• Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town Tortola, British Virgin Islands, VG1110
  • abnerperalta@tapirholdingsltd.com

Leadership & Committees

  • Home
  • Leadership & Committees
Thumb

Lord Michael Ashcroft

Chairman
Thumb

Frank Mosier

Director
Thumb

Melquisedec Flores Urbina

Director
Thumb

Philip T. Osborne

Director
Thumb

Abner Peralta

Company Secretary

Lord Ashcroft KCMG PG

Chairman

Lord Ashcroft is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. He is the former Treasurer and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party in the UK, the current Honorary Chairman and former Treasurer of the International Democracy Union (IDU), and currently a Privy Council member. He was formerly the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Veterans’ Transition.

Lord Ashcroft has been a successful entrepreneur for nearly half a century launching, buying, building and selling companies – both private and public – in Britain and overseas, notably the US and the Caribbean. During this time, he has had a wide range of business interests, including involvement in security, service industries, financial services, recruitment, banking and publishing companies. In 1997, Lord Ashcroft negotiated the sale of his security company, ADT, to Tyco International for $6.7 billion (then worth £3.7 billion).

Lord Ashcroft is currently Chairman of Waterloo Investment Holdings Limited, a BSX listed (WIHL.BH) investing company based in the Caribbean and Latin America, Chair of Tapir Holdings Ltd. and Deputy Chair of Rendeavour Holding Limited. He was previously Interim Chair on the board of Marlowe plc (acquired by Mitie Group plc in August 2025), Non-Executive Director of Merit Group plc and Non-Executive Chair of Impellam Group plc.

Appointed as Non-Executive Chair on June 28, 2024

Philip Osborne

Director

Philip Osborne graduated from the University of Wales in the UK with a BSc. Honours in Economic Science and is a Solicitor and Member of the Law Society of England and Wales. He is also a member of the Belize Bar Association.

Mr. Osborne previously worked as a legal adviser to the London Stock Exchange and The Securities Association in the UK and for Clifford Chance and S.J Berwin & Co. Mr. Osborne was a Director of Waterloo Investment Holdings Limited from 2011 to 2020. He was also a Director and Company Secretary of the BSX and AIM listed Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited (formerly BCB Holdings Limited) from 1993 to 2022 when it was acquired by Waterloo Investment Holdings Limited. Mr. Osborne is a Non-Executive Director of Carlisle Support Services Group Limited and Hawley Group Ltd.

Mr. Osborne has more than 35 years’ experience in international corporate finance; international mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies; international equity and debt listings, and international regulatory reporting and business development. His experience includes UK, US, Bermudian, Central American and Caribbean corporate, regulatory reporting and compliance, business acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructuring, major refinancing, and corporate reorganizations, in a variety of business services sectors.

Appointed as Executive Director on January 24, 2024

Melquisedec Flores-Urbina

Director

Melquisedec Flores-Urbina is currently a Financial Consultant, and is a certified public accountant and member of the Washington State Board of Accountants, Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Belize. Mr. Flores-Urbina is currently Finance Director of Tapir Holdings Ltd, where he has overall responsibility for the finance function, and a member of the Audit Committee.

His previous experience includes as an auditor at PriceWaterhouse from 1988 to 1990, Chief Accountant to Belize Electricity Board from 1990 to 1991 and Financial Controller for Carlisle Holdings Limited (at the time, a Nasdaq listed company) from 1991 to 1999.

Mr. Flores-Urbina is a Non-Executive Director to Waterloo Investment Holdings Limited, a BSX listed (WIHL.BH) investing company based in the Caribbean and Latin America; a Non-Executive Director to Hawley Group Limited, a strategic investment company, and a Non-Executive to Gusbourne Limited.

Mr. Flores-Urbina has more than 35 years’ experience in international corporate finance; international mergers and acquisitions involving both public and private companies; international equity and debt listings, and international regulatory reporting and business development.

Appointed as Executive Director and Finance Director on June 28, 2024

Frank Mosier Jr.

Non-Executive Director

Frank Mosier has more than 30 years of experience in emerging markets and is currently a founding shareholder and director in Rendeavour (and was formerly Chairman). Mr. Mosier is the Chairman of Renmoney Africa Consumer Finance and is also the founder and managing partner of Lockington Partners, a private investment firm which was set up in 2012.

Prior to founding Lockington Partners, from 1995 to 2001 Mr. Mosier was co-Founder, Partner and Managing Director of an emerging markets investment bank, Renaissance Capital. In 2001, Mr. Mosier founded Kazimir Partners, an independent investment management business, where he held the roles of Founder, CEO and CIO until 2012.

Mr. Mosier has served on the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Africa Business Council. He regularly speaks on U.S.–Africa business and investment, most recently delivering the keynote address at the U.S.–DRC Business Summit in Washington, D.C.. He has also participated in public-private initiatives supporting infrastructure development and private sector growth across the continent. Mr. Mosier is a founder of the Milken Center for the Advancement of the American Dream in Washington, D.C.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Mr. Mosier began his career working for U.S. Senator John Heinz during the 100th Congress. He holds a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College.

Appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director on June 28, 2024

Dr. Jerome Booth

Non-Executive Director

Dr. Booth has a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford and was a Lecturer in Economics at Christ Church. In 2013, he retired from his role as Head of Research at Ashmore Group plc, the emerging markets asset management group that he helped establish in 1999 in a management buyout from ANZ Bank which subsequently listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2006. Prior to ANZ, he worked in the Strategic Planning unit of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1991 to 1994 in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Booth is currently Chairman of The Global Warming Policy Foundation and Vice President of the Essex Community Foundation. He previously served as Chairman of the Governing Board of Anglia Ruskin University. He has also been Chairman of the Britten Sinfonia, The UKCF (the national body of Community Foundations), and the Fitzwilliam Museum Development Trust. He was also a board member of the Royal Philharmonic Society. In the mid-1980’s Dr. Booth was an Executive Officer at Her Majesty’s Department of Trade and Industry.

Appointed as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on Admission

Rachel Addison

Non-Executive Director

Rachel Addison is a commercial and strategic business leader with a proven track record of driving, developing and delivering profit growth through organic revenue growth, business transformation, organisational restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. She has over 35 years’ experience in delivering business results and corporate funding structures and transactions to drive shareholder value across a variety of ownership structures.

Ms. Addison currently serves as a Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair at Watkin Jones plc and Senior Independent Director at Hollywood Bowl Group plc. She is also Senior Non-Executive Director of Gamma Communications plc and Wates Group Limited (a privately-owned construction, residential development and property services business). Ms. Addison previously served as a Non-Executive Director of Marlowe plc from November 2021 to August 2025.

Ms. Addison was the Chief Financial Officer at Future plc, the global platform business for specialist media, until 2021. Prior to that she was Chief Financial Officer at TI Media Limited and has held a number of senior financial, operational and board level roles at Trinity Mirror (now Reach) Regionals, Local World Limited, Northcliffe Media Limited and Boots the Chemist where she was Head of Risk Management.

Ms. Addison graduated from Loughborough University with a BSc. Honours in Economics with Accountancy, and subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director on Admission

Philip Johnson

Non-Executive Director

Philip Johnson is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has held a number of senior commercial roles in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean.

Mr. Johnson held various senior positions with Lonrho Plc both in the UK and in Ghana where he was the consulting accountant for Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, an associate company of Lonrho Plc. He also worked as Managing Director for Tescon in Ghana and Nigeria, between 1990 and 1994.

Mr. Johnson additionally spent more than fifteen years working at BCB Holdings Limited between 1994 and 2011, alongside Philip Osborne and Lord Ashcroft. During this time, he held the positions of President of The Belize Bank Limited and Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited.

Appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director on Admission

Abner Peralta

Company Secretary

Mr. Peralta obtained a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of London in 2006 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law in England in 2010. Mr Peralta was Admitted to the Bar of Belize in 2015. Since 2008, Mr. Peralta has been the Company Secretary for the financial holding company, B.B. International Limited and its banking subsidiaries, The Belize Bank Limited, the largest banking operation in Belize, Belize Bank International Limited, a company authorised to conduct international banking business with international customers from Belize. Mr. Peralta is also the Company Secretary of Waterloo Investment Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.

Appointed as Company Secretary on January 24, 2024

Committees

The Board is responsible for leading and controlling the Company and has overall authority for the management and conduct of its business, strategy and development. The Board is also responsible for ensuring the maintenance of a soundsystem of internal controls and risk management (including financial, operational and compliance controls) and for establishing and monitoring the corporate governance values of the Company. While the Board may delegate specific responsibilities, there is a formal schedule of matters specifically reserved for decision by the Board. Such reserved matters include, amongst other things, approval of significant capital expenditure, material business contracts and major corporate transactions. The Board meets regularly to review performance and will meet at least four times each year.

The Board has delegated specific responsibilities to the Audit Committee, Remuneration and Nomination Committee and the Investment Committee as outlined below.

Audit Committee

  • Rachel Addison (Chair)
  • Dr. Jerome Booth
  • Frank Mosier
  • Melquisedec Flores-Urbina

The Audit Committee will be responsible for assisting the Board in its oversight of the Company’s financial process, internal control and risk management procedures, investments and compliance. The Audit Committee is responsible for reviewing the interim and audited financial statements and ensuring the integrity of the Company’s financial information by providing sufficient review and challenge. The Audit Committee will also advise the Board on the appointment of external auditors, their remuneration for both audit and non-audit work and the nature, scope and results of the external audit.

Remuneration and Nomination Committee

  • Dr. Jerome Booth (Chair)
  • Rachel Addison
  • Philip Osborne

The Remuneration and Nomination Committee is responsible for considering and recommending Board candidates for election or re-election, overseeing succession planning, determining the terms of employment and total remuneration of certain members of senior management and reviewing the performance of the Directors. The Remuneration and Nomination Committee will ensure that any remuneration is aligned to the implementation of the Company’s strategy and effective risk management, taking into account the views of Shareholders. The Remuneration and Nomination Committee will also make recommendations to the Board on any proposals for the granting of share options and other equity incentives plans in operation, if any, from time to time.

Investment Committee

  • Dr. Jerome Booth (Chair)
  • Rachel Addison
  • Philip Johnson
  • Frank Mosier
The Investment Committee has been established to promote and maintain a prudent and effective allocation of the Company’s capital.