St Vincent Grammar School

Ormond Williams was one of the first batch of students attending the St Vincent Grammar School to sit the CXC CSEC examinations in 1979. Following his success at these exams, he went on to pursue his A’Level studies at his Alma Mater.

In June 1981 he joined the staff of Barclays Bank Plc in St Vincent and the Grenadines and made his way up the ranks to being selected to join the Barclays Management Development Programme (MDP) designed to fast track employees with high potential to senior management. To continue his MDP training, in 1994 he was transferred to Barclays’ Regional Headquarters in Barbados where he spent two years in various areas including Offshore Banking, Information Technology, Operations and Administration and Credit Risk Management. Whilst on the MDP in St Vincent & the Grenadines, Mr Williams completed his Certificate in Business Administration with the University of the West Indies and his Banking Certificate with the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB) in the United Kingdom.

To provide him with international experience, Mr Williams was seconded in 1996 to several of Barclays’ operations in the United Kingdom for 12 months. Areas covered included Human Resources, Operations, Retail Banking and Offshore Banking. During his stint in the UK, he completed his Diploma in Banking from the Chartered Institute of Bankers (now Institute of Financial Services, School of Finance) and was awarded his Associateship (ACIB).

Mr Williams was transferred to Belize in 1997 to become Barclays Deputy Country Manager and Senior Corporate Manager. In 2000 he was transferred back to Barbados as Head of Offshore Banking and occupied a seat on the Bank’s Barbados Country Management Committee.

In 2002 he resigned from Barclays and took up the post of Executive Vice President of Cayman National Bank (CNB). In 2003 he became President of CNB and continues in this role at present. He is also a Director on the Bank’s Board.

Ormond is a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Services and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute in the UK. He holds a Certificate in Management Studies from University of Manchester, UK. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors, Children and Youth Services, Cayman Islands; Director – Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks, St Lucia; an Accredited Lay Preacher in the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas and Elder in the John Gray United Church, Cayman Islands.

He is married to Rachel, a Belizean national and they have one child, Joshua.