Dr. David Lowe is a Corporate Strategy Consultant with a Doctorate in Business Administration (Corporate Finance) from the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
He started his career as an investment banker in Jamaica and later, after his graduate studies, working as a senior executive for the Global Strategy Consulting Firm, Accenture. During his tenure at Accenture, he travelled extensively across Asia Pacific region (including Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong) from his main office in Sydney, Australia. As lead project manager, he worked across industries which included Government, Financial Services, and Resources sector. These engagements involved major restructuring and strategic planning to impact both revenue enhancement and cost reduction implementation objectives.
Lowe returned to Jamaica six (6) years ago to start an advisory practice and to get involved as an equity partner in a start-up venture in the Hospitality Industry. Since then he has been involved in a number of successful market creating ventures by facilitating the divestment of major asset holdings.
Lowe began his relationship with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries when he was appointed in late 2007 as the Chairman of the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC). His mandate was to set up a new governance structure that would be able to reposition the ADC as a vehicle to facilitate development and investment in agriculture. Working with an external consultant to reposition the ADC, the proposal to merge the assets of the ADC with the strong pool of commercial skill sets of the Ministry’s former flagship Agricultural Support Services Fund Limited was accepted. The merger created the recently formed Agro Investment Corporation (AIC). The new entity will be focused on market development and investment facilitation in the Agriculture sector.
David Lowe currently is the Project Manager for Post Harvest Infrastructure and Special Projects within the newly formed AIC to assist in developing post harvest capabilities, agro investments and market and supply chain linkages.
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