Stephen de Gannes has been ap­point­ed as the new 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 yes­ter­day.

The re­lease not­ed that de Gannes al­so looks for­ward to work­ing close­ly with the cham­ber’s mem­ber­ship, the Gov­ern­ment, and oth­er stake­hold­ers lo­cal­ly and re­gion­al­ly to in­crease the ease and ef­fi­cien­cy of do­ing busi­ness and im­prov­ing the econ­o­my.

It said de Gannes brings a “strong foun­da­tion of lead­er­ship and strate­gic in­sight with keen un­der­stand­ing of trans­for­ma­tion dur­ing tur­bu­lent times.”

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease de Gannes grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies as an elec­tri­cal en­gi­neer in elec­tron­ics and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in 1990.

He 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.

He al­so 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 or­gan­i­sa­tions world­wide, and the lo­cal branch of a Hous­ton-based en­gi­neer­ing com­pa­ny,” the re­lease stat­ed.

“With ex­per­tise in change man­age­ment and or­gan­i­sa­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion, he suc­cess­ful­ly re­struc­tured their lo­cal di­vi­sions,” it stat­ed.

The re­lease stat­ed that de Gannes’ most re­cent post was at Trinidad Sys­tems Ltd (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.