JC works with fast growing company’s to reach 5 times their current size through strategic alignment and implementation of grass roots operational efficiencies. Results driven, for more than 25 years JC has traveled across 5 continents, operating in complex business environments. Regardless of the situations encountered, he's affected change through his ability to blend his extensive experience, and network, in favor of the action steps that will come once a success strategy has been defined. His practices are guaranteed to affect immediate results, and long lasting transition in enterprises of all sizes across multiple industries. His practices are based on the guiding principles of emotionally intelligence, such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and universal buy-in is a fundamental component of every engagement.JC lives by the belief that the execution of an idea is always more important than the brilliance of the thought. And that people will do something, including changing their behavior, if only it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own core values. In working with a team, JC regularly give tools, mechanisms & methodologies that will increase practical knowledge, with the ability to immediately implement. Unique in his ability to fulfill on academic requirements by explaining in clear enough terms what he's observed, he translates into actionable lessons how, or what, they can learn from to achieve success. In parallel, driven by his gut instinct, finely honed and supported by years of experience, JC will fulfill on practical requirements by "reading" relevant situations and finding the most appropriate solutions.From 1984 to 2001 JC's execution was based on knowledge acquired through “successfully doing". In 2002 he began to apply commonly available frameworks, methodologies & practices, whilst drawing on real world experiences, focusing on the emotional intelligence aspect of strategies, and adapting every solution to fit the culture the respective enterprise.The result is a winning solution, combining Human Capitol Management, Strategic Alignment, Planning & Executing Your Strategy, Leadership Development and Interim Executive Management. JC often boasts that he doesn't coach, he mentors. He doesn't give advice, he shares proven experiences and facilitates new ones. He doesn't stand back and watch, he steps forward, rolls up his sleeves, and gets into the thick of it!Organizations that have worked with JC, have experienced 30-40% revenue growth, increased gross margins of 10-25%, and / or significantly increased customer satisfaction & loyalty levels. All of these results witnessed within 3 to 6 months of his engagement. Some have referred to him as a Master Facilitator, but JC prefers to think of himself as the guy you’ll call when you need to deliver results.

Rodney is the CEO of ClearlySo (www.clearlyso.com).  He began his career with PaineWebber (1980), Lehman Brothers (1988) and Paribas (1994) where he held senior positions in the equity and investment banking area.  He then co-founded Catalyst Fund Management & Research in 1997, a venture capital firm (www.catfund.com ), which is a pioneering fund investing in profitable social businesses in “ethical consumerism”, health, education, energy efficiency & the environment. ClearlySo was spun out from Catalyst and launched at the Skoll World Forum in March 2009.  ClearlySo is the first online marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment.  Social entrepreneurs can access capital, services, information and each other via this pioneering site.  In addition, they host an annual autumn conference for social businesses and selected investors and sponsor the “ClearlySo in...” series of trips to study and learn from social enterprises and businesses around the world. ClearlySo also maintains the widely-read "Social Business Blog" and staff regularly lecture at leading business schools (Rod has lectured at the Said Business School (Oxford), LBS and IESE) and participate in third party produced reports on social business and social enterprise, with a focus on the practical business and investment side. Rod also advises leading social businesses and enterprises (such as the HCT Group), predominantly in the UK and currently sits on the Board of AXA Investment Managers, the Ethical Property Company and the 2020 Public Services Trust.  Rod is non-executive Chairman of The Green Thing and a former Chairman of Justgiving.com and Shelter.

Thomas F. Anglero is founder and CEO of WiHood LLC/AS, a virtual PC desktopservice for children in the US and developing countries.  He has over 15years of international IT and Telecommuncation experience.  Mr. Anglero hasbeen the CEO of Free World Dialup (USA), Truly Global (Israel), and NucleiNetworks (Serbia) and held executive positions within Telenor ASA (Norway).Mr. Anglero is married with 3 kids and is the head basketball coach for asemi-pro basketball team and a triathlete.

Tobias Lorenz is the founder of glovico.org, a startup-webplatform that will allow people from Latin America and Africa to become entrepreneurs and market their services as private language teachers via video conference in Europe. Glovico.org is driven by three missions: a) to create income for people in Latin America and Africa, b) to foster a dialogue between the cultures based on learning and mutual understanding, c) to prove that social businesses, companies created to support the poor, are a feasible way to advance the fight against poverty. Tobias has studied philosophy, business administration and linguistics in Stuttgart (Germany) and Bergen (Norway) and is a PhD student at the University of Witten-Herdecke. Before starting up he has been both in industrial research (DaimlerChrysler) as well as academic research (INSEAD) and is at the moment working as a project manager for Stiftung Wertevolle Zukunft, a foundation active in the area of business ethics and CSR in Hamburg (Germany).

She was born in the United States, attended university in Ireland and currently resides in the New York City. Shannon‘s interest in coffee has spanned more than ten years. Her Master’s thesis was entitled, African Coffee Economies, How cultivating coffee encourages political instability, economic devastation and social upheaval. She worked in the retail coffee industry, both in Europe and the United States. In 2003 while working for Insomnia Coffee, Shannon was named the second best barista in Ireland, by the European Coffee Making Association. Her previous professional experience also includes over five years in humanitarian relief and international development. She has worked for both the United Nations and International Non-Profit organizations.  She has worked in Kenya, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sudan, Paraguay, Haiti, and several other countries. 

I am Hemant Sahal pursuing my B.Tech Biotechnology degree from VIT University, India. The need for ventures with environmental reimbursements especially in the field of technology has never been greater. But the real challenge is to turn this need into opportunity. The “dot com” bubble has burst, and is followed by a spurt in exciting breakthroughs in biotech sector. My acumen in the need of inclusive growth in the society along with technical students zeal to work on environmentally relevant projects strained me to work on ventures which aims to carry out an integrated intervention in socio-environmental issues and awareness creation to achieve behaviour change, capacity building to sustain and operate the services/systems, enabling networking with state and non-state stakeholders to leverage resources, accompanied by strengthening of existing infrastructure and provision of new infrastructure for the various venture needs.I have already launched a venture "CALLMAT" funded and supported by Ashoka Youth Venture and Lemelson foundation, USA. It aims to provide clean water to rural India plus prevent the intoxification of crops with heavy metal polluted water. I am working on a venture “GREEN MILL” which aims to manage paper generated in educational centres as well as provide employment to rural people. My third venture "CALLINTRIP" has just got funding from Villgro Student Project Funding for raising awareness in industrial pollution affected rural areas by developing simple technologies for pollution indication. I have been awarded medal by National Design and Research Forum, IEI, for my contribution in Environment engineering discipline. I have been shortlisted among Top social innovators and environment entrepreneurs of the world by SPROUT, Toronto, Canada for their e-course. I am the Programme Manager of Global Innovation Village, an initiative by Centre for Sustainable Rural Development and Research Studies which aims to steer students into rural social action. I am one of the core members of Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Development, VIT University also. I am also one of the participants of Acara Challenge 2010 for solving water problems here in India and in this we are working with University of Illinois, USA. I have undergone training for Leadership in Social development at American centre, New Delhi and another WES (water, environment and sanitation) project of CASP-PLAN, New Delhi.

Jonathan Jenkins, Director of Ventures at UnLtd, has over 15 years experience in fundraising for small and medium projects from his City career, which included time at a UK merchant bank, and culminated in his role as managing director of Plus Markets, a stock exchange created by his family to enable access to capital for small companies. In his time at Plus, over 500 companies raised a total of L2bn via the market.  His career has been in the commercial provision of investment readiness and investor relations, utilising his contact base of lawyers, accountants, brokers and both retail and institutional shareholders. He joined UnLtd in September 2008 as Director of Ventures, specifically tasked with creating the investment readiness programme and team, to meet the clear requirement for such intermediary support within the social investment market. UnLtd holds a L100 million endowment especially to invest in UK social entrepreneurs and community activists. It was established in 2002 by 7 leading not for profit organisations. UnLtd's mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can transform the world in which they live. UnLtd provides individuals and informal groups with cash awards and practical support that includes coaching, training and networking opportunities to help them develop community projects. UnLtd has the biggest network of social entrepreneurs in the world and since 2002 has invested over L00 million of financial and non financial support in some 17,000 individuals, impacting on many thousands more. UnLtd Research is leading the way in best practice guidelines while the award winning UnLtdWorld.com allows social entrepreneurs and social enterprise, as well as the broader community, to share experience, knowledge and resources. Further information can be found at: http://www.unltd.org.uk.

Sameer Hajee is the current Managing Director of Nuru Design, a social enterprise whose mission is to create an affordable off-grid electricity infrastructure that services the primary energy needs of base of pyramid (BoP) consumers.  Nuru Design was seed-funded by the World Bank and was recently named by CNBC as having one of the top 10 "Ideas to Change the World".??Prior to Nuru Design, Sameer was the Global Business Development manager at Freeplay Energy plc, the developers of the world’s first hand-crank radio and flashlight.  At Freeplay, Sameer created the international aid and development sales team, which in 2006 and 2007 generated $6 million US in revenue. While at Freeplay, he co-created and co-managed a World Bank Development Marketplace project that saw the creation of 50 rural energy enterprises in Rwanda.  ??In 2005, Sameer launched and managed the Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) initiative at UNDP in Kenya, where he helped domestic and multinational companies, such as Tetra Pak and Microsoft, to develop and implement pro-poor business models in Kenya.  ??As a leading authority on rural energy provision through micro-enterprise, Sameer was invited to speak on the development impacts of BoP business models at the Business with Four Billion conference at the University of Michigan in 2007.  In 2007, Sameer was also invited to address the Cornell Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab on rural lighting issues and solutions. Prior to his work in BoP markets, Sameer worked as a microprocessor design engineer in Silicon Valley, California and as a telecom engineer for Afghanistan’s first mobile phone network provider, Roshan, in Kabul.  Sameer has a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada and a MBA from INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools.  He also studied at the Wharton School in the US through the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance.  Sameer is a Canadian national with native roots in Kenya and India. 

Degree in Literature and History, 1982, PhD; Formerly: Journalist; Vice-Director, Foundation for the Blind in Germany, 1988; developed the Dialogue in the Dark concept and put it into action almost 20 years ago; Founder and CEO of Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH; Recipient of various awards; first Ashoka Fellow in Western Europe, 2005; Global Award Winner, YPO, 2009.

Dialogue in the Dark is an awareness-raising social franchising company, offering exhibitions and business training in total darkness, creating jobs for the blind, disabled and disadvantaged worldwide. Its exhibition uses blind guides to lead visitors through settings in total darkness where they learn to interact without sight, helping change mindsets on disability. Over six million visitors from 30 countries have experienced the exhibition, giving 6,000 blind people jobs since 1988.

Founder and director of ACAF, organisation that developes the “Self Financed Communities Model” in Europe. Chosen social entrepreneur of Ashoka in 2006. Winner of the World’s Creative Young Entrepreneur Award, CYEA, in 2007. Winner of the European Best Microfinance Model in 2009.He studied World Economy and has a PhD in Microfinance.He worked 4 years in indigenous communities in Guatemala, where he founded and directed “Mayan Treasures” (Best Latinamerican Indigenous Project Award in 2001).  He teaches in Universidad Ramon Llull in Barcelona and in different MBAs. He has participated as a speaker in Germany, Austria, Colombia, Ecuador, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Sri Lanka and Venezuela.He wrote the book “World Economy and Development”.

Wren has 10 years of experience in marketing and sustainability strategy and communications, working with some of the world’s most successful agencies and brands, including: Fallon Worldwide (Publicis Groupe), Citibank, Apple iTunes, Stonyfield Farm, CLIF Bar, Patagonia, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews Band, and Live Nation, Musictoday, and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG).Aigaki-Lander combines this big brand experience with expertise in smaller, entrepreneurial firms and has played key roles in helping innovators build brands, garner recognition, and claim leadership positions in their respective fields. She has also led corporate social responsibility/sustainability strategy and implementation, including developing strategies for impact reduction (energy efficiency, waste, sustainable sourcing, carbon emissions), stakeholder engagement and communications, and corporate philanthropy.Wren is currently a Marketing and Sustainability Consultant based in Barcelona, and is a member of the Offset Options Board of Advisors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (International Finance and Economics) from the University of Southern California and an MBA from ESADE.