10 things you didn't know about Dr Vindel Kerr

International management consultant, facilitator and trainer in executive education, author, scholar, entrepreneur, dad and at age 45, he remains one of Jamaica's hottest and eligible bachelors.

Dr Vindel Kerr is president and managing consultant of GovStrat Limited, a management consultancy and executive learning firm with an obvious brand presence in Jamaica over the past eight years.

This scholar has distinguished himself as a pioneer in the field of corporate governance and GovStrat is probably the leading firm providing executive bespoke education in this region.

The Hanover-born native from the tiny district of Cacoon, which is nested equidistance (1,500 metres) from the birthplaces of Sir Alexander Bustamante (Blenheim) and that of the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson (Dias), is a globetrotter who has conducted training in more than 17 countries, and presented papers at more than 15 international conferences with several works in progress.

An awardee of five full-academic scholarships in addition to bursaries, Dr Kerr is an agriculturalist, business turnaround specialist and corporate governance expert by training and practice. His name is easily recognised in the international corporate governance circles of practitioner, public policy experts and academicians. In 2005, he published Effective Corporate Governance: An Emerging (Caribbean) Perspective of Governing Corporations in a Disparate World.

His company, GovStrat, is undergoing an internationalisation thrust with a view to offer services in the United States and the Middle East. The company is also seeking to take advantage of strategic services not present in the region or not adequately meeting customer needs and expectations.

While this is on the burner, GovStrat has embarked on yet another pioneering path, that is, learning and development for corporate secretaries and their teams through a series summits and workshops across the Caribbean. Already, plans are afoot for this programme offering to be professionally accredited with the designation - Professionally Accredited Secretary.

Here are 10 things we did not know about this dynamo.

1. He is an extrovert, but although outgoing, is really a private person.

2. Is Baptist, and was once actively engaged in church affairs. He confessed that international travel and workload are ruining some important aspects of his personal life.

3. Passionate about the Jamaica 4-H movement, which he has served for nearly 30 years - starting as a clubbite at age 13 - and ended as chairman of the National Board for four years.

4. Former Kiwanian who loves to cook; preparing a range of seafood and Jamaican breakfast cuisines are his favourites.

5. Raised by his grandmother, he left home at age 14 for boarding school at Knockalva Agricultural, after which he was trained at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education; the First George Beckford Scholar (Animal Science); and the First Carlton Alexander-Jamaica Agricultural Development Foundation Scholar. He furthered his education at Rutgers Business School (MBA) in the United States; and is an Organisation of American States Fellow. In the that year, he also received but could not jointly benefit from a Chevenning Award to study agricultural management at the University of Reading, England.

6. Favourite places/cities travelled to: Johannesburg and Soweto in South Africa; the interior of Suriname and the Island of Mauritius in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

7. Is a Sagittarian who has achieved much against all odds without being submissive or subservient.

8. An avid reader, his two most recent books read are Animal Farm and The Secrets of the FBI.

9. His other hobbies include travelling, resort-type relaxation and being around his six-year-old son Antonio with whom he enjoys reasoning, playing football, swimming and doing homework.

10. He was named the 2010 Scholar of the International Corporate Governance Network; 2010 Nominee of the Yale Law School Milstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, Rising Star in Corporate Governance Awards; and a 2010 graduate of the Financial Times number-one globally ranked doctoral programme in business administration (DBA), University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, England.