{"id":30907,"date":"2021-01-29T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=30907"},"modified":"2021-01-29T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:38:30","slug":"30907-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/30907-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilroy Pultie Appointed  LUCELEC Chief Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24362 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Picture1-Lucelec-1024x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Picture1-Lucelec-1024x151.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Picture1-Lucelec-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Picture1-Lucelec-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Picture1-Lucelec-768x113.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Picture1-Lucelec.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong><u>#1\/2021<\/u><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><u>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Contact:\u00a0 Roger Joseph<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Corporate Communications Manager<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tel: 457-4520| Mobile: 484-3857<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gilroy Pultie Appointed LUCELEC Chief Engineer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Castries, January 29, 2021<\/strong><strong> \u2013 <\/strong>St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Gilroy Pultie to the position of Chief Engineer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-1536x1135.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gilroy-Pultie-600x443.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mr. Pultie holds an MBA with specialization in Finance (with distinction) from Heriot-Watt University, a Certified Diploma in Accounting &amp; Finance (ACCA) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering from the University of the West Indies (with distinction).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is certified in leadership development, strategy development and implementation, project management, utility regulation, fuel price hedging and business continuity. These are expected to serve him well in his new post and as a member of the company\u2019s Executive Management Team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since joining the company in 1993, Mr. Pultie has served in various management positions. In 2003, he was appointed to lead LUCELEC\u2019s largest department &#8211; Transmission &amp; Distribution. From September 2015 to January 2019 he was the company\u2019s Business Support Manager where he led the company\u2019s efforts in cost optimization and business process re-engineering, gaining a deeper understanding of all LUCELEC\u2019s operations and how each department contributes to the achievement of the company\u2019s strategic goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Immediately prior to his appointment as Chief Engineer, he was seconded to Nevis Electricity Company (NEVLEC) as General Manager from September 2019 to August 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of his new position, he says \u201cI am always looking for opportunities to grow, and I\u2019m looking forward to continue contributing to shaping LUCELEC\u2019s future, in a different role and at a higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Pultie officially took up his duties on November 3, 2020 and replaces Mr. Goodwin d\u2019Auvergne who retired from LUCELEC in November 2020, having served for 29 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">-ends-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1\/2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3542,3541,1849],"class_list":["post-30907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chiefengineer","tag-gilroypultie","tag-lucelec"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","month_date":"Jan","day_date":"29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}