Organization
Governance & People
Board, leadership, advisors, fellows, institutes and research staff of the Caribbean AI Institute.
CAII Team
Organization
At a glance
About 70 people in total (including visiting fellows); around 55 full-time.
9
Board of Directors
4
Executive Leadership
7
Advisory Board
6
Academy Fellows
5
Institute of Offshore Finance AI
4
Institute of Island Tourism & Blue Economy AI
4
Institute of Climate Resilience & Green Computing AI
6
Independent Centers & Industry Labs
4
Senior Research Fellows
6
Research Fellows
8
Assistant Research Fellows
4
Research Assistants
5
Visiting Research Fellows
4
Support Departments
Board of Directors
Highest decision-making bodyMr. Julian Hunte
Chairman of the Board · Senior CARICOM diplomat and regional development adviser
Ms. Tamara Ebanks
Board Member · Cayman CIMA (offshore finance regulation seat)
Mr. Malcolm Butterfield
Board Member · Bermuda BMA, markets & technology (insurance seat)
Mr. Dwight Gardiner
Board Member · Technology Investment Director, Caribbean Development Bank
Ms. Simone Scott
Board Member · CHTA board representative (tourism seat)
Mr. Robert Hamaty
Board Member · Chairman of a leading Caribbean trust group
Dr. Annette Arjoon-Martins
Board Member · Caribbean marine ecology and blue-carbon scholar
Mr. Amir Khan
Board Member · Green energy and compute infrastructure entrepreneur
Dr. Ricardo Williams
Independent Academic Director · Head of Computing, University of the West Indies
Executive Leadership
Dr. Marissa Lashley
President · Former Dean of Information Engineering, UWI; Caribbean digital economy leader
Dr. Kevin M. Ford
Vice President, Research · Professor of AI & data science
Mr. Trent Williams
Vice President, Industry Transfer · CEO of a Caribbean offshore fintech group
Professor Frank Zheng
Chief Scientist · Head of research and Academic Committee; leads technology roadmap and flagship projects
Advisory Board
External think tank, not involved in daily operationsMr. Ian Bell
International offshore tax lawyer; Cayman & BVI fund structures
Ms. Catherine Raw
Caribbean lead, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Mr. Richard Sasso
Senior Caribbean cruise industry executive
Dr. Elena Rodriguez
OECD expert on Caribbean AML and beneficial ownership policy
Mr. David Chin
Global investment head, family office; cross-border capital
Dr. Sarah Foster
Tropical hurricane and island climate-risk modelling authority
Mr. Hugo van der Wal
Privacy computing and financial data compliance expert
Academy Fellows
The Institute's highest academic honourDr. Geoffrey Hordern
Offshore finance law; Cayman trust law authority
Dr. Lisa Alleng
Marine remote sensing and coral-reef blue-carbon measurement
Dr. Omar Mohammed
Island microgrids and energy storage
Dr. Vanessa Charles
Multilingual NLP and Creole linguistics
Dr. Mark Segal
Catastrophe insurance AI pricing and ILS risk models
Dr. James Carter
International AI governance and FATF technology compliance
Institute of Offshore Finance AI
Mr. Nathaniel Rose
Director · Senior Research Fellow
Ms. Chloe Baptiste
Head, Beneficial Ownership & Look-through Compliance Center
Mr. Leo Sampson
Head, Offshore Fund & SPV Document Intelligence Center
Dr. Asha Nair
Head, Cross-border AML & Sanctions Screening Center
Ms. Tiffany Grant
Head, Offshore Tax CRS Compliance Center
Institute of Island Tourism & Blue Economy AI
Dr. Alicia Mendez
Director · Senior Research Fellow
Mr. Javi Ruiz
Head, Tourism Revenue Management & Visitor Flow Center
Dr. Ryan Hodge
Head, Blue Carbon & Coral Reef Valuation Center
Ms. Marie Laurent
Head, Multilingual Tourism AI Interaction Center
Institute of Climate Resilience & Green Computing AI
Dr. Carl Joseph
Director · Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Nina Singh
Head, Island Extreme Climate Risk Simulation Center
Mr. Ethan Campbell
Head, Island Microgrid & Storage AI Dispatch Center
Mr. Wayne Bennett
Head, Localized AI Compute & Data Compliance Center
Independent Centers & Industry Labs
Dr. Helena Knox
Head, AI Governance & Regulatory Standards Center
Ms. Shakira Ford
Head, Inclusive Finance & Digital Inclusion Center
Mr. Darren Scott
Director, Offshore Compliance AI Industry Lab
Ms. Lina Marquez
Director, Smart Resort Operations Industry Lab
Mr. Oliver Moore
Director, Island Green Compute Infrastructure Lab
Dr. Pedro Alvarez
Director, Ocean Remote Sensing & Blue Carbon Lab
Senior Research Fellows
Dr. Benjamin Cox
Financial NLP, fund contract parsing
Dr. Zara Persaud
Visitor behaviour forecasting, tourism recommendation
Mr. Clifford Wilson
Privacy computing, financial data masking
Dr. Hazel Thomas
Island disaster loss simulation
Research Fellows
Ms. Kayla Mckenzie
UBO graph extraction, ownership look-through
Mr. Andre Francis
AML risk feature engineering
Ms. Elodie Dubois
Multilingual speech models (French / Creole)
Mr. Tobias Gordon
Solar-storage dispatch optimization
Ms. Priya Suresh
Blue-carbon remote sensing AI
Mr. Joshua Webb
AI compliance audit and explainability
Assistant Research Fellows
Miss Sienna Campbell
Fund document annotation, data cleaning
Mr. Rafael Torres
Visitor data collection and visualization
Miss Aisha Ali
Sanctions list matching, rule-engine testing
Mr. Jude Lewis
Coral reef image datasets
Miss Naomi Clarke
Inclusive credit models for guesthouses
Mr. Samuel Baptiste
Compute energy simulation
Miss Diana James
Multilingual marketing AIGC testing
Mr. Kieran Jones
Regulatory document translation, knowledge base
Research Assistants
Miss Tiana Rose
Research Assistant
Mr. Nathan James
Research Assistant
Miss Leah Mendez
Research Assistant
Mr. Omar Francis
Research Assistant
Visiting Research Fellows
Dr. Wu Hao
Modular prefabricated green compute infrastructure
Dr. Sophia Lin
US-listed M&A and cross-border fintech
Prof. Marcus Webb
Tropical island water resource optimization
Dr. Elsa Wong
Domain fine-tuning of large models
Dr. Stefano Moretti
Cruise operations digitalization
Support Departments
Ms. Janice O’Neal
Head, Research Management
Mr. Brandon Husbands
Head, Industry Partnerships & Transfer
Ms. Claudia Vazquez
Head, International Cooperation & Communications
Mr. Simon Lawrence
Head, Compliance & Risk (offshore jurisdiction compliance officer)