Gilbert Bigio

Founder

Mr. Bigio is retired Founder and majority owner of the GB Group, a diversified holding of industrial and trading companies with operations in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and St Maarten, with a wide range of national and international activities in Energy, Building Materials, Consumer Goods, Infrastructure, Telecom, Agriculture and Media. His business interests include a steel mill, edible oil and diversified food products, real estate development, petroleum and natural gas distribution, and telecommunications. Mr. Bigio has served as the Honorary Consul General of the State of Israel in Haiti for 25 years.

Reuven Bigio

Chairman

Mr. Bigio is Chairman of GB Group. He has been an active member of the Group’s management team and Board since 1998. As Chairman of the Group today, Mr Bigio oversees the general administrative and strategic activities of the group’s investments and operations regionally. Mr. Bigio completed his education in Europe and the United States. He also functions as the Honorary Consul General of the State of Israel in Haiti and played a significant role in the establish-ment of the Israeli Defense Forces Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince immediately after the January 2010 earthquake.

Pablo Portes

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Portes is CEO of GB Group. Pablo enjoys more than 19 years of executive experience working in the USA, London, The Hague & the Dominican Republic at Royal Dutch Shell for downstream, trading, gas & power. His experience also encompasses the upstream side of the business in regions such as: the Caribbean, Central America, Andes, United States, Europe, and global markets. Mr. Portes’s most recent educational achievement is his MBA from Western Michigan University, MI.

Laurence Bigio

Executive Vice President

Laurence Sarah Bigio is President of Marketing, responsible for the Group’s image, concentrating on maintaining an active leadership role in our home market while shaping a business environment that upholds the company’s mission and vision. She first joined Agro Products and Services over 20 years ago as Vice President of Business Development before assuming the Marketing duties for the GB Group. She is also CEO of Caribbean Media and was responsible for the direction and publishing of Challenges Magazine – Haiti’s premier news magazine during its envisioned lifespan.

Yael Bigio

Executive Vice President

Mrs. Bigio Garoute is CEO of Immocaraibes. She oversees the Group’s housing product offerings and real estate development activities for the residential and commercial retail markets. She is currently designing a unique high end residential and tourism project on the famous island affectionately called “Ibo Beach,” located just 20 minutes north of Port-au-Prince. Mrs. Bigio Garoute has been active in this field for the last 11 years and has delivered turnkey housing projects all over the country.

Clement Beyda

Vice President

Mr. Beyda is President of Huileries Haitiennes, S.A., Agro Products & Services and Southern Commercial Corporation. He has led the Group’s growth in the consumer goods industry for the last 27 years. He is a 1976 University of Rhode Island graduate with a degree in Industrial Management Production and Operations Control.