About Us and Choconat

Sylvain Simard is a proud French Canadian (Quebecois) born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He is a dynamic entrepreneur with a very modest origin. Sylvain has a big heart and charismatic personality, and he loves talking to people. His passion for life has helped him with many business ventures, including a number of successful businesses in Quebec.

In 1995, Sylvain joined a multi-national Japanese company and became the first Diamond in Quebec in only three years. With his extraordinary patience and coaching ability, he helped many others achieve success and some even became millionaires. Sylvain’s journey in this company continued for 10 years and his business generated over $100 million dollars in volume. As a result, Sylvain was inducted into The President’s Club and The Millionaire’s Club. Soon after, the business went international, later resulting in having the first Diamond distributor in France created in his organization.

Sylvain is grateful for his success. He decided to take some time off to enjoy the lifestyle he created for himself and built his dream home. Also, because of his love for people, he enjoys participating in the Dreams for Children Organization and other charitable activities.

In January 2004, Sylvain met Jill DeSantis at a business convention. Jill grew up in Long Island, New York, and later moved to northern NJ. Jill and Sylvain soon realized they shared mutual goals and decided to form a partnership (in business and in life) sharing a great vision.

Sylvain saw Jill’s good heart, determination, and positive attitude which helped her to achieve such successes as a Bachelor’s in Business Marketing from Pace University in New York. Jill received awards as a licensed real estate professional, she worked as a retail market manager in corporate America, and she worked seven years helping people with their health in a successful Wellness Treatment Center. Jill had also been dedicated to the same Japanese company since 1998, where she achieved an advanced leadership level while helping others to do the same.

Their mutual love for Network Marketing grew into love for each other, and Sylvain and Jill got married on August 5, 2005.

Together, they decided to move on from that company into a Korean company located in Washington State, where they were successful in opening the Canada market, creating the first International Diamond business. Their journey continued as they enjoyed helping others achieve leadership levels from Canada to NY.

Finally, Sylvain decided to pursue a dream of starting his own Direct Sales / Network Marketing company so that he could control the quality of the product and the integrity of the compensation plan. After two years of perfecting his product — The Wellness Chocolate — Choconat went live on January 5, 2010, opening first in France. In their first month, they did more in sales than Pampered Chef did in its entire first quarter!

Together with a passionate team of Choconat distributors, Sylvain and Jill will build another organization with their mission to work as a team, while striving to create balance in their lives and in other’s lives. They are educating people that they can have a business with true people and a family with wholesome values, leaving time to enjoy an abundant lifestyle. They have a passion for teaching people to be proactive with their health, and showing them a home and office environment ideal for the individual who wants greater freedom and less stress. They are willing to invest their time and most importantly their hearts in helping others that want something similar. They believe relationship or network marketing is the vehicle to making this possible, more than any other business model. Sylvain and Jill both enjoy working with people, sharing their vision, their dreams and showing others how they can realize their dreams too.

At Choconat, in everything we do, we believe we can make an impact on people’s lives. We believe in challenging the status quo. We believe in thinking differently.

The way we challenge the status quo is by creating a network marketing company with a “Fair Trade Compensation Plan” and a product that is raw, organic, and fair trade certified. Together, we believe we can make a difference in society and in people’s health and lives.

The Result: We are going to create an industry-wide revolution!