Another CAL executive steps down

Brent Pin­heiro

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Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) has lost an­oth­er mem­ber of its se­nior lead­er­ship team. Nichelle Grander­son, the Hu­man Re­sources Vice Pres­i­dent, stepped down on Fri­day af­ter serv­ing in the role for on­ly four months.

In a What­sApp mes­sage to Guardian Me­dia, CAL chair­man Rey­na Kow­lessar con­firmed Grander­son’s de­ci­sion to leave the com­pa­ny. While not giv­ing a rea­son for her de­par­ture, Kow­lessar said the com­pa­ny had “ac­cept­ed her de­ci­sion”.

Ac­cord­ing to Kow­lessar, the com­pa­ny will make an act­ing ap­point­ment and be­gin the search for a new HR Vice Pres­i­dent soon.

In a LinkedIn post, Grander­son al­so con­firmed her de­par­ture from the com­pa­ny, say­ing, “my short but mean­ing­ful stint at Caribbean Air­lines Ltd has now come to a close”.

“I now re­turn to my core con­sult­ing prac­tice and on­go­ing ap­point­ments, car­ry­ing for­ward the in­sights and ex­pe­ri­ences gained dur­ing this chap­ter,” she added.

Grander­son is al­so a mem­ber of the FCB board.

Her ex­it is the lat­est in a se­ries of high-lev­el de­par­tures from the state en­ti­ty, ei­ther through re­tire­ment or res­ig­na­tion.

Among those leav­ing the se­nior lead­er­ship team were CEO Garvin Med­era, Chief In­for­ma­tion Of­fi­cer Je­re­my Mo­hammed, Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer Varuna Kuars­ingh, Chief Com­mer­cial Of­fi­cer Mar­tin Ae­ber­li, Gen­er­al Coun­sel and Cor­po­rate Sec­re­tary Nali­ni Lal­la, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Pro­cure­ment and Cost Im­pro­vi­sa­tion Ar­lene Hunte, and Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Car­go and New Busi­ness Mark­lan Mose­ley.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands he left the com­pa­ny a few weeks ago.

CAL has been ac­tive­ly seek­ing to fill the roles, but in­dus­try ex­perts say it is high­ly un­usu­al to see so many lead­er­ship de­par­tures in such a short pe­ri­od