Sandra Glasgow is new HEART Trust/NTA chairman
September 20, 2006
The Jamaica Observer
Sandra Glasgow has been appointed chairman of the HEART Trust/National Training Agency, replacing Alister Cooke, who served in that post since 1991.
Glasgow, who is also senior vice-president, corporate services at the University of Technology (UTech), brings a wealth of experience to the HEART board, particularly in the area of entrepreneurship, for which her passion is renowned locally and internationally.
Glasgow was formerly the director of UTech's Entrepreneurial Centre and senior director and founder of the university's Technology Innovation Centre (TIC). She was responsible for raising funds for the state-of-the-art TIC and lead the centre in its early years.
The TIC is a world-class business incubator for start-up technology ventures and a provider of a wide range of training and business services for entrepreneurial firms. A graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, Glasgow holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Zoology and Applied Botany and a Master's Degree in Business Administration, with a specialisation in the Management of Technology.
She is passionately interested in the field of entrepreneurship and has authored a number of papers and publications focusing on small and micro enterprise development, as well as being a trainer in entrepreneurship.
Glasgow was the Team Leader for the University of Technology's participation for the first time in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 2005. Jamaica is now the first and only English-speaking country in the Caribbean to have participated in this respected research consortium.
The new HEART Trust/NTA chairman has also taught a course on New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies. She was Jamaica's Eisenhower Fellow in 2000, spending six weeks in the US visiting business incubators and other entrepreneurship development programmes, as well as Angel Investor Networks. She is one of only five living Jamaican Fellows.
Glasgow also sits on the boards of the National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited, National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (EX-IM) and the GraceKennedy Foundation.