Verena DeMatteis is the CEO and owner of Commerce SA, one of the largest and oldest operating pharmaceutical distribution companies in Haiti. Verena, a native of Haiti, is on the board of the Association of Pharmaceutical Distributors and Manufacturers in Haiti, she also serves on the board of Hopital Albert Schweitzer, a hospital based in the central plateau of Haiti founded in 1953. She received her Bachelor of Science from Babson College in Wellesley Massachussetts and speaks fluent English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish and Italian. She currently resides in Port-au-Prince with her husband Jean Marc and their two children.