George Sheppard is a senior investment professional with over 25 years of industry experience. George began his career in 1995 at Republic Bank Limited in their treasury department where he helped manage the bank’s large wholesale funding portfolio. Following the completion of his MBA, he spent several years at a major investment banking firm in Toronto. In 2004, he returned to Trinidad to run West Indies Stockbrokers Limited (WISE), one of the largest broker-dealers in the Caribbean. In 2009, George founded the Sheppard Group, a full-service independent wealth management firm. Over the past 11 years he has built the company into a significant player in the Trinidad and Tobago market, managing in excess of TT$4.6 billion of client assets. George is a CFA Charterholder, and has an honors degree in Economics from McGill University and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.