WOMEN BUSINESS Owners (WBO), an organisation established two years ago to provide a forum for women who are the principals of their own businesses now has a new, dynamic board of directors headed by environmental risk management specialist, Mrs. Eleanor Jones.
The team of women business owners who have established and are running their own small to medium businesses aims to influence national economic, financial and social policy directions.
Eleanor Jones is the managing director and consulting principal of Environmental Solution Limited, a private sector environmental engineering and management services company which she co-founded in 1991. She has developed a business enterprise in the provision of environmental services to all stages of development programmes and projects, with particular attention to environmental risk management and eco-efficiency. She also sits on the boards of several other businesses and voluntary organisations.
Commenting on her appointment at the WBO's first general meeting held at the Eden Gardens restaurant in Kingston recently, Mrs. Jones said she welcomed the challenge and hoped that with the support of her members, the WBO would help to make a significant impact on the country's future economic development.
Mrs. Jones takes over the leadership of the WBO from immediate past president, Lorna Green, owner of Digital Transtec, an information and communications technology firm specialising in niche software development and who now sits on the new board.
Vice-president of WBO is Jean Lowrie-Chin, founder and CEO of PRO Communications, an advertising and public relations firm. Treasurer is Dorothea-Gordon-Smith, a pioneer in the field of commercial waste management and environmental engineering. She is the founder and managing director of Garbage Disposal and Sanitation Systems, the leading eco-sanitation and waste management company in Jamaica.
