Sophronia, who is an avid fine diner, believes in savoring the moment of each meal – starting with her eyes. Little did she realize that her passion for the total dining experience would lead to something great. For Sophronia everything from being able to accurately picture orders to enjoying delicious flavour from a well-presented plate would prove important to everything visuEats could become. Sophronia recalls that the lightbulb went off one day while at happy hour with her best friend.

That happy hour conversation became the spark that would move the visuEats story forward. Following happy hour, Sophronia connected with a friend and UX designer to put in pictures what Sophronia had in mind. Thereafter, Sophronia would source a developer and conduct a beta launch. The rest, as it were, is HER story. visuEats has gone on to become a reality and have had some key milestones along the way.

Vivienne, Managing Director of MZ Holdings Limited, is the driver behind Jamaica’s first and largest online marketplace, Coolmarket.com. Renowned for its exceptional user interface, extensive supply chain, efficient delivery network, friendly customer care, and multiple payment options, Coolmarket.com brings a plethora of Jamaican sellers right to the front doors of resident Jamaicans and the diaspora within the Caribbean, North America, Canada, England and other global communities.

Leading companies through the mire of startup uncertainty to profitability has earned her respect as an entrepreneurial savant whose drive to inspire and empower are palpable.

This drive played an essential role in the emergence of the Cool Group’s micro finance company, Cool Loans. Vivienne’s carefully crafted strategic positioning resulted in successful deployment to the Caribbean while maintaining a competitive edge and increased shareholders’ returns in a climate of extreme uncertainty.

As a seasoned purveyor of opportunities, Vivienne’s discernment for emerging markets remained formidable even when faced with the challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She determined that with Jamaica’s evolving digital landscape there was a growing need for logistics support. It was against this background GoCool Courier & Logistics Services was born and has expanded to an island wide transportation network closing nearly 2000 deliveries per month within the first year of operations.

Vivienne is an indomitable leader whose compassion, competence and sense of community engender sentiments of respect and integrity in the eyes of investors, managers, team members and stakeholders effortlessly.

Denise Williams is the Chief Growth Officer at Lynk, Jamaica’s leading Digital Wallet. She is responsible for the commercial strategy for Lynk with oversight for business development, marketing & communications, sales, customers, and stakeholder relationships. Since joining in March 2022, she has grown the visibility of the brand allowing Lynk to become the number one Finance app in Jamaica. This, in part, was achieved through the launch of major national campaigns – including one to introduce JAM-DEX, Jamaica’s Central Bank Digital Currency. This campaign attracted over 100,000 users to the application.

Most recently, she lead the marketing team to successfully take the apps remittance feature to market.

Melanie V. Wynter has 11 years of new business development, operations and emerging market management experience. Ms. Wynter was the driving force behind the global expansion of Elizabeth Sloane. She was the Deputy Managing Director of Elizabeth Sloane African operation: A global business management consulting firm that specializes in external affairs for international development companies, digital transformation for government, and business strategy for medium-sized companies within the Caribbean and West Africa.

She holds a Licentiate degree in Marine Navigation Technology from Nova Scotia Nautical Institute and a MSc. in Business Intelligence and Big Data from Universidad Isabel I, also a Baugh Fund Scholar. With Executive Education in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Business Development.

Ms. Wynter serves on the board of Elizabeth Sloane LLC, Jamaica Rural Youth Foundation USA and is a member of the World Economic Global Shapers. Melanie is known for being a renown global speaker on entrepreneurship, STEAM education,digital transformation for operational efficiency, and spoken at seminars, and conferences in the Gambia, Dominican Republic, Texas, Jamaica and she also presented a Methodology for business management at TEDx.

A self-described serial entrepreneur with the fire to capitalize on market gaps, Narda Ventura, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SkyBlue Transaction Solutions recounts that her company’s eZeePayments.com platform was driven by market research. This having pivoted from www.schoolfeepayments.com, what was meant to be a more accessible and more efficient way to pay school fees.

eZeePayments.com is a subsidiary of its parent company, SkyBlue Transactions Solutions, and is a licensed payment facilitator that operates using a customer to customer (C2C) and business to business (B2B) business model. The solution works by receiving and transferring funds to merchants and other customers, similar to Stripe and PayPal.

A Strategist, Leader, and Culture Builder, Narda notes that EzeePayments.com was developed in response to a growing demand for individuals, small, medium sized and established businesses that want to start processing online payments immediately.

Through EzeePayments.com she has created a solution with the sole purpose of facilitating quick and secure online payments from customers, and at the same time provide the simplest solution to accepting card payments in the shortest space of time.

The solution is primarily for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that want to engage in e-commerce but lack technical knowledge, such as a website that meets security payment requirements and operates within time and budgetary constraints.

A recent newspaper article described Narda Ventura as a woman in tech. She also describes herself as an aggressive entrepreneur who can solve problems for people who have similar challenges. Growth-oriented and unrelenting in her pursuits, Ventura also wants to make a significant impact in the FinTech space by providing solutions that serve the underbanked and help businesses scale.

She is also the managing director and founder of H2O Werx, which offers swimming lessons through her school Aquawerx, and trains competitive swimmers through the Viking Swim Club.