Colonel (ret’d) Jaimie Ogilvie joined the Jamaica Broilers Group Ltd in 2018 and currently serves as Vice President for the Hi-Pro Division, after completing 30 years of service in the Jamaica Defence Force. The last 12 years of his service in the JDF saw him in roles at the operational and strategic leadership levels of the Force, including having responsibility for coordination of Force Operations and Training and being the Principal Advisor to the Chief of Defence Staff on these matters, as well as managing International Military Relationships and Force Sporting Activities. He also served in operational deployments to both Haiti (1995 and 2010) and Dominica (2017) in peacekeeping and disaster relief capacities.

During his time at JBG, he has led the Hi-Pro Division, Jamaica’s leading agricultural input supplier, through the Covid-19 pandemic (2020–2023), streamlining business operations and consistently growing the revenues and profitability of the Division, while supporting various stakeholder groups within the agricultural sector and developing and empowering talent internal to the Company.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Sports (2012–2016), the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (2014–2016), the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (2018 to present), and has served as a Lay Magistrate/Justice of the Peace since February 2011. He was appointed to the Order of Distinction (Officer Class) in 2018 and was named as the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce All Star Awardee (2024).

Whilst serving in the JDF, he completed his Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Accounting and Management at the University of the West Indies, Mona (2000), along with three postgraduate degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California (2005), the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (2007) and as a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (2017) where he read for a Master of Strategic Studies. He is also a graduate of the Government of Jamaica’s Management Institute for National Development (MIND) in 2012 where he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Sector Senior Management.

Jaimie is married to Joanna, and together they have five children. He is an avid sportsman and sports fan, and enjoys reading, travelling and a good game of scrabble.