NOVA ALEXANDER - Executive Director
Nova has had a distinguished career in management, consulting and the tourism & hospitality industry spanning some 30 years. As a director of top hotel & destination marketing company IHDM Ltd based in the UK, Nova headed up new business development and managed a wide range of international clients including representing the National Tourist Office for The Government of Trinidad & Tobago in the UK and Europe. Nova has previously worked in management positions all over the world, including Saint Lucia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, T&T, Martinique and the United Kingdom.
Her extensive human resources, event management,
public relations and operations expertise has been widely utilised in a number of roles to great effect. She has consistently focused on customer service, yield and crisis management, marketing, sports for development and 3rd party tie-ins,
Highly respected for her excellent communication and negotiation skills, Nova is well known for her out of the box thinking and creative approach.
DELROY ALEXANDER - Chair
He was recognised in February 2018, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as the 16th Commonwealth Point of Light Awardee in honour of “his exceptional service leading sports for development programmes for disadvantaged young people across the Caribbean”.
Delroy is a noted crisis manager and journalist.
Shortlisted as part of a four person team for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his work on accountant Arthur Andersen, Delroy is an award winning financial and investigative journalist, editor, and media advisor with more than 20 years communications experience. He is also a trained teacher and tutor with extensive lecturing experience, well versed in mentoring disadvantaged youth.
Delroy has advised a range of clients on media management, journalism practice, crisis management and public relations. As a management consultant, he helped turnaround one of the largest Arabic newspaper in the world.
Prior to management consulting, he spent six years as a senior business reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and spent six years as a financial editor at The Gleaner Company in Jamaica, helping launch several new publications and reorganising the paper’s editorial management.
Delroy is on the board of the Civil Society Coalition of St. Lucia; a CPDC working group member on Caribbean policy initiatives for NGO's; a member of the Common Goal Network's Safeguarding Committee and an advisory board member of the UNICEF initiative, the International Safeguards for Children in Sport.
RITA DYER - Head of Training
Rita is one of the region's leading trainers and vocational qualification assessors.
Rita is a trained administrator and teacher with several experience at the Division of teacher education at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. In 2018, she received the Queen’s Birthday award medal for services in education in St Lucia. She has worked with disadvantaged youth and is also a trained assessor and verifier for TVET qualification in the region and a moderator for CSEC examinations.
She has a Master's from Ohio State University.
RACHEL MOSES is a senior project manager and former SVG managing director of the National Trust and financial analyst.
She has been with SSF for several years and manages activities in the South of the island.
SSF has a cadre of trained youth mentors and has access to some 28 volunteers and supporters Island-wide.