A Jamaican national has been appointed to serve as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. Albert Gordon’s appointment took effect from Thursday.
New GPL CEO Albert Gordon (left) and outgoing GPL Chairman Robert Badal
Coincidentally, Chairman of the GPL Board of Directors, Robert Badal also announced the end of his tenure. Badal was first appointed to that post in January 2016.
Gordon, who served previously as President of the National Water Commission of Jamaica (NWC), has several decades at extensive experience in water, sewerage and electric utilities.
Prior to his tenure at the NWC, where he also served in several senior capacities, he held several senior managerial posts in strategic planning, private power projects and generation and transmissions systems development planning at the Jamaica Public Service Company.
Gordon also served as Director General of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) Jamaica, appointed by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and an MBA.
Meanwhile, Badal said in a statement following the announcement of the end of his tenure as Chairman that he needed “every day of my time to focus on my companies’ expansion plans”.
Badal is also the CEO of the Guyana Stockfeeds Company on the East Bank of Demerara and the owner of the Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown.
“I am now waiting on the appointment of a new board by the Minister of Infrastructure (David Patterson) to execute a smooth handover,” he said in the statement.
