Keith Collister has been hired by Butch Stewart as director of special projects with the ATL Group. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

Financial Analyst Keith Collister will be joining the ATL Group of Companies as director of special projects, this week.

Collister told Wednesday Business that his new job allows him to marry his work in public policy and his interest in journalism.

ATL chairman, Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, is also publisher of the Jamaica Observer newspaper, a daily tabloid.

Collister, who says he enters ATL as a member of its team of executives, will be seated in ATL's finance division and will report to Patrick Lynch.

"It will involve writing for the Observer," he said. "But that will not be the main focus of the position."

Collister adds that the projects he will oversee have not yet been defined, but would be "pretty much anything" that Stewart has in mind.

The financial analyst, who sits in the absence of his father, Roy Collister, as head of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce's (JCC) tax policy committee, last worked with The Gleaner as a writer and commentator in a freelance capacity while acting as advisor to entities like the JCC and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica.

He also worked with Grace-Kennedy's First Global group before joining the media.

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