Michelle Griffith-Gaskin is an active member of the City of Bridgetown Co-operative Credit Union Ltd for the past twenty-eight years. Michelle is currently employed as the Director, Corporate Services for the past nineteen (19) years with the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity (BIMAP), a training and consulting services organization, with responsibilities for its financial, accounting and operational needs. Before her current role, she also served for five (5) years respectively as an Accounting Officer at Sagicor Life Inc. (formerly the Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society) and as a Junior Accountant with Canada Trust.

Michelle is a Certified Public Accountant and holds fellowship designations with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (FCA). She also earned her B.Sc. (Hons) in Public Administration and MBA degrees from the University of the West Indies and the University of Wales.

Michelle gained a greater understanding of the credit union movement when she attended the CCCU and WOCCU conferences, which stimulated her desire to increase her knowledge of the movement. To be better equipped to serve her local credit union, Michelle opted to complete the orientation courses for the Supervisory and the Credit Committees at the Barbados Co-operative & Credit Union League Ltd. Over the years, she had admired the versatility and sound financial management of the COB credit Union. And recently, she welcomed the opportunity to be of service to the staff, management and members of the credit union when she became a member of the Governance Committee, whose mandate was to focus on developing and amending its Corporate Governance and Code of Ethics policies to guide its elected officials.