ABOUT
Meet Jean
Jean Alerte is an award-winning entrepreneur with a variety of work experience in the areas of marketing, management, and sales. Along with founding his company ACA Branding Agency, he has produced comedy concerts and tours for acts such as Chris Tucker, Kevin James, Charlie Murphy and Kevin Hart. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Unity in the Community Foundation of Brooklyn, New York where he has given out $36,000 to high school students to attend college based on his first book “Do Right, Do Good” & turned it into a successful entrepreneurial program entitled “FAITH GRIND INSPIRE” teaching over 2,000 inner city students Entrepreneurship & Leadership.
Originally from Port au Prince, Haiti, Alerte currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife and son, with whom he opened the Brooklyn Swirl frozen yogurt shop in 2012. Dr. Alerte has been featured on National Television several times ABC 7’s “Here & Now” with Sandra Bookman, BK Live & more recently NBC’s TODAY Show, Black Enterprise, FOX, ARISE & ESSENCE.
ABOUT
Meet Jean
Jean Alerte is an award-winning entrepreneur with a variety of work experience in the areas of marketing, management, and sales. Along with founding his company ACA Branding Agency, he has produced comedy concerts and tours for acts such as Chris Tucker, Kevin James, Charlie Murphy and Kevin Hart. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Unity in the Community Foundation of Brooklyn, New York where he has given out $36,000 to high school students to attend college based on his first book “Do Right, Do Good” & turned it into a successful entrepreneurial program entitled “FAITH GRIND INSPIRE” teaching over 2,000 inner city students Entrepreneurship & Leadership.
Originally from Port au Prince, Haiti, Alerte currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife and son, with whom he opened the Brooklyn Swirl frozen yogurt shop in 2012. Dr. Alerte has been featured on National Television several times ABC 7’s “Here & Now” with Sandra Bookman, BK Live & more recently NBC’s TODAY Show, Black Enterprise, FOX, ARISE & ESSENCE.
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- U.S. House of Representatives Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, 2012
- NAACP Freedom Fund Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2012
- Young, Black & Gifted (YBG) Entrepreneurial Awards “Strategic Marketing Award”, 2012
- Black Celebration “The Trailblazer of the Year Award”, 2012
- Tohma Y. Faulkner Entrepreneur Award “Best New Business”, 2012
- Kwanzaa Collective “Mzee Moyo Keeper of the Flame Award”, 2012
- Borough of Brooklyn President Marty Markowitz Citation, 2012
- DPHS Certificate of Appreciation, Key Note Speaker, 2012
- City Council Litica James Citation, 2012
- Marty Markowitz salutes New Entrepreneurs 8th Annual Bed-Stuy Alive, 2012
- Senator Valmanette Montgomery Certificate of Recognition,
- New York State Assembly Annette M. Robinson Certificate of Merit
- Marty Markowitz Borough President of Brooklyn Proclamation for Entrepreneurship
- City of New York Proclamation from Council Member Albert Vann
- IED HUMANITARIAN AWARD
- CITADEL OF PRAISE 2013 Man of Distinction Award
- ANS Men Empowerment Award
- Heal Haiti Leadership Award
- Delta Theta Chapter Business and Community Service Award
- NV Magazine Movers & Shakers
- Interfaith Medical Center Business Award
- Jumaane Williams Council Citation for Entrepreneurship
- Borough President Eric Adams Citation for Education
- Borough President Eric Adams Citation for African History Month Community Leader
- New York Assembly Michaelle C. Solages
- Kidpreneur Awards Shades of Africa Honoree