Welcome Packet_Continuity Forum 2014-2

November 13-15, 2014

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2014Continuity Forum

Welcome to the 2014 abc* Continuity Forum! We are so pleased that you are able to join us in Miami for what we hope will be a productive, enriching, and fun experience for everyone. Our team is look-ing forward to spending time with each of you, and we also hope you will have the chance to get to know each other.

The abc* Foundation has planned a wonderful agenda for the two days of the Forum. There are also evening events, including the Poder Awards Dinner on Thursday night. For those of you able to attend, it may be a good oppor-tunity for continued networking. All Fellows are invited; however, as space is limited, if you are not a Fellow, please check with Sally and Lorena to see if there are available seats. Please note that the dinner is not associated with the Continuity Forum and Ashoka has not had a role in planning the event.

We may see some of you on Wednesday evening after you arrive, but if not, we look forward to catching up with you on Thursday morning at 7:30 am during registration to make introductions and touch base. On Satur-day morning at 8:30 am, we are excited for you to join us for a breakfast that will include more of the Ashoka South Florida community, ASN and YPO members, and hopefully provide more time for everyone to connect.

In this Welcome Packet, we have included brief bios for all those from the Ashoka family that will be present: staff, advisors, ASN, and Fellows. You will also find the agenda, information about the hotel, conference location, and nearest resourc-es for any shopping needs, as well as brief highlights of Ashoka’s current work.

Please do not hesitate to contact us before or during the events with any questions or needs!

Best regards,

Lorena and Sally

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Friné'Salguero'Director!Director!of!Venture!and!

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Maria'Escorcia'Strategic!Partnerships!Manager!

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Jack'Edwards'Ashoka!Senior!Advisor!

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Bruno'Borges Global!Director!of!ASN [email protected]!

Mary Andrade Chief Financial Officer [email protected]

Juliana BleibergContinuity Forum Logistics

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Mark ChengAshoka Europe,

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Ashoka South California Director

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Maria EscorciaAshoka South

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Henry De SioGlobal Framework Change

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Jack EdwardsSenior Advisor to Ashoka

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Scott FairbanksCampus Partnerships Manager,

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Elliott JonesProject Manager,

Ashoka South [email protected]

Josephine KorjinHybrid Finance Initiative

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Angelika RothFellowship Director, Ashoka Mexico and Central America

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Sally StephensonAmericas Liaison

Global Venture and Fellowship [email protected]

Daniel SchiffASN Project [email protected]

Working in the poor and congested northern suburbs of Lima, Albina Ruiz is building a community-based solid waste management system that is playing an increasingly important role in improving sanitation and health conditions in the area. Accompanied by a public education program and carefully coordinated with the garbage and trash removal services of public agencies, Albina’s initiative is organized around a network of employment- and income-generating micro-enterprises at every stage of the waste management cycle.

Albina RuizCountry: PeruOrganization: Ciudad Saludable

Alejandro is proposing a new, intermediary-free process of public participation that connects governments to citizen knowledge using big data and innovative technologies. Alejandro leverages pre-established government commitments, works with local com-munity members to gather information, and returns all information collected back to the community in order to contribute to the public knowledge base and empower local actors to make information-based demands of the government. This approach rebuilds the lost trust between communities and the government in an effort to create more effective social policies and incentivize local participation without intermediaries.

Alejandro Maza AyalaCountry: MexicoOrganization: OPI

Andrés Martínez Fernández is improving the performance of rural healthcare systems in developing countries through creative, inexpensive telecommunication technologies and by engaging medical professionals and university faculty in new ways. The model he established has proven successful in over 170 centers and outposts in Peru, Cuba and Colombia, improving medical care for more than 150,000 people.

Andres MartínezCountry: SpainOrganization: Hispano American Health Link (EHAS)

Atsumasa Tochisako is recreating microfinance and remittance-transfer industries to serve the world’s new, globalized poor regardless of where they are—at home or working abroad. While economic migration is quickly transforming the world, the financial-services industry has failed to adjust. Atsumasa recognized that by treating the family as a single, transnational entity, with all members accessing high-quality financial services, global economic migration can be leveraged as a powerful engine for economic betterment.

Atsumasa TochisakoCountry: United StatesOrganization: Micromanos

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In the form of a different approach to music instruction, Dave Wish offers children and teachers heightened opportunities to engage with each other as fearless co-creators and active, inspired learning partners.

David WishCountry: United StatesOrganization: Little Kids Rock

Eduardo Mallman is creating the capacity to produce social bioethanol through mi-cro-biorefineries managed by groups of smallholders. Eduardo is thus increasing the energy independence of family farmers, combating the tendency toward mono-cropping associated with most efforts to produce biofuel and generating new sources of income for smallholders and cooperatives.

Eduardo MallmanCountry: BrazilOrganization: Green Social Bioethanol

Fábio Bibancos is expanding oral healthcare for Brazil’s poorest citizens, through a series of incentives that encourage dentists to provide primary preventative care to low-income patients.

Fabio BibancosCountry: BrazilOrganization: Turma do Bem

Recognizing the need for an efficient system to finance higher education, Felipe Vergara is introducing human capital contracts—a new set of financial products—to draw private capital toward the high education sector.

Felipe VergaraCountry: United StatesOrganization: Lumni

Fernando Botelho helps educate and prepare people with visual disabilities and few resources, through an affordable and adaptable open source technology that is easily im-plemented in schools and facilities around the world.

Fernando BotelhoCountry: BrazilOrganization: F123

Country: United StatesOrganization: Ceasefire

Country: BrazilOrganization: Solar Ear

Country: CanadaOrganization: JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies)

Country: SpainOrganization: Dry Blood Spot Screening (DBSS)

Jose Manuel is providing families from the most vulnerable neighborhoods in Chile access to quality, more environmentally friendly, staple groceries at a low cost and just steps from their homes. By building networks of local vendors, he is creating the chan-nels to revive not only local grocery stores but also the very social fabric of these failing communities.

Jose Manuel MollerCountry: ChileOrganization: Algramo

2014ASHOKA FELLOW

abc* FINALISTSGary Slutkin

Dr. Gary Slutkin is eradicating and preventing gun violence in the most dangerous of urban areas through a unique model in which he treats violence as an infectious disease. His CeaseFire model, informed by over a decade of battling infectious diseases in Africa and honed by years of careful implementation in North America is significantly reducing the incidence of gun violence in the U.S. and also spreading internationally.

Jordi Marti Gascon

Jordi Martí is making early diagnosis of infectious and non-communicable diseases af-fordable for disadvantaged communities and poorly funded health systems. By develop-ing his own new technology and delivering it through a global cross subsidization model, he is not only widening the range of easily traceable risk factors for certain chronic diseases, but he is also allowing rich mass-volume data analysis to quickly reach health policymakers.

John Mighton

John Mighton invented a method of teaching mathematics that inspires measurable high-er performance across the board, along with major improvements in students’ self-es-teem and attitude towards learning. His organization, Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies (JUMP) spreads this method among public schools that serve low-income students in Canada and the United States. In doing so it changes the mental models of teachers and educational authorities, lifting hopes and expectations for what kids can accomplish.

Howard Weinstein

Howard Weinstein’s business model gives access to low-cost, high quality hearing aid technology to the low-income people in developing countries that need it most. His deaf employees are taught to become leaders and advocates for the full inclusion of hearing-impaired people in society.

In Mexico, millions of children are unable to receive quality psychological care because of substandard government programs and unaffordable costs. Dr. Julia Borbolla has ad-dressed this problem by developing a multimedia project that reaches out to countless traumatized children who do not have adequate access to care.

Julia BorbollaCountry: MexicoOrganization: Antennas for Children

Katherine Freund is changing norms about driving and creating a shared-ride transpor-tation approach that allows older Americans to transition from driving to being driven through a whole-community solution that keeps them mobile and active while staying in their homes.

Katherine FreundCountry: United StatesOrganization: Independent Transportation Network

Manuel Wiechers is eradicating energy poverty in Mexico by combining community investment, low-cost, renewable energy, and cooperation across the public, private and social sectors to foster social and economic development in rural areas. His vision for the year 2025 is, “No Mexican without light.”

Manuel WiechersCountry: MexicoOrganization: Iluméxico

Nicolas Metro is redefining forest preservation as a human development issue, one that reaches far beyond environmental conservation. By positioning trees as central actors in creating economic opportunities and addressing social issues, Nicolas develops simple ways for companies and local communities to find common ground where entrepre-neurial solutions are encouraged to flourish.

Nicolas MetroCountry: FranceOrganization: Kinomé

Jose-Pablo Fernandez offers vital job training to Hispanic immigrants while increasing their involvement in their children’s education. He creates programs to help kids suc-ceed in school, teach parents key technological skills, and strengthen the bonds among Hispanic families.

Jose-Pablo FernandezCountry: United StatesOrganization: Parents Alliance

Sascha Haselmayer is creating mechanisms to spread innovation into cities, improve governance, and radically alter the way cities deliver much-needed services. With the use of new technology application concepts—a city as a lab—he is mobilizing a new community focused on making cities more functional for citizens. Sascha is creating a new space for government, corporations, and public sectors to engage for larger social impact.

Sascha HaselmayerCountry: DenmarkOrganization: Living Labs Global

Silvia is working to balance social development and community-building with environ-mental conservation, focusing on sustainability over the long term. Working from this vision, she is the first Brazilian to address biological imbalances caused by foreign plant species. Brazil has neither public policies nor legal limitations on the growth of species that degrade the quality of soil and crops. Silvia is implementing new, objective models of species control that pose no threat to the sustainability of human populations and the environment. By teaming citizens, forestry, and agriculture experts, her vegetation management program not only offers environmental benefits but also generates in-come, promotes financial sustainability, and creates new employment opportunities.

Silvia ZillerCountry: Brazil

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With an initial focus on the coffee industry, Paul Rice is using Fair Trade to transform global trade practices and ensure that farmers in developing countries earn a fair price for the goods they produce.

Paul RiceCountry: United StatesOrganization: TransFair USA

Martin HollinetzCountry: AustriaOrganization: OTELO

Martin is building an empowered and vitalized citizen base to create a new quality of life for rural Austrians. His organization, OTELO, is a network of open technology laborato-ries, spaces designed for and by people of all ages to experiment, collaborate, communi-cate, and exchange with community members about topics they want to take action on or learn more about.

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By focusing on the blind and visually impaired, Gina Badenoch is transforming expec-tations about what people with disabilities can achieve personally and professionally. Gina’s organization uses photography and sensory experiences to change both blind and sighted people’s thinking with respect to human potential; regardless of physical or mental differences.

Gina BadenochCountry: MexicoOrganization: Ojos Que Sienten, AC

Julian Ugarte is creating a youth-led and society-supported movement to address the problems of inequality in Chile and throughout Latin America. His organization, Socialab, is popularizing social problem-solving by providing the resources, credibility, and call to action for people from all walks of life, especially young people, to be protagonists in developing solutions wherever they see challenges.

Julian UgarteCountry: ChileOrganization: SociaLab

Country: United StatesOrganization: MIA Consulting

Conchy Bretos

Conchy Bretos has created an affordable assisted living model that allows low-income and disabled senior citizens living in public housing facilities to remain in their own homes instead of being forced into nursing homes against their will. Over the last 15 years, she has helped public housing authorities in 23 states renovate public housing buildings to comply with assisted living facility regulations and finance start-up operations through state and federal funding. Along with her team at MIA Consulting, Conchy is now poised to change public policy on elderly care through a pending national demonstration project with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Patrick Struebi’s experience with the world’s leading international commerce compa-nies has led him to change the face of fair-trade exportation.

Patrick StruebiCountry: MexicoOrganization: Fairtrade South American, S.A. de C.V. (Fairtrasa)

Carlos Cruz has developed a new approach to reduce the rising problem of youth violence in Mexico’s schools. Through his Cauce Ciudadano Community Center, Carlos is promoting a model of violence prevention that identifies influential gang leaders and helps create new roles for them as nonviolent role models in their schools.

Carlos Cruz SantiagoCountry: MexicoOrganization: Cauce Ciudadano

Drawing upon years of experience in the housing industry, Francesco Piazzesi Tommasi is addressing the lack of decent housing for Mexicans at the bottom of the pyramid through Échale a tu casa! This auto-construction model is focused on community-based financing and construction of safe, ecologically friendly, and adequate homes, in order to offer both dignity and (re-sale) value to low-income homeowners.

Francesco PiazzesiCountry: MexicoOrganization: Échale a tu casa!

With a focus on youth in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, Verengai Ma-bika is developing an array of innovative educational, advocacy, and experience enhanc-ing initiatives to expand awareness and understanding of the challenges posed by global climate change and to facilitate the development of effective strategies for enabling adversely affected communities to contend with those challenges.

Verengai Mabika Country: ZimbabweOrganization: Development Reality Institute

Sascha Meinrath is designing and deploying a disruptive communication architecture to ensure free and open communication as a fundamental human right.

Sascha MeinrathCountry: United StatesOrganization: Open Technology Institute

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Dr. Gary Slutkin is eradicating and preventing gun violence in the most dangerous of urban areas through a unique model in which he treats violence as an infectious disease. His CeaseFire model, informed by over a decade of battling infectious diseases in Africa and honed by years of careful implementation in North America is significantly reducing the incidence of gun violence in the U.S. and also spreading internationally.

Gary SlutkinCountry: United States

Howard Weinstein’s business model gives access to low-cost, high quality hearing aid technology to the low-income people in developing countries that need it most. His deaf employees are taught to become leaders and advocates for the full inclusion of hearing-impaired people in society.

Howard WeinsteinCountry: Brazil

John Mighton invented a method of teaching mathematics that inspires measurable high-er performance across the board, along with major improvements in students’ self-es-teem and attitude towards learning. His organization, Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies (JUMP) spreads this method among public schools that serve low-income students in Canada and the United States. In doing so it changes the mental models of teachers and educational authorities, lifting hopes and expectations for what kids can accomplish.

John MightonCountry: Canada

Jordi Martí is making early diagnosis of infectious and non-communicable diseases af-fordable for disadvantaged communities and poorly funded health systems. By develop-ing his own new technology and delivering it through a global cross subsidization model, he is not only widening the range of easily traceable risk factors for certain chronic diseases, but he is also allowing rich mass-volume data analysis to quickly reach health policymakers.

Jordi Marti GasconCountry: Spain

Jose Manuel is providing families from the most vulnerable neighborhoods in Chile access to quality, more environmentally friendly, staple groceries at a low cost and just steps from their homes. By building networks of local vendors, he is creating the chan-nels to revive not only local grocery stores but also the very social fabric of these failing communities.

Jose Manuel MollerCountry: Chile

Through Ocean Planet, Kirsten Forsberg is educating and empowering coastal com-munities to sustainably manage their marine environment while also becoming primary players in developing comprehensive and mutually beneficial collaboration with other organizations, businesses, and governments that operate in the ocean ecosystem.

Kerstin ForsbergCountry: PeruOrganization: Planeta Océano

Having invented a technology that turns organic waste into a fertilizer that is better, cheaper, and greener than conventional alternatives, Luis Orlando Castro is deploying the technology widely and maximizing the number of quality jobs it can create in waste collection, fertilizer production, agriculture, and marketing of produce.

Luis Orlando CastroCountry: ColombiaOrganization: Fundación Colombiana de Ciencias

Jean-François is combating hunger by efficiently redistributing food that would other-wise be wasted and introducing healthy eating habits to young people. His organization helps chefs redirect large quantities of left-over food to underserved populations and works with Quebec’s educational system to encourage students to adopt healthier eating habits. Within the next five years, he plans to expand this work in other Canadian cities by partnering with culinary schools and provincial ministries of education.

Jean-Francois ArchambaultCountry: CanadaOrganization: Band of Chefs

Starting in Pakistan, Asher Hasan is providing quality, private health insurance to low-in-come workers in the emerging economies through an approach that distributes cost and social responsibility among several stakeholders affiliated with low-income benefi-ciaries.

Asher HasanCountry: United StatesOrganization: Naya Jeevan

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SPEAKER: Education

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Angélica Fuentes, Co-Chair abc* Foundation

Sir Ken Robinson, Author and educator

David Wish, Little Kids Rock

John Mighton, JUMP Math

Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. President Global Footprint Network

Madison Stewart, Shark Advocate and Underwater Filmmaker

Manuel Wiechers, ILUMEXICO

Silvia Ziller, Instituto Horus de Desenvolvimento e Conservação Ambiental

Julian Ugarte, Founder of Socialab

Fernando Botelho, F123 Consulting

Jose-Pablo Fernandez, Parents Alliance

Katherine Freund, ITNAmerica

Karen Appleton, Senior Vice President of Global Alliances at Box and head of Box.org

Co-chairs & Environment Speakers

Steven M. Wise / President of the Nonhuman Rights Project

Eduardo C. Mallmann, Green Social Bioethanol

Albina Ruiz, Ciudad Saludable

Yonatan Raz-Fridman, Co-founder, Kano

NOVEMBER 13: DAY 1Master of Ceremonies: Fernando Vila, FUSIONschedule subject to change

TENTATIVE

November 13-14, 2014Miami, FL

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel500 Brickell Key DriveMiami, Florida 33131(305) 913 8288

Nearby Amenities

Mary Brickell Village901 South Miami Ave.Miami, FL 33130(305) 381-6130

SHOPPING

CVS Pharmacy170 SE 3rd AveMiami, FL 33131(305) 374-1140

Walgreens1 SE 3rd AveMiami, FL 33131(305) 373-4320

PHARMACIES

Sally Stephenson: 864.313.2486Juliana Bleiberg: 305.807.0955Lorena Garcia: 305.767.9079Maria Escorcia: 412.996.9494

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Hotel Information & Continuity Forum Location

Thursday, Nov 13Poder Awards

Saturday, Nov 15Social Entrepreneurs’

Breakfast

YPO Miami and Ashoka South Florida invite you for a special opportunity to interact with some of the top social entrepreneurs in the world. Ashoka Fellows are attending the Continuity Forum to present their re-markable accomplishments in solving the world’s most pressing social problems. Rarely are so many Ashoka Fellows in the same place and you will have a unique opportunity to hear how they are changing the world.

Saturday, November 15th DATE

The Island Bistro605 Brickell Key Dr.Miami, FL 33121(305) 364-5512

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Alberto BeeckAlberto Beeck is Director of Virgin Hotels and a partner at VH Proper-ties and VH Investments. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director Strate-gy and Corporate Development at Hochschild Mining Plc. Mr. Beeck has been the President of Cementos Pacasmayo, a Peruvian cement producer and distributor. He was Managing Director and Head of Latin American Invest-ment Banking for ING Barings, Barings Inc. in New York, and Baring Brothers in London. He has also served as Vice President Corporate Finance Group, Dillon, Read Ltd., London, and Vice President International Corporate Fi-nance and Governemtn Advisory Group for Lehman Brothers, New York. Mr. Beeck is the Chairman of the Georgetown University Latin American Board.

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Alberto Beeck Alberto Beeck is Director of Virgin Hotels and a partner at VH Properties and VH Investments. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director Strategy and Corporate Development at Hochschild Mining Plc. Mr Beeck has been the President of Cementos Pacasmayo, a Peruvian cement producer and distributor. He was Managing Director and Head of Latin American Investment Banking for ING Barings, Barings Inc. in New York, and Baring Brothers in London. He has also served as Vice President Corporate Finance Group, Dillon, Read Ltd., London, and Vice President International Corporate Finance and Government Advisory Group for Lehman Brothers, New York. Mr Beeck is the Chairman of the Georgetown University Latin American Board.

Leonel Azuela-Berchelmann Leonel Azuela is founder of Quaxar a premier provider of E-Loyalty & Digital Marketing solutions. He has also configured numerous web-based sales incentive programs and CRM operating systems for American and Latin American organizations. Prior to this, he worked as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank, as a consultant for McKinsey & Co, where he achieved the Hugo García Prize as the Outstanding Business Analyst of 1998, and as an economist for the Mexican President’s Office.

Daniel Echavarria Daniel Echavarria is CEO of El Paso Advisors a private financial institution since 2005. Prior to this, he was advisor at MyMela and executive at GFG Capital, a multifamily office offering comprehensive wealth management, investment banking and other services. Mr. Echavarria was part of Organización Corona for 7 years and Co-founder and CFO TeRespondo.com a search engine in Latin America. He was also part of the Checkpoint comité of Orchid Ceramics, LLC, a branch of Organizacion Corona.

Brian Schwartz

Brian Schwartz is an Executive Managing Director at H.I.G. Capital, where he co-heads the firm’s Middle Market Fund. Brian began his career at investment banking firm Dillon, Reed & Co., after earning his MBA from Harvard Business School. He subsequently worked in PepsiCo’s strategic planning group, managing strate-gic acquisitions and evaluating new business opportunities, before joining H.I.G. in 1994. Brian lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his wife and three daugh-ters, and serves as Chair of the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation.

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leaders.!Balestra! spent! approximately! half! of! his! 42>year! banking!

career! in! the! international! banking! field.! He! began! his! career! in! New!

Orleans!and!Minneapolis,!arriving!in!Miami!in!the!early!1980s!to!open!

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Jocelyn Cortez-Young

At just 23, Jocelyn Cortez-Young helped launch Goldman Sachs’s offices in Brazil and Mexico, and her career juggernaut hasn’t stopped since. By age 26, she was a force on Wall Street, responsible for emerging markets at Credit Suisse. And just three years ago, she founded Minerva Capital Group, one of the first social-im-pact private equity firms in Miami. This year, Cortez-Young, now 36, started the Miami Chapter of 85 Broads, a global network of high-powered women select-ed for their professional prowess that has members in more than 90 countries.

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Laura Giadorou KochLaura Koch is a lawyer, social entrepreneur, innovative educator and com-munications expert. She has addressed audiences at the KivaU Summit, La Idea Pitch Competition, and BRAC Youth Initiative, and has also published ar-ticles for the UN, Wall Street Journal and many publications in her native Ar-gentina. She has organized many microfinance clubs at high schools around New York, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Laura has a Mas-ter of Laws degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and attended the Strategic Leadership for Microfinance Program at Harvard in 2012. She also co-owns DOLIUM Wines, a high-end Argentinian winery.

Hugo MantillaHugo Mantilla has been Co-Executive Director for Morgan Stanley & CO since 2006. Prior to that he was Senior Vicepresident of Lehman Borth-ers. Additional to his studies in B.S. at the Southern New Hampshire Uni-versity in Manchester he holds an MBA degree from Columbia Universi-ty of New York and a Master’s degree from the London Business School.

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Jose de la Torre, Ph.D., Jose de la Torre is Clinical Professor in the Department of Management and International Business in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University. Prior to this, he served as Dean of the Alvah H. Chapman, Jr., Graduate School of Business. Dr. de la Torre was recently professor at UCLA’s Anderson School, founding director of UCLA’s Center for International Business Education and Research. He also held faculty positions at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and Georgia State University, and was a research fellow at the Harvard Business School. Hugo Mantilla Hugo Mantilla has been Co-Exectuve Director for Morgan Stanley & CO since 2006. Prior to that he was Senior Vicepresident of Lehman Brothers. Additional to his studies in B.S. at the Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester he holds a MBA degree from Columbia University of New York and a Master´s degree from the London Business School. Hans Mueller-Hickler Hans Hickler is Agility's CEO for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was DHL’s CEO for Global Customer Solutions. Mr. Hickler was CEO of DHL Express USA, and CEO of APL, a logistics company. Additionally, he has also served as CIO for the parent company (NOL), responsible for developing an IT strategy with APL business units to better align IT with the various businesses. Eric Newman

Eric Steven Newman is a financial professional currently employed by Morgan Stanley in Miami, Florida with over 23 years of experience.

Tharald Nustad is a tech entrepreneur and investor based in Oslo, Norway. Through his firm Plastilin AS, he has invested in the development of several digital technology and communications firms, including Citymart.com, founded by Ashoka Fellow Sascha Haselmayer. Tharald additionally serves on the boards of Mallin AS, Inviso AS, Skalar AS, TV8 Norge, and Xvision. He has a background as a 3D designer and earned degrees in physics and business at Pacific Lutheran University in Seattle.

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Hans Mueller-HicklerHans Hickler is Agility’s CEO for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was DHL’s CEO for Global Customer Solutions. Mr. Hickler was CEO of DHL Express USA, and CEO of APL, a logistics company. Additionally, he has also served as CIO for the parent company (NOL), responsible for developing an IT strategy with APL business units to better align IT with the various businesses.

Eric Newman

Eric Newman is currently an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he advises family offices and institutional investors in private equity investment. Previously, Eric worked at Lehman Brothers for 17 years, where he co-found-ed Synergy Capital Partners, a pan-regional wealth management group. Eric actively supports various nonprofit organizations and charitable foundations.

Michelle SwensonMichelle Swenson has over 20 years of experience in the strategic planning and finance industries, and currently provides strategic consulting services through her firm Optimal Ventures. She is the Chair of Accelerate: Woman and Girls and served as Executive Director of the Global Women’s Leadership Network from 2012 to 2014. Michelle received her MBA from the Universi-ty of California at Berkley and remains based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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EVERYONE A CHANGEMAKER WORLD

Ashoka is the largest network of social entre-preneurs worldwide, with nearly 3,000 Asho-ka Fellows in 70 countries putting their sys-tem changing ideas into practice on a global scale. Founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, Ashoka has provided start-up financing, professional support services, and connections to a glob-al network across the business and social sectors, and a platform for people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka launched the field of social entrepreneurship and has acti-vated multi-sector partners across the world who increasingly look to entrepreneurial tal-ent and new ideas to solve social problems.

Ashoka Fellows remain the core of our community, and their insights show us how the world is moving and what is needed next. Ashoka’s mission has evolved beyond catalyzing individual entrepreneurs to en-abling an “everyone a changemaker” world.

This means equipping more people – in-cluding young people - with the skillset and a connection to purpose so that they can contribute ideas and effectively solve prob-lems at whatever scale is needed in their family, community, city, workplace, field, industry, country. This evolution comes from the urgent realization that the pace of change is accelerating in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Our strategic initiatives focus on setting in mo-tion the people, resources and ecosystems that will bring about a social revolution where everyone contributes to change for the good of all. Working in partner-ship with private, philanthropic and citi-zen sector players we are achieving large-scale social innovation that is grounded in decades of entrepreneurial experience.

GLOBAL SECURITY INITIATIVE

Social entrepreneurs overcome risks every day to make large-scale social change. Yet tragically in many places around the world today, social innovators and their families can still face real threats to their lives because of their change-making. Since 2005, Ashoka’s global Securi-ty initiative has sought to activate the world-wide network to become a powerful safety net, helping to prevent and react immediate-ly to threats or risk that social entrepreneurs face. Ashoka’s trusted safety net mobilizes:

• Networks of entrepreneurs and innova-tors ready to engage their contacts and resources.

• Tools to help changemakers mitigate risks and protect themselves, colleagues, and loved ones.

• Connections to experts to prevent threat—and to respond when emergency strikes.

As part of Ashoka’s trusted network, you can be a valuable ally in supporting the safety of changemakers, and especially Ashoka Fellows. In 2008, a U.S.-based ASN sent rapid funds to a Fellow and women’s rights activist, enabling her to flee her home in Zimbabwe due to un-fair accusations and harassment. Ashoka’s safe-ty net of Fellows and partners last year also helped protect Brazilian Fellow Valdênia Paulino after she received death threats for her work. Read more about her story on Forbes.com.

Want to learn more about how you can con-tribute to the global Security initiative and Ashoka’s safety net for changemakers? Con-tact David Nahmias at [email protected].

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