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.

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.

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.