Bank of Montserrat Appoints New Directors

At the 27th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Bank of Montserrat Limited held at the Montserrat Cultural Centre on Wednesday, June 02nd, 2021, shareholders appointed two new Directors to serve on the Bank’s Board of Directors. The Directors will serve on the Bank’s Board for the next three years. The new Directors appointed to the Board are Ms. Agatha Aspin and Ms. Alison Fenton-Willock.

Mrs. Aspin is no stranger to the community having served as a Business Education Lecturer with the Montserrat Technical College, a Business Advisor with the National Development Foundation Ltd (NDF), the Chief Training Officer with the Government of Montserrat and the Business Development Officer with the Montserrat Development Corporation to name a few. She holds a Bachelors of Education (B.Ed.) Business Studies from UTech in Jamaica and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) International Business from Leeds University in the UK. She is also a Past President of the Montserrat Rotary Club.

Ms. Alison Fenton–Willock, who was born and raised in Montserrat, is currently Director-Sustainable Investing at KKR, a leading global investment firm.  Previously, she was Global Head of ESG at Blackstone where she led that firm’s overall approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) issues that impact its investing activities.  She has a rounded background in financial services having spent her entire career in the industry at Barclays, PricewaterhouseCoopers and other firms in audit, legal and compliance roles.  She received a Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law where she was a Staff Editor of the NYU Journal of Law and Business, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Baruch College where she earned her Bachelors degree in Accountancy.

The appointment of both Ms. Aspin and Ms Fenton-Willock will further strengthen the technical capacity of the board as they both bring a wealth of experience from their respective fields. Their appointment will also bring the number of females serving on the Board to four (4), the most women at any single time in the history of the Bank.

At that same meeting, shareholders also bided farewell to retiring Director John Ryan who did not seek re-election to the Board. Mr. Ryan gave distinguished service to the Board for well over nine (9) years serving on a number of Board Committees including the Human Resource, Audit, Risk and Compliance and Investment Committee which he chaired until his retirement from the Board.

The Bank welcomes the new Directors to the Board while at the same time wishing Mr. John Ryan the very best as he refocuses on his many business ventures.