Lau­rent Mef­fre has re­signed as the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of The West In­di­an To­bac­co Com­pa­ny Ltd.

In a no­tice post­ed to the T&T Stock Ex­change, the com­pa­ny says his res­ig­na­tion will take ef­fect from Sep­tem­ber 30.

Ac­cord­ing to the no­tice, Mef­fre will be step­ping down to pur­sue an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty with­in the British Amer­i­can To­bac­co (BAT) Group.

Mef­fre, a French na­tion­al, joined Wit­co on Jan­u­ary 27, 2020, as gen­er­al man­ag­er. He was ap­point­ed a di­rec­tor of the com­pa­ny on April 1, 2020.

In an­oth­er no­tice to the Stock Ex­change, Wit­co named Raoul Glynn as a di­rec­tor and con­firmed he would be Mef­fre’s re­place­ment as the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of the com­pa­ny.

His ap­point­ment will take ef­fect from Oc­to­ber 1, 2022.

Like Mef­fre, pri­or to his ap­point­ment to Wit­co, Glynn served in sev­er­al se­nior roles in the BAT Group, in­clud­ing as man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Car­reras Ltd, Ja­maica and as the coun­try man­ag­er of Caris­ma Mar­ket­ing Ser­vices (CMS) where he had re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for 21 mar­kets in the Eng­lish, French and Dutch speak­ing Caribbean. The no­tices stat­ed Glynn brings 20 years of in­ter­na­tion­al man­age­ment ex­pe­ri­ence in trade, mar­ket­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion.