Guardian Hold­ings Ltd di­rec­tor, Do­minic Ram­per­sad, will take over as the chair­man of the West­moor­ings-based fi­nan­cial ser­vices com­pa­ny on Oc­to­ber 1.

Ram­per­sad served as pres­i­dent of Phoenix Park Gas Proces­sors for more than a decade be­fore he took ear­ly re­tire­ment from the NGC sub­sidiary in No­vem­ber last year.

He joined the board of GHL, which is ma­jor­i­ty owned by Ja­maica’s NCB Fi­nan­cial Group, in De­cem­ber 2025

Ram­per­sad will re­place Robert Almei­da, who steps down as NCBFG’s Group CEO on Sep­tem­ber 30, three years af­ter tak­ing up the po­si­tion dur­ing a pe­ri­od of lead­er­ship change at the Ja­maican fi­nan­cial con­glom­er­ate.

Almei­da will al­so leave the boards of NCBFG, Na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Bank Ja­maica Ltd (NCBJ) and GHL on Sep­tem­ber 30. He will, how­ev­er, re­main a di­rec­tor of Clar­ien Bank.

Ju­lian Mair, a vet­er­an Ja­maican in­vest­ment ex­ec­u­tive, will re­place Almei­da as Group CEO of NCB Fi­nan­cial Group Ltd (NCBFG) on No­vem­ber 17.

Mair, will as­sume the top job at NCBFG on No­vem­ber 17.

NCBFG ac­quired a ma­jor­i­ty in­ter­est in GHL in May 2019.

Since the ac­qui­si­tion, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of NCBFG has tra­di­tion­al­ly al­so chaired the Guardian board.

NCBFG has put in­ter­im arrange­ments in place to bridge the sev­en-week pe­ri­od be­tween Almei­da’s de­par­ture and Mair’s ar­rival.

Dave Gar­cia will be­come Group Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 1 and will serve as act­ing Group CEO from Oc­to­ber 1 un­til Mair as­sumes the po­si­tion on No­vem­ber 17.

Gar­cia pre­vi­ous­ly served as NCBFG’s Group Gen­er­al Coun­sel and Cor­po­rate Sec­re­tary. That po­si­tion will be tak­en over by NCBJ com­pa­ny sec­re­tary Ky-Ann Tay­lor, al­so ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 1.

At the bank­ing sub­sidiary, Sheree Mar­tin has been con­firmed as CEO of NCBJ from Sep­tem­ber 1. Mar­tin had been act­ing in the po­si­tion since Jan­u­ary 2026 fol­low­ing the res­ig­na­tion of Bruce Bowen.

The man­age­ment changes come as NCBFG con­tin­ues to over­see one of the Caribbean’s largest fi­nan­cial groups, with op­er­a­tions span­ning bank­ing, in­sur­ance and wealth man­age­ment.

For the nine months end­ed June 30, NCBFG re­port­ed net op­er­at­ing in­come of J$96.2 bil­lion and net prof­it of J$18.6 bil­lion.

At the end of the pe­ri­od, the group had to­tal as­sets of J$2.43 tril­lion and share­hold­ers’ eq­ui­ty of J$273.65 bil­lion. (TT$1 = JM$23.31)