CMEx announces additional 2025 Leadership Award honorees

Published on September 22, 2025

The Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) has finalized the lineup of honorees for the 2025 CMEx Leadership Awards.

It has added three distinguished leaders from Aruba, Martinique, and Puerto Rico to an already impressive roster of visionaries whose work has elevated the Caribbean’s global profile and strengthened its communities.

The newly named recipients are Carole Alexis, internationally acclaimed choreographer, artistic director, and Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters from Martinique; Ronella Croes, Chief Executive Officer of the Aruba Tourism Authority; and Clarisa Jiménez, President and CEO of the Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association (PRHTA).

This year’s honorees also include:

• Dave Chang – Senior Vice President, Consumer Sales and Contact Centers, Carnival Cruise Line
• May-Ling Chun – Director of Tourism, St. Maarten
• Laura Davidson – CEO/Founder, LDPR
• Muryad de Bruin – Managing Director, Curaçao Tourist Board
• Cathleen Decker – Co-founder, The Decker/Royal Agency
• Loreto Duffy-Mayers – Tourism and Sustainability Expert, Barbados
• Monique Hamaty-Simmonds – Executive Director, Tortuga Rum Company Ltd., Cayman Islands
• Luce Hodge-Smith – Junior Minister of Tourism, British Virgin Islands
• Janelle Hopkin – President and Managing Director, Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada
• Vonulrick “Von” Martin – Broadcaster, Producer & Dean, Caribbeana Communications Inc.
• Shomari Scott – Chief Business Officer, Health City Cayman Islands
• Marcus Simmonds – Chief Executive Officer, Tortuga International Holdings Ltd., Cayman Islands