Wayne has more than twenty years of senior management experience spanning the public and private sector where he has developed expertise in strategy, innovation, project management and technology application.  He is the founder and CEO of alt^Catalyst, a professional service firm whose mission is to identify, inspire and catalyse the next generation of human centred design innovators. His most recent assignment was the management of a portfolio of development innovations for the Multilateral Investment Fund; the Innovation Lab for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group. Since leaving the IDB he has been applying his energy and skills to seed and accelerate several innovative entrepreneurial ventures. He has also undertaken several impact-oriented assignments; with global and regional development partners, to unlock the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

He is a certified project management professional, with a degree in Management Studies & Accounting and MBA.