Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion has an­nounced, Kester Guy was ap­point­ed Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, ef­fec­tive De­cem­ber 1st 2023.

“The TTSEC wel­comes Mr. Guy and looks for­ward to his lead­er­ship and over­all con­tri­bu­tions, to­ward the dis­charge of our over­sight func­tion, as reg­u­la­tor of the lo­cal se­cu­ri­ties in­dus­try,” the Com­mis­sion said in a re­lease.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTSEC, Guy is an econ­o­mist, who brings a wealth of ex­pe­ri­ence in the reg­u­la­to­ry land­scape of the fi­nan­cial sec­tor, hav­ing more re­cent­ly served as the CEO and Deputy CEO, of the Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices Com­mis­sion Bar­ba­dos and the CEO of the De­posit In­sur­ance Cor­po­ra­tion, Bar­ba­dos.

His pro­fes­sion­al jour­ney al­so in­cludes roles as As­sis­tant Di­rec­tor at the Re­search and Eco­nom­ic Analy­sis De­part­ment at the Cen­tral Bank of Bar­ba­dos, as well as Se­nior Econ­o­mist Cen­tral Bank of Bar­ba­dos and Econ­o­mist at the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Guy holds a Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) St. Au­gus­tine, and Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Eco­nom­ics and Math­e­mat­ics (First Class Ho­n­ours) from UWI Cave Hill, com­ple­ment­ed by years of on­go­ing pro­fes­sion­al and ex­ec­u­tive train­ing.