Kris Sammy oversees the Excel Guyana team and serves as Excel’s Government Relations liaison with Guyana officials and local agencies. His role stretches from overseeing Excel’s day-to-day operations to collaborating with his team to develop and implement operational policies and set strategic plans for the company’s expanding operations in Guyana. As a resident of Guyana, Kris has helped new and foreign companies establish profitable local business investments. He is passionate about creating jobs, supporting the local economy, and sharing all that Guyana has to offer to foreigners new to this specific business climate. Kris is also Co-founder of AlphaGold Corp, a mining project generator focused on the Guiana Shield. He was Co-Founder & COO of Avalon Investment Holdings, which was based in Barbados, a company which completed a successful RTO on TSX Venture Exchange in 2020, for a public listing in Canada of the renown Omai Gold Mines project, located in Guyana. He was instrumental in negotiating the Omai project, land-package deal with the Guyana Government in 2017. He is also Vice-Chair for AmChan Guyana Trade and Investment Committee, and, a Trade & Investment, and Green Economy Committee member with The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Kris worked for over twenty years in business and financial markets and served as a liaison with Canada’s largest investment and banking firms. He studied at York University in Toronto, and through the CSI Global Education, earned his designations as a Chartered Financial Planner (CFP), Financial Management Advisor (FMA) and a Certified Investment Manager (CIM) and was a Fellow of the Canadian Security Institute (FCSI). With over twenty years of lesson’s learned behind him, Kris brings the innovation and understanding needed to advocate your goals and bring your business to the forefront with Excel Guyana.