DIANNE DALEY MCCLURE was appointed Chairman of the JAMCOPY Board in November 2015. She is founding partner of FOGA DALEY (2000) and heads the law firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Department. Her professional memberships include the International Association of the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA). She has authored several publications including a monograph on Jamaica’s Intellectual Property Laws published in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer Law International (2008) and the Jamaica Chapter on Copyright in Copyright throughout the World, West (2009). She was also a founding Director, and Legal Advisor of JAMCOPY.

Founding member of JAMCOPY, SHIRLEY CARBY, Vice-Chairman, is the Chairman of Carlong Publishers (Caribbean) Limited whose principal activities are the publication and distribution of textbooks and creative literature for Caribbean primary and secondary schools. A former Teacher of English to high school students, she was also the Founding Chairman of JAMCOPY, and the Book Industry Association of Jamaica. In 2007, Shirley Carby was conferred with the National Honour of Officer of the Order of Distinction (OD) for her contribution to Publishing and Literacy Development.

Founding member of JAMCOPY, NOEL FRANCIS, OD, Honorary Treasurer, is a hydrographer. He has overseen the survey and dredging of the Kingston and Montego Bay Harbours (Jamaica) and Gross Islet Harbour in St. Lucia among other locations. A member of the ARICS (Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), he has served as a consultant to the Jamaican Government in its boundary negotiations with Cayman and Honduras. Noel Francis has been conferred with an Order of Distinction (OD) for his service to the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management.

PATRICIA REID-WAUGH, JP, is a Member (Retired) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica. A former mathematics teacher, she also enjoyed an extensive accountancy career with the Deloitte firms in Jamaica and St. Maarten. Patricia Reid-Waugh also served as a Commissioner of the St. Kitts and Nevis Financial Services Commission. A musician and poet, she is also the author of Retirement, A New Adventure (2016).

TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE, is Publisher and Editor in Chief of independent award-winning publishing house 'Blue Banyan Books' and its imprint 'Blouse and Skirt Books'. She has worked in cultural policy, teaching, journalism, advertising, and creative writing and has been published in Skywritings magazine, Jamaica Journal, and Caribbean Beat among others. She curates the Caribbean arts and culture online magazine susumba.com and the digital literary mag Susumba’s Book Bag. Her animation film script ‘Endeavour’ was awarded Best Screenplay in the Kingstoon Animation Festival (2013).

JUNETTE GRANDISON, is the president of the National Association of Teachers of English (NATE). She is also an examiner with the Caribbean Examinations Council, a member of the Subject Advisory Group for English at E-Learning Jamaica Ltd, and part of a four-member team that that assisted the Jamaica Teaching Council in drafting standards for the licensing of Language Arts teachers. Mrs Grandison recently retired after teaching at English at the St. Jago High School for thirty-four years.

HAROLD DAVIS, is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) and has served in this capacity since 2001. He is a trained Industrial Engineer with over twenty-five (25) years’ experience in Industrial development. His areas of specialization include Creative Industries, Innovation, Development Finance, Agriculture, Business Development, Energy Management and Micro, Small and Medium sized Entities (MSME) development strategies. Harold Davis serves in various professional positions and affiliations including as Board member of the Jamaica Federation of Musicians and Affiliates Union. He is also a musician, singer, song writer and recording artiste with two studio albums released.

Dr. AISHA SPENCER  is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature Education in the School of Education at the UWI, Mona Campus. She is co-editor of ‘Give the Ball to the Poet’: A New Anthology of Caribbean Poetry, Associate Editor for the Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean (JEDIC), an editor of children’s books and poetry, and Cultural Adviser & Editor (Caribbean) for Lantana Publishing, a UK-based publishing house.

RACHEL MOSS  is a Jamaican illustrator who loves the vibrant energies of the Caribbean. She studied Animation in England at the University of the Creative Arts and has illustrated several books including I Am a Promise by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, African with lyrics by Peter Tosh, Respect with lyrics by Otis Redding, and These Boots Are Made for Walkin' by Lee Hazlewood.

KALANDO WILMOTH  is a communications specialist with over ten years’ experience in guiding organization’s public and media relations strategies, and developing and executing corporate identity programmes. He is also a Master Voice and Speech Coach and Certified Behavioural Coach. 

SHANTAL ENGLISH-RICHARDS is an Attorney-at-Law and the Deputy Director/Legal Counsel at the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO). A published author and former UWI law tutor, she advises on legal and compliance matters while representing JIPO at national and international levels.

KACY GARVEY is Founder/Managing Director of JAIKU, a non-profit organization for professional poets, and head of the Jamaican chapter of the Poetry Business Network. Kacy also serves as liaison for the Caribbean Chapter of the International Authors Forum (IAF).  Among her awards, she is the 2025 Best International Spoken Word Artist (US National Spoken Word Awards). Her works have been published in local, regional and international anthologies.

DASHAN HENDRICKS is President of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), and Business Content Manager for Jamaica Observer newspaper.