December 2015
The Responsible 100
JOHNNY CAVALIERO Managing Director Accenture
RAFAEL CESTERO CEO
Community Preservation Corporation
ALL AN CHAPIN Partner
Accenture is a global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. We develop and implement technology solutions to improve our clients’ productivity and efficiency – and may run parts of their operations on their behalf. Ultimately, the company enable its clients to become high-performance businesses and governments. Accenture is a dedicated recruiter of people with disabilities as employees and maintains strong relationships with job recruiters of people with disabilities. Further, its Accenture Diversity Council assesses inclusion and diversity challenges, sets strategic direction and prioritizes actions.
For New York to continue to be a desirable place for people of all backgrounds to live, its housing sector must confront two great challenges: embrace sustainable practices on a profound scale and produce enough affordable housing to meet the demands of a growing and diverse population. The Community Preservation Corporation, led by Rafael Cestero, has shown how an organization can address both challenges at the same time. “As a lender, what we try to do is make it easy for building owners to increase the amount of the loan that we’re providing them by the dollar amount it takes to make the improvement,” explained Cestero.
Allan Chapin is a Partner based in Compass Advisers’ New York office, and Head of the firm’s global presence in France and the Low Countries. In 1968, Chapin joined the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. He was a resident of the Paris office for several years, and then served as head of the Sullivan & Cromwell European operations. Throughout his 31 years with Sullivan & Cromwell, Chapin represented sovereign governments, agencies, investment and merchant banks, insurance companies, a wide array of industrial private sectors companies and many foreign investors, both individuals and corporations. Chapin is a former director of PPR, SCOR, InBev, CIFG, American Motors Corporation and Mack Trucks. An exemplary example of the principle of giving back, Chapin serves as the pro bono Chairman and President of the French-American Foundation, which was created by Presidents Ford and Giscard D’Estaing as the primary non-governmental link between the U.S. and France.
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