Ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of San­dals Re­sorts In­ter­na­tion­al, Adam Stew­art, yes­ter­day named for­mer Massy CEO and pres­i­dent, Ger­vase Warn­er as one of four new mem­bers of the all-in­clu­sive re­sort group’s board.

In a post on his LinkedIn page, Stew­art de­scribed Warn­er as a “lead­ing voice in Cari­com Busi­ness.”

Stew­art al­so an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Nicholas Lok Jack, the re­cent­ly chair­man of As­so­ci­at­ed Brands In­dus­tries Ltd to the board of San­dals Re­sorts. Join­ing the board of the ho­tel com­pa­ny, as well, are Christo­pher Levy of Ja­maica Broil­ers Group and Pe­ter Mel­ha­do of the ICD Group.

“These ac­com­plished lead­ers bring di­verse ex­per­tise and strate­gic in­sight that align with our am­bi­tious plans for in­no­va­tion and re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment.

“Their con­tri­bu­tions will help us en­rich guest ex­pe­ri­ences and cre­ate greater op­por­tu­ni­ties for the com­mu­ni­ties we serve,” Stew­art out­lined in the post.

The San­dals chair­man out­lined that with a port­fo­lio of 20 ho­tels and 18,000 em­ploy­ees, “we re­main deeply com­mit­ted to fos­ter­ing growth and pros­per­i­ty across the re­gion.”

He al­so said that 2025 is on track to be a mile­stone year for San­dals Re­sorts as it ad­vances to San­dals 2.0, re­defin­ing the fu­ture of lux­u­ry trav­el in the Caribbean.

San­dals was found­ed by Gor­don ‘Butch’ Stew­art in 1981 when he pur­chased an old ho­tel (the Bay Roc Ho­tel) on one of Mon­tego Bay’s largest beach­es, and opened it as San­dals Mon­tego Bay.

Butch, the fa­ther of Adam, died on Jan­u­ary 4, 2021. Since then his com­mon-law part­ner, Amer­i­can busi­ness­woman Cheryl Ham­mer­smith-Stew­art, has launched a se­ries of le­gal chal­lenges in the Ba­hamas Court over his will and two Ba­hami­an trusts.