ANSA McAL Group chair­man and chief ex­ec­u­tive A Nor­man Sab­ga has paid trib­ute to Ger­ry Brooks, chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer and sec­tor head, man­u­fac­tur­ing, who is re­tir­ing af­ter 25 years of ser­vice.

He said Brooks, who will re­tire on April 30, was in­spi­ra­tional in his role as chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer and served loy­al­ly in oth­er key lead­er­ship po­si­tions.

"On be­half of the en­tire ANSA McAL Group and fam­i­ly, we ex­tend our sin­cere ap­pre­ci­a­tion to Ger­ry for his con­tri­bu­tion to the Group. He took great pride in over­see­ing the con­tin­ued growth of the Group and our sub­sidiaries be­yond tra­di­tion­al bound­aries, and it is a priv­i­lege to re­flect on work­ing with him over the last 25 years," Sab­ga.

"When you work with some­one for that length of time they be­come more than a just col­league, they be­come your con­fi­dant and friend. His com­mit­ment, en­er­gy and dili­gence are well-known at­trib­ut­es and he has paved the way for an­oth­er gen­er­a­tion of ex­cel­lent lead­ers.

He leaves the group in strong and com­pe­tent hands and the ex­pe­ri­ence and acu­men of our di­rec­tors, to­geth­er with the pro­fes­sion­al­ism and skills of man­age­ment will en­sure that we con­tin­ue to grow, pro­vide out­stand­ing ser­vice and prod­ucts to our cus­tomers and be in­volved in the com­mu­ni­ties we serve.

"As he fi­nalis­es his post-re­tire­ment plans and shifts his en­er­gies to oth­er ar­eas of in­ter­est, the ANSA McAL Group re­mains in­debt­ed for his pas­sion­ate lead­er­ship, busi­ness acu­men and wise coun­sel and we look for­ward to more ex­cit­ing de­vel­op­ments from him in the fu­ture. We wish Mr Ger­ry Brooks, God­speed, con­tin­ued health and suc­cess in his new jour­ney."

An at­tor­ney-at-law, Brooks is the hold­er of an MBA, Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, (Deans Ho­n­our Roll).

He is al­so deputy chair­man of the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice Trust Fund and holds ad­di­tion­al di­rec­tor­ships in the group in­clud­ing McE­near­ney Al­stons (Bar­ba­dos) Ltd, Tatil and Tatil Life, and is a mem­ber of the ANSA McAL Group Par­ent Board and Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee.

Brooks is chair­man of the Fam­i­ly Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion, a past Ro­tary Pres­i­dent and has al­so served on sev­er­al Cab­i­net ap­point­ed com­mit­tees.