Wayne L. Biggs, Jr.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
VIRGIN ISLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Wayne L. Biggs, Jr. is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority (USVIEDA), and has spent more than 30 years of his career working in business and economic development. His experience includes working for over 20 years with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in many positions of business and economic development, and on special assignments to lead SBA disaster teams dispatched to give assistance to severely damaged areas throughout the nation and the Territories. He accepted employment at USVIEDA in March 2005 when SBA reorganized nationally, and served as its Director of Lending, managing the day-to-day operations of the Government Development Bank of the Virgin Islands (GDB) and the Virgin Islands Small Business Development Agency (SBDA). During this tenure at USVIEDA he also assisted with the implementation and management of the Enterprise Zone Commission Program (EZC), serving simultaneously as USVIEDA’s Director of Enterprise Zone and Director of Lending from 2005 through 2007. He was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs (DLCA) in March 2009 by the Honorable Governor John P. deJongh, where he remained until January 2015. He was appointed to the position of Assistant Chief Executive Officer/Chief Operating Officer of the USVIEDA in February 2015 by the Honorable Governor Kenneth E. Mapp, and served as the USVIEDA’s Interim CEO from May 2015 through August 2018.
He was hired as the USVIEDA’s CEO by its Governing Board in September 2020, and serves as a member to the Governor Albert Bryan Jr.’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Committee, Workforce Investment Board (WIB), and on several of the Governor’s business and economic development task forces.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operation Management/Information Systems from Bradley University (Peoria, IL), a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, VI), and many certifications in business and economic development related fields.
