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GUARDIAN MEDIA LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021 25Age %u2013 65 Age %u2013 59Nationality %u2013 Trinidad and Tobago Citizen Nationality %u2013 American CitizenAppointment %u2013 2016 Appointment %u2013 2017Position %u2013 Independent Non-Executive DirectorPosition %u2013 Independent Non-Executive DirectorProfessor Brian CopelandProfessor Brian Copeland serves as a NonExecutive Director. He is the Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of The UWI, St Augustine Campus since 2016. He holds Chairmanship positions at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business and ROYTEC. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds expertise in Control Systems, Digital Electronics and Microprocessor Systems. He is the Co-ordinator of the Real Time Systems Group %u2013 University/Industry liaison (2000 to 2007) and the Steelpan Initiatives Project. He was Project Leader for design and construction of the first Electronic Scoreboard at the Queen%u2019s Park Oval.Professor Copeland is the holder of BSc Degree (First Class Honors) in Electrical Engineering from the University of the West Indies; MSc Degree in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from the University of Southern California.He has received numerous honours and awards:%u2013 First recipient, Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago%u2013 Joint recipient of the Chaconia Medal Gold as a member of the G-Pan team%u2013 NIHERST Research Scientist Award (2012)%u2013 Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award (November 2002)%u2013 BP/AMOCO Fellowship Award for Senior Academic Staff at the UWI (January 2001)%u2013 LASPAU/Fulbright scholarship for Doctoral program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. (July 1987)Davan MaharajDavan Maharaj is a Non-Executive Director since 2017. He is an internationally-renowned journalist who served as editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times. %u00a0 Under his leadership, The Times won five Pulitzer Prizes, including the prestigious gold medal for public service. As publisher, he oversaw a company with more than US$400 million in revenue.%u00a0 Maharaj began his journalism career in Trinidad and Tobago, where he won the Caribbean Journalist of The%u00a0Year prize and top awards for investigative journalism. At The Times, Maharaj won numerous awards for his investigation of a Southern California probate lawyer who wrote wills and trusts that bequeathed to himself millions of dollars of his clients%u2019 property. The story resulted in changes in California%u2019s probate laws. His series, Living On Pennies, published during his tenure as the paper%u2019s Nairobi bureau chief, won the Ernie Pyle Award for Feature Writing. As editor-in-chief, Maharaj and his team worked with an acclaimed New York digital firm to redesign%u00a0 latimes.com, then one of the world%u2019s largest responsive news websites ever built. Maharaj has a bachelor%u2019s degree from the University of Tennessee, a master%u2019s degree from Yale Law School, and recently was a Fellow at Harvard University%u2019s Kennedy School. Maharaj has an honorary doctor of letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of the West Indies.%u00a0OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS