Board of Directors

Karl Nassief was appointed to the Board of Directors Republic Bank (EC) Limited on November 2019. Mr. Nassief is an experienced business leader who brings to bear considerable expertise in a wide range of fields, including Automotive, Retail, Distribution, Energy, Logistics, and World Class Operations. He currently operates several business units based in Dominica, Saint Lucia, and St. Maarten. 
Mr. Nassief is the Managing Director of Fine Foods Inc., franchise holder for KFC and Save-A-Lot Supermarket. He is also the Managing Director of Auto Trade Limited, a prominent Dominica-based auto dealership offering diverse automotive services to include a car rental agency, and EMS Ltd., a renewable energy company offering a diverse range of sustainable energy saving solutions. 
Mr. Nassief also heads the operation of Real Foods Inc., a Saint Lucia-based business specialising in restaurants. In St. Maarten he operates Car dealerships on both the Dutch and French side.Mr. Nassief holds a BA. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to entering the business field, Mr. Nassief worked as a pilot for LIAT for three and a half years.

Pasquale Minicucci was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (EC) Limited and the Supervisory Board of Republic Bank (St. Maarten) N.V in November 2019. Mr. Minicucci has more than 3 decades of experience in the financial and banking sectors spanning Canada, the Caribbean, and parts of Central America. Currently, he leads Minicucci Coaching & Consulting, providing executive coaching and advisory services to senior executives, emerging leaders, and businesses.
Prior to his coaching and consulting practice, he has held a variety of senior executive positions with major Canadian Banks including the National Bank of Canada where he served as Senior Vice President and Regional Head for Personal and Commercial Banking for the Central, Western and Atlantic regions.At Scotiabank, he served as Senior Vice-President, International Banking for the Caribbean and Central America; Senior Vice-President – Greater Toronto Region, Personal and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Banking; Senior Vice President and Regional Head, Quebec and Eastern Ontario; and Vice President, Toronto East.
Mr. Minicucci holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Marketing from McGill University, Montreal Canada, is a Fellow of the Institute of the Canadian Bankers Association,and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School, Harvard University. He is also a certified corporate director obtaining his ICD designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors of Canada. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his service to the communities of Greater Montreal and Greater Toronto over the years.
 

External Appointments

Mr. Minicucci is currently on the board of Villa Charities in Toronto, Canada and chairs the Strategic Planning Committee and is a member of several other committees of the board. His past board service includes National Bank Securities, Scotiabank Trinidad & Tobago Ltd., Scotiabank Bahamas Ltd, The Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Ltd., and Maduro & Curiel’s Bank, NV, Dutch Antilles. He was also a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of Caribbean & Central American Action (CCAA) based in Washington DC.

Gerard Bergasse was appointed to the Board of Directors Republic Bank (EC) Limited on 2 April 2020. He is the Regional Manager, Tropical Shipping, one of the Caribbean’s leading freight carriers and logistics solution providers, with oversight for the organisation’s operations in Saint Lucia, St. Vincent, and Grenada. 
Prior to his current position, he served as Island Manager, Tropical Shipping, where he started his career. Mr. Bergasse continues to be an active proponent in implementing and supporting Tropical Shipping’s Business Continuity Plan, growing the organisation’s inter-island business relationships. He also advocates assiduously for trade facilitation and is a strong exponent for liberalizing intraregional trade. 
Mr. Bergasse holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Electrical Engineering from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto, Canada, and a master’s degree in Shipping and Logistics from Middlesex University, UK.

External Appointments

Mr. Bergasse is an active member, and past president, of the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce and has also served on the Boards of the St Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority and the National Insurance Corporation. He is the current chairman of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council.

Karen Yip Chuck, Group Vice President, Republic Financial Holdings Limited and Vice President, Republic Bank Limited is a career banking professional with many years of senior management experience with the Republic Group. Ms. Yip Chuck has been a member of the Republic Bank Executive Management team since 2007, and has served as General Manager, Commercial and Retail Banking; General Manager, Corporate and Investment Banking; General Manager, Wealth Management; and General Manager, Internal Audit.
Ms. Yip Chuck holds a BSc. (Hons) Economics from the University of the West Indies (UWI), and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and an MBA from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. A Certified Internal Auditor, she is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers UK and a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP186). 
Ms. Yip Chuck is the Chairperson of the Boards of Republic Bank (EC) Limited, Republic Bank (Anguilla) Limited, and Republic Bank (St. Maarten) N.V. She is a Director for Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited and Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited. She currently serves as Director and Vice President of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce; and as Director and Treasurer of the International Women's Forum of Trinidad and Tobago.

Tracy-Anne Bartholomew was appointed Managing Director, Republic Bank (EC) Limited in 2023. Ms. Bartholomew brings to bear significant industry expertise in Actuarial Science, Investment and Asset Management, and General Insurance, with close to two decades serving at the senior level. She also serves as the Chairperson of Republic Financial Holdings Subsidiary Boards (Atlantic Financial Limited, Republic Caribbean Investments Limited, Republic (Suriname) Holdings Limited). A member of Republic Bank’s managerial team since 2017, Ms. Bartholomew has served as Manager, Investments, Group Treasury, after which, Senior Manager and General Manager Group Treasury, with full responsibility for monitoring and managing the Group’s liquidity, including interest rate risk limits and liquidity risk limits.
She has also served in senior management positions at RBC Financial Bank (Caribbean) Limited and as a Senior Actuarial Analyst at Guardian Life of the Caribbean, Trinidad. Ms. Bartholomew holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Actual Techniques from The Institute of Actuaries, England; a Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Management, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Actuarial Science from City University, London, England. She also holds a BSc in Mathematics and Economics (Double Major) from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Kimberly Erriah-Ali, Group General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Republic Bank Limited and Republic Financial Holdings Limited, is an Attorney-at-Law with 23 years of experience; having received her Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of the West Indies, and her Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago. Mrs. Erriah-Ali was admitted to practice as an Attorney at-Law in the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago in 1998. 
She has served as Corporate Secretary to the following Republic Bank subsidiaries: Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited, Republic Bank (Suriname) Limited, Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited and London Street Project Company Limited. 
She also established the Group’s Compliance Department. She is currently a Director on the Board of Republic Wealth Management Limited, formerly Republic Securities Limited, Republic Trustee Services Limited formerly Republic Wealth Management Limited, Republic Bank (EC) Limited, Republic Bank (Anguilla) Limited, other offshore subsidiaries of Republic Bank and holds an external Directorship on the Board of a Telecommunications provider in Trinidad and Tobago.
Mrs. Erriah-Ali holds a Master of Business Administration from the Heriot-Watt University, with electives in Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance, is certified under the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), and is a Certified Practitioner in Anti-Money Laundering from the Florida Institute of Bankers Association via Florida International University. She brings to bear a wide range of expertise in Corporate and Commercial Law, Conveyancing, Trusts, Landlord and Tenant Law, Intellectual Property, Estates, and Litigation.