Owner, CEO
Les Entreprises Haiti Shipping
33, Avenue Marie-Jeanne, Bicentennaire
Port-au-Prince

Les Entreprises Haiti Shipping (formerly Haiti Shipping S.A.) was created in 1994. The company is in the business of serving tramp and bulk vessels. The company specializes in cargo consolidation and acts as stevedoring contractor. Harry Bretous also owns a real estate company and various residential apartment complexes.

Harry Bretous holds a degree in civil engineering from the State University of Haiti
He is a member of l’Association Maritime d’Haiti (AMARH). He is a board member of le Centre Pour La Libre Entreprise et la Democratie (CLED), and serves as president of the Tennis Club de Port-au-Prince.

Executive editor
Le Nouvelliste
198 Rue du Centre
Port-au-Prince

Founded in 1898, Le Nouvelliste is Haiti’s oldest newspaper and only daily. Its name and brand are recognized and known by a large number of Haitians. The newspaper is considered as an experienced, reliable and helpful source of information.   This is the reason why it has lasted for so long in a country with an extended past of political instability.  Le Nouvelliste is also the most viewed internet web site of Haiti (www.lenouvelliste.com) 
Le Nouvelliste’s mission is to enhance Haitian society by collecting, creating and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment content.  Throughout the years, Le Nouvelliste has grown to become Haiti’s leading media group with two radio stations (Magik 9 100.9 FM, Visa FM 88.1) a television station (Ch 20) in the works and several magazines and publications such as:

• Ticket Magazine (Entertainment/People)
• Magik Haiti (English monthly publication)
• Lakay Weekly (weekly news paper in English)

Frantz Duval has been with Le Nouvelliste since 1985. Besides being the Managing Editor of the newspaper he is also the General Director of Ticket Magazine and the radio station Magik 9.
He holds a degree in International Relations from INAGHEI de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti.  He studied journalism at l’ Institut Francais d’Haiti.
He is a member of l’Association Nationale des Medias Haitiens (ANMH)

CEO
Brasserie Nationale d’Haïti S.A (BRANA)
Boulevard Toussaint Louverture
Port-au-Prince
 

Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti S.A (BRANA) was created in 1976 and was acquired by the Heineken Group in 2010.
BRANA manufactures three lines of brewed products and bottles five different types of soft drinks.  It also produces its own line of mineralized water.  These products are detailed below:

Brewed Products                                        Soft Drinks                                                      Water
Prestige Beer                                                    Pepsi                                                             Sources Crystal
Guinness                                                          Seven up                                                            
Malta H                                                             Toro Energy Drink
King Cola different flavors

The company also distributes a wide range of imported liquors and wines.  It employs 1,200 direct employees of whom 99 percent are Haitian and 50,000 Haitian families are involved in the sales and distribution of BRANA products on a daily basis.

José Matthijsse, of Dutch origin, is the CEO of Brasserie Nationale d’Haïti S.A.  She began her career at Heineken in 1999 as responsible for distribution of Heineken beer to the Asia-Pacific. From 2004 until 2007, she was commercial-development manager for the sub-Saharan Africa region, after which she joined Heineken in the Netherlands as regional sales director. In 2010 she moved to Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo to become commercial director of Brasseries du Congo. Since February 2012 she has lived with her family in Port-au-Prince.
She holds a degree in food-processing technology from the University of Wageningen, Netherlands.

Digicel Business General Manager
151 Avenue Jean Paul ll
Port-au-Prince

After twelve years of operation, Digicel Group Limited has over 12.8 million customers across its thirty markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific. The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel is incorporated in Bermuda and its markets comprise: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Nauru, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, St Kitts & Nevis, St.Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos and Vanuatu. Digicel also has coverage in St. Martin and St. Bart’s in the Caribbean.

Digicel also runs a host of community-base initiatives and has set up Digicel foundations in Haiti, Jamaica and Papua New Guinea which focus on educational, cultural and social development progress.

Carl Momplaisir joined Digicel in May of 2012; Carl comes from Boston where he spent twenty years working with telecom giants such as Sprint, Nextel and AT&T. He moved back to Haiti in September of 2011 and worked as a director of sales at Comcel Voila. He was appointed as the general manager of Digicel Business in April of this year.
Carl Momplaisir holds a BS in business administration from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
He is a member of American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), of the Chamber of Commerce et de l’Industrie de L’Ouest (CCIO) et de l’Association Touristique d’Haiti (ATH).

General Manager of Lafito Industrial Free Zone
GB Group
Route Nationale # 1
Drouillard,
Port-au-Prince

GB Group, the largest Haitian-owned multinational with activities in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St. Thomas and St. Martin.  Last year’s sales were over $2 billion.  The company is involved in manufacturing, housing, sales of petroleum products, wood, steel; representation of major food brands such as Kraft and Nestle, and agricultural supplies among others.
Lafito Industrial Free Zone is part of a major investment by the GB Group (www.gilberbigiogroup.com) comprising a modern seaport, an island tourist development with a golf course, a commercial section and moderate- and high-income housing.

Georges Sassine has a long career that reflects both his commitment to the Haitian state and to investment promotion, as well as a rich experience in industrial production.  From 1987 to 2006, he directed and advised several companies in the field of garment and textile manufacturing (Armtex, Quality Products, Gilanex, AG Textiles SA).
Very involved in community life, he was a founding member of le Centre pour la libre Enterprise et la Démocratie  (CLED) in 1993, as well as of l’Université Notre Dame in the same year. He was a member of the Tripartite Commission working on the minimum wage in 1996 as the private-sector representative. From 1998 to 2007 he was vice-president of the Association des Industries d’Haïti (ADIH) then was its president from 2007 to 2011.
In 2006, he became the executive director of the Tripartite Commission for the implementation of the HOPE Act (CTMO-HOPE). In this capacity he has supported and followed the whole process of advocacy, voting and enforcement of U.S. laws HOPE, HOPE II and HELP, to promote job creation in Haiti through the expansion of the garment industry. Building the bridge between the Haitian government, the private sector and the U.S. Congress, he also played a decisive role in promoting Haiti with countries interested in investing in this sector, including Korea and Brazil.
Appointed director of the Société Nationale des Parcs Industriels (SONAPI) in August 2012, Georges B. Sassine was responsible for the management, promotion and development of national industrial parks, including the Metropolitan Park in Port-au-Prince and the Caracol Industrial Park in the north.
Georges Sassine holds a bachelors of science in business administration from the University of Miami.

Heineken Adviser for the Caribbean Region
Board Member
Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti S.A (BRANA)
Boulevard Toussaint Louverture
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti S.A (BRANA) was created in 1976 and was acquired by the Heineken Group in 2010.
BRANA manufactures three lines of brewed products and bottles five different types of soft drinks.  It also produces its own line of mineralized water.  These products are detailed below:

Brewed Products                                        Soft Drinks                                                      Water
Prestige Beer                                                    Pepsi                                                             Sources Crystal
Guinness                                                          Seven up                                                            
Malta H                                                             Toro Energy Drink
King Cola different flavors

The company also distributes a wide range of imported liquors and wines.  It employs 1,200 direct employees of whom 99 percent are Haitian and 50,000 Haitian families are involved in the sales and distribution of BRANA products on a daily basis.

Hans van Mameren has for thirty-five years worked with Heineken in the following countries: Tchad, Congo Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.  He was involved in the development and implementation of the Heineken HIV policy, and he has been able to contribute to local sourcing of raw material by setting up agricultural projects in countries where Heineken operates.

Consultant
26 rue Mangones
Pétion Ville, Haïti

Lionel Delatour is a consultant on public policy and politics in Haiti.  He has advised a number of Haitian and American businesses on the political situation in Haiti. 
Since 1993, he has led over thirty-five delegations of business leaders from Haiti on fact-finding visits to Washington D.C. 
From 2002 to 2004, he provided consulting services to l’Association des Industries d'Haïti (ADIH) in drafting and promoting in Washington the trade bill (Hero) to provide benefits to Haiti similar to those the African countries were receiving under the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA).
He was a leading advocate for the enactment of the HOPE legislation in 2006, the HOPE II legislation in 2008 and the HELP legislation in 2010, which provided favorable trade benefits to Haiti and has allowed the then-dormant garment sector to become one of the engines of job creation today.
In April 2006, May 2008 and February 2009 he coordinated and participated in the three visits to Washington of President René Préval.
From July 2007 to date he has been a consultant for the CTMO-HOPE commission, a tripartite institution led by the government, with representatives of business associations and labor organizations created to help improve and implement the various HOPE legislative initiatives.

Lionel Delatour is a graduate of Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (BSFS) and holds an MPA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
He is a founding member of le Centre pour la Libre Entreprise et la Démocratie (CLED) and presently serves as its secretary-general.