Harry Smith, executive-in-residence at Mona School of Business (MSB), University of the West Indies, has joined the board of NCB Capital Markets Limited, Jamaica's largest brokerage.

Smith is best known as the marketing executive which helped create the promotional strategies under which mobile company Digicel exploded on to the Jamaican business scene seven years ago.

He is the 11th director on a board chaired by Patrick Hylton, the group managing director of NCB Cap's parent company, National Commercial Bank.

Smith also sits on the boards of MSB, Cari-Med Limited and Kirk Distributors, and is a trustee of the University of Technology Foundation.

New JSE director

Attorney Nicole Lambert has joined the board of the 40-year-old Jamaica Stock Exchange, replacing Hilary Phillips QC as representative of the Jamaica Bar Association. Phillips had resigned her JSE directorship earlier this year on her appointment as a judge to the Court of Appeal.

Lambert was appointed to the board on June 25 at the JSE's 32nd annual general meeting but its first as a listed company.

Curtis Martin of Capital and Credit Financial Group was returned as chairman while Christopher Williams of NCB Capital Markets Limited is deputy chair.

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