Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) is proud to an­nounce the ap­point­ment of Lyn­ford In­ver­ary as its new Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer (COO) and Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO). This de­ci­sion was made by the Board of Di­rec­tors dur­ing a meet­ing held in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day (Sep­tem­ber 28).

With over a decade of ex­pe­ri­ence at CWI in var­i­ous roles, In­ver­ary, an An­tiguan na­tion­al, born in Guyana, has played a piv­otal role in dri­ving the or­ga­ni­za­tion’s strate­gic and op­er­a­tional ini­tia­tives. Most re­cent­ly, he spear­head­ed the for­ma­tion of CWI's 2024-27 Strate­gic Plan, ti­tled 'The Long Run', which out­lines a com­pre­hen­sive roadmap fo­cused on im­prov­ing gov­er­nance, en­hanc­ing crick­et de­vel­op­ment, op­ti­miz­ing op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy, and en­sur­ing long-term growth and sus­tain­abil­i­ty for the or­ga­ni­za­tion.

A grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Cave Hill Cam­pus, In­ver­ary holds a First-Class Hon­ors Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Man­age­ment with a ma­jor in In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness. He al­so earned a Mas­ter of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion (MBA) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of South Wales.

Dr Kishore Shal­low, pres­i­dent of CWI, re­marked on the ap­point­ment not­ing,

Lyn­ford brings a wealth of in­sti­tu­tion­al knowl­edge and a deep un­der­stand­ing of CWI’s strate­gic goals, paired with an op­er­a­tional ca­pac­i­ty to ex­e­cute with pre­ci­sion. Over his decade-long tenure, he has con­sis­tent­ly demon­strat­ed ex­cep­tion­al lead­er­ship, guid­ing crit­i­cal projects to suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion while steer­ing key ini­tia­tives with pur­pose and vi­sion. His un­yield­ing com­mit­ment and ex­per­tise leave us con­fi­dent in his abil­i­ty to lead CWI through this piv­otal phase of growth and trans­for­ma­tion.

Re­flect­ing on his ap­point­ment, Lyn­ford In­ver­ary stat­ed, "I am ho­n­oured and grate­ful to the CWI Board of Di­rec­tors for their vote of con­fi­dence in my abil­i­ty to lead. I em­brace this new chal­lenge as a plat­form to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to the de­vel­op­ment of the sport that means so much to me and the peo­ple of the West In­dies. I look for­ward to work­ing with the Board, man­age­ment, and staff to im­ple­ment our four-year strate­gic plan, im­prove op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy, and shape a strong fu­ture for West In­dies crick­et.

Dur­ing his ca­reer at CWI, Lyn­ford In­ver­ary has led mul­ti­ple high-im­pact projects, in­clud­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the We­h­by Re­port on Gov­er­nance Re­form, the 2018 -2023 Strate­gic Plan, and the de­vel­op­ment of the Coolidge Crick­et Ground (CCG) Busi­ness Plan and Mas­ter Plan. As Busi­ness Plan­ning Man­ag­er, he has over­seen the or­ga­ni­za­tion’s strate­gic plan­ning process since 2018 and has con­tributed to crit­i­cal busi­ness de­ci­sions, es­tab­lish­ing him­self as a leader with­in the or­ga­ni­za­tion. In­ver­ary has al­so pre­vi­ous­ly served as Act­ing Cor­po­rate Sec­re­tary.

In­ver­ary’s ap­point­ment as COO will be ef­fec­tive from Tues­day (Oc­to­ber 1) and his role as Act­ing CEO will com­mence on No­vem­ber 1, fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of John­ny Grave.

(Cour­tesy CWI Me­dia)