He founded the company in 1996 and has an established career serving the political and social aspirations of the African-Caribbean business community. Andrew continues to contribute toward the advancement of young enterprises and growing companies.
He is a frequent visitor at the DTI; an expert on minority business/trade matters and he is a vice president of the Small Business Bureau, a UK-wide networking organization and small business lobby group.
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Kate has been working at senior level as a corporate technologist of 25 years standing within key financial services operations including Prudential-Bache Securities (UK) Limited; Cedel SA; Central Gilts Office; Allied Irish Banks; New York Stock Exchange as well as being a founding member and acting CEO of GovLocal.com - an Internet company focusing on consumer-2-government sector.
John May FCA is the Strategy Consultant. Responsible for the overall objectives and effectiveness of the company's promotional strategy and tactical approach.
He is the Policy Director and Adviser to Small Business Bureau - a business lobbying group articulating the needs and concerns of SMEs right to the heart of the Government and as Principal, he runs a boutique Chartered Accountancy Practice in central London.
John has been a Practising Chartered Accountant since 1974. He is a Member of Institute of Management, Freeman of City of London, Fellow of Institute of Directors.
And as Strategic Marketing Consultant, John enjoys close ties with City of London Livery Company, The Guild of Marketors and is Founder and Chairman of Thames Valley First - a business-2-professional association.
TopJohn Pinninger, Director, Primeword International. In public relations for over twenty years, he has worked with a number of prestigious organisations, predominantly in the financial services and insurance sectors. In 1986, he joined the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), and went on to be Head of Communications for the financial regulator FIMBRA, managing media, government, industry and consumer relations. He helped to launch the Personal Investment Authority (PIA) under the chairmanship of Sir Gordon Downey (later the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards), for whom he worked directly.
In 1994, John moved into consultancy, where he was a director of a major London public relations consultancy.
One year later he created his own consultancy, Primeword Limited (trading as Primeword Communications and Primeword International) which provides media, business and political communications services to a wide range of clients in the UK and internationally.
John has acted as consultant to a number of UK trade associations and companies including the LINK cash machine network, the IFA Association, the Chartered Institute of Bankers/Institute of Financial Services, the Institute of Financial Planning, Personal Touch Financial Services and the Association of Policy Market Makers.
John has also acted for a number of IT businesses including Practiv, Allfinanz, Open Door Finance, First Mortgage and Cedar Group.
A former candidate for both the Westminster and European Parliaments, he also worked as an adviser to MPs and Peers in the UK Parliament and to the Leader of Westminster City Council.
On an international level, he has represented the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to the media in London for the past seven years and has close working relations with business groups in Belgium, France and Switzerland.
John is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Institute of Directors.
TopMrs. Beverley Nicholls is an Attorney-at-Law who has been in practice for sixteen years in Barbados. Her practice is a general one that comprises: Mortgages; Conveyances; Contractual Matters; Wills; Probate; Immigration Law; Personal Injury; Family Law and Litigation work etc.
She has been Pathway Caribbean's Ltd lawyer since our emergence in the Barbados market.
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Thomas Chan has been working with the Chinese community in Britain for many years. Currently he chairs the Chinese Takeaway Association (UK) and is Vice-Chair of the Chinese in Britain Forum. He is a member on HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Race Equality Advisory Panel.
Since 2005, he has been involved with the European Union and London Development Agency funded Minority Diaspora Business Interchange (MDBI) Programme and other business support projects.
Working with existing business networks from diverse ethnic backgrounds, the MDBI programme works towards the establishment of new business networks amongst the Chinese, Vietnamese, Bangladeshi and Latin American business communities and promoting their engagements with mainstream business support organisations.
Thomas runs his own training and management consultancy, specialised in communication, business support, international trade, food safety and diversity issues.
TopHerbert Elwin Yearwood Born in 1936, he was educated at St Lukes Boys School and Harrison's College and worked for theGovernment of Barbados from 1954 to 1959 in the Public Works Department. From 1960 to 1961 he was in the British Army Royal Signals based at Catterick Camp in Yorkshire in the UK. Then from 1961 to 1971 he was at BEA British European Airways Corporation London UK as a Communications Supervisor. In the early 1970s he was a manager in Manufacturing Industries and has since been:
Garry Parker, Founder Chairman and CEO of BCCCF
Garry has been a public affairs professional and entrepreneur for nearly 15 years in the UK, Brussels and, for the last two years, in Finland. His family business background is in specialist joinery and the manufacture of fine English furniture. He is the owner-managed four micro- and small businesses, two founded by his late father Ken in the 1950s, in that sector in Cambridgeshire, England from 1992 to 2004. He became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers in the City of London in 2004.
Garry served in the British Army (TA, Infantry) after leaving Nottingham Trent University with degrees in law and legal practice. He joined the Forum of Private Business (FPB - the UK's SME representative organisation) in 1995, setting up their Brussels office within UEAPME, European Association of Crafts, Trades & SMEs (12 million enterprises, 100 national and sectoral associations, including Suomen Yrittajat in Finland). He was, variously, Head of Public Relations, Secretary of EMU and SME Finance Working Groups at UEAPME, small business advisor to several UK MEPs, Head of Public Affairs at FPB, Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Small Business Group, Westminster, alternate Member of the European Economic & Social Committee, Brussels (Employers' Group 1) and a member of several European Commission and Parliament Consultative Groups. Garry led the EU campaigns for the Late Payments Directive and the reduced VAT-rate for labour intensive services (which now applies in Finland, but, sadly, not yet the UK!). He was a Board member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.
On a voluntary level, Garry was Secretary General of ELSA (European Law Students' Association) International in Brussels, 1995. He co-founded ELSA Alumni Finland in 2006, to support the law students of Finland, and is an active member of the ELSA Lawyers' Society (ELS). He is an alumnus of the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) whom BCCCF is helping to establish their examinations and training in Finland, especially for the benefit of children and young people. He was a member of Peterborough City Council 2004-2007, and has been a candidate (UK - Conservative) in the European Parliament election, 2004, for the West Midlands region. Garry's Finnish wife is Maria and they have two young sons and live in Espoo.
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