Nationality American Education Stanford University | Name Jim Chu Role Entrepreneur | |
Occupation Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of dloHaiti | ||
Jim Chu is founder and CEO of dloHaiti, a private company providing safe, affordable drinking water to consumers in underserved neighborhoods across Haiti.
dloHaiti
Jim has been actively working in Haiti since early 2010 and until July 2012 was the CEO of LifeGivingForce (LGF), a social enterprise deploying donor-funded private-public water kiosks in urban and rural Haiti. He was heavily involved in technical designs, operational deployments, field training, and market assessments for LGF’s water kiosk installations.
In 2012 he launched dloHaiti, a water kiosk venture in Haiti that is building a network of wells serviced by solar-powered kiosks and equipped with hi-tech purification systems and information technology. dloHaiti is led by a team of Haitian and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with previous water experience in Haiti, and is backed by several prominent international investors, including Leopard Capital's Leopard Haiti Fund, the International Finance Corporation's InfraVentures Fund, the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), and Miyamoto International.