Everyone is a “guest” and Lynden Pindling is #NoOrdinaryAirport says CEO Vernice Walkine

About the interviewee

Vernice Walkine is President and Chief Executive Officer of Nassau Airport Development Company Limited

Vernice J. Walkine started her career at the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism in 1979, as a Bi-Lingual Tourist Information Assistant, having studied French and Spanish at Elmira College, New York.

She moved steadily through the ranks of the Ministry of Tourism, while pursuing her MBA with the University of Miami.

She has had a varied career in tourism, having had responsibility for Marketing, Product Development, and Sales, eventually becoming Deputy Director General in 2001, then being appointed to the post of Director General in 2005, the first female to achieve this position.

She held the position until October 2010 when she demitted office to take a position with the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD), as Vice President of Marketing and Communications, the first Bahamian executive to be retained by the company.

Vernice assumed the role of President & CEO at NAD in March 2013 and saw the LPIA Expansion terminal through to completion in October 2013. She heads a staff of more than 250 employees at the airport management company.

Ms. Walkine has served on a number of Boards and Committees, including the National Art Gallery, the Bahamas Hotel Tourism Association’s Executive Committee, the Board of The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce, as the Co-Chair of the Downtown Nassau Partnership and board member of RBC FINCO the mortgage arm of RBC Royal Bank of Canada in The Bahamas.