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• WHO IS_POSTED_ON: Nov 04, 2015
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• Category : In the Diaspora » Private Sector Abroad
• Description : Dumarsais Mécène Siméus (also Dumas Siméus; born 1939) is a Haitian-born and U.S. naturalized businessman from Texas. Simeus returned to Haiti to be a candidate in the 2006 presidential elections.
• Location : Texas, United States
• Website : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumarsais_Simeus

Overview

• Siméus was born in Pont-Sondé in Haiti's Artibonite Valley, the son of illiterate peasant rice farmers. He grew up working the land in Haiti to feed himself and his 11 siblings. In 1961, his family sold some land so he could fly to the United States to pursue a college education at Florida A&M University. Siméus transferred to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned a degree in electrical engineering.
  
  In 1970, he became a US citizen. In 1972, he earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
  
  He worked his way up the corporate ladder. He was a financial analyst at Rockwell International and KB Home, a director of Latin American Operations for Bendix, general manager of Hartz Pet Food, France, and vice president of International Business Development at Atari.
  
  He quickly rose in the corporate world, becoming president of Beatrice Food, Latin America;and eventually president and chief operating officer of TLC Beatrice International Food.
  
  In 1984, Siméus started working for TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc., the $2.1 billion, black-owned food processing and distribution company. He served as President and CEO for two years before leaving in 1992 to buy and run his own business.
  
  In 1996, with $55 million financing, Siméus bought Portion-Trol Foods from Flagstar Corp in Mansfield, Texas, and renamed it Simeus Foods International Inc. Siméus Foods, based south of Fort Worth, manufactures value-added food products for national multi-chain restaurants and large institutions such as El Pollo Loco, Denny's, T.G.I. Friday's and Burger King in the United States and Canada.[5] Simeus Foods Intl. now generates $155 million a year.
  
  In 1999, Siméus Siméus established Org. Sové Lavi www.sovelavi.org, a non-profit foundation to provide medical care, education and clothing to Haitians.
  
  Between October 2004 and February 2005, he served on Florida Governor Jeb Bush's advisory board for Haiti. The group made a series of recommendations for Haïti's security, economic development and disaster preparedness.
  
  A group of about 40 U.S.-based Haitian business and civic leaders have urged him to run for president.
  
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  Source: Wikipedia