CaribPR Wire, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Aug. 19, 2011: Under the leadership of Felicia Persaud the Caribbean region is being recast as an active entrepreneurial zone that deserves far more attention than it has received in the past.

On the heels of the very successful inaugural Invest Caribbean Forum held in New York City in June 2011, which drew an impressive array of speakers and a large audience, Ms. Persaud has announced that Montego Bay, Jamaica will be the site of the next Invest Caribbean Forum to take place on October 14, 2011.

“What our efforts are proving is that there is a wealth of investor interest and a treasure trove of business opportunities in the Caribbean just waiting to be unlocked,” noted Ms. Persaud, the

architect of this series.

This series has the potential to become a “franchise” with events taking place on many if not all of the major islands in the coming year bringing together investors from far flung places worldwide to network with the dynamic business core of the Caribbean just waiting to display itself as the hot bed of entrepreneurial enterprise the Caribbean can become during this decade and beyond.

The October event is being presented by Hard Beat Communications, in collaboration with the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, and is set for the Rose Hall convention center as part of the Chamber’s 14th annual expo that will be presented under the theme, ''Unleashing Innovations.”

The three-day expo will be opened by Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Ambassador Albert Ramdin and will include the Invest Caribbean forum as part of the opening day.

The high-powered three-day trade exposition will unleash innovative marketing and promotion opportunities for exhibitors in ways that the MBCCI Expo has never been staged. The event has become a calendar event for the Chamber and western Jamaica and boasts a wide diversity of exhibitors in industry and commerce, displaying their goods and services. These include manufactured goods, services, technology, tourism, craft, agriculture, trade and investment. The MBCCI Expo is in its 14th year and will be targeting some 115 exhibitors.

This October, the three-hour Invest Caribbean forum will feature three U.S. investors, including Adam Borden, founder and managing director of Bradmer Foods, LLC., who will each present a five minute overview of their company and what they look for in investment before engaging in a face-to-face match making session with registered entrepreneurs.

Invest Caribbean recently concluded a successful forum with the Caribbean Tourism Organization during Caribbean Week in New York, June 9, 2011 featuring Goldman Sachs’ W. Dave Dowrich, Spackman Capital CEO, Martin Mohabeer and CEO of the Brilla Group, David Brillembourg.

See Felicia Persaud’s opening at the June investment forum http://vimeo.com/25323506.

To register for this forum and more, log on to http://investcaribbeannow.com/.