Experienced executive and entrepreneur Sheldon Jason Burnett has served as president and CEO of Analytics Associates Group for two decades. He draws on his in-depth expertise in logistics, strategy, venture capital funding, and sabermetrics to provide top-level consulting and strategic development services to major global brands. Also a philanthropist, Sheldon J. Burnett supports a wide range of medical and educational organizations in and beyond his Toronto community. His work with hurricane relief in the Bahamas earned him a humanitarian award.
The islands of the Bahamas lie in an area of the eastern Caribbean Sea that is prone to particularly devastating weather, with a hurricane passing through nearby waters every two years on average. The year 2019 alone saw 18 named storms in the islands. Six of these gained such force that they became hurricanes, and half of these were among the year’s major natural disasters.
Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas with 185-miles-per-hour winds in August that year. The Category 5 hurricane was the strongest storm to hit the northwest portion of the islands in recent history, tragically causing dozens of deaths and widespread property damage. Damage from the storm reached as far as the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Canada.
Other Category 5 hurricanes to hit the Bahamas in recent years include Irma in 2017, which knocked out power lines and damaged homes; Matthew in 2016, which produced notable damage to several Bahamian islands; and Wilma in 2005, whose force was so strong officials considered large-scale evacuations as it approached.
In 1932, the Great Abaco hurricane slammed the islands, doing extreme damage in which more than a dozen people lost their lives and hundreds of others were injured.
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