Kristine Thompson

Kristine Thompson is a Founding Director of Yay! Entertainment Limited, the franchise holder and operator of the Chuck E. Cheese’s family entertainment restaurant brand in Trinidad. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Canboulay Energy Capital, a private equity energy fund based in the Caribbean, which was backed by the U.S.-based Denham Capital Management. Mrs. Thompson spent a number of years in project development on behalf of the fund, and most significantly on a large calcium chloride/caustic soda plant in Trinidad.

Prior to joining Canboulay/Carisal, Mrs. Thompson spent eight years as an Executive at Guardian Holdings Limited, a pan-Caribbean financial services player, where as Vice President, Business Development, she led the Mergers and Acquisitions function over a period where Guardian quadrupled in size. Before returning to Trinidad & Tobago in 2000, she spent seven years in management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group in Toronto, New York, Buenos Aires and Melbourne, Australia where she advised Fortune 500 companies in the areas of strategy, organizational development, acquisitions and process reengineering. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Queen’s University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Mrs. Thompson is also a non-executive director of Republic Bank Limited, Caribbean Communications Network (CCN), the IRP Group and the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business. She is married with a son and daughter.