Management Team Biographies

  • David Pollard

    General Partner

    ‣ 25+ years in Investment Banking

    ‣ Financial Trading & Research, Frontier Markets

    ‣ Founded and managed the first Caribbean focused Hedge Fund with operational HQ in Guyana in 2011

    ‣ Guyana’s High Commissioner to India (2016 - 2020)

    ‣ BSc & PhD in Physics (Imperial College), Part III in Applied Maths (Cambridge)

    ‣ Career value add > $458m:

    ‣ BP oil-field optimization  $278m

    ‣ Guyana - India projects  $180m

  • Roger Arjoon

    Deal Team Director

    ‣ Experienced PE / Family Office Investment Director with a global deal list.

    ‣ Lehman Brothers, London, M&A transactions in banking and insurance then M&A roles with KPMG and UBS in NYC

    ‣ Principal investing with Arcapita Bank in the Middle East

    ‣ 10 yrs Hinduja Family Office ($35bn), multiple industry sectors in PE and Funds

    ‣ Guyanese born & raised.  Maintains strong relationships with the business community

    ‣ BA Economics at Yale University, MBA Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar)

  • Malissa Ritchie

    General Counsel & Investor Relations

    ‣ 25+ years wide-ranging experience as Commercial and Intellectual Property lawyer

    ‣ London (Magic Circle firms) and New York

    ‣ Transactions across M&A, IP, BPO in Telecommunications, Technology, Banking & Financial Services

    ‣ Guyanese born with strong networks there & in the Diaspora

    LLB, 1st class Hons. (Bristol U)

Peter Lappo

Chief Technology Officer

‣ Experienced Tech Manager, jointly designed and built the technology platform in Guyana used by PeF

‣ Senior Leadership roles at JP Morgan, UBS, AHL/Man Group

‣ PhD, Computer Science, Leeds U

Hadyn Gittens

Country Manager, TT

‣ 30 years of experience in the financial sector at a senior level in the Caribbean

‣ 23 years at RBC Royal Bank Group in Trinidad and Jamaica, becoming Group Head, Corporate Banking

‣ CEO, Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission, 2017 - 2020

‣ Expertise: Commercial & Corporate Banking, Credit Risk Management, Securities Regulation

‣ MBA (Manchester), MSc. Accounting & BSc (Hons), Industrial Mgmt., (UWI)