As business leaders, we are motivated to achieve the profitability of the enterprise. We are challenged by the civic responsibility to help build the nation and to be both innovative and responsive to the social and economic development needs of the motherland. Corporate Citizenship through fair business practices and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are therefore essential tenets to which our team subscribe.
The basic principles of partnership, collaboration, and team are fundamental to the strategy of the collective effort driven by our business preposition to deliver profits while contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We build networks of relationships with Guyanese across the world and channel their inherent commitment, energies, and professionalism to the homeland to build capacity and to encourage investment through engagement in business.
We are leading change during a period of great uncertainties, but it is also a period of great opportunities. To be ahead of the curve, we must make full use of business intelligence and make data driven decisions. We must be vested in the future of our country. To do so, we must abandon much of the old ways of doing business and redefine our relationships with our customers and the communities we serve. As leaders, we take personal responsibility and ownership for the delivery of excellence. Someone once said in a speech that we cannot turn around a destroyer by deploying a speed boat. In this undertaking, there must be a convergence of systems, human and material resources within time frames that add value exponentially. There must be synergy where all moving parts are in sync to help fulfill the common purpose. We must, by example, demand and inspire trust and confidence in our customers, policymakers, investors, and the communities that we serve; excellence is the mark of ODC leadership.
Chairman/Chief Executive Mr. Cosford Roberts is the Founder of ODC. He holds a Diploma in Personnel Management from the University of Guyana, BBA (Magna Cum Laude) specializing in HRM and an MBA (Hons) in Project Management at Strayer University in the United States of America. He is also trained in Public Policy and Legislation at the University of Maryland Legacy Leadership Institute.
In Guyana, he served with the Guyana National Service, the Guyana Electricity Corporation as Public Relations Officer, and as a School Teacher. While in Jamaica, Cosford Roberts served with the Government of Jamaica/ USAID Energy Sector Assistance Project as Administrator in the Ministry of Tourism and Energy. As a Development Activist, Entrepreneur, and Businessman he brings a deep commitment to the development of Guyana and the Caribbean. He played key roles in the advocacy, development and financing of the new Jamaica Urban Transit System. In addition, he designed and implemented a program to rebuild Civility and Public Order in Jamaica using the public Transit as the catalyst. His leadership experience is driven by the desire to build a strong nation and a resilient economy. His expertise is derived from a combination of academic training, operational experience, commitment to excellence, and principle centered and ethical leadership.
Mr. Roberts is an experienced Entrepreneur, Caribbean Development Activist, Program Manager, and Business Executive with more than thirty years in Organizational and Business Leadership. He has held Project Management Leadership in E-Governance, Administration of Energy, Business Consulting, and Technology Management. His work experience includes Consultancies in Log Frame Analysis Project Management Planning Methodology at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as Project Manager Risk Management for e-Governance with the New York State Government in Albany.
Email: croberts@odcgy.com
Mrs. Yvonne Roberts is the Director/Company Secretary (Founder) of ODC. She holds a B.Sc. (UWI) Mona Jamaica, in Computer Technology, Certified Project Manager (PMP), and the Master of Information Management (MIM), the University of Maryland specializing in Strategic Management. Mrs. Roberts has held senior Program Management positions in the Federal Government Information Technology Contracting programs and the Private Sector ranging from Health, Aviation, and Agriculture. She is also an Entrepreneur and Business Executive with over 30 years of experience.
Dr. Jeffrey Jones is a Director of ODC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics (Mathematics minor) from SUNY Oswego in Upstate NY. He also holds a Master of Arts (MA) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Economics specializing in empirical Health Economics from Stony Brook University in Long Island NY. Dr. Jones has spent the better part of the last 15 years performing data analytics in both academic and corporate settings. For the last 10 years, he has been involved in developing, implementing, and interpreting various measures of corporate performance in the US Healthcare Industry.
Mrs. Nayasha Hatmin is a Director of ODC. She was called to the legal Bar of the Republic of Guyana in 2001 after graduating from the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and the Hugh Wooding Law School in St. Augustine, Trinidad. Thereafter, she worked as Prosecutor and Senior Prosecutor in the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Guyana before being appointed a Magistrate. As a Senior Prosecutor, Mrs. Hatmin attended several Conferences and specialists’ workshops involving Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting Terrorism and Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance. She has also assisted in training members of the Guyana Police Force in identifying and combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.
Mrs. Hatmin joined the Judicial Administration of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2012, where she worked as the Senior Deputy Registrar and Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in 2019, she was called to practice at the private bar of the Turks and Caicos Islands and joined the firm of Stanfield Greene, where she practices law as a senior attorney. She is a tenacious litigator.
Michael O.D. Somersall is a Founding Director/ Company Attorney. Mr. Somersall is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police in the Guyana Police Force. He has been in practice as an Attorney at Law since 2004. Mr. Somersall is the Chairman of the Guyana Public Service Commission and Member of the Police Service Commission.