Ashoka's 2013 Continuity Forum Welcome Packet.

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