Na­tion­al track cy­clist Nicholas Paul is Re­pub­lic Bank's newest brand am­bas­sador.

The Olympian was re­cent­ly wel­comed in­to the Re­pub­lic fam­i­ly with the of­fi­cial con­tract sign­ing tak­ing place at Re­pub­lic House on Park Street, Port-of-Spain.

Ac­com­pa­nied by his fa­ther Dar­ren Paul, who plays a dual role as his man­ag­er, Paul ex­pressed his grat­i­tude for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to part­ner with Re­pub­lic Bank, say­ing: “It’s re­al­ly an ho­n­our to be part­ner­ing as Brand Am­bas­sador with a brand like Re­pub­lic Bank. I an­tic­i­pate a very pro­duc­tive part­ner­ship and can’t wait to start work­ing hand in hand to make this part­ner­ship flour­ish and achieve great things to­geth­er.”

The de­ci­sion to part­ner with Paul has been long in com­ing and the Re­pub­lic team is hap­py to fi­nal­ly have Nicholas on board.

Reena Gopaul, man­ag­er, Group Brand Man­age­ment at Re­pub­lic Bank ex­pressed the Bank’s en­thu­si­asm at hav­ing Paul on board.

She said: “It’s a very ex­cit­ing time for us at Re­pub­lic Bank as we em­bark on this new part­ner­ship with Nicholas. He per­son­i­fies sev­er­al of the bank’s core val­ues and is an all-round in­spi­ra­tion to young peo­ple. We look for­ward to a mu­tu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial part­ner­ship where we’ll sup­port him in his sport­ing jour­ney and lean on his in­flu­ence to in­spire our up­com­ing gen­er­a­tions.”

The brand am­bas­sador­ship will see the Olympic cy­clist in­volved in phil­an­thropic ef­forts through the bank’s "Pow­er to Make a Dif­fer­ence" cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty pro­gramme, while si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly pro­vid­ing him with key fi­nan­cial in­stru­ments for his suc­cess.

The part­ner­ship al­so ex­tends Re­pub­lic Bank’s sup­port and in­vest­ment in sport, as it fol­lows pre­vi­ous brand am­bas­sador­ships in track, sail­ing and karate. Un­der the Pow­er to Make a Dif­fer­ence pro­gramme, the in­tent is to en­cour­age youth to lead ac­tive healthy lifestyles, while chan­nel­ing their en­er­gy to achieve suc­cess, ce­ment­ing the growth and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of lo­cal sport.