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Robert Michael Homer — Partner and Local Principal

Robert Michael Homer is the founder of R.M.H Accounting Services (registered in the Barbados Register of Business Names on 16 March 1990 under No. 9806) and RMH Financial Consultants Inc. (RMHFCI), registered under the Companies Act of Barbados under Company No. 25324 on 23 May 2005. Mr. Homer has served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of RMHFCI since its inception.

Mr. Homer is the Financial Consultant for the Mango Bay Hotel Group of Companies, a position he has held for the past 15 years, and is a recipient of the People's Choice Award for Entrepreneur of the Year during the SBA / First Citizens Bank Small Business Week in 2015.

He is a certified Intuit QuickBooks User and Trainer since 2011 and has trained hundreds of students at the Small Business Association (SBA) of Barbados in Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced QuickBooks over the past decade. Mr. Homer is a member of the SBA and served as an elected member of its Board of Directors from 2010 to 2019, including as Treasurer.

Mr. Homer has been a member of the Barbados Workers Union Co-operative Credit Union Limited since 1995. He was elected in June 2011 and served as Treasurer of its Board of Directors until June 2014. He previously served as Secretary of the Supervisory Committee of the BWU Credit Union from 2007 to 2010 and has served on the Finance Committee for over a decade. He is a recipient of the Credit Union's 35th Anniversary Volunteer Award (2019).

Mr. Homer began his career in accounting and finance on 12 May 1980 with the Goddard Enterprises Ltd Group at Barbados Commercial Insurance Co., Ltd., where he served as Accounts Clerk through Accountant until 1991, when he resigned to become an entrepreneur.

In 1995 he joined Co-operators General Insurance Company Limited as Accountant, rising to Finance Officer through 2001. During this period he led the lobby of the credit unions on the increase in general-insurance capital requirements from one million to three million dollars (achieved without contribution from the largest credit union in Barbados), and in 1998 led reinsurance negotiations in Banff, Canada, that removed approximately $900,000 in accumulated losses from the company's balance sheet and replaced them with $900,000 in retained earnings after tax in a single fiscal year (1999). He then authored the business continuation plan that underwrote the development of the company's current headquarters in Collymore Rock, St. Michael.

From 2002 to 2005 Mr. Homer served as Financial Consultant to the Caribbean Airways Ltd Group, including Caribbean Aircraft Handling Company Ltd and Club Caribbean Ltd, at Grantley Adams International Airport. He was appointed to the Finance Committee of the Board and, with the CEO, co-authored a business continuation plan that — when presented to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance — removed consideration of the company's closure, preserved approximately 350 jobs, and resulted in the conversion of debt owing to the Crown into equity of the company, improving solvency.

In 2018 he sat on the committee that developed the standards for the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Council, National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) in Accounting for Small Business — Level 3. He is a recipient of the TVET Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) Certification in Developing a New or an Existing Business Enterprise — Level 3 (2016).

Mr. Homer received a Management Diploma from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2001 and has been certified in Principles of Economics and Management Accounting & Finance since 1992.