Andrea Livingston-Prince

Andrea Livingston-Prince is a serial entrepreneur who started her professional journey as a financial auditor. She later became an entrepreneur by design, an entrepreneur by necessity and is now an entrepreneur for innovation. She is a management consultant by profession and is especially focused on increasing the competitiveness of private sector entities.  She has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and is a certified trainer in Entrepreneurship, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning and a Bachelor’s degree in professional management. Her family-owned business, Business Works Collective is now 30 years old and on the rebirth. The group of entities incorporates franchise and ICT-led enterprises which provides entrepreneurship training, business matching platforms as well as consulting services. She has served over ten (10) governments throughout the region and is currently the coordinator of the Development Bank of Jamaica’s Jamaica Business Fund and World Bank SME Loan projects. One of the most impactful franchises includes the German entrepreneurship-training model which uses learning-by-doing methodologies is CEFE Caribbean. See more at www.businessworkscollective.com. Engage with her at thebusinessadviser@gmail.com where information about her Small Business Consulting and Chartered Director Certifications are available.  She is especially proud to serve as an Expert Evaluator with the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Innovation grant programmes for SMEs. Through the Horizon 2020, the largest innovation investment pipeline development programme worldwide, she is exposed to various state-of-the-art inventions and expansions in numerous sectors.