Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Lim­it­ed (RFHL) yes­ter­day an­nounced two ex­ec­u­tive ap­point­ments, with Paras­ram (Vic) Sal­ick­ram and David Robin­son set to take up se­nior po­si­tions at the fi­nan­cial hold­ings com­pa­ny and its T&T sub­sidiary Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd from Jan­u­ary 1, 2027, sub­ject to reg­u­la­to­ry ap­provals.

RFHL said Sal­ick­ram will be­come se­nior group vice pres­i­dent of RFHL and se­nior vice pres­i­dent of Re­pub­lic Bank, af­ter more than two decades with the Re­pub­lic Group.

It said that since join­ing Re­pub­lic Bank in 2004, Sal­ick­ram has held sev­er­al key port­fo­lios, in­clud­ing po­si­tions at sub­sidiaries in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Bar­ba­dos.

His pre­vi­ous roles in­clude chief fi­nan­cial of­fi­cer, chief risk of­fi­cer, vice pres­i­dent of Re­pub­lic Bank and group vice pres­i­dent of RFHL.

Robin­son will be ap­point­ed group vice pres­i­dent of RFHL and vice pres­i­dent of Re­pub­lic Bank.

He joined the or­gan­i­sa­tion in 1996 and has since held sev­er­al man­age­r­i­al po­si­tions, in­clud­ing gen­er­al man­ag­er of Re­pub­lic Wealth Man­age­ment Lim­it­ed and gen­er­al man­ag­er of Trea­sury.

Robin­son al­so served as act­ing man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank (Suri­name) N.V. and act­ing man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Re­pub­lic Bank (Guyana).

The ap­point­ments were an­nounced in a news re­lease sent yes­ter­day by RFHL.

The ap­point­ments came amid changes to the group’s lead­er­ship suc­ces­sion plans. On Thurs­day, RFHL re­versed its pub­licly an­nounced de­ci­sion to ap­point Richard Sam­my as its next group pres­i­dent and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, re­plac­ing him with Karen Yip Chuck less than nine months af­ter nam­ing him to suc­ceed Nigel Bap­tiste.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, RFHL con­firmed the change af­ter Guardian Me­dia first re­port­ed Sam­my’s de­par­ture. The group did not ex­plain why its board had changed course.

Sam­my left the in­sti­tu­tion on Wednes­day, more than two months be­fore he was due to as­sume the post on Jan­u­ary 1, 2027.