Mobile company in Haiti brings back ex-CEO
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's biggest employer has brought back a former chief executive to run Digicel Group Ltd.
The Jamaica-based company said in a statement Thursday that Maarten Boute would assume the job immediately.
Boute is a Belgian businessman who joined Digicel Haiti in 2009 and left three years later to devote more time to his family. He stayed on as a consultant for the mobile phone company.
More recently, Boute helped start a company that assembles Android touchscreens in the Haitian capital and has served as CEO.
His predecessor, Ineke Botter, resigned for personal reasons.
Digicel Haiti has invested more than $600 million in the impoverished Caribbean nation since it began work in 2006. The company's foundation has also done charitable work such as building schools and helping with other infrastructure projects.
