Board of Directors

Marion Blyden was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (BVI) Limited Board in June 2020. Ms. Blyden is the current Managing Director, Republic Bank (BVI) Limited and is a career banker with considerable Finance, Business Continuity Management, Personal Financial Counselling and Lending, Operations Management, Project Management, Risk Management, and Business Development expertise built up over close to two decades.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Blyden served as the Managing Director of Scotiabank (British Virgin Islands) Limited. Before this, she served as the Chief Operations Officer at National Bank of the Virgin Islands Limited. She also served at CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited (British Virgin Islands) as Head of Retail, Small Business and Operations; Wealth Manager; and International Premier Manager.
Ms. Blyden holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (summa cum laude) with a dual concentration in Finance and Investments from Baruch College, City University of New York, and a Master of Business Administration, Finance Concentration from Wright State University, Ohio, USA. She also holds a Master’s Certificate in Project Management and Monitoring and Measurement: Certification I from Laval University, IDEA International and H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) and is a Certified Continuity Manager from the National Institute for Business Continuity Management, New York, USA.
External Appointments
Ms. Blyden is a member of the Golden Key Honour Society, a Charter member of the Zonta Club of Tortola, and is a member/ director of the Rotary Club Sunrise of Road Town.

John Carrington K.C. was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (EC) Limited in May 2020. Currently in private practice as a Barrister-at-Law in the law firm SABALS Law, Mr. Carrington also serves as a consultant on British Virgin Island (BVI) law to Charles Russell Speechlys LLP, a law firm with offices in London and Geneva.
Appointed King’s Counsel in 2013, Mr. Carrington is a Certified Mediator, Arbitrator and Notary Public, and a member of the panel of arbitrators of the BVI International Arbitration Centre. Mr. Carrington has appeared as Counsel before all courts in the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Caribbean, and Turks and Caicos Islands, as well as the Caribbean Court of Justice and the Privy Council. He has significant expertise in corporate law, intellectual property law, company incorporation, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes and agreements, receiverships, freezing and disclosure orders, and voluntary and insolvent liquidation.
Over the course of his 30-plus year career in law, Mr. Carrington has also served as a former State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers in Trinidad and Tobago; Manager of the Legal Department of Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. He has held temporary appointments as judge in the commercial division of the High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands and on the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal; and has provided expert evidence in relation to commercial and regulatory laws for BVI, St. Vincent and Antigua in international criminal and commercial proceedings. During his career, he has also chaired the working committee for drafting the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force agreement and has featured as a speaker at various conferences in the BVI, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Mr. Carrington holds an LLB (Upper Second Class Honors) from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados; LEC from the Hugh Wooding Law School; Diploma in Banking from the Chartered Institute of Bankers; and LLM from Hull University, United Kingdom (with Distinction) in International Business Law. He has authored and co-authored several internationally published articles and academic papers, designed and taught courses for paralegals, and has served as ad hoc member of BVI Law Commission on Draft Arbitration legislation and on drafting of the rules for the Commercial Division of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Mr. Carrington was admitted to the Bar in Trinidad and Tobago (1983), the British Virgin Islands (1996), Anguilla (2002), Antigua (2004), St. Kitts and Nevis (2009), Turks and Caicos Islands (2009), Grenada (2011, Dominica (2012), and St Vincent (2012). He is also a Trinidad and Tobago National Scholar, UWI Scholar and British Chevening Scholar and an Honorary Member of Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Centre for International Legal Studies of Salzburg, Austria.

Glenn Harrigan was appointed to the Board of Republic Bank (BVI) Limited in April 2021. Trained in the United Kingdom, he is a Chartered Accountant and brings to bear considerable public and private accounting expertise having served a diversified portfolio of clients over the course of a career spanning more than 25 years.
Since 1996, Mr. Harrigan is the current Director and Part Owner of Crowe (BVI) Limited and CCP Financial Consultants Limited; a leading accounting and advisory firm and financial services company, respectively, based in the British Virgin Islands. In his roles, Mr. Harrigan provides best in practice audit, accounting, financial services, insolvency, consultancy, and real life entrepreneurial experience to clients locally and internationally.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Harrigan served as the Financial Controller, British Virgin Islands Electricity Corporation, and previously, as the Deputy Financial Controller, where he managed the Corporation’s financial statements and annual reports, served as a negotiator in deals with international financial institutions, and managed the Corporation’s accounting department.
Mr. Harrigan holds a B.Sc. Accounting from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados (1984) and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (1989).
External Appointments
Mr. Harrigan is the Chairman of the Board of Immigration (since 2019). He is a former Chairman of the Board of the British Virgin Islands Airports Authority and a former member of the Rotary Club of Road Town.

Marion Blyden was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (BVI) Limited Board in June 2020. Ms. Blyden is the current Managing Director, Republic Bank (BVI) Limited and is a career banker with considerable Finance, Business Continuity Management, Personal Financial Counselling and Lending, Operations Management, Project Management, Risk Management, and Business Development expertise built up over close to two decades.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Blyden served as the Managing Director of Scotiabank (British Virgin Islands) Limited. Before this, she served as the Chief Operations Officer at National Bank of the Virgin Islands Limited. She also served at CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank Limited (British Virgin Islands) as Head of Retail, Small Business and Operations; Wealth Manager; and International Premier Manager.
Ms. Blyden holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (summa cum laude) with a dual concentration in Finance and Investments from Baruch College, City University of New York, and a Master of Business Administration, Finance Concentration from Wright State University, Ohio, USA. She also holds a Master’s Certificate in Project Management and Monitoring and Measurement: Certification I from Laval University, IDEA International and H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) and is a Certified Continuity Manager from the National Institute for Business Continuity Management, New York, USA.
External Appointments
Ms. Blyden is a member of the Golden Key Honour Society, a Charter member of the Zonta Club of Tortola, and is a member/ director of the Rotary Club Sunrise of Road Town.

John Carrington Q.C. was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (EC) Limited in May 2020. Currently in private practice as a Barrister-at-Law in the law firm SABALS Law, Mr. Carrington also serves as a consultant on British Virgin Island (BVI) law to Charles Russell Speechlys LLP, a law firm with offices in London and Geneva.
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2013, Mr. Carrington is a Certified Mediator, Arbitrator and Notary Public, and a member of the panel of arbitrators of the BVI International Arbitration Centre. Mr. Carrington has appeared as Counsel before all courts in the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Caribbean, and Turks and Caicos Islands, as well as the Caribbean Court of Justice and the Privy Council. He has significant expertise in corporate law, intellectual property law, company incorporation, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes and agreements, receiverships, freezing and disclosure orders, and voluntary and insolvent liquidation.
Over the course of his 30-plus year career in law, Mr. Carrington has also served as a former State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers in Trinidad and Tobago; Manager of the Legal Department of Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. He has held temporary appointments as judge in the commercial division of the High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands and on the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal; and has provided expert evidence in relation to commercial and regulatory laws for BVI, St. Vincent and Antigua in international criminal and commercial proceedings. During his career, he has also chaired the working committee for drafting the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force agreement and has featured as a speaker at various conferences in the BVI, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Mr. Carrington holds an LLB (Upper Second Class Honours) from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados; LEC from the Hugh Wooding Law School; Diploma in Banking from the Chartered Institute of Bankers; and LLM from Hull University, United Kingdom (with Distinction) in International Business Law. He has authored and co-authored several internationally published articles and academic papers, designed and taught courses for paralegals, and has served as ad hoc member of BVI Law Commission on Draft Arbitration legislation and on drafting of the rules for the Commercial Division of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Mr. Carrington was admitted to the Bar in Trinidad and Tobago (1983), the British Virgin Islands (1996), Anguilla (2002), Antigua (2004), St. Kitts and Nevis (2009), Turks and Caicos Islands (2009), Grenada (2011, Dominica (2012), and St Vincent (2012). He is also a Trinidad and Tobago National Scholar, UWI Scholar and British Chevening Scholar and an Honorary Member of Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Centre for International Legal Studies of Salzburg, Austria.

Michael Walcott, General Manager, Overseas Operations, is a risk management and business process improvement professional with significant industry expertise in Compliance, Process Improvement, Operational Risk, and Auditing. In his current role, Mr. Walcott provides support and governance for all of the Group’s overseas territories, and is responsible for implementation of integration plans for recent acquisitions.
A member of Republic Bank’s managerial team for more than a decade, Mr. Walcott has served as Acting General Manager, Group Enterprise Risk; Senior Manager, Corporate Operations Process Improvement/Operational Risk; and Manager, Corporate Activities, Internal Audit. Prior to which, he has also served as Compliance Manager (with regional oversight), Internal Auditor, and Business Risk Analyst in various organisations throughout Trinidad and Tobago and the region.
Mr. Walcott holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Morehouse University, Atlanta, Georgia, is certified in Professional Anti-Money Laundering under the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA), and was awarded a Certificate in Compliance from Citigroup. He has completed several courses in credit risk; anti-money laundering; fraud prevention and detection; occupational health and safety; business writing; and financial statement analysis.

Richard S. Sammy, General Manager, Corporate and Investment Banking is a distinguished banker with significant regional experience in corporate and investment banking, risk management and banking operations.
Prior to his current position, he served as the Managing Director, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited and as Regional Manager, Corporate Business Centre-South and Regional Manager, Investment Banking Division at Republic Bank Limited.
He also serves as Chairman of Republic Bank (BVI) Limited and a Director of Republic Bank (Barbados) Limited. A past Director of the Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. (CAB) and the American Chamber of Commerce – Guyana (AMCHAM Guyana), Mr. Sammy is also a former Chairman of the Guyana Association of Bankers Inc. (GABI).
Mr. Sammy holds a Master of Business Administration from the Warwick Business School (United Kingdom), a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad) and is a graduate of The Wharton School’s Advanced Management Program (United States).

Sjoerd Koster was appointed to the Board of Directors of Republic Bank (BVI) Limited in May 2025. Mr. Koster is an independent director and financial-services executive with more than 25 years of experience across banking, investment management, private wealth, fiduciary services and digital assets. His areas of expertise include board governance, credit and lending, investment advisory, regulatory compliance, operational risk, business development and strategic relationship management.
Mr. Koster is the Managing Director and co-founder of Mount Sage Advisors Ltd and Mount Sage Directors Ltd, through which he provides independent directorship, corporate governance and advisory services to investment managers, funds, family offices, banks and other international structures. His board experience spans investment funds, digital assets, private wealth, real estate and banking entities in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.
Prior to establishing Mount Sage, Mr. Koster served as General Manager – Client Business and as a member of the Executive Management team of VP Bank (BVI) Limited. In that role, he contributed to the strategic management of the bank and held responsibilities across client business, investments, credit, regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering oversight and operational risk. He also acted as the bank’s liaison with the BVI Financial Services Commission and served as Head of its Credit Committee.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Koster served as Business Development Manager for the Caribbean and Latin America at TMF Group. He previously held electronic-banking and digital-signature roles with ABN AMRO Bank N.V. in the Netherlands.
Mr. Koster holds a Master of Science in e-Technology from Middlesex University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business/Managerial Economics from Hanze University of Applied Sciences. He also completed an exchange programme in Finance and Marketing at ESSEC Business School in Paris. Mr. Koster holds the Trust and Estate Practitioner designation, having completed the International Trust Management programme of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

External Appointments
Mr. Koster is a member of the BVI Financial Services Complaints Tribunal. He previously served as President of the BVI Bank Association and Deputy Chairman of the Association of Registered Agents. He has also served on several government-appointed committees and advisory bodies, including the Financial Services FinTech Advisory Group, the Economic Advisory Council to the Premier and the Sub-Committee to Revitalise BVI Financial Services.