BE ALIV LIMITED - Key Persons
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- VP, Customer Experience and Channels
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- VP, Marketing and Consumer Solutions
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- Director
- Senior Manager at JS Johnson & Company With Responsibility for Motor Underwriting
Charles W. Johnson is a Senior Manager at JS Johnson & Company with responsibility for Motor Underwriting and Marketing, and operation and management of the company's branch offices and sub-agents. He holds a Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation with The Insurance Institute of Canada, as well as an MBA from the University of Miami. Charles' 45 years in the industry include experience in Underwriting, Claims Adjustments and Management, which he regularly draws upon when speaking to local media and organizations about the industry.
He has managed major commercial client accounts in The Bahamas as an Underwriter for JS Johnson, while introducing strategies to secure new customers, boost customer retention, and reduce acquisition costs.
Charles capitalized on opportunities for personal development early in his career, and benefitted from international insurance training in the UK, US and the Caribbean. From 1973-1988, he was Underwriting Manager for The Bahamas and Bermuda for US-based Cigna Insurance, and then joined Britam Insurance Brokers & Agents from 1988-1992 as Vice President.
While at Britam, he was instrumental in the formation of Security & General Insurance Company and the placement of reinsurance treaties in the London Market. He eventually assumed responsibility for the marketing of insurance services for the company throughout The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Charles is an avid marathon runner and competes regularly both locally and internationally. He is a member of The District Grand Lodge of The Bahamas and The Grand Lodge of Scotland.
Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2011, Charles successfully coordinated the construction of a medical clinic in that country on behalf of his Grand Lodge. He continues to initiate many charitable events and mentoring programs for young men in The Bahamas.
He is married to Eunice Johnson and they have three children.
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- Chief Information Officer, Group
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- Chairman
- Executive Vice Chairman of Cable Bahamas Group
- Member of Young President Organization Bahamas
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- Director
- Senior Level Technology and Telecommunications Executive
Michele M. Merrell is a senior level technology and telecommunications executive with 30 years experience in organizations ranging from start-up to mature, private, public and pre-IPO. She is the President of Merrell Consulting Group, a global marketing consulting consortium. She is an experienced practitioner in marketing, branding, advertising, social media, digital marketing, internet development, product marketing, public relations, crisis communications, public affairs, corporate communications, investor relations, and corporate social responsibility. She has worked on numerous mergers, acquisitions and joint venture agreements during her tenure. She has worked for companies such as Tyco International, Brightstar, CSPI Technology Solutions, Thales eSecurity, Bellsouth, U.S. Cellular and others. She has held broad marketing responsibility across APAC, EMEA, LATAM and North America.
Since 2014, Michele has served on the Board of Directors for three international corporations, including Cable Bahamas (BISX: CBL), and its subsidiaries Aliv (Nassau, Bahamas) and Summit Broadband (Orlando, FL). She is the head of the Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee for all three organizations, and also sits on the HR & Compensation Committee.
Michele is on the international board of directors for the Global Telecom Women's Network (GTWN), and is the North America President for GTWN, an organization that actively promotes and mentors women in the global telecommunications and technology industries. In 2018, she was named to the board of the LeMieux Center for Public Policy. She is an elected official in her county of residence.
Michele's achievements have earned her dozens of awards and recognition over her career for her business and leadership acumen. She received the Women of the Channel Power 100 Award by CRN Magazine. Michele was the recipient of the Florida Achievement Award from the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, part of the Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida. The South Florida Business Journal also named Michele as their "Business Woman of Influence" recipient.
Michele was named by the Diversity Journal as the recipient of their "Woman Worth Watching" award. She has been a featured business executive in an edition of March Magazine, a women's executive magazine.
She speaks regularly both internationally and domestically on topics ranging from technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, business leadership, politics and women's issues.
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- Deputy Chairman
- Director of Helvetic Management Services Ltd
Owen is currently a director of Helvetic Management Services Ltd and Bahamas Investment Fund.
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- Director
- Director of RBC Royal Bank ( Bahamas ) Limited
Mr. McDonald is currently a director of RBC Royal Bank (Bahamas) Limited, RBC's commercial bank in The Bahamas and RBC FINCO, which is a publicly listed company and operates as RBC's mortgage banking company in The Bahamas.