{"id":100718,"date":"2017-08-21T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/?p=100718"},"modified":"2017-09-05T18:38:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:38:34","slug":"sophia-harris-lau-appointed-spokesperson-for-shc-on-mjw-and-special-advisor-to-the-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/sophia-harris-lau-appointed-spokesperson-for-shc-on-mjw-and-special-advisor-to-the-promoter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Harris-Lau appointed Spokesperson for SHC on MJW and Special Advisor to the Promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always committed to higher education and self improvement. A hardworking and ambitious \u2018Immaculate Girl\u2019, successfully completed her Bachelors in Science (BSc.) from the University of The West Indies, Specializing in Business Management Studies. Then went on to successfully earn a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Miami, Florida, USA specializing in Marketing and Electronic-Commerce. Kick-started her career in Business as a General Manager of a thin-set manufacturing company.<\/p>\n<p>Furthering her professional development, Ms. Harris-Lau has worked with focus and dedication over the last decade as a business strategy and business development consultant, establishing a solid reputation as an expert in her field. Whilst working with small to medium sized enterprises, helping them to formulate and execute successful growth strategies within a plethora of industries, she simultaneously spent the last four years developing a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Jamaica. As a senior executive within the SEZ, she worked with business partners across with globe and alongside a team of experienced entrepreneurs here in Jamaica, to successfully launch a cigarette manufacturing entity and a lubricant business from within that Zone, as its two flagship operations.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Harris-Lau has thus garnered, under her professional belt, significant expertise in Marketing, Business Development, General Management, International Business and Global Partner Negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Harris-Lau is now the Head of Marketing &amp; Business Development at the Jamaica Football Federation.<br \/>\nWith her significant experience and training in Marketing , Business Development, Business Management and most importantly her decades of commitment to health &amp; fitness, specifically to the Spartan Health Club family and Mickey Haughton-James, we believe she is the perfect person to represent SHC on MJW and advise the Promoter in the development of SHC Projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always committed to higher education and self improvement. A hardworking and ambitious \u2018Immaculate Girl\u2019, successfully completed her Bachelors in Science (BSc.) from the University of The West Indies, Specializing in Business Management Studies. Then went on to successfully earn a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Miami, Florida, USA specializing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100719,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100718\/revisions\/100719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missjamaicaworld.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}