Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) bid farewell to two of its di­rec­tors last week.

In a re­lease on Thurs­day, RFHL an­nounced the de­par­ture of Al­i­son Lewis and Gre­go­ry Thom­son, from its board of di­rec­tors.

Their de­par­ture from the board took ef­fect on No­vem­ber 4.

RFHL said, “Al­i­son Lewis has been an in­te­gral part of the RFHL Group since 2014, con­tribut­ing her strate­gic vi­sion to var­i­ous sub-com­mit­tees of both RFHL Group and Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed Boards dur­ing her near­ly decade-long tenure. Her ex­cep­tion­al ser­vice adds to her re­mark­able list of ac­com­plish­ments in shap­ing the fi­nan­cial and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment of T&T, span­ning both pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tors.”

Lewis held sig­nif­i­cant roles such as the for­mer Gov­er­nor of the Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Fund, ad­vis­er in the of­fice of ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor at the World Bank, Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary of the Min­istry of Fi­nance, and com­mis­sion­er on the T&T Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion.

In 2015 she had been award­ed the Pub­lic Ser­vice Medal of Mer­it (Gold) for recog­ni­tion of her out­stand­ing ser­vice.

RFHL al­so hailed Thom­son’s ‘in­deli­ble mark on the Re­pub­lic Group’ since join­ing in 2014. With a com­mend­able 40 years of ex­pe­ri­ence in bank­ing and fi­nance, he made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions as a mem­ber of the RFHL Board of Di­rec­tors, par­tic­u­lar­ly through his ac­tive in­volve­ment in the RFHL Board’s En­ter­prise Risk and Au­dit sub-com­mit­tees. He played a piv­otal role in ad­vanc­ing the Group dur­ing his chair­man­ship of the Board of Re­pub­lic Bank (Grena­da) Ltd. Thom­son al­so served as deputy man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd for sev­en years be­fore re­tir­ing from this po­si­tion in 2012.”

Vin­cent Pereira, RFHL chair­man, said, “Gre­go­ry and Al­i­son’s lead­er­ship have had a mon­u­men­tal in­flu­ence on the cur­rent suc­cess and tra­jec­to­ry of the RFHL Group. As they em­bark on a new chap­ter in their lives, they leave us with a lega­cy of ex­cel­lence that we re­main com­mit­ted to up­hold­ing.”