IV OAS Private Sector Forum
Panama City, Panama - May 31st - June 3rd, 2007
Energy for Development in the Americas: The Role of Public - Private Partnerships

James Moss-Solomon is Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of Grace, Kennedy & Company Limited.He joined Grace Kennedy as a management trainee in 1971. Since then has served as Executive Chairman of Hi-Lo and Medi-Grace Ltd.; Divisional Director, International Business; General Manager - Grace, Kennedy (Merchandise); Divisional Director – Industrial Retail and Trading, and in June 1998 he was appointed Director responsible for Corporate Affairs.

He has contributed much to the development of the Jamaican business community through his membership in the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, where he served as President for two consecutive terms. He was also a Director of Pharmaceutical Council of Jamaica and Vice President at the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica for one term. He recently completed a two-year secondment to the Mona School of Business as Executive-in-Residence. In 2002 he was appointed the first Private Sector Advisor to the Caricom Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM). He attended the Priory School, Jamaica College, and McMaster University. He continues to serve his Alma Mater, Jamaica College as Chairman of the Board of Governors. He was recently the recipient of the S. Carlton Alexander Memorial Award for excellence by Jamaica College Old Boys’ Association.