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High Street and Battery Road, Kingston
Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, RRFP+RX Georgetown
Guyana

Christian Freeman

Christian Freeman, a third form student of West Demerara Secondary School in Guyana is passionate about steel-pan music and has been playing from an early age. He continues to develop his musical skills while managing to focus intensely on his studies and future career plans.

Dr. Vishnu Doerga

Chairman – ActionINVEST Caribbean Inc.

Dr. Vishnu Doerga, Executive chairman of ActionINVEST Caribbean Inc. and Certified ActionCOACH holds a Ph.D. in Management specializing in Entrepreneurship as well as an MBA and Engineering qualifications. As past president, chairman and councillor of several business support organizations including the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and the Bureau of Standards, Vishnu has over 20 years of private sector development service. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Guyana Office for Investment and on the boards of numerous successful businesses. At 39, happily married and the father of one, he believes in strong family values and taking care of his physical, mental and spiritual health. Together with his team, he is very passionate about personal, professional and organizational development and pursues this passion via the numerous organizations he supports.

Harrison Hunter Reid Fischer

CEO Koohlah

Harrison Hunter Reid is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, and world traveler. He is an expert in making things easy, actionable, and fun. He helps his students transform their health, take control of their minds, and create enterprises destined for success; all with ease. Harrison went from being fired from almost every job he ever had to currently running 2 businesses. One, called Koohlah, that is helping relieve the global obesity epidemic by crafting affordable and delicious radically healthy snack foods. The other helps American financial institutions structure their benefit programs to instantly generate substantially more income for both their employees and owners. Harrison previously co-founded an events company when he was 18 years old that generated thousands of dollars for charity. He is also currently on the advisory board for two charities, Help For Children, and National Alliance.

Keiba Murray

In addition to being an Entrepreneur, she is also a Senior Accountant and Corporate Secretary with over ten years of experience within the Accounting, Finance, Not-For-Profit and Banking Sectors in the UK and Guyana. During her seven years in the UK, working and pursuing her Accountancy studies, she was selected to attend the prestigious Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy conference in Caux Switzerland (Aug-2010). She was awarded the first runner up prize for the Bristol’s Young Business Leader’s Award in April 2011. After returning to Guyana in 2013, the idea of Live ProActive was born and Keiba and colleagues aimed to encourage as many people as possible to embrace healthier lifestyle practices. Live ProActive was officially launched in July of 2017 and won the 2017 Rotaract Club of University of Guyana's Small Business Plan Competition and in 2018 we became an official UN SDG Partner in July 2018. Keiba is also a published Author, Poet, Global Peace Ambassador, former Managing Director of Miss World Guyana (Guyana journey) and a beekeeper. “Say YES to holistic wellness; it is essential to progress.” - Keiba Murray, Founder, Live ProActive

Lisa Mae Agard

Innovative Planner and Trainer

Lisa has more than 10 years of experience in managing and coordinating projects at a national and international level. Her experience ranges from strategic leadership and administration of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) Secretariat to Project Coordinator of the Guyana Youth Empowerment, Inclusion and Reconciliation Project funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Australian Institute of Business, a Post Graduate Diploma in International Studies and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Guyana. She also studied French at the Université des Antilles and Université Nancy 2 in France. She is an innovative planner and trainer with significant experience in facilitating capacity building and development workshops with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and at-risk youth.

Maryam Haniff

Maryam Jameela Haniff is an emerging poet with a passion for uplifting others. She has been published in various magazines such as The Feminist word and Harness digital. Her first collection "SILVER LININGS' is available locally and will be available worldwide very soon. Maryam is a Toastmaster and a John Maxwell certified speaker, trainer, teacher, and coach. She is dedicated to helping others unleash the magic within themselves. She is also the founder of Emjay - a brand that creates poetry tailored to a given client's needs. Maryam is happily married with 2 adorable daughters and enjoys reading, writing and spending time with loved ones. Ms. Haniff aspires to create a better world using her poetry, as it often helped her to rise above life's challenges. She lives by the quote: " you are not often tired because you do too much, but because you do too little of what Sparks a light in you".

Vishal Joseph

Youth Advocate

Vishal H. Joseph is a youth advocate and budding medical practitioner from the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, currently serving as CARICOM Youth Ambassador for his country, as well as one of two Caribbean Regional Focal Points for the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth. Mr Joseph is a distance learning graduate of the University of Cambridge and has just completed reading for his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), in Guyana. Vishal is actively involved in many initiatives including the Red Cross’ National Disaster Intervention Team, the Lions/Leos Movement; the One World Youth Project (project ambassador), the Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC) and the Members and Partnerships Committee of the Caribbean Regional Youth Council (CRYC). With a penchant for the promotion of education and value systems in support thereof, he founded Bookworms, a non-profit which serves children and students from disadvantaged socioeconomic settings in Guyana.