The Roy­al Bank of Cana­da (RBC) has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Richard Down­ie as man­ag­ing di­rec­tor for T&T.

In a state­ment, the bank said Down­ie will as­sume his new po­si­tion on Au­gust 1, 2021.

He is re­plac­ing Gretchen Ca­ma­cho-Mo­hammed who has ac­cept­ed a new po­si­tion with RBC’s head of­fice in Toron­to.

In ad­di­tion to be­ing Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor, Down­ie will al­so con­tin­ue as the bank’s Re­gion­al Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer for T&T.

Down­ie joined RBC in 1988 as a mem­ber of the IT team start­ing as an ap­pli­ca­tion pro­gram­mer. At RBTT, Down­ie con­tin­ued his work with IT tak­ing on more pro­gres­sive­ly se­nior man­age­ment roles in both IT and bank op­er­a­tions.

When RBC came back to T&T in 2008, Down­ie made the tran­si­tion from IT in­to the bank’s ser­vice de­liv­ery unit where he would even­tu­al­ly lead the Pan­Car­ibbean team be­fore be­com­ing Re­gion­al Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer for T&T in 2018.

Ear­li­er this year, Down­ie be­came one of the newest Fel­lows of the pres­ti­gious In­sti­tute of Bank­ing and Fi­nance—an ex­cep­tion­al pro­fes­sion­al recog­ni­tion for a ca­reer ded­i­cat­ed to build­ing out the fi­nan­cial ser­vices in­dus­try in T&T.

“All of this ex­pe­ri­ence has giv­en Richard a unique in­sight in­to how the bank op­er­ates,” Rob John­ston, Head of Caribbean Bank­ing, RBC said.

With more than 110 years of ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice to the re­gion, RBC has a pres­ence in 10 coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries, with 38 branch­es and over 2,800 em­ploy­ees serv­ing near­ly one mil­lion clients.