Mr. Harryram Parmesar, FCCA
President
Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean
2009 – 2011

Harryram Parmesar was first appointed to the ICAC Board in 2001 and served as Vice-President, Secretary and Chairman of the ICAC’s Technical Committee prior to his election as President in June 2009. Under his leadership, a review of the ICAC’s Memorandum and Articles of Association was initiated with a view to strengthening the regulatory and governance structure of the ICAC. 

The Affiliation Agreement, which seeks to establish and maintain harmonized standards within the regional accountancy profession, was also entered into between the ICAC and its member bodies (regional institutes) during his tenure as president.

A past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG), he continues to serve as a member of ICAG’s Council. He was also Guyana’s representative on the International Assembly of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) from 2003 to 2009.

Mr. Parmesar is a Partner in the firm, Parmesar & Co., where he has responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the firm, managing over 20 staff and client services including Audit, Accounts, Taxation and Consultancy. He has over 31 years of experience in Assurance and Business Advisory Services, Taxation, Accounting, Systems Design and Implementation, and Corporate Secretarial Services.  He also has 20 years’ experience as a lecturer for the ACCA qualifications and has conducted many seminars on accounting, auditing and taxation.

He is the immediate past President of the Rotary Club of Georgetown and also served on the Executive of the Georgetown Cricket Club, the Georgetown Cricket Association and the Scouts Association of Guyana. He is also a Director for the Guyana Oil Company, Grace Kennedy Remittance Services, Demerara Distillers Limited, Demerara Bank Limited, Assuria Insurance (Gy) Inc and the St. Stanislus Board of Governor. He also represented the ICAC as a Trustee on the Caribbean Court of Justice from 2009 to 2014.

Ms. Joan Brathwaite, FCA, FCCA
President
Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean
2011 - 2013

Joan (Betty) Brathwaite has played a key role in the development of the accountancy profession regionally since she was first appointed to the ICAC Board in June 2001.  Prior to being elected President in 2011, she served as chair of the ICAC’s Membership Committee and the Task Force with responsibility for the review and amendment of the ICAC’s Articles of Association. She also chaired the Institute’s sub-committee appointed to formulate a Reciprocity Agreement to facilitate the free movement of accountancy professionals within region.  

As president of ICAC she was committed to advancing the goals of the ICAC and strengthening its role as a regional body. Her vision was to see the ICAC become a full institution within CARICOM with clear authority enshrined in the legal framework of CARICOM, and with all the benefits associated with a CARICOM organization. Discussions in this regard was advanced under leadership.

A past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB), Ms. Brathwaite continues to serve as a Member of the ICAB Council. She has served as the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) International Assembly representative for Barbados and is also a former Vice-President of the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries.

Ms. Brathwaite is the Managing Partner with Deloitte & Touche, Barbados. She is Deloitte’s first female Managing Partner within its Caribbean and Bermuda Cluster (CBC) and has been a partner with Deloitte in Barbados since it was created in December 2004. In addition to her role as Managing Partner, she led the firm’s audit practice but relinquished this role in September 2014.  

She currently sits as a member of the Board of Directors of DCB Holdings Ltd, the entity which has oversight of Deloitte offices in the Caribbean and Bermuda (CBC) countries (Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands and Trinidad & Tobago). She was a member of the Partners Advisory Group for the establishment of the inaugural Deloitte Americas Senior Managers School (SMS) and is part of the original faculty of the SMS.

Ms. Angela Lee Loy, FCCA, CA
President
Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean
2007 - 2009 

Angela Lee Loy has the distinction of being elected the first female President of ICAC. She is also the first female President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad & Tobago (ICATT).

The ICAC’s initiative to implement a regional practice monitoring programme became a reality during her presidency with the formal signing of Memoranda of Understanding with the ACCA for the commencement of the programme in Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. The historic signing took place on June 27, 2008 during the opening ceremony of the ICAC’s Annual Caribbean Conference in Trinidad and Tobago. The practice monitoring programme is one of the most significant achievements of the accountancy profession in the Caribbean and has served to enhance quality assurance review systems within the profession.
 
Ms. Lee Loy is the Chairman of Aegis Business Solutions Limited, one of the first companies in Trinidad and Tobago to primarily focus on business outsourcing and advisory services to SMEs and foreign investors. Her professional experience spans over 40 years’ in Auditing and Business Advisory Services with Aegis and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

She is the former Trinidad and Tobago representative on the International Assembly of ACCA and was honored by the ACCA in 2008 with the Achievement Award for the Americas for her outstanding contribution to the accountancy profession and to business and society.

She is currently the President of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI). Ms. Lee Loy serves on several Boards including Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit committee for Prestige Holdings Limited and for 138 Student Living Jamaica Limited, both public companies. In addition, she is also Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Audit committee of Gulf Insurance Limited and Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit committee of Assuria Life (T&T) Limited.  

Within the NGO sector, she is currently Chairman of the Music Literacy Trust; Chairman of the Social Justice Foundation and she also sits on the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain. Ms. Lee Loy is also the former Chairman of Trinidad and Tobago’s National AIDS Coordinating Committee (NACC) and she continues to play an integral role in the development of the NGO sector and business community in Trinidad and Tobago.