Ten winners emerge in US Embassy’s entrepreneur challenge

US Ambassador to Guyana Brent Hardt (centre) with the ten winners of the US embassy’s “Entrepreneurship Speed Challenge” on Tuesday evening. The winners are: Christopher Wilson, Ian Cole, Troy Powell, Diquan Lewis, Jeromie Rollins, Raule Williams, Marvin Wray, Candace Wickham, Anthony Willis and Jomo Wilson.

The United States Embassy in Georgetown announced the ten winners of the “Entrepreneurship Speed Challenge” on Tuesday at the United States Ambassador’s residence where a number of private sector members and lending companies met with the young business innovators.

The entrepreneur competition was initiated to provide young Guyanese with an opportunity to pitch their business ideas and have a chance to see those concepts materialize in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW).

The winners of the competition were: