On December 5, 2011 Women Business Owners Ja. Ltd. voted in its new Executive. 2011 was a successful year for the organisation who launched its Inter-American Development Bank-funded Strengthening & Promoting Women Entrepreneurs project with 148 women trained under the project's first leg and another batch of women slated to begin training in January. The Women Business Owner team also hosted several networking and fundraising events in 2011, while increasing its membership and database of women in business in Jamaica.The following women entrepreneurs were selected for the WBO Executive:
- President - Yaneek Page, Future Services International Ltd
- Immediate Past President - Dorothea Gordon-Smith, Garbage Disposal & Sanitation Systems Ltd (GDSS)
- Vice-President - Andrea Cowan, Lillan Limited
- Treasurer - Dena Davis, Solid Life & General Insurance Brokers Ltd
- Recording Secretary - Ethnie Miller Simpson, Brandz Avenue
- Company Secretary - Mrs. Hyacinth Kerr, Company Consultants Ltd
Other 2012 Board members are: -
- Lorna Green - Founding President, Digital Transtec Ltd
- Shirley Carby, Carlong Publishers Ltd
- Lana Francis of Frankmark Ltd
- Blossom O'Meally-Nelson of Aeromar Logistics
- Rita Humphries-Lewin of The Barita Group
- Sandra Bramwell of Versan Education Services
- Gale Peart of Caribbean Fortress Ltd & My Elite Grocer (MEG) and
- Marcia Woon-Choy of Action Coach
More focus needs to be placed on women in business. For more info on women business owners in Jamaica check out http://www.womenbusinessownersja.com/index.html.
ReplyDeleteThis group was established in 2003 to foster and promote the success of women business owners through education, research, mentorship and networking.
MORE POWER TO WOMEN IN BUSINESS.