Barry O'Brien

Williams Caribbean Capital

WCC is an impact investment company that is focused on sustainability including renewable energy, food packaging solutions and impact high potential start-ups. WCC is a joint venture with the Caribbean conglomerate Williams Industries Group, headquartered in Barbados with offices in Dublin Ireland and Kingston Jamaica. Founded and led by former Digicel CEOs Barry O'Brien and Ciaran Burke with Williams Industries Director, David Staples as Chairman, former Digicel Chief Procurement Officer, Tony Cooney as WCC Jamaica CEO and former Digicel CTO Dwight Grannum as COO. WCC companies have a combined workforce of over 600 and include Williams Renewable Energy, VIP Attractions, Irish Flexible Packaging, Fispak Limited and SocialCore. In May 2019, Williams Renewable Energy $40m green energy bond program was validated as conforming to Green Bond Principles via a second party opinion from Sustainalytics who are the world leaders for rating the sustainability of companies based on their environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) performance. In June 2019, Williams Renewable Energy Bond Notes were certified by the global Climate Bond Initiative as conforming to the Paris accord. These green energy bonds are the only such certified Noted issued by a Caribbean company. In Oct 2019, WCC was the winner of the Best Financing Award at the 2019 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) Key Partners include: - Royal Fidelity Merchant Bank & Trust Limited as Trustee and fund raising partner. - CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank (www.cibc.com ) as banker. - Inter-American Development Bank (www.iadb.org ) as bond guarantor. - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as auditors - RBK (www.rbk.ie) as Accountants and Auditors in Ireland - Williams Solar (www.williamssolar.com ) as installation and maintenance partner - Design Group (www.designergrp.com ) as Biomass and Waste to Energy development partner internationally