Felicia Persaud
- CMO, Hard Beat Communications
Felicia Persaud’s Biography
Felicia J. Persaud is a Guyana-born, U.S.-based founder, publisher, columnist, and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in business, investment, and policy reporting across the Caribbean and its diaspora.
She is the Founder and CEO of ICN Group - One Caribbean - a portfolio of companies spanning News Americas Now, Invest Caribbean, AI Capital Exchange (an AI-powered debt pre-qualification and lender-matching platform), CaribPR Wire, and Hard Beat Communications.
Persaud is a U.S. State Department-recognized expert on the Caribbean and has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS, FOX News, Reuters, the Washington Post, CNBC, the Guardian, Forbes, and ABC 7. She writes a weekly immigration column for the New York Amsterdam News.
She led CaribID, a 12-year effort to make Caribbean identity visible in U.S. federal data - because being counted creates evidence, and evidence creates power. Her work sits at the intersection of media, capital, and diaspora advocacy.