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Lifestyle, Style, Style Observer
April 22, 2023

SO2

Finally…

The ROK Hotel’s Palate restaurant became a private area Thursday, ostensibly to raise a toast to the cabal of brilliant minds who had jetted into The Rock last week for the two-day Visionaries’ Summit.

The elite confab, intimate by design, attracted legendary investor Dr Mark Mobius, British global technology leader Jacky Wright, Jamaican shipping stalwart Charmaine Maragh, as well as other global business luminaries, innovators, and influencers.

In his welcome, conceptualiser and curator of The Destination Experience Kirk-Anthony Hamilton shared, “Small groups can make a tremendous impact, I think we’ve managed to bring together a powerful group of people who really can drive some level of transformation, and who really seem to have a passion to help drive change.”

“What’s going to matter most from here is how we stay connected and what we do after we leave the room tonight. Because as of tomorrow, this ends, the momentum changes, the energy shifts, we go on planes, etc. And things can then get lost. And then we come around next year and have the same conversation again. Or, we stay connected, we really buy into all that we’ve discussed, we believe that we can shape the future and we start working together to do it,” he concluded to nods of approval.

Affable tablemates (clockwise, from left) Elle Creative Ltd Creative Partner Leisha Wong; her husband, Coldfield Manufacturing Ltd Managing Director Brett Wong; Novamed founder and managing partner Dr David Walcott; Dr Sanneta Myrie; Liberty Group Limited President and Member of the House of Assembly of Bermuda Wayne Caines; Elle Creative Ltd Creative Partner Elena Lynch; JT Studios principal Julian Tse; and wife of The Destination Experience conceptualiser Kirk-Anthony Hamilton, Karishma (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
MaxBrown Limited managing director Sophia Max-Brown (left) and West Indies Petroleum Sales Administrative Coordinator Samantha Powell(Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Lannaman & Morris Shipping Limited Chairman Charmaine Maragh (left) and Ramsay & Partners Managing Partner Mark Ramsay (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
CEO and Chairman of the Black Star Fund Kwame Anku was also on the guestlist (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Dining companions (clockwise, from left) Elle Creative Ltd Creative Partner Leisha Wong; LinkedIn Director Tyrona Heath; Liberty Group Limited President and Member of the House of Assembly of Bermuda Wayne Caines; Massy President & Group CEO Gervase Warner; Mobius Capital Partners founder Dr Mark Mobius; Mobius Associates analyst John Ninia; Blockchain Triangle Systems Inc co-founder & CEO Darren Wolfberg; McKinsey & Company Chief Technology Officer Jacky Wright; IT Consultant Christopher Reckord; and Jamaica Observer Senior Associate Editor, Lifestyle & Social Novia McDonald-Whyte (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Dr Sanneta Myrie and Carbyne Capital Investments Limited Director Rajiv Ebanks (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Conceptualiser and curator The Destination Experience Kirk-Anthony Hamilton (left); his wife Karishma (second left) and parents Paul and Patricia Hamilton.(Photo: Naphtali Junior)
The evening’s co-host Kirk-Anthony Hamilton (standing) joined tablemates (clockwise, from left) Jampro Vice-President, Marketing Gabriel Heron; Quenta Managing Director Mariame McIntosh Robinson; DBJ Private Capital; Consultant Audrey Richards, Citibank Citi Country Officer & Corporate Bank Head Eva Lewis; Citibank Vice-President Charles Neil; and NCB Chief Digital & Marketing Officer Nadeen Matthews Blair (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Tablemates (clockwise, from left) Guyanese businessmen Rajesh and Vinode Persaud; Jampro Vice-President Sales & Promotion Norman Naar; attorney-at-law Roderick Gordon; Fujitsu Caribbean (Jamaica) Limited Head of Latin America & Caribbean Mervyn Eyre; and PwC Jamaica Managing Director – Deals Wilfred B Baghaloo (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Conceptualiser and curator Destination Experience Kirk-Anthony Hamilton (left) commended Palate Restaurant Maître d’ Richard Harriott on a stellar execution (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Clockwise from left: Innovate 10x CEO Sheldon Powe; Vice-President Private Equity and Treasury at Proven Group Limited Neisha Farquharson; LinkedIn Director Tyrona Heath; and Black Star Fund CEO Kwame Anku (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
Elle Creative Ltd Creative Partner Leisha Wong (right) greets The American Friends of Jamaica Executive Director Caron Chung. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)
(Photo: Naphtali Junior)

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