Hall of Fame

Maxim Marquez entered the life insurance industry in June 1992 as an Agent with Guardian Life of the Caribbean and five years later in 1997 he was promoted to Unit Manager. His performance as a Unit Manager and clear dedication to his clients attracted the attention of Maritime Life Insurance Company and that company recruited him as an agency Manager in 2005.

CARAIFA’s Hall of Fame nominee for 2018 is Mark Norville.  Mark entered the life insurance business in 1975 with Barbados Mutual, now, Sagicor Life.  His previous employments after attending Harrison College 1956-1963 includes being Reservation Control Clerk with BWIA, Chief Reservations Officer with British Airways, Reservation Manager Head Office Antigua for LIAT and Sales Manager (Barbados) for National Continental Corporation.

CARAIFA’s 2016 Hall of Fame Inductee entered the Life Insurance business as a salesman with the St. Andrew Circle Branch of Life of Jamaica (now Sagicor) in 1976 after serving as the Plant Chemist and Production Manager with Caribbean Steel Company.

Harry Pilgrim is a former Regional Manager for Sagicor Capital Life’s insurance operations in Belize. He held that position for twelve (12) years, up to December 2012. Currently, he is an Alternate Director on the National Health Insurance Committee of the Social Security Board of Belize, Alternate Chairman of the Board of Management of the Anglican Cathedral College (formerly the St. Michael’s College – his alma mater), and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Belize. He is also seen as a “perennial contributor” to the Kidney Association of Belize.

Pat Gilding is a 38-year veteran in life insurance sales in the Caribbean, earning the Industry’s most prestigious awards, while giving pioneering service to the industry and her country. She became a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) in 1982, Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI) in 1988, with a specialty in Pension Planning, and a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) in 1999.

Frank Williamson Odle, an extraordinary Barbadian and a long standing member of the Barbados Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (BARAIFA) joined the Life Insurance Industry as a young and enthusiastic sales representative with Confederation Life in April 1972 after being a teacher of mathematics and science in secondary schools in Barbados and the United States of America.

Edward Balderamos fondly known as Eddie joined the insurance industry forty years ago and has been a member of CARAIFA for Twenty Four (24) of those years.

Roy Sydney, a champion of a man, joined the insurance industry in 1959 with Confederation Life and was promoted to the position of Supervisor eight years after.

R. Danvers (Danny) Williams has had a distinguished career in the life insurance industry spanning some 58 years. He is the Founder and Past President and Chief Executive Officer of Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited (formerly Life of Jamaica Limited), one of the largest life insurance companies in the West Indies.

He Joined the Life Insurance Industry in 1970 with Colonial Insurance Company of Jamaica after a 9 year military career, with the West India Regiment and Jamaica Defence Force. He left the Army as Intelligence Sergeant with a commendation for exemplary service and a recipient of the 1962 Jamaica Independence Medal.