Bridgetown (Barbados), July 15: Businessman Rawle Brancker, a former Barbados and West Indies cricketer, will head the Board of Directors of Cricket World Cup 2007, cricket officials said here. The West Indies cricket board approved Brancker`s appointment as Chairman, and that of Jamaican Owen Karl as Deputy Chairman, at the annual meeting in Roseau, Dominica, over the weekend. The 65-year-old Brancker, a left-handed all-rounder, toured England with the West Indies team in 1966 and played 47 first-class matches between 1956 and 1970. He is currently Chairman and President of the brancker Corporation, a business that he started and has run successfully in Barbados since 1976. Brancker has also served on the boards of a number of prominent regional companies. Melhado is a shareholder and vice chairman of Red Stripe Beer, a company with a close association to West Indies cricket through its sponsorship of regional first-class and one-day tournaments since 1988.
He is also a former Chief Executive Officer of major corporations such as IBM Jamaica, Jamaica Commodity Trading Corporation, and the Social Development Corporation.
The other members of the board were approved by the WICB and will be announced later in the week.
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