Eduardo Ryan has resigned as chief financial officer (CFO) of LIME Jamaica, just one year into his tenure.

His responsibilities will, in the interim, fall to vice-president of financial planning and analysis, Martha Miller.

LIME Jamaica spokesman Errol Miller said Ryan left to take up a new job in Central America.

His resignation was effective January 1, according to a stock market filing, up to which point no permanent replacement was found.

"A search has began," said Errol Miller, vice-president for corporate communications and corporate affairs at LIME, "but Miller is going to be acting."

His resignation follows that of Phil Green who was president for just over a year, from August 2007. Green resigned to be closer to his family in Indonesia.

Ryan was named LIME's CFO in November 2007, replacing Mark Thompson who resigned in April of that year to take up the position as chief executive officer of Michael Lee Chin's insurance company, Advantage General.

Ryan who has more than 13 years of experience in financial management was also a CFO and vice-president of finance with Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico. He has also worked with Verizon's Puerto Rico operation.

dionne.rose@gleanerjm.com