Researching Lloyd Laing

He is the only child of Jamaican supermodel Althea Laing and banking innovator Lloyd Laing Snr.

Since graduation from Munro College in 1994, Laing has established himself as a groundbreaking pioneer, most known for his forays in telecommunications, Internet development, entertainment production and digital product development.

He began his career in 1994 at Jamaica Communication Limited, where he served as a system administrator to Worldtelenet a small ISP based in Kingston. He was introduced to product development by Victor Lowe who later challenged Laing to create new product offerings to maintain WTI's market position. Laing convinced Lowe and his other partners to introduce a flat rate internet model, which helped revolutionized internet service provision in Jamaica.

He was a co-founder and a managing Partner at JL Mobile, a Jamaican-based technology research and development firm, that created the SmartTab, a low budget android tablet, piloted at the University of the West Indies in 2012.

In 2013 he founded The Jamaica App factory, a mobile app development studio, which has been involved in the development of groundbreaking web and mobile applications such as emerging music streaming service Dippso.com and appnng.com, a cloud based enterprise level SaaS provider.

In 2015 Laing was invited to the board of AnSuen Holdings LLC, a US based digital asset management firm, and helped to establish its corporate presence in Jamaica which serves to incubate concepts and accelerate early stage startups, such as the contactless payment processing platform ClickPaye a PitchIT Caribbean 2016 Top 10 finalist.

He is a lead volunteer at ThinkJamaica, a non-profit focused on bridging Jamaica's digital divide through the use of digital education, and emerging technology.

An avid advocate of live reggae music in his early years, Laing has been involved in a number of groundbreaking music productions including noted artists such as Courtney John, Winston Mcanuff, Protoje, Nomaddz, Raging Fyah, and Black as Cole among others. His label Red Records UK continues to selectively release some of the Reggae industry's most understated productions.

He studied prehistoric archaeology and fine art at Edinburgh University, before becoming assistant inspector of ancient monuments for Scotland, from 1966 to 1969. He was senior lecturer at University of Liverpool then University of Nottingham, where he was later associate professor.