Dr. Patrick Antoine is the Group Strategic Trade Policy Advisor for the Ansa McAL Group and Director on the Boards of Carib Brewery (St. Kitts and Nevis Ltd and the Grenada Brewery Ltd. Dr Antoine is an Economist by profession, and graduate, with first class honours, from the University of West Indies (B.Sc Economics) and the University of Florida (M.Sc and Ph.D Economics), with specializations and extensive experience in areas of International Trade and Trade Negotiations, Economic Policy, Agricultural Development Policy, Finance and Production Economics. Dr. Antoine has served as Grenada’s Trade and Economic Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago as well as Grenada’s Ambassador Extraordinaire and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to the WTO, with responsibility for all external trade negotiations.

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David Franco is the Managing Director at AS Bryden & Sons (T’dad) Ltd., the leading importer of liquor in Trinidad & Tobago. He received a Bachelors of Arts degree with a major in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and returned to Trinidad in 1991. Having spent three years at McCann Erickson (Trinidad) Ltd. he then entered the Spirits & Wines industry in 1994 and has remained in the industry ever since. Before becoming Managing Director David held the position of Divisional Director for eight years of the Spirits and Wines Division and in 2009, David was made a member of “The Keepers of the Quaich”, a society founded to promote the heritage and quality of Scotch Whisky on an international level through its members in 83 countries.

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Gabriel recently joined the CBL team as Managing Director.  His key focus is the local and international commercial operations of the business.
His strengths are building cohesive teams with a single minded focus; to take the companies he leads to higher levels of performance through superior brand equity management and improving the business processes while driving operational excellence.  His passion is understanding the future of the industry and creating new trails rather than following old ones. He has always grown the businesses he has been responsible for both in market share, turnover and profit by being role makers in the marketplace.
Before joining CBL he held positions and worked in the capital goods, FMCG, CSD, spirits and media industries in Asia, Europe, Central & North America and the Caribbean.He came up through the ranks and has worked in sales, marketing, commercial, general and executive management roles. He most recently served as CEO of SM Jaleel Ltd; the largest soft drink bottler in the English speaking Caribbean and also was CEO of Angostura Bitters International a Division of Angostura Holding Ltd where he served as executive member of the board of the holding company. His last assignment was as Managing Director of Guardian Media Limited a publicly traded Media group with Print, Television, Radio and Digital platforms.
He graduated in the top 10% of his MBA class and believes that everyday there is an opportunity to learn,from both the good and bad practices around him, and that work does not start or end once you enjoy what you do.
His focus at CBL is to improve consumer engagement and gain insights on how the company can create more meaningful connections between them and our brands. He also plans to drive product innovation to create excitement in the category. This along with improvements in our operational processes will make CBL the supplier of choice to the trade. Further development of our export business will also cement the global footprint for our brands.

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Patrick Flook is Diageo’s Corporate Relations and Community Affairs Manager, Caribbean and Central America. In this role, Patrick overseas Public Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives across this Region ensuring that in addition to giving back to the communities in which it does business. Previous to this role Patrick also held several senior management positions within Diageo, 3M InterAmerica, and the AnSA McAL Group of Companies.

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