Q: Are you where you’ve always wanted to be?
A: No, we live in a world of constant change. The ladder that we climb has many levels; take your time to climb to the top for in life, it’s not about getting there, it’s about the journey. I am sure the future has many achievements ahead.
Q: What is your biggest professional challenge?
A: I always tell myself there is never enough time in the day to accomplish all your tasks efficiently. It is paramount to find a happy medium between yourself, your staff and your clients and keep in mind that Rome was not made in a day.
Q: What is your biggest life challenge?
A: My biggest life challenge mirrors that of many other people worldwide. In today’s fast-paced and overly demanding world finding a healthy balance between work, family, friends and of course yourself.
Q: When you look to the future, what do you see?
A: I want to see more use of technology within our corporations. Very few companies in Barbados are making any real technological change, only incremental change; they are sticking to the same old business model. Technology can enhance the finished product with greater efficiency and can break the boundaries of economies of scale. Being risk adverse doesn’t equal aggressive and compounding profits. Barbados has the potential to compete and make the world it’s marketplace with the assistance of technology. We may be small in terms of our population and land mass but can be large with our educated workforce, innovative and entrepreneurial insight and can take on the world with our comparative advantage, our people.
Q: What is your favourite pastime?
A: Spending quality time with my two young boys and participating in their growing years, watching them excel mentally, physically, socially and spiritually.
Q: What is your favourite meal?
A: My wife’s original recipe that I have tweeted a bit. A tomato based pasta sauce sprinkled with fresh parsley with a fillet of chicken sautéed in olive oil and seasoned with black pepper, fresh herbs, garlic, artichokes and white wine. Absolutely delicious!
Q: On Saturday nights where are you likely to be?
A: Either sampling fine dining restaurants with my wife or catching up with the guys over a nice cold beverage with a splash of the one-eye man. (Buy Bajan).
Q: What upsets you the most?
A: Disorganisation, dishonesty and lack of ambition. If you remove these three vices from your life there is no reason why you can’t be on the road to success.
Q: What is your guiding philosophy?
A: Get up each day and live life to the fullest and accomplish what you can now, when you have the time and energy. With no venture there is no gain.
Q: If you had the chance to manage Barbados for a day what would you do?
A: I would look at Barbados as a whole and weigh the strengths and weaknesses of our infrastructure, realising any absolute advantages or specially targeted niches that tourism, manufacturing or financial services have to offer. Armed with that information I would apply the necessary government concessions or subsidies, avoid all governmental bureaucracies and educate our youth in those specialty areas. Our young people have to take this nation forward, for business as we know it has to change and adapt to compete outside of this economic model that has become very complacent.
