Marie Berbick-Graham- Chief Consultant, PR & Strategic Communications

BGA Founder Marie Berbick-Graham, leads the Communications team. With over 13 years experience in Communications at the local and

international level, she is a dynamic communications specialist who simply does not settle for mediocrity.

Her media career began as a reporter at the now defunct Jamaica Herald, in 1994. Since then she has garnered invaluable experience in both the print and electronic media in Jamaica and the UK. She has worked as a reporter, producer and later a columnist for Pure Class magazine, Jamaica’s premier weekly social magazine.

She is a former media analyst with one of the UK’s top media monitoring firms, where she analyzed media content to help manage the reputations of major technology and blue chip companies including Microsoft, CISCO Systems, Merrill Lynch and Accenture.
 
Marie Berbick-Graham founded BGA in 2004, with the objective of helping companies and professionals become more proactive in the management of their reputation. Since then she has created a stir on the media and PR landscape with her informative, thought provoking monthly newsletter StratCom, for communicators.

She was recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Jamaica Ornamental Fish Farmers Association (JOFFA), for designing and implementing a highly effective Public Relations campaign to support Jamaica’s first National Ornamental Fish Expo, held in October 2006.

Marie Berbick-Graham is currently pursuing a Masters in Communication for Social and Behaviour Change at the University of the West Indies (CARIMAC). She holds a BA in Journalism & Public Relations (hons) and a Higher Diploma in Journalism (distinction), from University College Kensington. (London). She also holds certificates in Marketing, Radio Announcing and Television Production from local and overseas institutions.

Hugh Graham—Chief Consultant, Development Projects

An Agriculturalist and Rural Development Specialist, Hugh L. Graham has over 15 years experience in the management and

implementation of Government, NGO and international development projects.

He has a wealth of experience working with international funding agencies and has served in various capacities on development projects in Jamaica. Among the notable positions he has held are:

• Project Manager for the UNDP Forestry Capacity Project, from 1998-2001.

• Watershed Management Specialist and Deputy Chief of Party for the USAID financed five -year US$6m Ridge to Reef Watershed Management Project in Jamaica

• Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with USAID’s Jamaica Business Recovery Project (JBRP). 

He is currently the country coordinator for the EU COLE ACP Pesticides Initiative Programme.

Mr. Graham has provided consultancy services in Agriculture and Rural Development to numerous organizations including United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Inter-American Institute for Corporation on Agriculture (IICA), Associates in Rural Development (ARD), Bureau of Standards Jamaica, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and National Export Import Bank (EXIM).

He holds a Master of Science degree in Rural Development and Agriculture from the University of Reading in England, a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of the West Indies and an Associate of Science degree in Agriculture from the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE).