Kingston: Dr. David McBean has been appointed to the position of Managing Director, LIME Customer Solutions, effective September 8, 2010.
David has some 15 years experience in Media Management, Telecommunications and Information Technology. He has held senior positions with Cable & Wireless Jamaica, Cable & Wireless Latin America, Air Jamaica and the CVM Group of Companies where he is currently the Chief Executive Officer. David studied Engineering at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine on a Jamaica Independence Scholarship, gaining a B.Sc.in Electrical & Computer Engineering (First Class Hons). He then went on to the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where he completed a D. Phil. In Engineering Science.
David will lead LIME’s Product Management team and will be accountable for Product Strategy, Product Planning and Management and our Regional delivery of Customer/Product Solutions. David and the Product Management team will work in collaboration with the Business Units and the Customer Segments, Marketing and the Project Management Office in the design, delivery and lifecycle management of products and solutions for our customers. He reports directly to Milton Brady, Chief Commercial Officer.
David, who will be based in Barbados, is married with two children, and serves on several company boards and charities in Jamaica. He plays squash and table-tennis competitively at the club level.
I just wanted to congratulate Dr. McBean as he was my former CEO/President while at CVM TV and I know he’s a man of character and wisdom, and am just happy to be associated with him while at CVM TV.
@Francis O. Severin: Dr Severin, I could not have said it better. Congratulations to Dr McBean. UWI is certainly a beacon of light in the West! As a UWI graduate, I am proud of our track record of excellence, and I encourage every UWI student, prospective and present to strive to ensure that this GREAT WEST INDIAN institution continues to shine and produce professionals of the highest Calibre.
My warm and sincere congratulations to another great University of the West Indies (UWI) graduate. You, like your fellow UWI graduates (teachers, doctors, public servants generally, agriculturalists, social workers, nurses, and so on), continue to make your alma mater very proud. This is UWI contributing through its hard-working graduates to Caribbean development and betterment. Keep it up brother. Peace!