Movements

Ella Hoyos

CIBC FirstCaribbean has made four appointments to its executive management committee.

General Counsel Ella Hoyos will take up a new post as managing director, human resources; Minish Parikh, managing director, operations, assumes the role of chief administrative officer, following the retirement of Mahes Wickramasinghe.

Chief Internal Auditor Donna Graham, and managing director of technology, Derek Wilson, will also now sit on the bank's executive committee.

Executive Chairman Michael Mansoor, and Chief Executive Officer Rik Parkhill, made the announcement to employees around the region this week. The appointments become effective within the next month.

An attorney by training, Ms Hoyos is a member of the Barbados and Jamaica Bar Associations and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She joined First-Caribbean in 2004 and prior to that was part of the team which conducted the legal work at the formation of FirstCaribbean.

Minish Parikh

Minish Parikh has more than 24 years of global commercial banking experience, including 14 years in senior executive leadership positions with high performing teams in emerging markets across different geographies. He began his career in his homeland of India as a banking executive at the State Bank of India and, over the next several years, served in key leadership roles in the financial-services sector. He joined CIBC FirstCaribbean in 2007.

Donna Graham

Ms Graham joined CIBC FirstCaribbean from CIBC, where she developed an internal strategic consulting group for that company's retail bank. In that role, she served clients across all the retail businesses and assisted them with strategic challenges ranging from product development to distribution, organisational design and cost-cutting initiatives.

Derek Wilson

Mr Wilson has accumulated more than 20 years experience in banking, and joined CIBC FirstCaribbean in 1994.

He has been responsible for the bank's overall technology operations for a number of years, and recently worked alongside other managers in upgrading the bank's operating platform.