Rhon­dor Dowlat

New­ly ap­point­ed chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL), Garvin Madera, is look­ing for­ward to lead­ing the trans­for­ma­tion that the air­line must em­brace if it is to meet the chal­lenges of the fierce­ly com­pet­i­tive air­line in­dus­try.

Madera took up his po­si­tion as com­pa­ny CEO on Mon­day.

Madera is for­mer­ly the CEO of Dig­i­cel Play, a po­si­tion he held from De­cem­ber 2015 un­til his ear­li­er this month.

Pri­or to his role as CEO of Dig­i­cel Play, Madera served in sev­er­al key lead­er­ship po­si­tions at Dig­i­cel in­clud­ing Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er -To­ba­go and Chief Tech­ni­cal Of­fi­cer, man­ag­ing the com­pa­ny’s full op­er­a­tional port­fo­lio.

Med­era holds an MBA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ox­ford, an LLB from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Elec­tri­cal and Com­put­er En­gi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

The CAL Board of Di­rec­tors, in a re­lease yes­ter­day, ex­pressed their sin­cere grat­i­tude to the for­mer act­ing CEO Cap­tain Jag­mo­han Singh and the Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment Team, “who en­sured that Caribbean Air­lines con­tin­ued to de­liv­er an en­hanced trav­el ex­pe­ri­ence to its val­ued cus­tomers, while the search for a Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer was tak­ing place.”

“The Board and em­ploy­ees look for­ward to the in­no­va­tion and col­lec­tive ca­pa­bil­i­ties that would be de­vel­oped un­der the lead­er­ship of the new CEO,” the re­lease stat­ed.