The Massy Group un­veiled its re­cent se­nior lead­er­ship ap­point­ments at a meet­ing last week, dur­ing which the com­pa­ny reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to ac­cel­er­at­ing trans­for­ma­tive growth.

The Massy meet­ing was the group’s third quar­ter in­vestor brief­ing, held last Fri­day at The Brix, Au­to­graph Col­lec­tion Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain.

At­tend­ing the meet­ing were in­sti­tu­tion­al in­vestors, an­a­lysts, and key stake­hold­ers for a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of Massy’s third quar­ter per­for­mance and long-term strat­e­gy.

At the func­tion, Massy of­fi­cials re­in­forced the group’s com­mit­ment to build­ing a fu­ture-ready, peo­ple-pow­ered or­gan­i­sa­tion, the com­pa­ny said in a news re­lease.

Massy Group chair­man Robert Ri­ley ad­dressed the up­com­ing lead­er­ship tran­si­tion with a blend of grat­i­tude and con­fi­dence, for­mal­ly an­nounc­ing that James McLetchie will as­sume the role of Group CEO on Oc­to­ber 1, 2025, fol­low­ing the re­tire­ment of David Af­fon­so on Sep­tem­ber 30.

Ri­ley paid trib­ute to Af­fon­so’s decades of ex­em­plary ser­vice, high­light­ing his vi­sion­ary lead­er­ship and trans­for­ma­tive im­pact both as group CEO and pre­vi­ous­ly as head of the In­te­grat­ed Re­tail Port­fo­lio (IRP).

He not­ed that Af­fon­so’s lega­cy of in­no­va­tion and stew­ard­ship left an in­deli­ble mark on the Group’s tra­jec­to­ry.

Look­ing to the fu­ture, Ri­ley ex­pressed full con­fi­dence in Mr McLetchie’s abil­i­ty to steer Massy in­to its next chap­ter of growth, cit­ing his ex­ten­sive glob­al ex­pe­ri­ence and peo­ple-first lead­er­ship style as the qual­i­ties most vi­tal to build­ing on the group’s strong foun­da­tion.

He fur­ther em­pha­sised that McLetchie’s ap­point­ment was the re­sult of a rig­or­ous, val­ues-dri­ven se­lec­tion process, un­der­scor­ing the board’s stead­fast com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing con­ti­nu­ity of strong, prin­ci­pled lead­er­ship at the helm of the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Un­der the theme “Per­for­mance for Im­pact: Our Next Chap­ter, Pow­ered by Peo­ple,” Massy un­der­scored its fo­cus on build­ing a pur­pose-dri­ven en­ter­prise, fu­elled by ex­cep­tion­al tal­ent and a clear strate­gic vi­sion. Ac­cord­ing to the news re­lease, four se­nior ex­ec­u­tives were in­tro­duced:

• Ivette Zúñi­ga, ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent and chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer—brings ex­ten­sive in­ter­na­tion­al fi­nan­cial lead­er­ship, dri­ving ex­cel­lence, ac­count­abil­i­ty, and con­tin­u­ous im­prove­ment.

• Ryan Latchu, ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent and CEO, Mo­tors & Ma­chines—recog­nised for deep in­dus­try ex­per­tise and a cus­tomer-fo­cused ap­proach to in­no­va­tion and op­er­a­tional per­for­mance.

• Dionne Ligoure, vice pres­i­dent, cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions and cor­po­rate af­fairs—with wide ex­pe­ri­ence in the Caribbean and North Amer­i­can mar­kets, will lead strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions and stake­hold­er en­gage­ment across the group.

• Ryan Chaitram, se­nior vice pres­i­dent, strat­e­gy and dig­i­tal—will over­see en­ter­prise-wide strate­gic plan­ning and ex­e­cu­tion, en­sur­ing align­ment with Massy’s long-term vi­sion.

“These ap­point­ments re­flect our be­lief that peo­ple are the en­gine of per­for­mance,” said Na­dia Mc­Carthy, se­nior vice pres­i­dent, group peo­ple and cul­ture.

“Each leader brings unique ex­pe­ri­ence, in­sight, and pas­sion that will help us de­liv­er im­pact across port­fo­lios and mar­kets.”

In­com­ing Group CEO James McLetchie added, “Massy’s lead­er­ship evo­lu­tion marks a piv­otal mo­ment in our trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney. As we ex­pand in­to hard cur­ren­cy mar­kets, sharp­en our ca­pa­bil­i­ties, and build busi­ness­es that make a mean­ing­ful dif­fer­ence in peo­ple’s lives, we re­main guid­ed by a clear strat­e­gy and an ex­cep­tion­al team. With strong mo­men­tum and a re­newed sense of pur­pose, Massy is well po­si­tioned to de­liv­er sus­tain­able growth and last­ing im­pact across the re­gion and be­yond.”