Leadership

Melanie Wynter, MSc.,CBDE has 18 years of business and people management experience and has sourced, structured, managed, and/or invested in over 11 lower middle market transactions.  She started her career as a Ship Navigator in the Irving Oil group in Canada focused on transporting fuel throughout the North Atlantic.

In 2014, she co-founded and became Head of Business Development of what is now Elizabeth Sloane & Company Limited,  a business management consulting firm in Kingston, Jamaica. In 2017, she co-founded Jamaica Rural Youth Foundation a registered charitable organization, providing positive opportunities to Rural Youth of Jamaica, through it's career and professional Accelerator Program, named iSAN, it's breakfast program named breakfast Club and it's a mentoring program called protégé. She is also the founding Partner of the Jamaica Youth Foundation, a registered 501 (c)3. In 2018, Melanie became Managing Director of Elizabeth Sloane.

She is a holder of an Officer of the Watch ship navigation license, a certified business development expert, holds an Advanced Sales Management Certificate and Licentiate Degree in Marine Navigation Technology, from Nova Scotia Nautical Institute and a Masters in Business Intelligence and Big Data.

Melanie has served as head, director and/or observer for over 11+ companies with revenues of between $ 10 million and $ 1 billion annually. She has presented at Ted talk, Google Startup Grind in Africa and Caribbean Developers Conference in the Dominican Republic.