Susan Gordon, Staff Reporter
Raymond Campbell, immediate past president of the Jamaica Bankers Association at a cocktail reception, held at the Terra Nova Hotel, Waterloo Road on Wednesday February 23, 2005. - WINSTON SILL/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
RAYMOND CAMPBELL may have altered his professional profile somewhat, but Jamaicans can still bank on him to deliver them a par-on -excellence service. From banking to barbering, a brief moment under his influence will leave your finances and hair in check.
Now the managing director of Images Hair Shoppe, (Images)a barber and hairdressing salon, Mr. Campbell focuses more on 'hair making the man', and less on 'money making the man' .
The business is located in the Liguanea Post Mall on Hope Road in St. Andrew.
Campbell is presently engaged in advisory services at the auditing firm KPMG in Kingston and quite aptly so. An Association of Chartered Certified Accountant graduate, his versatility in accounting stretches back to his first stint and job with Barita Investments Limited as an accountant and then as general manager. He traded securities for four years before moving on to KPMG in the early 90s.
In 1997, he joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which is now known as FirstCaribbean.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Now some are pleasantly surprised to learn that his talents are not restricted to financial forecasts, funds or figures. His launch of Images last August confirms entrepreneurship as an inherent quality. "Images is not by chance," he shared withSunday Business.
"My grandfather was a florist and my grandmother was a dressmaker. The culture of being self employed and self sufficient has always been in my blood," he said. He said that he had always had a desire to create some financial independence and that the idea of the business came long before he left banking.
Banker, security trader, accountant, entrepreneur, Mr. Campbell wears many caps, but on weekends he takes them all off, hair and all. His weekend is very human based where he becomes the dear father and friend who cherishes his time with the people who matter most.
"I have two types of weekends," he told Sunday Business. "One with kids and one without," continued the father of three children. On his weekends with his children, he cooks breakfast lunch or dinner with them and takes them to the various activities they have.
He is a firm believer that personal happiness is very important. "It's about how you feel and is not bound by material things. It's about being in a place and a time and space which makes you comfortable," he fervently explained.
So with this, he gobbles up all the golf he can play on the weekend and spends his time with people he enjoys. "I don't do a lot of clubbing," he was careful to add. Saturday and Sunday evenings are spent with that special person going to the movies or travelling to the exquisitely antique parish of Trelawny.
Images opens on the weekend so Mr. Campbell said he sometimes spends time at the shop early Saturday and Sunday mornings, to oversee business or treats himself to a hair cut. Church is an occasional event.
