Nick Haywood ACMA
President
Nick’s professional background includes over 30 years with PwC and its predecessor firms, the last 22 of which have been in the Turks & Caicos Islands. Prior to moving to the Turks & Caicos Islands, Nick worked for PwC in the UK and Malawi.
Ryan Blain CA
Treasurer
Ryan is a graduate of Wilfred Laurier University and is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Ryan has fifteen years of professional accounting and finance experience. Ryan now serves as the Managing Director of the WB Financial Group, a firm specializing in professional accounting and company management services.
David Green CA
Secretary
David qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2004, at which time he joined PwC in the Turks & Caicos Islands. He returned to the UK for 8 years, working within internal and IT audit in industry, becoming a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) in the process. He has since returned to the islands and rejoined PwC, working across both external audit and risk assurance lines of service.
Ben Avenant CA
Executive Member
Ben graduated from Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant 2012. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. Ben transferred to the Turks & Caicos Islands in 2013 and is currently the Finance Manager for The EA Group, with experience in auditing and financial - and management accounting. In his spare-time he is the treasurer of the Turks and Caicos Weightlifting Federation.
Snjezana Andrews CPA
Executive Member
Snjezana Andrews, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) since 2009, holding a Master’s in Business Management. She worked at IBM, KPMG, EY and PwC. She currently is CEO and Managing Director of CPA Firm, The A Team Ltd in the Turks and Caicos, along with several other entrepreneurial pursuits. Snjezana, sits as Board Treasurer for United Way Worldwide, a community outreach, non-profit organization, named on the Forbes list in 2016 and 2017 as being the leading US charity Organization in the world.
Paul Murray FCA
Executive Member
Paul has achieved the title of Fellow Chartered Accountant, and has been a member of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants in England & Wales for over 10 years.
Post qualification, Paul moved to Bermuda with Deloitte in 2003 and worked in insurance, trusts and hedge fund administration before moving on to work in the investment, property and leisure industries in Bermuda, Barbados and now the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Past Presidents
Drexwell Seymour CPA
President 2014 - 2016
Drexwell became a certified public accountant in 1992 and worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in TCI, KPMG TCI and KPMG Canada. In 1999, he joined Cable & Wireless as the management accountant and a year later became the Vice President Finance. Drexwell was the general manager of LIME, a position he started in 2006. He is currently Managing Partner for Accounting Firm HLB since 2014.