Dou­glas Ca­ma­cho has re­tired as an ex­ec­u­tive and di­rec­tor at Guardian Group ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 30.

An ac­coun­tant by pro­fes­sion, Ca­ma­cho joined the field of in­sur­ance in 1980.

A decade lat­er when Guardian Life ac­quired in­sur­ance com­pa­ny, Crown Life Caribbean Lim­it­ed, he played a key role in the in­te­gra­tion of this ac­qui­si­tion.

Since then, he served in many im­por­tant lead­er­ship po­si­tions in the Guardian Group, most no­tably serv­ing on the board of near­ly every mem­ber com­pa­ny and on that of Guardian Hold­ings.

Ca­ma­cho was in­stru­men­tal in Guardian's ac­qui­si­tion of the Ja­maican and Dutch Caribbean busi­ness in 1998 and the ear­ly 2000s re­spec­tive­ly.

In his ca­pac­i­ty as pres­i­dent of Guardian Life and group pres­i­dent-Strate­gic In­vest­ments, he fo­cused on peo­ple de­vel­op­ment, en­abling Guardian's sales and ad­min­is­tra­tive staff to achieve un­prece­dent­ed lev­els of per­for­mance for which the group has now come to be known.

He al­so be­came in­volved in lead­er­ship po­si­tions of lo­cal, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al in­sur­ance-re­lat­ed or­gan­i­sa­tions, such as the As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T In­sur­ance Com­pa­nies (AT­TIC).

Dur­ing his chair­man­ship at the T&T In­sur­ance In­sti­tute (TTII), the in­dus­try in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies was able to cre­ate a chair for in­sur­ance, which is now in its fifth year.

Re­gion­al­ly, Ca­ma­cho led the In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion of the Caribbean (IAC) and the Pan Caribbean Busi­ness Coali­tion for some years. In­ter­na­tion­al­ly, he was the first Caribbean per­son to be ap­point­ed to the Board of LL Glob­al.

A for­mer na­tion­al hock­ey play­er and still a hock­ey ad­min­is­tra­tor, Ca­ma­cho con­tributed for 24 years on the Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee of T&T (NOC). Dur­ing his time with the NOC, he set about unit­ing the re­gion to form a Caribbean Olympic Com­mit­tee.

This re­gion­al Com­mit­tee was grant­ed the broad­cast rights for the Games in Rio on a pi­lot ba­sis by the IOC, the in­come mak­ing the NOCs more fi­nan­cial­ly in­de­pen­dent.

Ca­ma­cho was al­so chair­man of the Com­mit­tee re­spon­si­ble for Sport and Youth prepar­ing the Vi­sion 2020 roadmap, served on a gov­ern­ment-ap­point­ed com­mit­tee to pre­pare a na­tion­al sports pol­i­cy and was in­stru­men­tal in chang­ing the CXC syl­labus to in­clude pass­es in phys­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion.

He was part of the nascent Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion and is in­volved with Crime Stop­pers, and mi­cro-fi­nance com­pa­ny Miped, run by bpTT in Ma­yaro.

Al­though Ca­ma­cho re­tires from the se­nior man­age­ment of Guardian Group, he will con­tin­ue to serve on the Board of Guardian Hold­ings Lim­it­ed as a non-ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor.