An­drea Perez-Sobers

Se­nior Re­porter

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

Dar­ryl White has re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect as the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer and re­gion­al vice pres­i­dent of cor­po­rate and in­vest­ment bank­ing of RBC Fi­nan­cial (Caribbean) Ltd. 

Re­gion­al bank­ing sources told Guardian Me­dia that White is ex­pect­ed to be an­nounced as the new chief ex­ec­u­tive of IDB In­vest in the Caribbean. IDB In­vest is the pri­vate sec­tor arm of the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB), which op­er­ates as a group in 26 coun­tries in Latin Amer­i­can and the Caribbean. 

In an in­ter­view pub­lished in the Busi­ness Guardian of March 13, CEO of IDB In­vest, James Scriv­en, said the fi­nanc­ing in­sti­tu­tion­planned to in­crease the num­ber of peo­ple it em­ploys in the re­gion and to hire a new gen­er­al man­ag­er for its op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean.

“I’d like to re­in­force the idea of how im­por­tant the Caribbean is for IDB in­vest and the IDB group, and that’s why, in par­tic­u­lar, we de­cid­ed to have our most se­nior pro­fes­sion­al cov­er­ing the Caribbean, and that per­son will be an­nounced in the next few weeks. He or she will be based in Port-of-Spain and cov­er­ing the en­tire Caribbean for us,” said Scriv­en.

The news of White's res­ig­na­tion was com­mu­ni­cat­ed to the RBC Fi­nan­cial staff in an in­ter­nal bul­letin on March 24.

“We will pro­vide an up­date on the suc­ces­sion plan short­ly,” the bul­letin said. 

White served as CEO of RBC Fi­nan­cial for sev­en years. 

Con­tact­ed on his pos­si­ble move to IDB In­vest, White said he had no com­ment. 

How­ev­er, on leav­ing  RBC he said “I’ve had a re­ward­ing ca­reer at RBC serv­ing com­mu­ni­ty and re­gion and work­ing with won­der­ful and ded­i­cat­ed staff  In short or­der and at the ap­pro­pri­ate time I ex­pect an­nounce­ments will be made about my fu­ture ca­reer path in which I hope to con­tin­ue to mean­ing­ful­ly con­tribute to the ad­vance­ment of the Caribbean Re­gion.” 

Al­so on March 24, the in­ter­nal bul­letin ad­vised staff mem­bers, that An­nette Wright­man, Head, Sales, En­able­ment and Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tion re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect at RBC. 

“An up­date re­gard­ing the lead­er­ship of the Sales En­able­ment & Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions team will be shared in due course,” the bul­letin added.