| Pierre Valmera | |
| Number: | 44, 14 |
| Position: | Center |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 8 |
| Weight Lb: | 250 |
| Birth Date: | 29 September 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Nationality: | Haitian |
| High School: | Collège Nicolas Copernic[1] (Port-au-Prince) |
| College: | Union University |
| Draft Year: | 2003 |
| Years1: | 2008–2009 |
| Team1: | BC Boncourt (Switzerland)[2] |
Pierre "Pierry" Valmera (born September 29, 1981) is a retired Haitian professional basketball player, who played for Ancien in the Ligue Nationale de Basket in Switzerland.[3] [4]
Valmera was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Having taught himself basketball in his native country, he emigrated to the United States and became a standout player at Union University in Tennessee.[3] [5]
When Valmera's playing career concluded, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts where he worked as a substitute teacher in French and history at a middle school. Soon after his arrival in the states, he met David Franklin Rose, a business owner of an architecture firm. Together, they founded a non-for-profit organization called POWERforward International Inc., created to help young Haitians gain private-school educations in the United States through basketball. He is a philanthropist and donates his time and money to develop basketball in Haiti. He has 38 kids in the US on full basketball scholarships, including 6 college graduates and 1 playing for the Sacramento Kings, Skal Labissiere. Some of his other students go to the top schools in the country, like Mississippi State and Vanderbilt University.