Experience

Bantu Blockchain Foundation

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Governance & Execution

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  Mahe, Seychelles The Bantu Blockchain Foundation (BBF) is a non-profit entity that manages and maintains a layer 1 distributed ledger technology (DLT) or blockchain infrastructure designed to address multistakeholder unique challenges. The springboard to the world for the Bantu blockchain is a technology that seeks to re-orientate Humanity towards a new technology that is aligned with the spirit of sharing and equality. https://bantufoundation.org



Quintessence Consulting Inc.

• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founded Valerie Capital

  • Nov 2020 - Present

  St Kitts and Nevis Valerie Capital is a multiasset was created to design and capitalize on the exponential growth opportunities in commodities, digital assets, real estate and broader real sectors, including fintech, clean tech, climate tech, blockchain infrastructure, digital financial market infrastructures & smart city infrastructures with a strong focus on digital and decentralized finance and digital financial transformation. We design from concept to implementation, performance-based financial innovation… Show more Valerie Capital is a multiasset was created to design and capitalize on the exponential growth opportunities in commodities, digital assets, real estate and broader real sectors, including fintech, clean tech, climate tech, blockchain infrastructure, digital financial market infrastructures & smart city infrastructures with a strong focus on digital and decentralized finance and digital financial transformation. We design from concept to implementation, performance-based financial innovation products, and apply market-led methodologies to financing, capacity building and capital advisory.

• CEO/ Principle Advisor & Management Consultant

  • Jan 2000 - Present

  St. Kitts and Nevis CEO 21+years - Founder and Consultant, sole proprietor until incorporation when joined the Company full time as Managing Director and Principal Consultant. Quintessence Consulting Inc: A global strategic, transaction advisory and management services Caribbean firm offering end-to-end solutions for companies seeking to maximize their market potential, and capitalize on their unrealized and true market value. It also serves as a holding Company for critical spin off… Show more CEO 21+years - Founder and Consultant, sole proprietor until incorporation when joined the Company full time as Managing Director and Principal Consultant. Quintessence Consulting Inc: A global strategic, transaction advisory and management services Caribbean firm offering end-to-end solutions for companies seeking to maximize their market potential, and capitalize on their unrealized and true market value. It also serves as a holding Company for critical spin off ventures Solutions: Our solutions include Investment Transaction Advisory Consulting, Strategic Planning, Business Development/Strategic Alliances, Internationalization, Technology Evaluation/Due Diligence, Information Technology Management, Business Transformation; Energy Management Services & Resource Services. Successfully led and supported a geographically dispersed team of Associates in securing consultancies in a number of Caribbean countries as well as in other parts of the world. Business process re-engineering, training, strategic planning, business planning, investment planning, e-learning, Networking, Communications, Trade dev, Trade facilitation and Venture Development. Investment/Trade Facilitation – Preparing Investment Memorandum’s and proposals for Concessions, Export Oriented Go to Market Plans Strategic Partners: Microsoft IBM Financial SectorDevelopment -CBDC -Digital Financial Market Infrastructure Capacity Building, Development & Innovation Venture Ecosystem Development - Growth Oriented Entrepreneurship & Innovation Financial Innovation, Climate Innovation, Tech Innovation, and Blockchain Innovation

• Founded- Inova Foundation

  • Apr 2014 - Present

  St Kitts and Nevis Inova Foundation formerly a network of accelerators called InnovatetheNext, is an not-profit ecosystem to drive innovation and competitiveness in Enterprises through digital, climate and alternative investments and finance for professionals, and private clients with a focus on digital assets, and creating impact. Formerly Alts School

• Blockchain/Climate Impact Advisor

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2020

  St Kitts and Nevis Former advisor to blockchain impact projects across agriculture, health & wellness, e-commerce and climate innovation across the Caribbean and Africa: * Agroplexi- is a decentralised network economy making financial inclusion possible for farmers in emerging markets, catalyzing access to finance using decentralised blockchain technology. Agroplexi is a subsidiary of Onesimus Technologies. * FARMSAI - Decentralized AgData Verification as-a-service , bridging the gap in the… Show more Former advisor to blockchain impact projects across agriculture, health & wellness, e-commerce and climate innovation across the Caribbean and Africa: * Agroplexi- is a decentralised network economy making financial inclusion possible for farmers in emerging markets, catalyzing access to finance using decentralised blockchain technology. Agroplexi is a subsidiary of Onesimus Technologies. * FARMSAI - Decentralized AgData Verification as-a-service , bridging the gap in the Agro-value chain. F.A.R.M.S AI is a platform that leverages blockchain technology to provide decision support tools, verification and accountability for farmers, buyers and key industry stakeholders to enhance trade across the agro-value chain. * Sugartown Organics- commence marketplace for skin care. Blockchain enabled rewards. * Circularfeed- Circular Feed Designing sustainable futures through animal feedstock innovation & food security Circular Feed is a decentralised circular economy for animal feedstock using organic waste. * Farmovo - GLOBAL DECENTRALIZED AGRICULTURE & GROCERY BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEM * Comestibles- Comestibles (www.comestibles.com.ng) is a decentralized culinary & fresh produce retail economy, providing consumers with nutritional insights to promote healthier lifestyles while increasing retailer revenues through accelerated in-store delivery and sales. Bringing insights and efficiency to the perishables supply chain. * Earth Loans - Blockchain based socially responsible investing (SRI) and lending platform with a goal to support climate mitigation and adapation projects. * Choco 4 Peace * Freeman Capital - Freeman Capital is an active wealth management digital service provider that offers a robust regulated platform. This consists of robo-advisory services for retail investors; low cost compliance reporting for wealth managers; and a regulated trading platform for traders to benefit from both the forex and cryptocurrency market

• Founded- Alts School Under Manna Global Management

  • Sep 2018 - Nov 2020

  London Area, United Kingdom Alts School is a global tech school for digital finance and alternative investments, designed to train new graduates and mid-career professionals. Through solid industry partnerships with Middlesex University, Informa PLC and their brands IFF training and Finnovate and the Global Academy of Finance and Management (GAFM) board of standards, Alts School offered, avant garde future of finance professional specialisations, designations and certifications.

• Founded - Manna Global Management DBA Beyond Capital Markets

  • Nov 2014 - Mar 2020

  St Kitts and Nevis Manna Global Management DBA Beyond Capital Markets was Nevis based digital assets exchange and digital financial market infrastructure (DFMI) / asset management protocol and financial ecosystem.



The InsurTECH Book

• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Author

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Global The INSURTECH Book offers essential updates, critical thinking and actionable insight globally from start–ups, incumbents, investors, tech companies, advisors and other partners in this evolving ecosystem, in one volume. For some, Insurance is either facing an existential threat; for others, it is a sector on the brink of transforming itself. Either way, business models, value chains, customer understanding and engagement, organisational structures and even what Insurance is for, is never going… Show more The INSURTECH Book offers essential updates, critical thinking and actionable insight globally from start–ups, incumbents, investors, tech companies, advisors and other partners in this evolving ecosystem, in one volume. For some, Insurance is either facing an existential threat; for others, it is a sector on the brink of transforming itself. Either way, business models, value chains, customer understanding and engagement, organisational structures and even what Insurance is for, is never going to be the same. Be informed, be part of it. Show less



Beyond Capital Markets (Closed)

• Co-Founder/Co-Managing Partner and Chief Governance Officer

  • Nov 2014 - Dec 2020

  St. Kitts and Nevis Manna Global Management DBA Beyond Capital Markets was Nevis based digital assets exchange and digital financial market infrastructure / asset management protocol and financial ecosystem.

• Co-Founded - Alts School - Under Manna Global Management DBA Beyond Capital Markets

  • Sep 2018 - Nov 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom Founded- Alts School Under Alts School is a global tech school for digital finance and alternative investments, designed to train new graduates and mid-career professionals. Through solid industry partnerships with Middlesex University, Informa PLC and their brands IFF training and Finnovate and the Global Academy of Finance and Management (GAFM) board of standards, Alts School offered, avant garde future of finance professional specialisations, designations and certifications.



Prohaus Group (Closed)

• Managing Director

  • Mar 2014 - Dec 2020

  US (NY, LA) Caribbean (OECS) Prohaus Group is a private holdings Company. Under which was established Prohaus Labs specializing in the development of innovative financial technology solutions, seed and early stage investments in fintech start-ups. The firm sought to establish an ecosystem for global financial innovation. It built and invested in early stage fintech companies which have demonstrated the ability to scale into new markets or apply their technologies to existing enterprises. It focused its investments… Show more Prohaus Group is a private holdings Company. Under which was established Prohaus Labs specializing in the development of innovative financial technology solutions, seed and early stage investments in fintech start-ups. The firm sought to establish an ecosystem for global financial innovation. It built and invested in early stage fintech companies which have demonstrated the ability to scale into new markets or apply their technologies to existing enterprises. It focused its investments in the very early stages of the company’s life cycle and preferred to be the first venture investor to take an active approach with our investments. The company invests via in-kind services to seed a company and take them to Series A round. The firm considered investments across financial services sectors: capital markets, trading, wealth management, insurance, risk management, consumer finance, alternative investing, digital banking, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and outside traditional financial services, including project finance, financial literacy and economic development. Founded in 2009, Prohaus Group brings together an agile and strategic group of financial innovators, designers, marketers, policy makers and technologists with a proven passion for entrepreneurship and finance. Collectively, the Groups mission was to address fundamental issues within global financial markets for individuals and businesses. The group was designed to create and support financial innovations that businesses, families and financial professionals can believe in and local economies can feel connected to. Show less



Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

• Germany
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Climate Finance Consultant

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

  Remote Climate Finance Programming – NDC Assist – OECS Regional Needs Based Climate Finance Strategy Responsible for designing a regional needs-based climate finance strategy for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean (OECS) region in partnership with the UNFCC Needs Based Climate Finance project (NBF) to support regional action to mobilize climate finance under the regional NDC Financial Initiative (NDCFI). The Project involved mapping Climate Finance Flows, conducting policy and governance… Show more Climate Finance Programming – NDC Assist – OECS Regional Needs Based Climate Finance Strategy Responsible for designing a regional needs-based climate finance strategy for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean (OECS) region in partnership with the UNFCC Needs Based Climate Finance project (NBF) to support regional action to mobilize climate finance under the regional NDC Financial Initiative (NDCFI). The Project involved mapping Climate Finance Flows, conducting policy and governance assessments of the member country NDCs, identifying gaps, mapping appropriate climate finance solutions and instruments, mapping key stakeholders for implementation. During the project, it involved designing and hosting an online training and validation workshop with over 80 stakeholders raising awareness on Climate Finance instruments and articulated the regional needs Climate Finance Implementation plan which includes the operationalization of the regional NDCFI suggesting ways and means to ensue collaboration to support member country NDC implementations with a focus on articulating linkages to the SDGs, and development of the green, blue and circular economy pathways, and concrete climate mitigation and adaptation financing actions for developing the regional capital market, articulating innovative financing mechanisms and articulating financing programs for the Energy, Water, Transport and Critical Infrastructure sub sectors. Show less



Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO) / #ChooseWOMEN

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ambassador

  • Jul 2015 - Dec 2019

  Saint Kitts and Nevis To develop St. Kitts and Nevis Entreprenuership Ecosystem to support Women Entreprenuers and to build and promote a network of Women to participate in Women's Entrepreneurship Day on November 19th 2015 and WOW Women Wednesday on the 2nd of Dec 2015



Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). German International Cooperation

• Senior Expert - International Trade

  • Oct 2010 - Apr 2011

  Caribbean Regional Team Leader Caribbean AgroLinks Project



Steinbeis GmbH & Co. KG für Technologietransfer

• Germany
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Networking & Communications ICT4D Expert

  • Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  St. Kitts and Nevis Project Planning Support & Implementation, e-Governance Knowledge Management (KM) Strategies for Development National Sensitisation and Awareness on ICT4D Development of a Communication Plan and Sensitisation Programme SME / e-Business /Export development support



First Mate & Second Mate Productions Ltd. - Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Walt Disney Studios JV

• Caribbean Shipping Coordinator/IT Consultant - Motion Picture -Pirates of the Caribbean I, II, III

  • 2003 - 2006

  St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica, Bahamas, Saint Lucia Shipping Coordinator/ IT Consultant



South Port Data - Telecentre

• Provided Business Development Services

  • 2004 - 2004

  Ontario, Canada BPO Business Development Consulting Services