Our Leadership

Desiree Jacob serves is President and Co-founder of T21 NPO and is the mother to Jefferson Sampang Jacob an 11 year old young man with T21. Jefferson loves horseback riding, music, singing and dancing and karate and attends Year 6 at St. Ignatius. Desiree has been advocating for the rights of individuals with T21 since 2013.

Frank Balderamos serves as the Controller and director of T21 NPO. Frank is a professional Director with more than 25 years in governance, finance, compliance and accounting. Frank has advised on all phases of operations for entities and is committed to helping clients achieve their goals. Frank sits on the Feed Our Future, another Cayman Islands NPO and provides invaluable experience to our board composition.

Damion Thomas – is a professional director with over 15 years in corporate administration and prior to this served as RCIPS. Since then, his spirit of community and helping the most vulnerable has been instilled in all that he does.  He has intimate knowledge of the different abilities and additional needs community and wishes to serve on the board to make an impact on the community.

Samantha Sharpe is the first Caymanian Applied Behavioural Analyst in the Cayman Islands. She has been volunteering since 2012 in the Autism space and serving all children with different abilities and additional needs since obtaining her degree in psychology and health studies from the University of Toronto and her Masters in Behavioural Analysis and Special Education. Samantha is a doting mother, loving daughter and sister.

Dr. Mona Kazemi is the founder of Cayman Theraplay and has worked with children with different abilities and additional needs since 2012 in the Cayman Islands.  Cayman Theraplay provides services which speak to Mental Health, Attachment and Trauma, Sensory Integration, Autism Level 1, Dyspraxia/Developmental Coordination Disorder and other Challenging Behaviors to our community. Mona is the loving mother of two beautiful boys and an avid traveller.

Winston Connolly is a professional director and is a practising Cayman Islands attorney. Winston is the Cayman Islands partner of Chancery ESG, which focuses on the environmental, social and governance aspects which measures the standards of a business’s impact on society. Winston has been a committed community service man as a Rotarian for over 20 years and he is a doting father of a boy and girl.

Dionisio Sese, Jr. (Dion) is the President of Cayman Bayanihan Filipino Community and has volunteered for a number of Cayman Islands NPOs since 2008. The volunteer base that he mobilizes for beneficiaries such as DCFS through the Maple House, Golden Age Home and Cancer Society is widely known and recognised.

Nora Balderamos is a San Francisco native and experienced real estate professional and has called Cayman home for 19 years. With a degree in Business Management from Auburn University, she seamlessly combines professionalism with southern charm. Nora is a loving wife, mother, daughter and sister, loves dogs and travelling.

Veronica Fierro arrived in the Cayman Islands in 1992 and is a former educator in the Cayman Islands Government schools teaching Spanish as a second language. Veronica also had a dual job for the Cayman Islands Information Services and the Social Services Department during the Cuban Crisis.  Veronica was also the first director of The Achievement Center of the Cayman Islands.  Veronica has worked in the corporate, shipping registry and conveyancing for the last 30 years for many notable firms. She speaks three languages (English, Spanish and Norwegian) and is married with two sons and a grandson.  In her free time she enjoys gardening, painting and craft work.