Business Leader: Executive Steward Nominee #2

Today the Jamaica Observer publishes the second of 12 stories on the nominees for this year’s Business Leader Award being held under the theme ‘Business Leader: Executive Steward’. The nominees are among the top CEOs in Jamaica.

 

As I settled down for my interview with one of the nominees for the Business Leader Award, I was bombarded with a barrage of questions by one of his aides who appeared to be on a mission to unmask the full list of executives who are being considered for the award.

The information she feverishly sought is proprietary and jealously guarded, so I dutifully parried the line of enquiry. But in a fleeting moment of indiscretion I let loose the tantalising possibility of there being as many as three females within the group of 12.

A particularly perceptive woman, this information — albeit minimal — was enough for her. She immediately seized on it and blurted out, “Marlene Street!” adding the name of the managing director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) to the list of nominees that she had been privately compiling.

It was a pregnant moment. I was at once dismayed and pleasantly surprised, for Street-Forrest, who has been at the helm of the exchange since 2004, has generally eschewed public limelight.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/marlene-street-forrest-8212-breathing-life-into-stocks-and-shares-marlene-street-forrest-8212-breathing-life-into-stocks-and-shares_116311