Melissa Darville
Presenter for Shiver Caribbean
Melissa Darville is the co-founder of Shiver Premium Ice Cream, which locally manufactures sorbet and ice cream. Shiver merged the need of a healthier frozen dessert, with the art of sorbet making, and the cultural taste of the Bahamas. Ms Darville was named one of the top 25 monst influential women in business in The Bahamas for 2023. This entrepreneurial start-up showcased The Bahamas as a top 100 Global Finalist in the Entrepreneurship World Cup held in Saudi Arabia, November 2019. Ms. Darville represented Barbados and neighboring islands in the 2022 Climate Launchpad Green Business Idea Competition. She is the representative for Global Entrepreneur Network which hosts Entrepreneurship World Cup, Global Entrepreneurship Week and Startup Huddle Nassau.
Entrepreneurship, passion, and the need to help others have always propelled Ms. Darville, who previously co-owned a special needs school for 11 years, CMS Learning Centre. Prior to that she taught at the Catholic Board of Education, Dade County, Broward County and was the Assistant Director of Education at Sylvan Learning Centre in Miami, Florida. She is a graduate of Barry University Miami Florida, The Bishop Strachan School in Toronto Canada and attended Saint Augustine College in Nassau Bahamas.
Ms. Darville believes that we are born with a divine job to accomplish. Wear your scars proudly, they are lessons. Possibilities are limitless if you seek wisdom and accept instruction. Live, pursue your dream, pray and work for what you want. She is a new author in the Christian spiritual development genre, writing four books, The Truth, POV Spiritual Eyes, Faith Walk and Hey Sis.
