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.

Roland van den Bergh was appointed to the Board of Directors Republic Bank (EC) Limited on November 2019. Mr. van den Bergh is the Chairman of the Fair Trade Authority Curaçao and is an economist, researcher, and management consultant at Curconsult, an organisation dedicated to stimulating the sustainable economic development of the Dutch Caribbean. Mr. van den Bergh has considerable expertise in a wide range of fields, including corporate governance, institutional strengthening, public finance, economic and social development, and education. He brings to bear significant experience in the development of smaller islands, including those of the Dutch Caribbean i.e. Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, and Saba. Originally from the Netherlands but living in Curaçao for the last 30 years, Mr. van den Bergh worked as an economist for the central government in the field of urban economics and regional economy before moving to Curaçao in 1985. There, he worked for the central government at the Department of Economic Affairs, later on as an economist and then Deputy Secretary at the Chamber of Commerce before establishing his own company, Curconsult. During his extensive career, he has taken part in more than 500 projects on the islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Mr. van den Bergh holds a BA/BSc. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

External Appointments
Mr. van den Bergh is the founder, former past president, and a current board director of the Association of Dutch Caribbean Economists. He is also a board member of the Fair Trade Authority Curaçao.

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.

Karen Tom Yew, General Manager, Group Marketing and Communications, is a career banking professional with more than 20 years of managerial experience at Republic Bank Limited. Prior to her current position, Ms. Tom Yew served as Regional Corporate Manager at Corporate Business Centre, North, leading a diverse team of Corporate and Credit Managers, growing the bank’s client and asset base, and managing a multi-billion (TT) dollar portfolio. Ms. Tom Yew has previously served as Branch Sales Manager, Independence Square; Corporate Manager, Commercial Centre; Manager, Merchant Banking, Republic Finance and Merchant Bank; and Manager, Overseas Operations. Ms. Tom Yew holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of London; an International Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business; and a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies. She has also completed several courses including the Euromoney – Project Finance; E-Bank Training – Credit Risk Management and Digital Strategies for Business from Emeritus Institute.

Vaughn Bahadur was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (St. Maarten) Limited in 2020. He is the Managing Director/Owner of Modern Homes B.V. and possesses considerable corporate banking and risk management experience built up over the course of 16 years as a member of RBTT/RBC Royal Bank. Prior to his board appointment, Mr. Bahadur served as the Owner of O2 N.V. (a Health and Wellness Company) based in St Maarten. During his tenure at RBC Royal Bank (St. Maarten), Mr. Bahadur served as Vice President, Sales and Service; Senior Manager, Risk Management; and Manager, Credit Administration. He also served as Country Manager, RBTT Bonaire Branch. Mr. Bahadur holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management with a major in Accounting and Finance and a minor in Economics from Ryerson University in Toronto Canada.

External Appointments
Mr. Bahadur currently serves as a Director on the Boards of MSO Osborne Limited and Osborne Hotels Limited.