AyiPreneur

Thoughts on Success, Leadership and Business from a Haitian-American Entrepreneur

My name is Jean G. Orelien and am the founder and CEO of SciMetrika, LLC (http://www.scimetrika.com). The purpose of this blog is to share thoughts on success (accomplishing goals), Leadership and Business. I plan to share not only ideas, guiding principles that have worked for me or I have seen worked for others but to the extent possible very concrete actionable information.

Specifically with respect to success, I will share principles and techniques that have helped me to fulfill both personal and professional goals.  I have been able to learn a lot of leadership not only through running a small business but mostly from others. Most of what I’ve learned came from others (books read) or things I didn’t even know I knew that business coaches have pried out of me.  On business, the blog entries will document the many lessons learned from starting and growing SciMetrika from a start-up to a midsize company (and one day to a great company recognized as being premier in providing solutions to improve human health).

I recognize that both leadership and success are long life journey. Hence, this blog should be seen as my own scrapbook to share lessons learned on that journey. The way, I see this blog they are personal notes that I am leaving to my kids hoping that they are also useful to others.

Aside from discussions on success, leadership and business; given that this blog is written by a Haitian-American entrepreneur (thus the name of the blog “AyiPreneur”; Ayiti is the name in Creole for Haiti), there will be entries on Haiti (hopefully related to success, and business but not necessarily). Like most members of the Haitian Diaspora, I carry deeply in my soul the love for my native country and the hope of seeing in my lifetime Haiti fulfilling its full potential of becoming a jewel in the Caribbean. Hence, there is no doubt that a lot of what I have learned about success, leadership and my approach to running a business is colored by my experience as and Haitian-American.

I thought I should let you know a bit more info about me. I was born on the Haitian side of the beautiful island of Hispaniola (the other side of course is Santo Domingo, see map below). I left Haiti when I was 10 and moved to Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, where I stayed until I finished high school. I attended Rutgers University in New-Brunswick where I obtained a bachelor in Mathematics. Shortly after completing my undergraduate studies, I married the beautiful Valery and we moved to North Carolina where I pursued graduate studies in Statistics at North Carolina State University (Masters Degree) and the Unviersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (doctorate degree in Biostatistics).

Below are some pictures from Haiti and Guadeloupe.

Map of Guadeloupe