ASHOKA
Welcomes YOU
NOVEMBER 6-8,2013.
Dear Ashoka Fellows, Welcome to the 2013 abc* Continuity Forum! We are very pleased to have you join us here in Miami for what will be a very engaging, positive and productive experience for everyone. Our team looks forward to meeting all of you, in person, and hope you will also enjoy the chance to meet one another, given the unique opportunity of having 21 Fellows from seven countries across three continents together in one city. The abc* Foundation has planned a wonderful agenda over the two days of the Forum. There will also be evening events, one of which is the Poder Business Awards Dinner, which you should have received an email from Rodrigo Bravo about. Please note that this dinner is not associated with the Continuity Forum and Ashoka has no role in planning the event. Since most of you arrive on Tuesday night, we want to give you the time to rest from travel and prepare for the presentation you will give during the Forum. Please plan to meet at 7:00am on Wednesday morning in the lobby of the New Wolrd Symphony where we will give you a proper welcome, make introductions and also do a walk-through of the space and technical aspects of your presentations. We should finish by 7:45am, allowing you to get back and enjoy a lovely breakfast before the Forum begins at 9:00am. In this welcome packet, we have provided our contact information, maps and information about where you are staying as well as the Continuity Forum location, a directory of Fellows attending, the schedule over the three days and bios of the ASNs who will be joining for breakfast on November 8th. “Don’t hesitate to contact either Lorena or Tally if you have any questions or needs prior to or during the Continuity Forum.” Looking forward to meeting you soon! Best regards,
Lorena and Tally
The ASHOKA
STAFF
Lorena Garcia Duran Ashoka South Florida Director lgarciaduran@ashoka.org (305) 767-‐9079
Bruno Borges Global Director of ASN bborges@ashoka.org
Tally Wolff US Partnerships twolff@ashoka.org (614) 506-‐0305
Friné Salguero Director Director of Venture and Fellowship, Mexico fsalguero@ashoka.org
Maria Escorcia
Jack Edwards
Strategic Partnerships Manager mescorcia@ashoka.org
Ashoka Senior Advisor jedwards@ashoka.org
ASHOKA FELLOWS
ATTENDEES
ASHOKA FELLOWS
ATTENDEES
WINNERS
PREVIOUS
YEARS
Hotel Information The Ritz-‐Carlton South Beach 1 Lincoln Rd Miami, FL 33139 (786) 276-‐4000
Continuity Forum Location New World Center 500 17th Street Miami Beach, FL (305) 673-‐3330
*Within walking distance of each other
CONTINUITY FORUM 2013 AGENDA Wednesday, November 6
th
Wednesday Evening Activity: Poder Business Awards Ritz-Carlton South Beach (where you will be staying) Begins at 6:00pm with cocktails and should end around 10:00pm (see website for schedule) Dress Code: Business Formal
Thursday, November 7
th
Thursday Evening Activity: Cocktail Hour New World Center Begins at 5:30pm and should end Around 7:30pm
ASN South Florida Community Breakfast Friday, November 8th FloxFloridaCommunity FORUM National Hotel Miami Beach 2013 7:30am-10:00am 1677 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139 Room: Ova Dress: Business Casual
ASN
SOUTH FLORIDA
Community
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 ELoyalty & 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.
Victor Balestra Recently retired as chairman of Espirito Santo Bank, Victor C. Balestra is one of South Florida’s most engaged and dynamic business and civic 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 an international banking subsidiary for Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. In 1990, he joined Espirito Santo Bank as president and CEO. He became chairman of the Florida-‐chartered bank in 2006, remaining in that position until his retirement.
Nicolai Bezsonoff Nicolai is the COO of .co Internet S.A.S. Nicolai has been working for
over a decade in IT. He worked at Citigroups's NY headquarters as the Director of Technology and Operations; and was responsible for the company's technological strategy and overseeing a team based in New York, London, São Paulo, and Mumbai. He has also worked as a technology consultant. He has also worked as a Program Manager for various technology firms.
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-‐impact 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 selected for their professional prowess that has members in more than 90 countries.
ASN
SOUTH FLORIDA
Community
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.
Navroze Mehta Navroze Mehta is Managing Director of MDI Partners, a company specializing in the development of innovative medical devices. Prior to this, he was Founder and Vice Chairman of NovaVision Inc., a neurostimulation medical device company that restores vision. Mr. Mehta co-founded Dermdex/Skinstore, a medical technology company. He has also served as the president of Boca Global, a reasearch institute, and president and CEO of Comark Communications, Inc., a high tech designer and manufacturer of television transmission Systems.
Edmond Saade Eddy Saade is Founder and Chairman of the Board of WAU Movil, a leading transaction network in Latam, operating in Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets with a premier regional footprint. Before this he was Director at Alianza, a branch of Drug Free America. Mr. Saade has served as Director of Datos information Resources and BanPro. He was Vice President of Datos IR and prior to that served as Director of the Marketing Department of Colgate Pamolive in Venezuela.
Jenny Molina Jenny Molina is the Vice President of Marketing for the Agrolibano group. Based in the southern part of Honduras, the Agrolibano group produces, packages and exports melons to the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It is comprised of four companies: Agropecuaria Montelíbano, Industria Camaronera del Sur, Ornamentales del Valle and Bosques de Cuyamapa.
Carlos Hellmund Carlos Hellmund is Managing Director of QHA International Inc. and CEO and Director of Casa Hellmund Group, both are leading companies in the photography industry. He also acts as Non-Executive Director at Mercantil Servicios Financieros, a financial institution in Venezuela.
Key
ASHOKA PROGRAMS
EACH Everyone a Changemaker Ashoka’s vision for the world
In an “Everyone a Changemaker” world, each of us can seize opportunities to create positive change, becoming the key drivers in building the world we want for ourselves and our global community. As changemakers, we are each motivated and poised to tackle the problems we see because we possess the freedom, confidence, skills, resources, and support from society that are necessary to do so. We each hold the power to innovate, and because of that we can ensure that in our future, solutions that benefit the greater good outpace the problems.
ASHOKA SOUTH FLORIDA
Ashoka
Contact: Lorena Garcia Duran (lgarciaduran@ashoka.org), Maria Escorcia (mescorcia@ashoka.org)
participants brainstorm on how to
players
in
South
Miami
with
present their innovations and share challenges they are facing, the
Florida,
objectives:
three
clear
First, serve as an
international Support
hub
of
Ashoka
Network
(ASN)
members—business professionals who
are
engaged
entrepreneurship. from
our
with
social
Second,
global
draw
network
organizing
During these meetings, Fellows
Ashoka decided to open an office in
in
meetings with our local network.
After two years of connecting with key
Fellows
of
changemakers to collaborate with the communities in South Florida
overcome those challenges and sometimes open doors to new networks and key contacts that might help them succeed more effectively. If you are interested in organizing a meeting with our network please contact the Ashoka South Florida team so we can discuss
the
possibilities
and
feasibility.
ASHOKA LATIN
leverage and support Ashoka’s
AMERICA DIAMOND
efforts in connecting the leading
Contact Armando Laborde
social entrepreneurs of the Ashoka
(alaborde@ashoka.org) and David
around supporting social innovation and promoting changemaking skills for all. Last but most importantly,
Fellowship within the Americas and
Nahmias (dnahmias@ashoka.org)
abroad, maximizing their collective impact.
Following
this
last
objective, the Ashoka South Florida team
has
supported
several
Long
one
of
Ashoka’s
critical
regions of work, Latin America now faces the exciting goal of becoming
a continent where every person has
throughout the continent, Ashoka is
the opportunity to develop new skills
poised to become a prominent voice
and organize themselves differently
in
in an Everyone a Changemaker
America.
society.
Ashoka
envisions
the
smoothly
programs
led
integrated
entrepreneurial
by
team
and
change
across
a
ASHOKAHUB
of
Contact Alan Landis
launch and spread of a series of dynamic
driving
committed
Latin
(alandis@ashoka.org)
leaders across the region. We have foundation of over 875 Ashoka
AshokaHub is a limited-access space
Fellows in 15 countries in Latin
where trusted entrepreneurs in Ashoka’s
America, thousands of students
network find one another, share up-to-
touched by our Youth Venture
date
program
in
resources.
America,
Brazil
Mexico,
Central
information
and
exchange
Open initially to Fellows,
Argentina,
Ashoka Support Network Members and
bridges between the private and
the Ashoka Team, AshokaHub will grow
citizen sectors constructed by our
to be open (by invitation only) to select
Full Economic Citizenship programs
external partners and other teams within
in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia,
Ashoka. The site will always ensure that
Changemakers
everyone can control their privacy as
and
competition
winners, myriad strategic partners in
membership
the business sector and the Ashoka
AshokaHub provides the link to other
Support Network, and our first
social
Changemaker
complementary
Campus
in
evolves.
For
entrepreneurs innovations
Fellows, with and
Guadalajara, Mexico. Now we plan
expertise, and plays an important role in
to launch a series of new initiatives
Ashoka’s Everyone a Changemaker™
in Latin America that promote social
architecture.
innovation
video
and
critical
changemaking skills. With all of programs
and
a
fundamental
emphasis on spreading our mission
Please check out this to
learn
http://vimeo.com/24723877.
more:
FELLOW SECURITY PROGRAM Contact David Nahmias (dnahmias@ashoka.org)
Social change leaders have historically been
the
targets
of
threat
and
intimidation as they try to restructure the balance
of
power,
hierarchy,
and
international resources and networks; security
training;
international
legal
assistance;
and
emergency
alerts,
funds and evacuation support
EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE
opportunity in their communities. Since
Contact Megan (mcoolidge@ashoka.org)
2004 the world has seen a step-change
Ashoka’s
in the intensity and nature of these
Program connects corporate executives
threats
to
and
attacks
against
social
Executive
inspiring
in
on-site
Coolidge Residence pro
bono
leading
social
entrepreneurs, across regions and fields
opportunities
of
Security
entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows) around
program offers prevention strategies
the world. The program focus on
and
social
fostering an innovation and system-
entrepreneurs facing threats, enabling
change mindset among the company’s
them to safely and securely defend
leaders
through
human rights and create social change.
Ashoka
Fellows,
Through a growing network of Ashoka
companies’ shared value strategies in
Fellows
emerging
markets,
Ashoka’s Fellow Security program offers
development
initiatives,
social entrepreneurs a Security Toolkit
around
with
retention.
work.
Ashoka’s
emergency
and
safety
Fellow
support
partner
to
organizations,
recommendations,
documentation strategies, and a list of
with
employee
collaborations while
with
supporting leadership and
efforts
engagement
and