con­tin­ues ef­forts to strength­en its gov­er­nance and strate­gic lead­er­ship.

In a no­tice is­sued on the T&T Stock Ex­change, the bank said the ap­point­ment forms part of its on­go­ing com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing a strong and di­verse board with the ex­per­tise need­ed to guide the or­gan­i­sa­tion through a rapid­ly evolv­ing fi­nan­cial land­scape.

The ad­di­tion is ex­pect­ed to bring valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence in busi­ness, fi­nance, and re­gion­al eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment.

The state­ment not­ed Mari­ame McIn­tosh Robin­son has more than 25 years of ex­ec­u­tive and board-lev­el ex­pe­ri­ence span­ning bank­ing, pri­vate eq­ui­ty, and dig­i­tal fi­nance.

She served as pres­i­dent and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of First Glob­al Bank Ltd, a GraceKennedy Group com­pa­ny, and as a mem­ber of the GraceKennedy ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee.

She was al­so a part­ner at one of the Caribbean's largest pri­vate eq­ui­ty funds, and has held se­nior ex­ec­u­tive roles in dig­i­tal as­sets and pay­ments at a North Amer­i­can fin­tech firm.

Ear­li­er in her ca­reer, she was a strat­e­gy con­sul­tant at McK­in­sey and Com­pa­ny and Bain and Com­pa­ny.

A NACD-cer­ti­fied di­rec­tor, McIn­tosh Robin­son of­fers board-lev­el ex­per­tise in au­dit, risk, com­pli­ance, com­pen­sa­tion and in­vest­ment over­sight.

Her gov­er­nance ex­pe­ri­ence spans reg­u­lat­ed fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions, mul­ti­lat­er­al risk fa­cil­i­ties, and list­ed com­pa­nies.

McIn­tosh Robin­son is a Rhodes Schol­ar and holds de­grees from Har­vard Busi­ness School, Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, and the Mass­a­chu­setts In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy.

The state­ment fur­ther not­ed she is a Young Glob­al Leader alum­na of the world eco­nom­ic fo­rum and a mem­ber of the in­ter­na­tion­al women's fo­rum and the young pres­i­dents' or­gan­i­sa­tion.

CIBC Caribbean is a re­la­tion­ship bank of­fer­ing a full range of mar­ket lead­ing fi­nan­cial ser­vices through its cor­po­rate bank­ing, per­son­al and busi­ness bank­ing and wealth man­age­ment seg­ments through its lead­ing dig­i­tal bank­ing net­work and lo­ca­tions across the re­gion.

CIBC Caribbean is one of the largest re­gion­al­ly list­ed fi­nan­cial ser­vices in­sti­tu­tions in the Eng­lish speak­ing Caribbean, with US $13.8 bil­lion in as­sets and mar­ket cap­i­tal­iza­tion of US $1.8 bil­lion.