WHO WE ARE

Dr. Claire A. Nelson
Chief Ideation Leader & President of the Board
Dr. Claire Nelson is the Founder and Chief Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum. Listed among Forbes Top 50 Female Futurists, she is a thought leader in strategic foresight and integral development consulting, with a particular interest in global challenges. An industrial engineer by training, she serves as Convening Chair for Global Working Group on Sustainability Engineering Body of Knowledge and Editor of Human Futures Magazine. She is also Ideation Leader and President of the Board for Caribbean Development Foresight Institute, a think-do tank based in the Caribbean.

Alland Leandre
Founding Director
As President/CEO, Al leads Vyalex in providing goods and services to the Department of Defense; other government agencies and industry. Al has won numerous awards over the years including the following: FIRN’s American Success Award in 2006; MD Top-100 MBE in 2007; Entrepreneur Black Engineer of the Year in 2008. He is currently on the board of advisers at the Syracuse University School of Information Science and the foundation board of the College of Southern Maryland (CSM).

Founding Director
Chris Daley of Digital 2 Grow Media is a digital life specialist deploying cutting edge systems that attract, convert, keep, and multiply prospects and clients making them your business evangelists. He is versed in the critical currency of intellectual property as a practicing patent Examiner in the technology of computer architecture, and is the past president of Caribbean Intellectual Property Association (CIPA), where he promoted understanding of intellectual property to the Caribbean community through workshops.