Kemal Brown is on a mission to create global digital experiences

Digita Global Marketing Limited is a globally focused media and technologies company based in Kingston, Jamaica. Founded by Kemal Brown, Digita was established with the belief that it could produce groundbreaking work that simultaneously displays local talent and mastery of the digital space — putting the region on the map. We recently had a chat …

Elevate Media Group’s dynamic duo

Elevate Media Group is guided by Kemal Lawrence and Rolando Prendergast — progressive creative thinkers with over 10 years of experience in the media advertising field. Elevate is a full-service creative agency with a strong digital focus. Kemal and Rolando’s collaborative strategy and individual creativity are used to deliver advertising across traditional media to create …

Turning passion into profits

Executive Chef Christian Sweeney creates high quality menus that are a fusion of Jamaica’s flavourful traditions with new world gastronomy. Fuzion Foodservice started in 2011 but Christian’s passion for food started at the age of 7 when he started cooking in secret so as to not be punished by his parents for using the oven. …

A Pathway to Venture Capital in Jamaica

A Pathway to Venture Capital in Jamaica

When we shifted our strategy in 2018 from startup to scale-up, we knew that we had to renew our focus on investment as the target outcome for our programme. We had seen time and time again that the real shift in our entrepreneurs towards becoming business leaders, happened when outside investors came on board. The infusion of capital into their businesses fostered stronger …

ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME HAS PIPELINE TO INVESTMENT FOR SCALE UP ENTREPRENEURS

Branson Centre Caribbean welcomed twelve new businesses at its headquarters to join the second installment of its accelerator programme. The 6-month programme equips entrepreneurs with tools to scale their business and provides a pipeline to investment through a group with some of Jamaica’s major sources of venture capital. Close to 200 businesses from across the …

Caribbean Technology Solutions on the rise

Branson Centre entrepreneurs Glenford McFarlane and Roderic Lue Shing are the duo behind Caribbean Technology Solutions  – a rapidly rising firm that offers solutions in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Pro Audiovisual (AV) and low voltage electronics. Glenford and Roderic share a bit about what they do, how being engaged in the Branson Centre’s accelerator programme …