Digicel TCI CEO E. Jay Saunders has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organization (CANTO) at its recent Annual General Meeting (AGM) in St. Maarten.
Under the theme “Accelerating the Broadband experience in the Caribbean-Transforming the way we live”, Saunders was nominated and accepted.
“I am honored to be a part of the CANTO board. It is a very prestigious board, made up of very talented and seasoned telecommunications and ICT executives who collectively have more than 100 years of telecommunications and ICT experience between them, and who represent some of the largest telecommunications and ICT companies in the region. As the youngest member of the Board, I am excited about being able to learn from my fellow Board members,” Saunders.
CANTO, consists of 107 members from 35 countries, and serves as a major trade association in the telecommunications sector, working together to further agendas and policy strategies relevant to the member counties.
Saunders was the only member newly elected to the board. Re-Elected members include: Linus Rogers, TSTT (Trinidad & Tobago); Julian Wilkins, Digicel Trinidad & Tobago; Lawrence McNaughton, Cable & Wireless Grenada; Lyrio Gomez, UTS (Curacao) and Davidson Charles, Cable & Wireless Antigua. Mr. Charles was also re-elected as Treasurer.
The other directors, Chairman, Dirk Currie, TELESUR (Suriname), Vice Chair, Karen Bevans, BTL (Belize) and Helma Etnel, Telem (St. Maarten) continue to serve as directors.
Saunders previously held a position as the chairman of the CANTO Marketing committee, and hosted a meeting of the Board of Directors in the Turks and Caicos in June 2010.
