“I can’t compare this to anything I’ve ever been through in life — nothing,” Digicel’s Dominica CEO, Nikima Royer Jno Baptiste, said. She called her boss, regional Digicel CEO Robert Mayo-Smith, with a satellite phone that all Digicel executives have for emergencies. The bulk of aid from Digicel, an estimated $2 million conservatively, is going to Dominica, Digicel estimates. “If I ever sell my business, I would still be in Haiti building schools,” O’Brien said. Since starting Digicel he’s expanded the telecom company to 31 markets in the Caribbean, South and Central America and Oceania.

Source: Forbes November 23, 2017 10:52 UTC