Haiti's Potential Waiting to Be Fulfilled

Denis O'Brien is Chairman of the privately-owned Digicel Group and serves as anchor member and facilitator of CGI's Haiti Action Network. O'Brien founded Digicel in 2001, and launched in Haiti in 2006, where Digicel made the largest ever private sector investment in the country. O'Brien chaired the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland, and is Chairman and Co-Founder of Frontline, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. In the past decade he founded the Iris O'Brien Foundation and the Digicel Foundation to support projects in disadvantaged communities. The latter was established in 2004, and operates in Jamaica, Haiti, and Papua New Guinea.