Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson, Publisher

Chris Jackson is Executive Vice President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of One World and Roc Lit 101, imprints of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. Over his career Chris has edited and published a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Cathy Park Hong, Prince, Jay-Z, Wes Moore, Trevor Noah, Ibram X. Kendi, Victor LaValle, Heather McGhee and Eddie Huang. He is the recipient of the Center for Fiction Medal for Editorial Excellence, the Authors Guild Publisher Award for Literature that Inspires Change, and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop Editorial Achievement Award, and was named one of Time Magazine’s “12 Leaders Who Are Shaping the Next Generation of Artists.” His own writing has appeared in magazines and journals including The Paris Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Callaloo, and The Atlantic.

Tiphanie Yanique

  • Tiphanie Yanique, Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Short Story Writer

    Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel, Monster in the Middle, which was selected as a US Library of Congress Great Read for 2023.  Her most recent book is a poetry and art book called Portal, published in a limited edition to celebrate 175 years of US Virgin Islands Emancipation. Tiphanie is also the author of the poetry collection, Wife, which won the Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection, the novel, Land of Love and Drowning, which won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award.  Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.  She is the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35 and the Bocas Prize in Fiction.  Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poet’s Prize and two Fulbright Scholarships. Prof. Yanique is also an outspoken activist on behalf of the Caribbean, having appeared on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, and published an op-ed in The New York Times on the US response to hurricanes in the Caribbean. Prof. Yanique is a member of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective, a group of activists, academics and artists who do decolonial work in and about archives.  

 

Jennifer Potter

Jennifer Potter, Head of Operations, Risk and Compliance, George Henry Partners LP, British Virgin Islands

Jennifer A Potter is our Head of Operations, Risk and Compliance and has a range of leadership responsibilities within the firm, including in the areas of operational resilience, driving the efficient operation and development of our business, risk management and compliance.

Jennifer has extensive experience in the implementation of innovative solutions to manage and optimise business systems and resources. Jennifer is particularly adept at identifying and harnessing advances in technology to achieve business objectives. She led strategic solutions for the BVI financial services regulator for over two decades and has demonstrable experience in delivering change and innovation in the fields of risk-management, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Jennifer’s considerable experience in these areas is of fundamental importance to our business and we are fortunate to be able to draw on her skills and experience to better serve our clients.

Jennifer has served as non-Executive Director and trusted advisor to a range of BVI public sector and private organisations.

Brodrick Penn

Brodrick Penn, Deputy Managing Director, Operations, FSC

Mr Brodrick Penn was appointed Deputy Managing Director, Operations, in July 2023. In his new role, Mr Penn will safeguard and augment the efficiency of the Commission’s operations, including its innovation, data management and business intelligence functions. Mr Penn has worked with the Commission since its inception and has over 25 years of experience within the financial services industry with demonstrated knowledge and experience in policy development, project planning, implementation and management. Before his new appointment, Mr Penn served in several key roles, such as Director, Enforcement; he also formerly held the post of Director, Investment Business.