{"id":4872,"date":"2015-09-21T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nahpconference.org\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2015-09-21T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:31:26","slug":"successful-haitian-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/successful-haitian-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Haitian Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Panel:\u00a0<\/strong>Successful Haitian Professional<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haitians in the Diaspora and in Ayiti possess an entrepreneurial spirit that has helped to sustain them globally.<\/p>\n<p>During this fourth edition of the National Association of Haitian Professionals&#8217; conference this panel, <em>Successful Haitian Entrepreneurs,<\/em> will go in depth on specific strategies and tactics that have propelled prominent Haitian entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>This one hour forum is intended for conference attendees seeking examples of successful road maps that have delivered results and contributed to advancements for Diaspora communities.<\/p>\n<p>A dynamic group of business leaders will comprise the panel and will share best practices for how they launched successful ventures. Participants of this panel will explore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unmet needs\/problems<\/li>\n<li>Potential solutions<\/li>\n<li>Stakeholders that should be engaged<\/li>\n<li>Barriers to achieving the goal(s) or implementing the solution(s)<\/li>\n<li>Incentives and infrastructure needed to promote solutions<\/li>\n<li>Implementation plans or existing models that can be replicated<\/li>\n<li>Success evaluation models<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As immigrants or\/and children of immigrants, the panelists will focus on how to be a successful businessman and entrepreneur in the United States. The panel will seek to answer questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What should entrepreneurs in the Diaspora do to create and run a successful business in the United States?<\/li>\n<li>What are the challenges?<\/li>\n<li>What advice would they give to their younger self? How are they using their success to mentor the younger generation?<\/li>\n<li>What are good opportunities to give back to the motherland?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator: <\/strong>Cleve Mesidor<em>, Global Solutions Principal, The Raben Group<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harold Charles, <em>President of CEEPCO Contracting<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jeff Lozama, <em>President and CEO of CMS International Group, Chairman of the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce Chamber of Commerce of Florida<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jean Orelien, <em>CEO &amp; President of SciMetrika, LLC<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Frantz Saintellemy, <em>President of ZMD America Inc., Executive Vice-President of ZMDI<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dumarsais Simeus, <em>Founder, of former Sim\u00e9us Foods International, Inc.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haitians in the Diaspora and in Ayiti possess an entrepreneurial spirit that has helped to sustain them globally. During this fourth edition of the National Association of Haitian Professionals&#8217; conference this panel, Successful Haitian Entrepreneurs, will go in depth on specific strategies and tactics that have propelled prominent Haitian entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naahpusa.org\/conferences\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}