Local News News BTMI names new CEO and COO Sandy Deane24/01/20240556 views The Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI) has a new Chief Executive Officer. Andrea Franklin, the current Chief Executive Officer of Caves Barbados was today named to take up the top post by Minister of Tourism and International Transport Ian Gooding Edghill at a news conference. She is to be supported in that role for the first time by a Chief Operations Officer. That position is to be filled by the current BTMI Director for the UK Cheryl Carter. Both women will take up their positions from April 1.