Kevin possesses a strong international business, financial management, business strategy development, and analytical expertise.  He has spent almost 25 years of his life perfecting his craft as a global financial management professional.  From his academic beginning in 1993, under the tutelage of incredible accounting teachers and professors, to working with two of the most renowned public Accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Jamaica and Ernst & Young New York, to building a formidable consulting practice providing capacity building and marketing services to the Caribbean Region and to creating and facilitating training for over 1,000 business owners and entrepreneurs over the last seven years through his start-up the Anchor Strategy Group.

Before forming Anchor Strategy Group, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Jamaica, where he was promoted from Staff Trainee to a Senior Audit Associate in three years.  After completing his MBA in 2005, he joined the Transaction Advisory team at Ernst & Young as a Senior Associate and was promoted to Manager within two years.   His role at Ernst and Young allowed him to work with Global Fortune 500 companies. It expanded his industry knowledge of the Health-Care, Financial Services, Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Consumer Products Industries.   Kevin’s desire to build a wider technical base led him to a non-consulting role at Broadridge Financial Solutions, a $2.0 billion publicly traded firm.  He worked as a Senior Director of Business Development, developing various types of financial models and analyses to support the assessment of acquisition pipelines and alliance opportunities.  ‘

Kevin has always followed his passion and been keen on charting new paths.  These traits were evident when he combined his technical skills with his passion for helping businesses grow to form Anchor Strategy Group.   He has consulted and assisted several private clients, government, and not-for-profit agencies in supporting their customers in the areas of business planning and financial management, from developing business and strategic plans; to supporting tax planning and preparation; to facilitating financial planning, budgeting, projection, and analysis; building accounting systems and offering bookkeeping support; and to developing product pricing and managing capital raising processes.  Kevin’s experiences working with sophisticated large corporations have been translated to help small and mid-sized corporations.

Kevin holds a Bachelor from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, majoring in Accounting and minoring in Economics.  He completed the UK based Certified Public Accountants examination in 2012. He then pursued and completed an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Simon School of Business, the University of Rochester in 2005.  A few of Kevin’s accomplishments over the last seven years include: 

• Caribbean Life 40 Under 40 Recipient 2014
• Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce & Industry Visionary Award Recipient in 2014
• Member of the Seminar Committee for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
• Member of the Finance Transition Team for the pending Brooklyn Borough President – Senator Eric Adams
• Board Member of the Braata Productions (An Arts Organization with Caribbean Roots)
• Board Member of House of D’Marsh
• Key judge for the Harlem Business Alliance Annual Business Plan Competition for the last three years
• Founder of Go Caribbean! – An International Trade and Business Expo focus on developing trade and flow of investment between the Caribbean and North America

Kevin has a huge passing for imparting knowledge through one-to-one and classroom-style training.  He has taught at the college level and has led training for small business owners and budding entrepreneurs throughout several cities in New York.  He has worked with several economic development corporations such as  Harlem Business Alliance, NYC Small Business Services, New York Business Solutions Center, Project Enterprise, SOBRO, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Economic Development Corporations, and Washington Heights Bid to name a few.  Most recently, he was subcontracted to facilitate the New York SBA Emerging Leaders Program.  Some of the specifics of his teaching and training roles include:

• Tenure Track Professor at Bergen County Community College
• Adjunct Professor at Monroe College in 2009 and 2010
• Adjunct Professor at Berkeley College in 2014 – 2015
• Developed and Facilitated “You’ve Won a Contract Now What?” for New York City Small Business Services’ Fourth and Fifth Annual Citywide Procurement Fair in May 2010
• “Marketing to Government” – for Harlem Business Alliance and Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation
• A Six weeks’ business growth training course focused on business Growth for South Bronx Economic Development Corporation (SOBRO)
• Several financial management training for multiple organization
• Financial Management Training Course for Capital One
• Executed Financial Management Training for NYC School Construction Authority
• Developed and facilitated contract management training

Maintaining a contract with NYC Business Solutions to provide training to existing businesses and entrepreneurs in the areas of financial management, business planning, and marketing strategy development.

 

The Anchor Group is a strategic solutions company with a focus on bridging business growth gaps in the United States and technology gaps in the Caribbean.  With over 40+ years of combined professional experience in the targeted sectors, the Anchor team works closely with our clients to develop proven growth strategies, implement processes and solutions to enable operational excellence with a cost-efficient methodology to maximize Return on Investment (ROI).  A big focus of our solution-driven approach is to assist the c-Suite in developing and executing solid business strategies and finding best-in-class technology solutions.

The Anchor Group team core services include:

Corporate Advisory:

• Strategic Planning
• Growth Strategy
• Exit Strategy

Technology + Innovation:

• Product Development
• Product Launch
• Technology Sourcing * Inovation
• Process Improvement

Risk + Compliance

• Risk + Compliance Advisory
• Risk Management Training