Stephen de Gannes has been ap­point­ed the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce

"Mr. de Gannes has ex­pressed his ex­cite­ment about this new op­por­tu­ni­ty and mov­ing the T&T Cham­ber for­ward, en­sur­ing that we re­main rel­e­vant and con­tin­ue to be seen by our mem­bers and

po­ten­tial mem­bers as 'The Voice of Busi­ness'," a re­lease from the T&T Cham­ber stat­ed.

"He looks for­ward to work­ing close­ly with the T&T Cham­ber’s mem­ber­ship, the Gov­ern­ment, and oth­er stake­hold­ers lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly to in­crease the ease and ef­fi­cien­cy of do­ing busi­ness, to the bet­ter­ment of the econ­o­my of T&T," it stat­ed.

De Gannes grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies as an Elec­tri­cal En­gi­neer in the field of Elec­tron­ics and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in 1990.

He lat­er fur­thered his stud­ies at the Arthur Lok Jack Grad­u­ate School of Busi­ness where he pur­sued a Mas­ter’s de­gree in Man­age­ment of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tions with a fo­cus on Strate­gic Plan­ning and En­tre­pre­neur­ship.

"In his ca­reer, Mr. de Gannes worked with the then Neal and Massy Group and TSTT in sev­er­al ju­nior man­age­r­i­al po­si­tions. His glob­al busi­ness back­ground ex­tends to then work­ing as the coun­try rep­re­sen­ta­tive for multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tion Rock­well Au­toma­tion, a ma­jor US man­u­fac­tur­er of Elec­tri­cal and Con­trol equip­ment for Oil and Gas, Man­u­fac­tur­ing, and In­dus­tri­al or­ga­ni­za­tions world­wide, and the lo­cal branch of a Hous­ton-based en­gi­neer­ing com­pa­ny," it stat­ed.

"With ex­per­tise in change man­age­ment and or­ga­ni­za­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion, he suc­cess­ful­ly re­struc­tured their lo­cal di­vi­sions," the re­lease stat­ed.

De Gannes' most re­cent post was at Trinidad Sys­tems Lim­it­ed (TSL) as Vice Pres­i­dent, Sub­sidiaries, with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the doc­u­ment man­age­ment and the out­sourced pay­roll com­pa­nies where he led busi­ness de­vel­op­ment re­sult­ing in in­creased prof­itabil­i­ty.

"Mr. de Gannes brings a strong foun­da­tion of lead­er­ship and strate­gic in­sight with keen un­der­stand­ing of trans­for­ma­tion dur­ing tur­bu­lent times which he in­tends to use for the ben­e­fit of the Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T, its mem­ber­ship, and stake­hold­ers," it stat­ed.