![]() Click here to view Allison’s interview with Patriotic entrepreneur, Allison Butters-Grant, is a ‘Special Person’ In a detailed interview with Kaieteur News, she talked about her journey to entrepreneurship and much more. After several years of working for corporate America, Allison made the decision return to Guyana and start her own business. She was very involved in her Community and co-founded the Guyana American Heritage Foundation, Inc. In 1986 Allison moved to the US on a student visa, and went on to earn an advanced degree in Business Administration and Accounting. In 2015, Guyana Chronicle reported that Allison was the only black female in Guyana to own and operate a fish-processing plant where “standard is the hallmark.”Īllison’s passion for entrepreneurship and community activism comes from her late parents Leslie & Alma Butters who had businesses in the trawling, gold mining and farming industries in Guyana and were great philanthropists. The daughter of successful seafood entrepreneurs she opened her own Seafood Market in Guyana specializing in wild caught seafood sourced from Guyana with the mantra “straight from the sea to your plate.” Her business distributes seafood locally in Guyana and to the international markets, including the Caribbean and the US. Allison Butters-Grant is the Chief Executive Officer of Global Seafood Distributors, an importing/exporting business that she jointly operates with her husband, Kerwin.
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