Team: Board of Directors

Elaine Allen Bradley has been a prominent community leader in Negril, Westmoreland, where she currently resides, for more than 22 years. Mrs. Bradley has held various leadership positions, including as a past President of the Rotary Club of Negril and a current Assistant Governor overseeing five clubs in western Jamaica.

She has also been involved in the healthcare industry as the Director of Health for the Negril Chamber of Commerce and has contributed to the tourism sector as the past Chairperson of the Destination Assurance Council. In addition, Mrs. Bradley founded and managed a free Orthotics Clinic for children with lower extremity disabilities, served on the board of directors for multiple local schools, led the Neighborhood Watch in her community, and volunteered regularly at a soup kitchen.

Mrs. Bradley is recognized for her involvement with the JAHJAH Foundation, which focuses on assisting Jamaicans in their home country. She organized a month-long training program for 22 paramedics in Negril, conducted by the Israeli Black Cat 69 Crew, and is currently collaborating with the foundation to establish a Dental Clinic that will offer free services to the community.

She became involved in the community of Negril through the Rotary Club of Negril after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and has worked with the newly established club and other organizations from North America, including Friends of Jamaica, Negril Hardware and Haberdashery, and the Venezuelan Army, and locals in the restoration process.
Mrs. Bradley was born in St. Elizabeth and moved to Springfield, St James at the age of four. She went to Springfield Primary School and Branch Texas High School in Maldon and later moved to the UK to study nursing. She is a qualified registered nurse who worked as a Nurse Manager before retiring and moving to the resort town of Negril.

Matthew Robinson grew up in Walter Fletcher beach in Montego Bay, where his passion for the sea and food started in his grandmother’s restaurant, the Beach Barrel. His love of reading and passion for sports took him to Canada and the United States where he studied political science. He returned to Jamaica, enrolled in law school, and worked various roles within agencies of the Ministry of National Security. In 2016 Matthew’s passion for food and love of Jamaica inspired him to create Jamaica Food Tours Limited to educate visitors and locals about authentic Jamaican food and culture. His Jamaican “Food Boss” persona has over 20 million YouTube views. He has also worked with some of the world’s top bloggers and YouTubers bringing Jamaica closer to millions around the world. 

Ms. Vana Taylor has worked in the Tourism Industry for over thirty years and has held several management positions. In 1983 she started her first company, Sunflower Villas which she still operates and also manages and operates Fisherman’s Point and Skycastles in Ocho Rios, St. Ann.

She has been a Council Member of the Jamaica Hotel & Tourist Association for several years and Area Chairman for the Ocho Rios/Runaway Bay Chapter. She has served as the 4^th Vice President of the Association for the past five years and has also served as Vice Chairman of the Allied and Small Accommodation Sector.

Ms. Taylor has a wealth of experience in the Hospitality Industry and has served as the Chairman of the Jamaica Association of Villas & Apartments since 1989. This Association has been representing the Villas and Apartments sector for over forty five years and has lobbied the Government on several matters for its members. Over the years at various times she has been a member of several boards and has chaired several committees. She is presently a member of the Jamaica Tourist Board Marketing Sub-Committee, a board member of the Tourism Product Development Company and chair of the Product Quality/Tourism Training Sub-Committee; a board member of the St. Ann Chamber of Commerce and Vice Chair of the St. Ann/St. Mary Resort Board.

Ms. Taylor is a devoted Catholic and Lay Leader, a Justice of the Peace and has received a Badge of Honour from the Government in 2001 for her services to the Community and Tourism.

Mrs. Laura Heron has worked in the Tourism sector since 1981. Her sojourn began with the establishment of a family business (Resort Divers Limited), which provided water-sports activities within hotels across Jamaica. Resort Divers Limited was instrumental in developing scuba diving in Jamaica. Over the period she worked with approximately 25 hotels.

In 2008 she served on the TPDCo board as Deputy Chairman and Chair of the Audit Committee. She returns to TPDCo to share her wealth of experience in management and the several sub sectors. She is Deputy Board Chairman and currently sits on the Project, Product Development Community Tourism & Craft and Human Resources sub committees of TPDCo. She is also chairman of the audit sub-committee of the current board.

Mrs. Heron worked at St Ann Development Company from 2008 to 2014 as General Manager. Her responsibilities spanned the management of the iconic Dunns River Falls as well as Green Grotto Caves, Turtle River Park, Roaring River Estate, Laughing Waters, Ocho Rios Bay Beach and all other properties owned by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) in the parish of St Ann.

In 2014, Mrs. Heron joined the Guardsman Group of companies to establish a Tourism and Hospitality Division where she continues to serve the industry on a day to day basis.

She is a graduate of The St. Andrew High School, Kingston and studied Business Administration at Florida International University. She is also a certified PADI Scuba Diving Instructor who still enjoys diving. She enjoys cooking, needlework and participating in community activities especially within schools in the parish of St. Ann. She is a former school board member at the Runaway Bay All Age School.

Mrs Heron is a member of Jamaica Hotel & Tourist Association (JHTA), The Association of Jamaican Attractions Ltd (AJAL) and served as Vice President of the Jamaica Association of Dive

Tess-Maria Leon is a senior public relations specialist, who holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Spanish from the University of the West Indies. Ms. Leon has also pursued graduate studies earning a certificate in applied project management from the University of Boston.

Born in Venezuela, Ms. Leon is fluent in Spanish and has spent some of her time in Columbia lecturing Business English and Caribbean Cultural Studies at Universidad Popular de Cesar. 

Ms Leon has over ten years’ experience working in the tourism, energy, technology, educational and entertainment industries in Jamaica

As Managing Director of a boutique advertising and public relations firm, and in her various roles, she places tremendous value on building strong relationships with clients; connecting and engaging with them frequently while planning, developing and implementing external communications, events and media outreach efforts.

Ms. Leon is an experienced, transparent, charitable and versatile communications professional who enjoys reading extensively and travelling.

Robin DeLisser has Tourism in his blood and has been a part of different sectors of the industry all his life. He has been involved since the age of twelve as he grew up at Manor House Hotel in Kingston and Bay Roc Hotel in Montego Bay which were both family businesses. It was inevitable that he would study Hotel Management and when the time came he went off to Hotel School in Germany.

He returned to Jamaica and worked for a short period and went off again this time to the United States to study Business Management. After spending some ten years in the US he returned to Jamaica in 1982 and founded along with his wife and business partner Trina, the Half Moon Equestrian Centre at the Half Moon Hotel Montego Bay which added to the diversity of the tourism capital’s offerings. When the business became well established he ventured out into distribution with Chas E Ramson.

For the last six years Mr. DeLisser has been the General Manager at Budget Car Rentals.

Robin DeLisser serves on the audit and product development sub-committees of TPDCo. He is a Justice of the Peace for the parish of St. James, a Rotarian and since 1989 and has supported along with his wife, the Trelawny Special Olympics program.

Board member of the Tourism Product Development Company Ltd, Christopher Whyms-Stone is a Registered Architect with the Architect Registration Board of Jamaica since 2002, Board Member of Architect Registration Board of Jamaica, since February 2008 and member of the Jamaican Institute of Architects, JIA, since 2002. He is also a past Vice-President and Past President of The Jamaican Institute of Architects. He has served on numerous boards and committees in several public sector entities.

He is a graduate of the University of Technology Jamaica where he earned a Masters in Architecture. He also holds a Bachelors Degree in Design Architecture. Mr. Whyms-Stone is a Director at Cornerstone.design Ltd which he co-founded in 2000. His company focuses on residential, heritage, commercial and civic buildings and small commercial buildings urban planning and also interior design. Primary responsibilities include administration, design and contract administration.

Mr. Whyms-Stone was also a Part-Time Lecturer/Senior Tutor Experiencing Architecture and Part-Time Lecturer/Senior Tutor in Design Studio 4, at the University of Technology Jamaica, Caribbean School of Architecture and has done extensive traveling in Europe, the Caribbean and the Americas.

Since 2001 Mr. Whyms-Stone has been Director and Curator of the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum.

His hobbies are: Reading, Writing, Snorkelling, Football, Traveling and Culture.