Reginald Boulos (born 1956) is a Haitian businessman and the former president of the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of

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Early life and education

Reginald Boulos was born in 1956, in the United States of America, son of Carlos and Aimee (née Abraham) Boulos, and is one of six children (Frantz Boulos, Kathleen Boulos Weckering, former Haitian Senator Rudolph Boulos, Marie Boulos, Dr. Carlo Boulos). Along with his brother Dr. Carlo Boulos, they attended and earned a medical degree in 1981 from the Port-au-Prince School of Medicine in Haiti. Reginald then furthered his education by graduating in 1982 with a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the

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School of Public Health in

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. He conducted research with an associate professor at

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. He also holds certification from the

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for senior executives.

Career

In 1996, Boulos left the medical practice to start a new career in business development. While representing his family's Boulos Investment Group, he became the Chairman of Intercontinental Bank S.A. (1996–1998) and negotiated a merger with Sogebank, one of Haiti's largest banks. In 2003, Boulos orchestrated the re-engineering of one of the oldest daily newspapers in Haiti, ''Le Nouveau Matin''. From 2000 to 2010, Boulos created and developed Delimart, a chain of supermarkets, Autoplaza, a leading car dealership and Megamart, a membership food discount store. Recently, he organized renovation of a landmark Hotel in Haiti, El Rancho, opened as an NH. In 2019, Boulos founded the political party, Mouvement Troisième Voix. The political party aimed to recruit 1 million young people on a platform of social justice. In 2020, the party donated hygiene kits to victims of the

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. In March 2021, a car dealership owned by Boulos was ransacked and burned. Boulos blamed the Haitian president for the arson. Four months later, in July 2021, Boulos was preparing to run for president when President Jovenel Moise was murdered. After Moise's death, Boulos was subject to allegations that he supported Moise's assassination.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boulos, Reginald Living people Haitian businesspeople Haitian people of Lebanese descent Haitian people of Jewish descent 1956 births MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine alumni