Alumni Success Stories

Rissa Fridy is an IT professional with over 18 years of experience in the field, 5 of which were at a senior management level. She immersed herself in all areas of IT including networking, application implementation, database management and project management, before finding her true love in data governance and management.

As part of the Digital Transformation Team, she acts as curator, steward and gatekeeper for the Bank’s information assets and has played a role in myriad successful system rollouts. She is the data champion behind all the Bank’s major projects, from core implementations to digital banking platforms to card system rollouts. Her latest focus is on 4th industrial revolution technologies such as Machine Learning and harnessing Big-Data to facilitate predictive analytics.

At just 32 years of age, Tevyn Gill has established himself in many different disciplines varying from Event and TV hosting, Writing, Graphic Design, Tour Guiding, Event Management and Digital Marketing.

Along his diverse career, he has completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, acquired work experience in both the Public and Private sectors, hosted TV shows for TTL & CNC3, hosted multiple events including weddings, poetry slams and open mic events. He relocated to a new country to work in Marketing and Design at a 5-Star hotel.

Tevyn gained hands-on experience in both Traditional and Digital Marketing, simultaneously managed 4 Mobile Applications for a regional company, began monetizing his blog – The Gill.T.  He founded the local creative talent platform, Bohemia Room TT and established his own Tour Guiding company, Gill.Trips TT and has been published twice by Jamaican Magazine, Panache, and many more in Trinidad.