SUMMARY
- Founder, former Siméus Foods International, Inc., a $100+ million food processing company headquartered in Texas
- Founder, Organisation Sové Lavi (Saving Lives), a nonprofit 501c3 that operates a charitable clinic in Haiti. The organization also drills wells, provides scholarships and more.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Former President and Chief Operating Officer of TLC Beatrice Foods International, a $2 billion corporation with operations in 25 countries.
- Prior to that, lived and ran businesses in Venezuela, France and Spain.
- Founded Siméus Foods International in 1996 – ranked by Black Enterprise magazine in 1999 as the largest black-owned business in Texas and the eleventh largest in the nation.
- Was drafted to run for President of Haiti in 2005.
- Served on the Commission on Building for the University of North Texas at Dallas. He also serves on the boards of Inter-America Foundation, Townsend Capital URP and Business Investment Growth Austin.
- Siméus served on the Governor Jeb Bush 2005 Advisory Committee for Haiti’s economic development.
- He also served as an advisor to various ambassadors from throughout the world.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
- President of TLC Beatrice Foods International, the largest black-owned, multinational corporation based in the U.S. at that time
- Leveraged buyout (LBO) was orchestrated by a team headed by the late Reginald Lewis for a price exceeding $1 billion
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Founded Organization Sové Lavi (Saving Lives in Haitian Creole) in 2000. Sové Lavi operates a non-profit medical clinic that cares for approximately 800 patients each month and drills wells throughout the community where he was born in Haiti.
RECOGNITION/AWARDS
- Siméus has received many honors, including Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young LLP, and the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
- He was a finalist for Texan of the Year by WFAA Dallas as well as the Horatio Alger award. He has also been honored on numerous occasions for his humanitarian work in Haiti.
- The National Coalition for Human Rights;
- The National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians;
- Tthe Haitian-Canadian Association;
- Dallas/Fort Worth Minority Business Development Council, Inc.
SPEAKER/LECTURER
- A dynamic motivational speaker, Siméus has shared his journey and philosophy for success with numerous universities, corporations, and fundraising events, most recently at Tuskegee University’s George Washington Carver Lecture Series.
- Additionally, he was a keynote speaker for the National Association for the Advancement of Haitians (NOAH), Association des Médecins Haïtiens à l’Étranger, Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami, Inc., the National Restaurant Association, the 7-Eleven Corporation celebration of the Martin Luther King Holiday, Chiapas International, Price Waterhouse and the Dallas/Fort Worth Minority Business Development Conference.
- He has spoken at the University of Chicago Alumni Association, several Chambers of Commerce, the University of Nebraska Medical School, and the Haitian Medical Association.
- He has been a frequent guest on various Haitian radio and television stations, High Schools/Churches/Other nonprofits.
EDUCATION
- He received his Electrical Engineering degree from Howard University and his MBA from the University of Chicago. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Haitian Creole.