VINCENT HIPPOLYTE was appointed Chairman of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) on April 15, 2013. Mr. Hippolyte has wide experience in the management field. He started as a Business Economist and later assumed management level positions in several organisations. Besides his management career, he has held Chairmanships of boards of directors of the St. Lucia Free Zone Management Authority and the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority. He has also held the position of director on the Boards of Directors of the St. Lucia Tourist Board; Anchorage Investments Ltd; St. Lucia Marine Terminals Ltd.; OAS Executive Board Committee on Ports, among others; and has also sat on a number of committees in Saint Lucia and in the region. Mr. Hippolyte was the former Chief Executive Officer of St. Lucia Marine Terminals Limited, St. Lucia Air and Seaports Authority (SLASPA) and the Anguilla Air & Sea Ports Authority. He was also a consultant who has had engagements with the World Bank,UNDP, DFID financed consultancy for Montserrat, and consultancies in the islands of Dominica, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts, Antigua and Montserrat. Mr. Hippolyte is currently the Managing Director of the Water and Sewerage Company (WASCO), and besides being the Chairman of the FSRA, he is a director on the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute based in Trinidad and of the Vielle Ville Development Company Inc.