Nadia Cherrouk is a senior international financial and program management professional with over 20 year experience and leadership in the international development field. Ms. Cherrouk has extensive experience in multi-sectorial rural and urban programming, financial management and institutional administration and has developed strong partnerships and working relationships with local government institutions and multilateral donor agencies such as the World Bank, USAID, the American Red Cross, the UN agencies, DFID and other multilateral organizations and corporate donors.

Ms. Cherrouk holds a masters and bachelors in Business Administration, with a specialization in the not-for-profit sector, organizational strategic management, grant management, including federally funded grants, and multilateral funding. She currently serves as country director for the Pan American Development Foundations (PADF) in Haiti, where she oversees a $20 million dollar portfolio targeting over 1.5 million direct and indirect beneficiaries. She is also the Chief of Party for the USAID funded program Leveraging Effective Application of Direct Investment (LEAD) Program.

Rebecca is the founder and leader of CHES. CHES is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization founded in June 2008 based in Massachusetts. The organization is mainly comprised of dedicated volunteers, which include a number of Haitian and Haitian-American business professionals. CHES supports entrepreneurs in rural Haiti through education, funds, and mentorship. Rebecca is an American born Haitian-American who lived in rural Haiti during her adolescence. Her time in Haiti ultimately inspired her to found CHES. Rebecca holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management from Bentley University. Her career path includes corporate retail, real estate and product sales, and hospitality. She currently works at Babson College as Assistant Director of the Schlesinger Fund for Global Healthcare Entrepreneurship. Rebecca is also a MBA candidate at Babson College May 2017.

Marie St. Fleur is a highly effective and passionate organizational and program leader with 30 years of legislative, municipal and legal leadership. Linking public and private resources through strong partnerships, she helps generate effective changes that enhance the quality of life in vulnerable communities; creating targeted approaches to closing the work opportunity gap.

Her experience as an attorney, legislator, senior leader in municipal government and nonprofit leader informs her ability to assist clients to develop strategic partnerships to advance mutual goals, create effective messaging to build support and amplify voice for transformational change, promote civic engagement that leverages community strengths to reach agreed objectives.

Prior to launching St. Fleur Communications, Ms. St. Fleur served as President and CEO of a research and advocacy nonprofit in Boston. There she led the formation of the influential Put MA Kids First Coalition securing increased investment in early education and care in Massachusetts for 2 consecutive fiscal years (2016, 2017), and the creation of the Early Education Small Business Innovation Center in Roxbury, the first of its type in Massachusetts.

Ms. St. Fleur was appointed by Mayor Thomas M. Menino on June 13, 2010, as Chief of Advocacy and Strategic Investment for the City of Boston. In that capacity, Ms. St. Fleur led the Mayor Menino Circle of Promise Initiative supported diversity and reentry Initiatives, supervised the Department of Intergovernmental Relations, The Office of New Bostonians, The Office of Small and Local Business Enterprise, and the Boston Jobs for Boston Residents Policy.

Former State Representative Marie St. Fleur served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for eleven years. She is the first Haitian-American elected to state office in the United States and the first woman to serve as the Vice Chair of the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. As the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Education, Arts and Humanities, Representative St. Fleur championed two-way bilingual education, alternative education and led the establishment of the new Massachusetts Board and Department of Early Education and Care.

A former Assistant Middlesex District Attorney and Assistant State Attorney General, Ms. St. Fleur has significant experience protecting underserved communities in the areas of criminal justice, human services and civil rights.

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Representative St. Fleur earned her Law Degree from Boston College Law School in 1987. Ms. St. Fleur served as Chair of the Advisory Council for the Haiti Fund at The Boston Foundation, is a former trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation and past President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. She has been featured on WCVB Television’s City Line and Chronicle, WGBH Television’s Greater Boston, Boston Magazine and Commonwealth Magazine. Ms. St. Fleur is a recipient of Boston Business Journal’s 2014 Women Up award and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Dorchester Boys and Girls Club, Nativity Preparatory School, Technology Goes Home and the Advisory Committee for Inversant.

Linda Dorcena Forry grew up in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner neighborhood, where her parents settled after emigrating to the United States from Haiti in the mid 1960s. Upon her election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2005, Forry became the second Haitian American to hold public office in Massachusetts.

Senator Forry has dedicated her professional life to a career in public service, working in various capacities in state and city government for over 15 years. Forry has also served on a number of local boards and organizations, including the Ward 13 and Ward 17 Democratic committees.

Forry represented the Commonwealth’s 12th Suffolk district since 2005, a diverse and vibrant cross-section that includes parts of the town of Milton and the city of Boston, including Dorchester, Hyde Park and Mattapan. She was recently elected Senator for the Commonwealth’s 1st Suffolk district which includes Dorchester, Mattapan, South Boston and Hyde Park.

Forry is married to Bill Forry and they are the proud parents of four beautiful children, two sons and two daughters. The Forrys live in the Lower Mills neighborhood of Dorchester.

Known for his innovative and strategic leadership with extensive background in the private and public sector, Paul Getty Altidor was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Haiti to the United States on January 2012 and presented his credentials to President Barack Obama on May 2.

Ambassador Altidor spent his early years where he was born in Jérémie, Haiti. He attended primary school in Jérémie then studied at the Centre d’Etudes Secondaire in Port au Prince. His family later moved to Boston where he completed his secondary education. Ambassador Altidor received his undergraduate degree from Boston College. He earned an advanced degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also pursued graduate studies in law and economics at the University of Paris X, in France. Before taking office, Ambassador Altidor was Vice President at the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund in Washington, D.C.

Ambassador Altidor has an extensive private sector background. As a management consultant, he counseled firms in many countries on corporate governance and responsibility. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, Ambassador Altidor led a team of professors and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Community Innovators Lab down to Haiti. At the request of Haitian authorities, the team provided guidance to reconstruction officials on housing policy and financing.

Prior to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Ambassador Altidor worked at the International Finance Corporation where he advised governments on infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships. He has also worked for the World Bank. Ambassador Altidor has taught at Ecole Supérieure Catholique de Droit de Jérémie, a law school in his native town of Jérémie, and he is a frequent speaker at universities in Haiti and the U.S.

Jerry Tardieu is an elected official, Congressman of the district of Petion-Ville. He is the minority leader at the Haitian lower Chamber. Tardieu’s legislative agenda includes a legal battle for the haitian diaspora to play a greater role in Haiti’s political affairs. Known as the champion of the diaspora in parliament, Tardieu recently introduced a new bill on citizenship on the floor of congress. If voted by both chambers, this bill will definitely lift all barriers to dual citizenship for Haitians living abroad.

Before elected congressman, Jerry Tardieu was an engaged entrepreneur profoundly involved in Haiti’s economic, social, academic and political life.

In his 35-year career, Tardieu has served as the CEO of numerous Haitian enterprises operating in various sectors ranging from the leather industry to real estate and hospitality fields. Until 2015, Jerry Tardieu was the CEO of Royal Oasis Hotel, a renowned hospitality establishment and  a great source of pride for the Petion-Ville district.

Jerry Tardieu is the founder of  “Kolektif Abitan Petyonvil,” a broad civic organization which provides a forum to Pétion-ville natives and residents, with an eye on identifying the issues plaguing the city.

Jerry Tardieu was educated at Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague, in Port-au-Prince. He later completed a bachelor’s degree in business administration at the Université Européenne de Bruxelles before capping his studies with a Master’s degree in public administration at Harvard University.

Because of his academic background and professional experience, Jerry Tardieu is regularly consulted in structuring private/public partnerships.

Jerry Tardieu has authored many books on Haiti. In 2006, he published “Haiti: l’Avenir en Face,” In 2014, he released “Investir et s’Investir en Haïti: Un Acte de Foi,” a bestseller in Haiti and the diaspora. In July  2016,  He published a pamphlet titled : “My battle for the Haitian living abroad : a patriotic duty”

Jerry Tardieu often intervenes as a speaker at local and foreign universities.

Numerous organizations have, through the years, bestowed a slew of impressive awards on Jerry Tardieu. He received the “ Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award” from Haiti’s Ministry of Youth, Sports and Civic Service. In 2011, he was the co-recipient, with Wyclef Jean, of the “Aksyon Visionary Award.”