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2013 Conference Brochure

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“Creating a Platform for Business Success through Innovation and Efficiency”

Katalyxt Business Development Conference

2013

CONFERENCE BROCHURE

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INTRODUCTION

The last few years have been challenging for entrepreneurs, in an economy that at best can

be described as sluggish. This conference allows participants to move forward, and to be

inspired by successful entrepreneurs, professionals and academics. Listen carefully, use the

information wisely, as you examine presentations for thought-provoking breakthroughs,

and identify intervention points for your businesses.

The conference will be a knowledge-enhancing and interactive event which will focus on

critical issues impacting growth innovation and efficiency.

On your business journey, what truths have you uncovered? What is your foundation?

Does it have critical elements that will foster growth? Do you need expert help? Any

successful entrepreneur will tell you that you must be flexible, willing to learn, open to new

ideas, disciplined and organized, in addition to having the necessary capital and marketing

strategies to transition your business to a new level.

For the entrepreneur who has projects that should be profitable but have not had positive

results, this conference asks you NOT to think outside the box, but to throw the box away,

create a new model, shift the game.

Katalyxt provides business solutions for entrepreneurs and businesses by assessing

resource gaps and working alongside individuals and companies to find winning solutions.

We believe that the application of innovative techniques and the efficient application of

business principles can lead to business growth.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Maureen Denton

(Keynote Speaker)

Maureen Denton currently serves as the CEO, Zimbabwe Agricultural Development Corporation Limited,

where she managed the revitalization of a US$5 million vegetable dehydration factory, as well as the building

of a new cricket stadium. Prior to this, Maureen’s held the position of Vice President & Associate General

Counsel for Goldman Sachs & Co., where as a legal adviser, oversaw multi-million dollar commercial,

development and intellectual property agreements. Maureen commands over 20 years of legal experience in

entrepreneurship and business-related transactions, commencing in 1990. Dr. Denton also acquired her Ph.D.

from The City University of New York and earned her license to practice law having graduated from Columbia

University School of Law. Over the years, Dr. Denton served on numerous boards and held the directorship of

the GraceKennedy International Foods Division. Maureen also lectured in the field of Politics, at Hunter

College, United States.

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John Nozell

Topic: “Developing the Entrepreneur: Increasing your Personal Efficiency”

John has been involved in structuring, restructuring, and raising capital for businesses his entire career. As a

former investment banker, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer, John brings a wealth of

expertise in finance, management and corporate leadership. He is presently Chief Operating Officer of John G.

Ullman & Assoc., a $750 million wealth management firm, where he has also served on the Board of Directors

since 2006, and chaired the Audit Committee from 2009-2011.As Chief Operating Officer Mr. Nozell plays an

integral part in positioning JGUA as a leader in comprehensive financial management for decades to come.

From 2007-2009, John held the position of Chief Investment Officer of AWAS Aviation Services, Ltd., in Dublin

Ireland, overseeing a portfolio of 225 Commercial Aircraft, and an order for over $6 billion of additional

aircraft. He was also a member of the AWAS Board of Directors. From 2009-2011, John served as Managing

Director of The Seabury Group, heading the firm’s investment banking practice in Europe, Africa, and the

Middle East. From 2003-2007, John was also on the Board of Global Principle Finance Corp (a unit of Merrill

Lynch), for which he chaired the Risk Management Committee, overseeing $1.5 billion of asset acquisitions

and trading activity.

As a JGUA Board member since 2007, John has developed a strong working knowledge of the firm and its

value to clients. John enjoys golf, water skiing, wine collecting and guitar. He and his wife Patricia have three

children.

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The Honourable Phillip Paulwell, M.P. Topic: “Overcoming the Challenges of your Business Environment”

The Honourable Phillip Paulwell M.P. is currently Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Leader

of Government Business in the House of Representatives and Member of Parliament for the constituency of

Kingston East and Port Royal.

Prior to his latest appointments, Minister Paulwell served as a Government Minister in the People’s National

Party administration between January 1998 and September 2007, his last appointment being Minister of

Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce.

Among his many achievements as a Government Minister and Member of Parliament, Minister Paulwell is

credited with the liberalization of the telecommunications sector. In 2000 he was the recipient of the Gleaner

Honour Award for implementing historic measures to break the 25-year telecommunications monopoly and

introduce competition in the sector.

Prior to 1995, Minister Paulwell served in very senior positions in the Government of Jamaica – Legal Officer

of the Jamaica Commodity Trading Company Limited, Executive Director and Trade Administrator of the

Trade Board Limited and as the first Executive Director of the Fair Trading Commission.

Those appointments followed his graduation from the University of the West Indies (LL.B Hons, 1986) and

the Norman Manley Law School (Certificate in Legal Education, 1988). While pursuing his graduate studies,

he also served as part time Lecturer and Tutor in Company Law at the Excelsior Community College and the

College of Arts Science and Technology (now the University of Technology).

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Ian K. Levy Topic: “Real Life Entrepreneurship”

Ian Kent Levy has over thirty years experience in business and has been at the helm of some of Jamaica’s most

successful organizations. These include the well recognized IAN K. (Agencies) Ltd which established a foreign

trade and investment relationship with French companies and the Government of Jamaica and the

internationally sought after restaurant “Norma’s on the Terrace.” Mr. Levy was also one of the founders of

highly acclaimed Supreme Ventures Ltd. Lottery Company. His dynamism and outstanding accomplishment

as an entrepreneur earned him the 2005 “The Ordre National du Merite” which is one of the highest awards

given by the Government of France. This award is rarely conferred on a non-French citizen.

Along with his success in business, Mr. Levy has a passion for national service and philanthropy; in fact this is

not his first time serving on a Government appointed Board as he served earlier on the Board of the Jamaica

Bauxite Institute. As a philanthropist he has worked with several charities in Jamaica and France including

the “Missionaries of the Poor.” He is also a founding member of “Cornerstone Ministries” and “Project Help”.

Mr. Levy was appointed to the Board of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority in February 2012.

Through Mr. Levy’s own company, Ian K Agencies Limited, he has provided the government with well needed

products for the smooth running of the country. These include Renault garbage trucks and more recently the

automatic palm and finger identification system to be used by the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

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Winsome Minott Topic: “Accounting & Taxes for Business Success”

Winsome Minott is the Chief Executive Officer of Mint Corporation Limited and Mint Management & Finance

Services Limited. She has provided invaluable assistance to the small business sector in excess of twenty

years. Her experience spans the financial, retail, manufacturing and tourism sectors. She started her career

as an Assistant Accountant at Jamaica Development Bank, Chartered Secretary in the offices of Messrs.

Touche Ross Thorburn & Company now Deliote & Touche, and later CEO at Mint Corporation Limited and

Mint Management & Finance Services Limited

Winsome acted as the Registrar of National Continental Corporation Limited (A Public Company formerly

listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange). She also served on the Board of Directors of several companies

including Enterprise Development Trust (EDT), and the University of Technology Entrepreneurial Centre

(UTECH). She also contributed to the proposed amendments to the latest Jamaican Company Law.

Winsome is currently Company Secretary for Supreme Ventures Limited and a member of the Audit

Committee of Key Insurance Company Limited. She holds a Masters Degree in Accounting and is a member of

the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered

Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ). Winsome has done extensive research in the field of Business Development.

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Bruce Scott

Topic: “Risk Management: Quantifying your Risk”

Bruce Scott, FCA, FCCA, CISA, MBA, CBCP, CISM, CPA, CFE, CIA, CRISC - Partner

Bruce L Scott has been involved in risk management since 1993. He is the partner in charge of

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Jamaica, Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Audit Services practices.

Bruce has close to 21 years of risk management, financial, operational, IT audit, internal audit, information

security, business process controls and business continuity planning experience. Bruce has been trained in

the firm’s ERM methodology in the PwC London office. Bruce also spent six months in PwC Toronto on a tour

of duty, in their Global Risk Management Solutions (GRMS) practice, where he further honed his risk

management skills.

Bruce has led and performed several enterprise level risk assessments for companies in the financial services,

manufacturing, insurance and retail services. These assessments involve the identification of strategic,

compliance, technology, human resources and operational etc objectives, the risks that could thwart those

objectives and the controls in place to address these risks.

Bruce holds a number of credentials in various fields (he is a certified information systems auditor (CISA), he

is certified in risk and information systems control (CRISC), a certified information security manager (CISM),

a certified business continuity planner (CBCP), a certified internal auditor (CIA), a certified public accountant

(CPA), USA, a chartered accountant (UK/Jamaica), a certified fraud examiner (CFE) and holds an MBA from

Manchester Business School, UK) and therefore is able to bring a comprehensive view on various types of

risks and controls.

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Mariame McIntosh

Topic: “Raising Business Capital”

As a Senior Vice President of Portland Private Equity, Mariame is part of the investment team and is focused

on deal origination, diligence, structuring, documentation, and mentoring. She has spent over eight years as a

strategy consultant with Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company. She attended Oxford University as a

Rhodes Scholar and is an alumnus of both M.I.T. and Harvard University. Mariame co-founded "Nation

Building," an organization that brings African-American graduate students together.

Stefanie Thomas Topic: “Your Business Plan”

Stefanie Thomas is business development consultant for Mint Management and Finance Services Ltd and

team coordinator of Katalyxt. She is Creative Director of Artistic Expressions Limited, a company committed

to the promotion of the Visual, Performing and Literary Arts in Jamaica and Caribbean. Stefanie has

spearheaded the development of Cultural Fusion, a festival promoting cultural exchange primarily through

dance and music. Stefanie also hosts exhibitions and involved in initiatives to make the arts more accessible

in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Stefanie is an award winning writer whose blog

www.culturalvoice.blogspot.com won the 2012 award for best Art & Photography Blog in Jamaica. A former

http://www.culturalvoice.blogspot.com/

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Youth Ambassador Stefanie has a Masters in Economic Development Policy from the University of the West

Indies Mona, and an Undergraduate Degree in Biology and Economics from Colgate University in NY, USA.

Valerie Crawford “Your Business Plan”

Valerie Crawford is the Manager of Trade Financing and Risk Management at the EXIM Bank Jamaica. The

EXIM Bank’s mandate is to assist Jamaica’s Productive Sector to succeed. Valerie Crawford has extensive

experience working with Jamaican Businesses and analyzing funding options available and opportunities for

export promotion. Mrs. Crawford has spearheaded many collaborations for the EXIM Bank including with

JAMPRO and with the Jamaica Development Bank of Jamaica.

Maurice McNaughton “Special Consultation and Product Launches”

Dr Maurice McNaughton pursued his PhD studies in Decision Sciences at Georgia State University, and

combines that accomplishment with over 15 years senior management and leadership experience in the

planning and direction of enterprise-level Information Technology in organizations. He is currently Director

of the Centre of Excellence at the Mona School of Business, where he is evolving an Application-oriented

Research Agenda around the use of ICTs to enable Business Innovation in the Small Medium Enterprise sector

in Jamaica and the Caribbean. He has a strong passion for higher education and has taught courses in

Software Economics, Business Statistics & Modeling, Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems.

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Dalma James “Structure your Business for Success”

Dalma James is CEO of Dalma James and Associates, Immediate Past President of the Small Business

Association of Jamaica and former Director of the National Development Foundation of Jamaica. Mr. James is

a graduate of the University of West Indies with a B.Sc in Management Studies and a M.Sc in Accounting. A

member of the ICAJ and ACCA with over 20 years experience in Audit, Accounting, Taxation, Management and

Financial Consulting and Systems Development. As an auditor, accountant and management consultant Mr.

James has worked with companies to develop long and short-term strategic business and financial plans;

design and implement comprehensive financial, cost control and management reporting systems.

Lisa Bell “Raising Business Capital”

Lisa Simone Bell has been Managing Director of The National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica Limited (EXIM

Bank) since May 3, 2010. Mrs. Bell has over twenty years experience in providing financial, analytical, project

and general management expertise in both the private and public sectors. She has held key managerial

positions in the financial services sector and within the public sector. Along with her stellar management

performance She has a wealth of knowledge of credit and financial services especially as it relates to SMEs

and the Export Sector. Mrs. Bell left the Jamaican Trade and Invest (JAMPRO) at the position of Deputy

President, after contributing over eight years to the national investment and export agency. Prior to that, she

served as Deputy General Manager and General Manager for Alpha Financial Services Limited and Victoria

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Mutual Investments Limited respectively. Mrs. Bell also worked overseas with both Anderson Consulting and

the City of Miami Department of Management & Budget, after completing her formal education. Upon her

return to Jamaica, she served as Corporate Credit Manager for Citizens Bank Jamaica Limited. She serves as a

Director of The National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica Limited. Mrs. Bell holds a Master of Business of

Administration with a specialization in Finance, and also a Bachelors of Business Administration from the

University of Miami, Florida, USA.

Maureen Hayden-Cater “Raising Business Capital”

Mrs. Maureen Hayden-Cater was appointed to the position of President, First Global Bank Ltd., effective

August 1, 2010.

Mrs. Hayden-Cater brings to First Global Bank several years of diverse banking experience, gained during her

twenty-two year tenure at Citibank N.A. Jamaica. She has served in a number of executive positions, which

include Global Transaction Services & Commercial Bank Head, Risk Management Head, and Head of

International Trade Finance. She also served as Corporate Bank Head and Country Risk Manager in

Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for four years.

A graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Mrs. Hayden-Cater holds a Master of Science degree in

Economics, specializing in Quantitative Economics and Econometrics, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in

Economics and Mathematics.

Mrs. Hayden-Cater is married with two daughters. She speaks Spanish, enjoys reading, exercising, community

service and is an active member of her church.

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Radcliff Knibbs “Real Deal Business”

Radcliff Knibbs is the Co-Managing Director of CMK Limited, owner of eight Juici Patties restaurant

franchises. He began his career in 1983 as a self employed trader in seafoods, selling to hotel and

restaurant concerns. Radcliff subsequently worked in marketing at both the Jamaica National Export

Corporation (1985 to 1987) and Shell Chemicals Jamaica Limited (1987 to 1989) before moving into

the Juici Patties business as Managing Director of Inglewood Investment Limited, owner of the

Inglewood restaurant.

Radcliff is a graduate of the Executive M.B.A. program at Florida International University, where he

was awarded a leadership award, and also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pure and Applied

Chemistry (Hons.) from the University of the West Indies. Radcliff is a former member of the board of

directors of the Civil Aviation Authority (2004 to 2011) and Rosemount Primary and Junior High

School.

Ewan D. A. Simpson “Intellectual Property”

Ewan Simpson, Attorney-at-Law, holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Intellectual Property Law, from the

University of Turin (Italy) which he obtained after studies at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona

(B.A. Geography) and Cave Hill (LL.B), as well as the Norman Manley Law School.

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A multidimensional, creative and analytical mind, Simpson is a mentor, advocate and lecturer in the areas of

Intellectual Property Law, Entertainment Law and Artiste Management, and has Co-hosted or appeared as

guest presenter on several radio talkshows, addressing areas of concern to the enhancement and

development of the Creative Industries in Jamaica.

A former President and Chief Musical Arranger of the University Singers, Simpson currently serves as Musical

Director of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamica (NDTC), as National Adjudicator and Workshop

facilitator in music and the Performing Arts for the JCDC and has toured the world extensively as an

instrumentalist, vocalist and performance coach, Artiste manager as well as artiste development and

Intellectual Property expert.

Clive Vassell “Supply Chain Efficiency”

Clive Vassell is a supply chain professional with over thirty years experience in Jamaican manufacturing

industry. He has worked for Alcoa, Caribbean Cement Company, Hardware & Lumber Limited, and Seprod

Limited in areas such as contracts management, procurement, distribution management, and materials

management. He has also been involved in a number of ERP system launches and upgrades.

For the past eight years he has lectured at the University of Technology, Jamaica, in Decision Science, Project

Management, Service Operations Management, and Supply Chain Management. He has conducted workshops

for industry practitioners and presented at conferences for small enterprises. He has a Diploma in

Mechanical Engineering from CAST, a BSc Management Studies from UWI, and an MBA from the University of

New Orleans. He is also a member of APICS the Association for Operations Management.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

KATALYXT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

LAUNCH OF THE INNOVATION ROOM AND OFFICIAL OPENING WEDNESDAY MAY 15th 2013

2:00pm – 4:00pm

PRODUCT LAUNCHES/ SPECIAL Presentations MSB, UCC, Katalyxt Incubator Participants

5:00pm

INTRODUCTION OF


5:45pm

KATALYXT – THE CATALYXT FOR GLOWBAL GROWTH: ACT LOCALLY THINK

GLOBALLY

6:00pm

INTRODUCTION OF THE MAIN SPEAKER

6:15pm

Managing International Innovation Trends for your Business

6:25pm

OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE CATALYTIC CHAMBER

7:00pm

COCKTAILS & VIEWING THE INNOVATION ROOM

7:15pm PRODUCT LAUNCHES/INTERACTION IN THE INNOVATION ROOM

Presentations by MSB, UCC, Katalyxt Incubator Participants

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INNOVATION & EFFICIENCY FOR BUSINESS GROWTH DAY 2 THURSDAY MAY 16th 2013

8:45am -10:00am

“Overcoming the Challenges of your Business Environment”

10:30am -10:40am

Coffee Break

10:45am - 12:00am

“ Developing the Entrepreneur: Increasing your Personal Efficiency ”

“Communicating Effectively as an Entrepreneur”

12:05am - 1:00pm

“Accounting &

Taxes for Business Success”

“Foundations of

Writing a Business Plan”

“Risk

Management: Quantifying your

Risk”

“How do you

determine if you need Financing”

1:00pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 2:45pm

“Raising Business Capital”

2:45pm - 4:45pm

“Real Life Entrepreneurship”

Special Session: Led by Robin Levy, Jamaica Stock Exchange Leaders from 2 Companies represented on the JSE will speak from personal experiences

on overcoming challenges in the current business environment.

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Closing, Cocktails & Katalyxt Speed “Dating”

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MINT MANAGEMENT & FINANCE SERVICES LIMITED

Contact Person: Ms. Stefanie Thomas/Ms. Winsome Minott Telephone#968-3115/815-2568

Email: [email protected] Webpage: www.katalyxt.info

MINT

Management &

Finance

Services

Limited

Enterprise

Development Trust

mailto:[email protected]

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