A Jamaican Family Enterprise

Building Jamaican enterprise across water, trade and property.

Parker & Co. Infrastructure and Trade is a family-built Jamaican company developing disciplined businesses in maritime trade, real estate, and hospitality, beginning with a phased Jamaica-Colombia trade platform.

Waterfront residences with private docks along calm water beneath a bright Caribbean sky.

The Enterprise at a Glance

One family enterprise. Two operating platforms. One standard.

Platform 01

Maritime & Trade

Regional trade platforms built around reliable supply, careful handling, disciplined execution, and long-term commercial relationships.


Platform 02

Real Estate & Hospitality

Long-term investment in residential, commercial, and hospitality assets designed to create durable value.


The Foundation

Institutional Leadership

Experience spanning finance, tax, industrial minerals, construction materials, marine engineering, port operations, risk management, and organizational leadership.


Our First Operating Focus

A phased Jamaica-Colombia trade platform

Parker & Co. is developing a regional seafood-supply model connecting qualified suppliers with Jamaican hotels, restaurants, distributors, and food-service buyers. The platform is being built around product quality, traceability, careful handling, compliance, and dependable commercial relationships.

Our initial focus is selected Caribbean finfish, including premium snapper varieties and other approved species.

Caribbean Sea JAMAICA COLOMBIA INDICATIVE TRADE CORRIDOR

The corridor shown is indicative. The map does not depict ports, schedules, or a current scheduled service.

A Phased Model

Establish the first route, prove the operating model, and expand from a position of strength.

01

Phase One

Establish the route

Develop reliable seafood supply, operating procedures, compliance systems, and buyer relationships across the Jamaica-Colombia corridor.

02

Phase Two

Expand what moves

Introduce additional cargo categories, including tile, ceramic products, construction materials, and selected premium exports, after the first route is commercially and operationally proven.

Targeted from 2029, subject to commercial validation, regulatory approvals, financing, market demand, and operating readiness.

03

Long-Term Platform

Build regional capability

Develop a broader platform spanning trade, logistics, infrastructure, real estate, and hospitality.

Why Parker & Co.

Built on discipline, held to institutional standards

Rooted in Jamaica

A family enterprise with long-term commitment to Jamaican ownership, communities, and economic development.

Institutional Discipline

Leadership experience across finance, compliance, taxation, operations, engineering, and risk.

Controlled Expansion

A commitment to proving each operating platform before adding further complexity.

Long-Term Relationships

A focus on durable partnerships rather than one-time transactions.

Leadership

Experience that answers for itself

Antwain Parker

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Military discipline, institutional finance, and credit underwriting applied to long-term Jamaican enterprise building.

Marcus M. Sharei

Senior Advisor, Finance, Tax and Capital Structuring

More than 30 years across international tax, corporate finance, and institutional financial governance.

Freddy Aird

Senior Advisor, Minerals, Construction Materials and Operations

More than 30 years in industrial minerals, quarrying, and mine-to-market operations.

Glenroy Scott

Senior Advisor, Marine Engineering and Port Operations

Licensed Chief Marine Engineer with more than 25 years of seagoing and shore-side experience.

Beyond the Water

Real Estate & Hospitality

Parker & Co. is also building a long-term real-estate and hospitality platform focused on disciplined investment, residential and commercial development, strategic partnerships, and enduring asset value.

Enterprises that endure are built on land and water alike, one disciplined decision at a time.

Partnership Pathways

Where do you fit?

Buyers

Seafood Buyers

For hotels, restaurants, distributors, and food-service operators.

Trade

Maritime and Trade Partners

For suppliers, fishing partners, logistics firms, and regional counterparties.

Capital

Investors and Institutions

For strategic capital, professional counterparties, and institutional partners.

Property

Real Estate and Hospitality Partners

For investors, developers, operators, landowners, brokers, and advisors.

Build the next route, supply relationship, or investment platform with us.

Our Company

A family enterprise, built for the long term

Founded by father and son. Grounded in Jamaica. Committed to building enterprises that contribute to national and regional economic growth.

Our Story

Our story began on the water

Parker & Co. Infrastructure and Trade is a Jamaican family enterprise founded by father and son. Our identity is grounded in Jamaica, in maritime work, in long-term ownership, and in a responsibility to build enterprises that strengthen the communities around them.

Our return to maritime trade is a return to the environment in which our family story began: the water itself. We are developing our first operating platform, a phased Jamaica-Colombia trade corridor, with the patience and discipline that family ownership makes possible.

We measure our progress in decades, not quarters. Each platform we build must prove itself before the next begins.

We go back to where our story began, and we build from there: one route, one platform, one disciplined decision at a time.

Historic sepia photograph of Kingston Harbour, Jamaica: masted sailing vessels and a steamer at anchor in the harbour, with the town and hills rising behind.
Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. The water where our family story began, and the trade our enterprise returns to.

Mission

To build disciplined Jamaican enterprises that connect regional resources, markets, property, and communities through trade, investment, and long-term infrastructure development.

Vision

To become a trusted Jamaican platform for regional commerce and asset development, rooted in family ownership, institutional discipline, and measurable national value.

Operating Philosophy

Controlled, evidence-based expansion

  • Discipline before expansion.
  • Compliance before scale.
  • Execution grounded in evidence.
  • Relationships built for the long term.
  • Jamaican ownership with regional reach.
  • Growth that strengthens local enterprise.
  • Institutional standards without losing family accountability.

How the Enterprise Fits Together

One parent company, two operating platforms

Parker & Co. is the parent enterprise. Maritime trade is our immediate operating focus. Real estate and hospitality form the second platform in our broader long-term strategy, which extends over time into regional logistics and infrastructure development.

Operating Now

Parker & Co. Maritime & Trade

Regional maritime commerce, fisheries and seafood supply, Jamaica-Colombia trade, import and export development, maritime logistics, and long-term regional trade corridors.

Building for the Long Term

Parker & Co. Real Estate & Hospitality

Residential development, commercial real estate, hospitality assets and projects, property investment, strategic development partnerships, and long-term asset ownership.

Built for Responsible Execution

Compliance-first, by design

Parker & Co. is developing its operating systems around regulatory compliance, documented processes, responsible counterparties, and clear accountability. Our planning starts with counterparty due diligence, responsible sourcing, maritime safety, food-safety awareness, environmental responsibility, financial discipline, and accurate documentation, so that growth never runs ahead of governance.

Parker & Co. Maritime & Trade

A disciplined platform for regional maritime trade

Parker & Co. is developing a phased Jamaica-Colombia trade platform designed to create reliable commercial relationships, strengthen regional supply chains, and expand only after the operating model has been proven.

A Caribbean harbour scene: traditional open fishing boats moored in the foreground beside a sepia-toned historic rowing boat, with a container ship and quayside cranes across the water.

The Commercial Opportunity

Why Jamaica and Colombia

Jamaica imports a significant share of the seafood its hotels, restaurants, and distributors serve, while Colombia's Caribbean coast holds established fishing capacity within close regional reach. We are developing a corridor that connects the two: qualified supply on one side, dependable commercial demand on the other.

Our intent is a platform, not a single transaction: long-term commercial relationships, documented standards, and a route whose economics are proven before they are extended.

The Seafood-Supply Model

Parker & Co. is developing a controlled regional seafood-supply platform connecting qualified suppliers and buyers across Jamaica and Colombia, with an emphasis on reliability, careful handling, traceability, quality, and regulatory compliance.

Who We Serve

Built for professional buyers

We are building long-term supply relationships with hotels, restaurants, distributors, and food-service operators seeking dependable access to selected Caribbean seafood products.

Hotels & Resorts

Consistent supply relationships designed around your procurement standards and service schedules.

Restaurants

Selected Caribbean finfish, including premium snapper varieties and other approved species.

Distributors

A disciplined regional corridor intended to add reliable volume to existing networks.

Food-Service Operators

Dependable commercial terms and consistent communication, built for operational planning.

Quality, Handling and Traceability

Standards before scale

Our operating model is being designed around documented handling procedures, temperature control, product traceability, responsible sourcing, and consistent buyer communication.

Specific species lists, product formats, delivery terms, and certifications will be published as they are confirmed. Until then, we invite qualified buyers to discuss requirements directly, so the platform is shaped around real procurement needs.

  • Documented handling procedures.
  • Temperature control through the supply chain.
  • Product traceability, built into the model from the first shipment.
  • Responsible sourcing and supplier qualification.
  • Consistent, professional buyer communication.

Phased Expansion

What comes after the first route is proven

Phase Two: Cargo Expansion

Once the initial trade platform is commercially and operationally established, we intend to expand the cargo mix, including tile, ceramic products, construction materials, and selected premium exports moving between Jamaica and Colombia.

Targeted from 2029, subject to commercial validation, regulatory approvals, financing, market demand, and operating readiness.

Supplier and Logistics Partnerships

We are developing relationships with qualified suppliers, fishing partners, logistics providers, and regional counterparties who share our standards on compliance, documentation, and reliability.

Talk to us about supply, logistics, or the route itself.

Parker & Co. Real Estate & Hospitality

Building long-term value through property and place

Parker & Co. approaches real estate and hospitality as long-term operating assets, combining disciplined investment, local knowledge, strategic partnerships, and responsible development.

A two-storey Jamaican restaurant and bar lit at night, with an open upper-level dining terrace and string lights across the forecourt.

Investment Philosophy

Owned for decades, not flipped in quarters

We apply the same phased discipline to property that we apply to trade: acquire and develop selectively, hold for the long term, and let each project prove itself before the next begins. Our focus is durable value: assets that serve their communities and strengthen the enterprise behind them.

This platform is in its building phase. We present projects publicly only when they are active and approved for disclosure, and we welcome early conversations with aligned partners in the meantime.

Residential Development

Housing and residential communities developed with long-term ownership in mind.

Commercial Real Estate

Commercial assets selected for durable demand and disciplined economics.

Hospitality

Hospitality assets and projects aligned with Jamaica's visitor economy and our maritime story.

Upcoming Project

The Hamptons, Jamaica

The Hamptons at Norris Estate is a boutique gated residential community of 26 residential units in St. Thomas, developed by Parker & Co.

Subdivision plan for The Hamptons at Norris Estate: numbered residential lots arranged around two proposed internal roads, with common areas at the centre, a drainage easement to the north-west, and the main road along the southern boundary.
Subdivision plan, The Hamptons at Norris Estate, St. Thomas, Jamaica. Lot layout, road reserves, and common areas are indicative and remain subject to final approvals and development scope.

Location

St. Thomas, Jamaica

A gated community on Norris Estate lands, served by an internal road network with shared common areas at its centre.

Scope

26 residential units

Boutique in scale, developed by Parker & Co. and held to the same long-term ownership discipline we apply across the property platform.

Commercial Information

Economics on request

Projected gross sales, rental revenue, and development costs are shared with qualified parties on request rather than published here.

Projected figures are estimates, subject to approvals, financing, market conditions, and final development scope.

Information about this project is provided for general corporate purposes only. It does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any security, financial instrument, or interest in real property.

Partnership Models

How we work with property partners

Joint Ventures

Structured ventures with investors and developers on defined projects.

Property Acquisition

Direct acquisition of residential, commercial, and hospitality assets.

Landowner Partnerships

Long-term structures that let landowners participate in development value.

Operating Partnerships

Hospitality operating relationships, commercial leasing, and strategic asset repositioning.

Parker & Co. participates in property as a principal: investing, developing, and holding assets. We do not offer regulated brokerage, legal, valuation, or property-management services.

Bring us a property, a project, or a partnership.

Leadership

Institutional experience, family accountability

A founder-led team supported by senior advisors whose careers span institutional finance, international tax, industrial minerals, and marine engineering. Together they cover governance, finance, operations, technical execution, and risk management.

Profiles

Antwain Parker

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Parker & Co. Military discipline, institutional finance, and operational leadership applied to long-term Jamaican enterprise building.

Full profile

Antwain Parker founded Parker & Co. and leads the enterprise as Chief Executive Officer and Director. He served four years in the United States Marine Corps, attained the rank of Sergeant, and led teams in demanding operational environments. He later held Assistant Vice President roles at Citigroup, with experience across anti-money-laundering compliance, model-risk management, and Internal Audit, followed by work in process engineering and credit underwriting.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance, passed Level I of the CFA Program, and is completing an Executive MBA. He leads Parker & Co. with a simple conviction: disciplined execution, institutional standards, and long-term Jamaican ownership belong together.

Marcus M. Sharei, JD, MBA, MS (Tax), CPA

Senior Advisor, Finance, Tax and Capital Structuring

More than 30 years of financial-services, tax, and corporate-finance experience at institutional scale.

Full profile

Marcus Sharei advises Parker & Co. on finance, tax, and capital structuring. He is a retired senior international tax partner at Armanino LLP, served as Treasurer and Director of Tax at Flextronics International, and was Chief Financial Officer of a US$25 million internet company. His career began at Big Four accounting firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers.

His experience supports the company's international structuring, financial governance, taxation, and work with institutional counterparties.

Freddy Aird, MSc, MBA, PMP, PG

Senior Advisor, Minerals, Construction Materials and Operations

More than 30 years across industrial minerals, cement, quarrying, and construction materials.

Full profile

Freddy Aird advises Parker & Co. on minerals, construction materials, and operations. His career spans more than three decades across the industrial-minerals, cement, and construction-materials industries in the Caribbean, the United States, and internationally, including day-to-day responsibility for an approximately 11-million-tonne-per-year quarry operation at CEMEX USA.

He was educated at the Colorado School of Mines, the University of the West Indies, and Luleå University of Technology. He is a certified Project Management Professional, holds a professional geoscience designation, and is a patented inventor. His experience covers mineral development, operations, quality control, and mine-to-market logistics.

Glenroy Scott, STCW Class III/2

Senior Advisor, Marine Engineering and Port Operations

Licensed Chief Marine Engineer with more than 25 years of seagoing and shore-side experience.

Full profile

Glenroy Scott advises Parker & Co. on marine engineering and port operations. He is a licensed STCW Class III/2 Chief Marine Engineer with more than 25 years of seagoing and shore-side engineering experience across commercial cargo and industrial marine operations, including power systems, refrigeration, and cold-chain infrastructure.

He serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in marine engineering at the Caribbean Maritime University and brings direct familiarity with Jamaican maritime operations, technical standards, safety, and maintenance requirements.

Senior advisors serve Parker & Co. in advisory capacities, and each has consented to the publication of his profile. Professional portraits are forthcoming.

What this bench covers

Governance & Risk

Audit, compliance, model-risk, and financial-controls experience drawn from institutional environments.

Finance & Tax

Depth in international structuring, taxation, treasury, and capital-markets compliance.

Operations & Materials

Industrial-scale production, quality control, and mine-to-market logistics experience.

Marine & Technical

Chief-engineer-level oversight of marine, cold-chain, and port operations.

Partners & Investors

A disciplined, transparent, long-term counterparty

Parker & Co. builds with partners who think in decades. This page explains how we partner, what we look for, and how qualified parties can begin a conversation.

Why Parker & Co.

What you are partnering with

Jamaican Ownership

A family enterprise with Jamaican roots, family accountability, and a long-term investment horizon.

Institutional Leadership

A leadership bench drawn from institutional finance, international tax, industrial operations, and marine engineering.

Phased Execution

A regional commercial focus advanced one proven platform at a time, with compliance ahead of scale.

How We Partner

Relationship types we develop

  • Strategic equity relationships.
  • Joint ventures.
  • Trade and supply partnerships.
  • Commercial agreements.
  • Real-estate development partnerships.
  • Institutional collaboration.

What We Look For

Qualities in a counterparty

  • Long-term alignment and strong governance.
  • Clear commercial value and compliance readiness.
  • Relevant operational capability.
  • Transparent ownership and decision-making.
  • Commitment to Jamaica and regional growth.

Due-Diligence Access

Documentation for qualified parties

Qualified partners and institutions may request our corporate profile, leadership information, registration documents, approved project summaries, relevant compliance documentation, and partnership materials. We share materials that are approved for external distribution, and we respond to due-diligence requests with the same discipline we expect from counterparties.

Built for Responsible Execution

Parker & Co. is developing its operating systems around regulatory compliance, documented processes, responsible counterparties, and clear accountability. Counterparty due diligence, accurate documentation, and long-term risk management sit at the center of how we operate.

Information presented on this website is for general corporate and partnership purposes only. It does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any security or financial instrument.

Contact

Tell us who you are, and we will route you well

Separate inquiry paths keep your message in front of the right person. We respond to qualified inquiries within three business days.

Select your inquiry type

Seafood Procurement Inquiry

Routed to the trade team. We respond to qualified inquiries within three business days.

Maritime and Trade Partnership Inquiry

Routed to the trade team. We respond to qualified inquiries within three business days.

Investor and Institutional Inquiry

Please do not submit confidential or highly sensitive financial information through this form. Routed to executive correspondence. We respond to qualified inquiries within three business days.

Real Estate and Hospitality Inquiry

Routed to the real-estate team. We respond to qualified inquiries within three business days.

General Inquiry

We respond to qualified inquiries within three business days.

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Company Contact

Jamaica: +1 (876) 556-2066
United States: +1 (239) 200-8271

Company Email

info@parker-co.com
trade@parker-co.com
investors@parker-co.com
realestate@parker-co.com

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Registered Office

Lot 447 Albion Estate
Albion Boulevard
Yallahs P.O., St. Thomas
Jamaica

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Registered office: Lot 447 Albion Estate, Albion Boulevard, Yallahs P.O., St. Thomas, Jamaica.

Parker & Co. Infrastructure and Trade Limited ("Parker & Co.", "we", "us") respects the privacy of everyone who visits this website. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you.

Information we collect

We collect the information you submit through our inquiry forms, such as your name, organization, contact details, and the content of your message. We also collect basic technical and analytics information about site usage, such as pages visited and general location, to understand how the site performs.

How we use it

We use inquiry information to respond to you, evaluate potential commercial relationships, and maintain accurate business records. We use analytics information to improve the website. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use inquiry information for unrelated marketing without consent.

Retention and sharing

We retain inquiry information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes above. We share information only with service providers who support our website and communications, and where required by law.

Your choices

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information you have submitted by contacting us at the address below.

Contact

Parker & Co. Infrastructure and Trade Limited
Lot 447 Albion Estate, Albion Boulevard
Yallahs P.O., St. Thomas, Jamaica
Email: info@parker-co.com
Telephone: +1 (876) 556-2066

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Website Terms of Use

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By using this website, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

Informational purposes

Content on this website is provided for general corporate information. It describes plans and platforms that are in development, and it may change without notice. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any security or financial instrument, and nothing on this site constitutes legal, tax, investment, or professional advice.

Forward-looking statements

Statements about planned routes, cargo categories, projects, and timelines are forward-looking and remain subject to commercial validation, regulatory approvals, financing, market demand, and operating readiness. Actual outcomes may differ.

Intellectual property

The Parker & Co. name, marks, and site content belong to Parker & Co. Infrastructure and Trade Limited and may not be reproduced without permission.

Liability

The site is provided as is. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Parker & Co. accepts no liability for loss arising from reliance on site content.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Jamaica, and the courts of Jamaica have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.