Gary Brough is the Managing Director for Baker Tilly in the Turks and Caicos Islands (“Baker Tilly TCI”). Before joining Baker Tilly, Gary was the Managing Director for KPMG in TCI and was responsible for opening its office in TCI in 1990. Gary also worked previously for KPMG in the Bahamas and the UK.
Gary led KPMG’s tourism practice in the Caribbean for approximately 20 years and has now assumed a similar role with Baker Tilly. He leads various innovative initiatives for the region's most important industry. Gary authors many travel, leisure, and tourism thought leadership materials such as Baker Tilly's annual Caribbean Hospitality Financing Survey and is a regular speaker and moderator at major tourism industry conferences such as CHRIS and CHICOS.
Gary was the lead partner on an engagement to advise the Turks and Caicos Islands Government (“TCIG”) on a National Tourism Policy and Strategic Implementation Plan and was also the lead partner on a KPMG engagement to conduct a Strategic Analysis of TCI’s Financial Services Sector.
He also initiated a groundbreaking tourism Data and Analytics initiative and led a one-year test pilot engagement in Curacao which analyzed 2.8 million tourist entry records over 5 years and led to numerous actionable insights.
Gary also spent 3 ½ years as one of the Founding Commissioners of the TCI Integrity Commission.