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WHEN WERE YOU BORN?
Roxane De Freitas
Director
Roxane De Freitas retired from Massy Integrated Retail in January 2025, where she most recently served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development. Prior to this role, she was Chief Executive Officer of Massy Stores Trinidad for four years, with direct responsibility for the Trinidad and Tobago operations of the Caribbean’s leading supermarket chain, comprising 23 stores and more than 2,000 employees. She also served as a Director on the Integrated Retail Portfolio Board, a subsidiary of Massy Holdings Limited overseeing retail and distribution businesses across the Caribbean and the United States.
Ms. De Freitas previously held senior leadership roles at Unilever, where she built an extensive regional and international career. At Unilever Caribbean, she served as Marketing Director Caribbean, Regional North Exports Director, and as a member of the Unilever Greater Caribbean Board. She was the first female Managing Director of Unilever Caribbean Limited (formerly Lever Brothers), a position she held for five years before being expatriated to Unilever’s Head Office in Puerto Rico in August 2012.
In June 2024, Ms. De Freitas was appointed to the Board of Scotia Group Jamaica Limited, and in September 2024 to the Board of Scotia Jamaica Life Insurance Company Limited. She serves on the Audit & Conduct Review Committees of both entities, as well as the Investment, Loan and Risk Committee of Scotia Jamaica Life Insurance Company Limited. In 2025, she was appointed Chair of the Risk Committee of Scotia Group Jamaica Limited.
Ms. De Freitas served on the Board of Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Limited from February 2009 until her retirement in 2023. In December 2017, she assumed the role of Chairperson of the Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Foundation, which manages the bank’s philanthropic initiatives. She is also a past Board member of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. De Freitas holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.