As President and CEO of Future 500, Shireman
helps the world’s largest companies and most
impassioned activists from Coca-Cola, General
Motors, Nike, Mitsubishi, to Greenpeace, Rainforest
Action Network, Oxfam, and the Sierra Club stop
battling each other, and find common ground. Called
a “master of environmental entrepreneurism,”
Shireman brings together forces that love to hate and
demonize each other: Republicans and Democrats,
giant global corporations and the activists. He united
Mitsubishi and Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to
work together to save rainforests from North America
to Malaysia. He brought together Coca-Cola and
Genocide Intervention Network to help promote
peace in the Sudan.
Bill Shireman has always lived two lives as an
entrepreneur and an activist. The best practice is
based on good theory, and the best theory is honed
by good practice. Shireman blends economic,
ecological, and systems theory to develop practical
solutions that meet multiple needs. He believes the
right and left need each other, that competition
leads to cooperation, that capitalism creates value if
external costs are owned, that consumers can also be
creators, and that nature is the best business model.
After finishing his military service, Cristóbal
Colón joined the staff of a mental hospital created.
He worked for 10 years in several institutions
initiating work therapy programmes. In 1981 he came
to the conclusion that real jobs for mental patients
can only be created in a real enterprise and decided
to put into practice. He created La Fageda to provide
dignity and meaning to individuals suffering from
mental illness or handicap, using an unconventional
mechanism given the target population group. He
created a social enterprise that is now known for its
excellent dairy products, particularly yoghurt and
flan. Its annual turnover was € 12 million in 2012,
competing for market share with Danone and Nestlé.
Each month La Fageda sells 4 million multi-flavoured
yoghurts, all made with natural ingredients. La
Fageda differs from its competitors because the
former wards of mental institutions run its dairy
production. La Fageda is a cooperative of 280 workers
with a support programme comprised of a group of
psychologists who follow each worker's personal and
professional rehabilitation.
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1970. He got married
17 years ago and is father to 4 children. Professor
and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy by the Pontificia
Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA).
Since 1990 he has worked as Professor in
different philosophical subjects and the Catholic
Social Teaching at middle schools and in Institutes for
the development of teachers. In 1995 he started his
teaching activity in the Catholic University with the
subjects of Antropology, Ethics and the Catholic
Social Teaching. He has performed research at the
same university, working in the Project of Social Debt
of Argentina, as well as at the Instituto de Historia
del Pensamiento Económico Hispanoamericano.
Currently, he is Academic Secretary at the
Philosophy and Letters School (UCA) and at Instituto
Acton (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has delivered
conferences on behalf of Instituto Acton in Argentina,
Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala and Ecuador.
Gustavo Pérez Berlanga is Director of Social
Responsibility and Sustainability at Restaurantes
Toks.
He has over 30 years of professional
experience in enterprises of the private sector and
over 20 years of teaching experience. He is an
advisor in several business accelerator institutions
and lecturer in several national and internatural
venues. He is a Member of the Board of the World
Pact in New York and President of the World Pact
Mexico, in addition to other nominations and
participations. He teaches at Universidad Anáhuac
and UNAM, and is also visiting professor at IPADE and
Harvard University, among others. He has an MBA
and a Masters Degree in Social Responsibility in
addition to courses and specilized studies in Europe,
South America and the United States. His first book
on social responsibility was published by Editorial LID
in 2014.
Hernan Barbieri arrived to Mexico 10 years ago
as sales director for MTV Network Latinamerica; he
joined HSM Mexico (now Wobi) as sales director, and
later became CEO for that company, finally joining
KidZania in 2008 as CEO for Mexico.
Hernan Barbieri will explain the growth
strategy, the challenges the company has faced and
what makes KidZania different. KidZania is a 100%
mexican company which has a unique concept in the
world that combines education and entertainment:
"edu-tainment". This concept allows girls and boys all
over the world, through roll-playing, to learn and
have fun as they carry on different professions in a
city built to scale for them, which is possible thanks
to the support of leading brands and multi-national
companies, to take their experience to the maximum.
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www.jilvaneyle.info
When his daughter Mónica was born with
hydrocephalus in 1998, Jil Van Eyle’s life changed
forever. From that moment, he has dedicated all his
talent, knowledge and energy to making the world a
better place. He is the creator and promoter of
Teaming, a solidary collaboration initiative that aims
to support charitable causes through micro-donations
of €1 per month. Currently, 1,000 businesses
throughout the world practice Teaming, and between
them they collect €200,000 a month, which goes
towards various social projects. In 2010, he published
a book about his experience entitled How I stopped
being an idiot, in which he explains how ‘failure
forces us to move forward, it shows us who we are
and what we truly want’.
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