OPEN Interactive · The Firm Behind CHIS '27
We turn sovereign convenings into
foreign direct investment.
OPEN Interactive is a Caribbean sovereign advisory and capital activation firm. Since 2009, we have worked collaboratively with Caribbean governments at the regional level — converting heads-of-government access, multilateral alignment, and institutional capital into signed investment outcomes for the region, and building the convenings the region uses to do it.
The Firm
Not an event company. A capital activation firm that uses sovereign convenings as instruments of foreign direct investment.
OPEN Interactive was founded in 2009 and transferred its headquarters to St. Kitts & Nevis in 2014 — the year the firm committed its full organizational gravity to the Caribbean. Since then, OPEN has operated as a long-standing regional partner across the OECS — working collaboratively with Caribbean governments, not for any single one — across sovereign mandates, private sector strategy, and the region's most significant investment convenings.
The firm's client roster includes Citigroup, Mayo Clinic, Disney, and 3M — Fortune 500 institutions that demanded, and received, the same brand discipline and strategic precision OPEN now applies on behalf of Caribbean heads of state and multilateral development banks.
OPEN Interactive maintains a 100% client success ratio across every Caribbean jurisdiction it has served. That record is not marketing. It is the reason Caribbean governments return to the firm together — and the reason institutional capital follows the region as a whole.
"The firm does not arrive at a conference and run it. It works alongside Caribbean governments — collaboratively, at the regional level — to shape what the region wants to build, and then builds the platform that makes the investment case visible to the world."
What OPEN Does
Three practice lines. One mandate: move foreign capital and institutional attention into the Caribbean.
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Sovereign Advisory
OPEN works with Caribbean governments collaboratively, at the regional level — across OECS heads of state, citizenship-by-investment units, and national investment promotion agencies. The firm positions the Caribbean as a coordinated capital markets destination, not a set of competing jurisdictions.
- OECS Mandates
- CBI Programs
- IPA Strategy
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Capital Activation
Curated sovereign convenings engineered to compress investor decision cycles. The firm's summits co-locate heads of government, multilateral lenders, and institutional capital inside a defined window — and exit with signed outcomes attached.
- FDI
- Investment Migration
- Institutional Capital
03
Built Environment Convening
OPEN now applies its sovereign-convening discipline to the Caribbean built environment — housing finance reform, climate-resilient construction, CBI real estate delivery, infrastructure capital, and workforce development — through CHIS '27, the firm's new annual summit franchise complementing the Caribbean Investment Summit.
- Housing & Infrastructure
- CHIS '27 Franchise
- Built Environment
The Activation Thesis
Why a strategy firm produces summits.
A convening is the only instrument that co-locates heads of government, sovereign programs, institutional investors, and multilateral lenders inside a 48-hour decision window — with a signed outcome attached.
OPEN does not produce conferences for attendance. The firm produces them for activation: compressed investor decision cycles, sovereign principals available for direct dialogue, capital allocations confirmed in-room, and a Declaration or MoU exiting the venue with the delegates.
Every edition the firm has produced has been engineered against that standard. CHIS '27 applies that same model to the most consequential built-environment decisions the Caribbean will make this decade — housing, climate-resilient construction, and the infrastructure that makes either viable.
Track Record
Every edition has produced measurable sovereign and capital outcomes.
Nearly a decade of producing the Caribbean's defining heads-of-government and capital-markets convenings — every one of them built against a specific investment activation mandate.
Inaugural Editions
Caribbean Investment Summit 2018 · 2019
Established the Caribbean's first dedicated investment migration franchise — the convening that put the region's CBI programs in front of a single international capital audience for the first time. Set the activation template every subsequent edition has scaled.
- CBI Programs Activated
- Sovereign Convening
- Capital Markets
Grand Anse, Grenada
Caribbean Investment Summit 2024 · Grenada
Reconvened the Caribbean investment community post-pandemic and absorbed the simultaneous policy shock from the UK, EU, and US on CBI programs. Delivered active program representation from Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, and Antigua & Barbuda — five sovereign programs defending and recapitalizing their FDI pipelines in the same room.
- 5 CBI Programs
- Sovereign Policy Response
- FDI Defense
Cap Estate, Saint Lucia
Caribbean Investment Summit 2025 · Saint Lucia
Repositioned Caribbean CBI programs against global institutional ESG requirements — opening the region's investment migration pipelines to ESG-mandated capital that had previously been structurally excluded. Produced in partnership with regional ministries and international service-provider networks.
- ESG Capital Access
- Pipeline Repositioning
- SDG Alignment
May 2026
Caribbean Investment Summit 2026 · Saint Lucia
274 credentialed participants. 27 countries. 6 continents. All five Caribbean sovereign CBI programs at the same policy table simultaneously. Capital and delegate presence from China, Singapore, Greece, Germany, the UAE, and across the Americas — against Caribbean programs offering visa-free access to 167 countries. The most internationally capitalized Caribbean convening on record.
- 274 Delegates
- 27 Nations
- 5 Sovereign Programs
- 6 Continents
CIS'27 announced for St. Kitts & Nevis — the home of OPEN Interactive.
Why Now
Five live urgencies converging in 2026.
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Post-Beryl Rebuild Mandate
Hurricane Beryl in 2024 exposed the catastrophic cost of building stock that was never climate-proofed. Reconstruction is underway across multiple islands. The decisions made in the next 24 months on standards, materials, and financing will define regional vulnerability for the next 30 years.
02
Jamaica's NHT Reform
Prime Minister Holness raised NHT loan limits in the 2025/26 budget (individual limit up to J$9M, co-applicant limits expanded), signalling a policy acknowledgment that the existing system is not closing the gap. The reform window is open.
03
OECS CBI Real Estate Threshold Doubles
The 2024 harmonized CBI minimum of US$200k–$400k creates a new pipeline of approved CBI real estate projects — and a new quality and due-diligence bar for developers. The build side of CBI has no regional forum.
04
Workforce Shortage at Crisis Level
Construction wages are up 12–18% across the region as projects compete for talent. Antigua imported masons and carpenters from across CARICOM in 2024. Curaçao's 2025 Construction Survey flagged skilled-worker shortages as the single biggest constraint on sector growth.
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PropTech and Digital Title Reform
Digital land registry and title verification services are early-stage in most Caribbean markets. The inability to clear land title in a reasonable timeframe is a primary reason affordable housing schemes stall. This is a technology and governance solvable problem.
Summit Design Principles
Four rules that govern every CHIS '27 session.
No Policy Without a Drafter
Every sector session has a designated rapporteur who translates discussion into a draft commitment. Ministers and officials receive a draft Communiqué section within 24 hours of each session — not at the end of the summit.
No Capital Without a Project
The Deal Room is pre-loaded with a project pipeline registry — real projects seeking real financing — published 30 days before the event. Every meeting is pre-qualified. No speculative pitches.
No Panel Without a Practitioner
At least 50% of every panel includes someone who has actually built, financed, sold, or lived in it — not just studied or regulated it.
No Summit Without a Sequel
Each sector session ends with a working group activation: named individuals committing to a specific 90-day follow-up action. The Summit Director publishes a 90-day accountability report.
Founding Leadership
Led by the partners who built the practice.
Adam Anderson
Co-Founder · Executive Producer
Forty years of brand and communications discipline from Citigroup, Mayo Clinic, Disney, and 3M — applied to Caribbean sovereign mandates across the region since founding OPEN Interactive in 2009. Originator of the Caribbean Investment Summit franchise.
- OPEN Co-Founder (2009)
- Fortune 500: Citigroup · Mayo Clinic · Disney · 3M
- CIS Founder & Executive Producer
- OECS Sovereign Advisor
Stachio Williams
Co-Founder & CEO
National of St. Kitts & Nevis. CEO since 2014, when OPEN Interactive transferred its headquarters to the Caribbean. Carries executive responsibility for every sovereign mandate, every CIS edition, and the firm's national eGovernment infrastructure delivery to the Government of SKN.
- OPEN Co-Founder & CEO (2014)
- National of St. Kitts & Nevis
- SKN eGovernment Delivery
- CIS Organizational Lead
Institutional Partners & Endorsers
Convened with regional and multilateral partners.
Additional partners and endorsers to be announced. Inquiries: info@chis2027.com
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