Etzer EMILE
Founder/President
Etzer EMILE is a business consultant and an economist. He holds a bachelor degree in Economics (Universite Quisqueya) and has also studied sociology at Universite d’Etat d’Haiti. In 2008, he was one of the recipients of the Taiwan Scholarship. He studied Mandarin for one year at the National Central University in Taiwan, and then he obtained his MBA in Finance and Banking from Tamkang University in Taiwan in 2011. He is since 2015 the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship (CEI) and Innovation and Professor at Universite Quisqueya in Port-au-Prince. At CEI, he helps train more than a hundred business consultants, 900 hundred university students from all those 10 departments of Haiti, and offers tools and networking to almost 2000 microenterprise. Etzer has been promoting entrepreneurial culture for the last six years.
He is the founder and director of Haiti Efficace, a company that provides services to businesses such as market research, business plan draft and coaching. He has completed various executive training programs such as Economic Development and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School in 2015, Experiential Classroom on Entrepreneurship in 2012 at Oklahoma State University, INADEM in Mexico in 2013 focusing on business coaching, in Guatemala in 2014 with an emphasis on coaching entrepreneurs with social impact projects. In 2015, he has received a one month training for business coach in Taiwan, a program funded by International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF).
In 2017, Etzer has been selected by the Department of State of USA to be a part of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on international trade. Etzer Emile hosts an economic show on Radio Vision 2000 and has published more than thirty articles in the last five years. On November 2017, he has published a book, “Haiti Has Chosen to Become a Poor Country: Twenty Reasons to Prove It” which has been the 2017 best-seller in Haiti. Book signings have been organized since then in all the major cities in Haiti, in Dominican Republic, France, Switzerland, Canada and Martinique. He has already sold more than 12 000 copies of this book.
Marnatha TERNIER
Co-Founder/ Vice President
Marnatha Ternier is a former Minister of “Haitians Living Abroad ” MHAVE. She is a Former Senior Executive at l’UCREF and High ranking of Ministry of Justice and Security.
She has a passion for social empowerment, she dedicated her life for public service on issues that she cares about like integration for all.
Her dream is to see a new Haiti with strong leaders and creative citizens where the youth is actively making changes and take responsibilities for their future, in a society where every voice can make a difference.
Riphard Serent
General Secretary
Riphard Serent has a major in economics from Quisqueya University and has earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a specialization in public policy from Flinders University in Australia, before completing an international certificate in public financial management with the International Monetary Fund.After about 5 years of work experience in management and administration at an NGO, Riphard is currently the vice-president of the ‘‘Fondation Avenir’’ and a lecturer at the university sector, while making the most of his competencies in economics and public policy at Radio Vision 2000, the central bank of Haiti and private consulting services.Riphard is interested in designing strategic policy solutions to tackle poverty in Haiti, which he demonstrated in having participated as researcher in the Haiti Priorise project of Copenhagen Consensus in 2018 and at the Planning ministry in 2017 and 2018 as policy expert.In addition to his work at the radio station as economic columnist, Riphard is a co-author of the Alternative Insurance Company (AIC)’s book on natural disaster and the collective book of Copenhagen Consensus on smart solutions to Haiti problems, while keeping his regular publications of economic articles in the local newspapers to raise awareness about economic facts and potential impacts on living conditions in the country.