Co-Founders

Our Founders

Andrea Dempster-Chung – Founder, Kingston Creative

Andrea is an engineer, entrepreneur and executive. She is the Cofounder and Managing Director of Kingston Creative an organisation seeking to transform Downtown; the founder of Bookophilia, a bookstore that promotes Caribbean literature and the founder of Go Global Art, an art marketing platform which helps artists from developing countries gain access to global markets. Andrea has held senior management roles in the Government of Jamaica, Digicel and GraceKennedy and has served on the boards of Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), The National Land Agency (NLA) and the Public Health Committee. She is a strategic business coach and consultant for creative entrepreneurs and has worked with Jamaica National, the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and ASPIRE (Barbados). She recently managed the Arts portfolio for the British Council where she developed strategy and implemented key projects in film, literature and visual art to build capacity and drive the creative economy in Jamaica. Andrea holds a Master of Science in Structural Engineering, a Prince2 Certification in Project Management and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She has also studied Art and Finance at the Sotheby’s School of Art in London and Finance at the Stanford School of Business in California.

Allan Daisley – Founder, Kingston Creative

Allan Daisley is the Managing Director of Startupbootcamp Digital Health accelerator in Miami, a program that helps high growth potential startups engage with and bring impactful technologies to healthcare stakeholders. In this role he recruits, invests in, and develops healthcare startups through the commercialization process, steering them toward rapid growth through meaningful engagements with healthcare corporations, investors and other stakeholders. Allan formerly co-founded and ran the ZeroTo510 Medical Device Accelerator, a nationally ranked program for the commercialization of medical technologies.Mr. Daisley co-founded 2 software startups and leveraged those experiences as an economic development consultant driving entrepreneurship-focused projects globally in developing regions. Prior to that he spent time in senior strategy and marketing roles at IBM, where he formulated retail solutions and managed server products globally; and at as a technology consultant at global firm Accenture.Allan holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jennifer Bailey PhD – Founder, Kingston Creative

Jennifer’s expertise is in innovation management, entrepreneurship and operations management. Jennifer is the Faculty Advisor for Babson’s Technology, Entrepreneurship and Design concentration. Jennifer serves as a mentor, coach and trainer with various accelerators including the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship Caribbean, the Babson College WIN Lab and the Mass Challenge Accelerator in Boston, MA. As a coach she helps startups to navigate the process of designing and developing new products and services and then guides them as they develop the operational processes and systems to launch and scale their venture. She holds a B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and received her MBA and Ph.D. in Operations Management from Georgia Tech. Throughout her time in Jamaica and the US, she has always enjoyed volunteering and participating in organizations and activities centered about the performing arts and Caribbean culture including various activities such as being a prior member of the ASHE Performing Arts Ensemble in Jamaica. She later formed a Caribbean folk singing group in Atlanta, which was called Carisol Singers and currently serving as the Faculty Director for the Babson College Student Accapella singing group aptly called the Babson Rocket Pitches. Currently Jennifer is the Academic Director for the iCreate Institute in Kingston, Jamaica and also serves as a Board Member with the non-profit, Arts Connect International (ACI) in Boston, Massachusetts.