Bevan Springer
President
Bevan is an award-winning journalist and seasoned public relations professional. He has worked as the North American correspondent of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union and contributed for media houses such as the Caribbean Media Corporation, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, and Saint Lucia’s Radio 100.
He is well known to the Caribbean Diaspora in the New York tri-state area, having hosted several radio programmes, including the weekly five-hour, radio show, “The Caribbean in Five” on 1190 AM WLIB in New York.
A weekly columnist with New York’s renowned Amsterdam News, Bevan’s international reach includes contributions to the Trinidad Guardian, BBC World Service, New York Daily News, 1600 AM WWRL, UN Radio, and WNBC-TV in New York. As former North American editor of the Barbados Advocate, Bevan spent several years covering the United Nations where he served as editor of The Islander publication, covering the 1994 Barbados Small Islands Conference, the 1995 Copenhagen Social Summit and the 1995 Women’s Conference in Beijing.
For the past decade, he has produced the popular Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx), designed to improve the quality of media coverage of sustainable tourism in the Caribbean.
A former national tennis player of Barbados, Bevan has worked as a sports reporter with the Barbados Nation and Barbados Advocate newspapers.
He is a member of New York’s Christian Cultural Center, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, National Association of Black Journalists and United Nations Correspondents Association. He is an alumnus of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific in British Columbia, Canada – a member of the United World Colleges’ (UWC) network, and sits on the Leadership Council in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the George Washington University’s School of Business.
Recipient of a diploma in public relations from the University of the West Indies and a guest lecturer in public relations at New York University, Bevan has received awards from New York’s City Council, the Council of Barbadian Organizations in New York, BWIA West Indies Airways and the Caribbean Hotel Association. In the summer of 2010, he was conferred with honorary Jamaican citizenship by the Jamaica Consulate in New York.
H. Peter Mansel
Secretary & Treasurer
Pete Mansel is president and co-founder of 4P Group, Inc. a marketing and business planning firm based in the Atlanta, Georgia, area. He has 35+ years of telecommunications operations, marketing, strategic planning and sales experience at senior executive level positions. He has developed business plans for domestic U.S. and Caribbean clients. Some of the major Caribbean plans include Barbados Photovoltaic Module Assembly Plant, Caribbean Media and Communication Services, Ltd. (CMCS), Barbados Sugar Cane Industry, West Indian Sea Island Cotton, Hit-for-Six feature film, Wentworx Spices, and BIDC Condiments Industry. Pete earned a B.B.A. from Adelphi University and an Executive M.B.A. from Pace University in New York.
Simone Skinner
Event Planner
Simone Skinner specializes in organizing and planning meetings and conferences, corporate events, and celebrations. Simone, who has a strong background in Project Management with a focus on Meeting and Event Management, has gained significant experience working in the Caribbean's travel and tourism industry in Barbados, Martinique, Saint Lucia and her native Trinidad & Tobago. Simone, who speaks French fluently, coordinates the Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx) and provides administrative support and special projects assistance to Marketplace Excellence. Solutions, systems and results oriented, Simone holds an undergraduate degree in Hospitality Sales and Meeting Management, graduating magna cum laude from Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island.
Greta Andzenge
Intern
Greta Andzenge is a 2011 CMEx intern, pursuing a Masters in Tourism Administration with a concentration in Sustainable Destination Management from The George Washington University. While helping with the coordination of events, Greta also assists with the handling of communications materials and developing relationships with external audiences. She has a background in tourism throughout the Caribbean, with specific experience in Saint Lucia, Barbados, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos. Greta has most recently spent a number of years managing the organizational leadership and web marketing for an event and invitation design firm. Greta holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Metropolitan State University in Minnesota.
