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EVALUATION OF SOCIAL BUSINESS IMPACT ACCELERATION

Grand Final

Andrew Molson – AVENIR GLOBAL

In addition to chairing the board of AVENIR GLOBAL, Andrew serves as vice-chairman of Molson Coors Beverage Company andseveral otherl boards of directors, including Groupe Deschênes, Dundee Corporation, Theratechnologies and the CH Group, owner of evenko and the Montreal Canadiens, proud winner of 24 Stanley Cups. Andrew holds a law degree from Laval University, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University, and a Master’s of Science in corporate governance and ethics from the University of London (Birkbeck College). Andrew participates on several non-profit boards, including the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations, Concordia University Foundation, the evenko foundation for emerging talent, Business / Arts, the Québec Blue Cross and the Molson Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to the betterment of Canadian society.

Ghani Kolli – Credo Impact

Ghani Kolli is Managing Partner, Strategy & Impact, Business Innovation at Credo. Having spoken to 3,600 people over the past 15 years at workshops, conferences, and consulting assignments, Ghani knows very well the importance of alignment of individuals with their organizations and of organizations with their clients’ needs. His career as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur shapes his contributions to innovative projects aiming at creating values for his clients. With this commitment to value creation, he shares with the community his passion as an impact entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and business coach. His main driver is co-creating and innovating with his clients in collaboration with his peers in a framework that leaves space for creativity and excellence. Ghani Kolli is a certified Business Model & Value Proposition Designer as well as Business Model You practitioner. He helped entrepreneurs and business leaders successfully rethink their business models. He founded HumanYo project, an Artificial Intelligence start-up that predicts team efficiency, and co-founded the strategic design firm HumanYo+Impact to create human impact within innovative organizations by using design thinking, lean start–up, customer development, design a better business, and blue ocean methodologies. Ghani is co-creator and contributor of two books, namely “Business Models for Teams” and “The Real Startup Book.”

Lucy Stojak, MOSAIC, HEC Montreal

Dr. Lucy Stojak has over 15 years of experience in the development and management of international, interdisciplinary, and intercultural educational programs. She served as Director of the Space Studies Program, a 9-week professional development program in the aerospace field, offered by the International Space University (ISU). She is a lawyer specializing in space law. Her fields of interest include security and space, the commercialization of space, and intercultural negotiation and team building. She has been a member of the Canadian delegation to international organizations such as the United Nations, the EU, the OECD, the Conference on Disarmament and the European Space Agency (ESA). She is a Faculty member of the ISU.

Natalie Voland – Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis inc.

Natalie Voland is the President of – Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis inc. besides being a Public Speaker and ESG Developer. She has been working outside of the traditional real estate box for the last 20 years. With her social work background, she has created a unique vision to use real estate projects as a tool of economic development and urban regeneration. Valuing history, she builds with the future in mind, constantly adapting to market fluctuations, her clients’ needs, and the pursuit of economic growth. As a Quebec leader in social innovation through “Benefit Corporation Certification” based on triple-bottom-line practices, Natalie works collaboratively with strategic partners to redevelop areas, notably the South West of Montreal. She holds a portfolio of approx. 1.5 million sq. ft with over 500 small and medium businesses including start-up incubators under the brand of Communoloft. Natalie is a board member for Femmessor Montreal and the Quartier d’Innovation (initiated by McGill University and ETS), as well as a member of the Table d’Action en Entrepreneuriat de Montreal. Quo Vadis is actively engaged in supporting new business opportunities for Entrepreneurs. Natalie’s collaborative approach is based on the leadership of inclusions.

Paul Nguyen – Scotiabank

Paul Nguyen is a Program Manager of the Quebec Growth Program at Scotiabank. A highly motivated and result-driven manager with strong analytical skills, he has got over a decade of experience in the financial sector. In particular, he has been managing commercial loan portfolios, structuring and underwriting commercial loans,and driving process improvement initiatives to improve team efficiency and customer experience. He is highly interested in FinTech, project management, and process improvement. Besides working at the bank, he has been a volunteer for several organizations driven by social purposes such as the Leukemia Y Lymphoma Society of Canada, Hebergement Maison de la Paix, etc.

Selection of top 4

Fabian Vicente Moreno, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montreal

Fabian Vicente Moreno is a program coordinator and tenured lecturer at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montréal, responsible for the Undergraduate Diplomas in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management. He also sits on various committees and councils and leads career development seminars for new immigrants in Canada. With over 25 years of experience in the financial, IT, healthcare, and education sectors, Fabian has worked with several organizations and companies from/in Canada, the USA, Mexico, and France. Since 1998, he has devoted himself to teaching, which is his greatest passion. He is an international trainer and senior speaker on entrepreneurship, innovation, business management, and project management. His international experience has enabled him to develop a holistic-unorthodox vision about business management and development, an asset highly recognized by his customers and students. He holds a Master’s degree in Management, a Graduate Diploma in Social Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and e-Business, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. A committed citizen, Fabian set up the initiative « My First Day at University », whose central objective is to fight school dropout problems. His fundamental value is freedom, and his best quote is « by sharing our dreams, we build reality. »

Jorge Humberto Mejia, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montreal

Professor Mejia holds a Ph.D. from HEC Paris, an MSc at Paris-Dauphine University, an MBA and B.B.A. with a special major that combined international and strategic entrepreneurship at ITAM. Before joining HEC Montreal, he was a full time faculty member at ITAM Business School. Recently he is a visiting research scholar at Texas Christian University, USA. Professor Mejia’s research is focus on: 1. Entrepreneurial intentions, purpose of life, social entrepreneurship and ethics; 2. Entrepreneurial networks of immigrants and families; 3. SMEs management, new ventures, scalable businesses and technology based firms; 4. Corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial boards, Top Management Teams and environmental issues in organizations. Jorge Humberto has coauthored numerous journal publications, conference articles, books and book chapters in the aforementioned topics. Professor Mejia’s research has earned scholarly recognition from Strategic Management Society, USA, Federal Business Disciplines, USA and CONACYT in Mexico. Jorge Humberto is an award-winning educator who teaches courses in strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduates, MBAs, EMBAs and Executives. He is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma AACSB-Honor Society. Prior and during his academic career, he worked as a consultant of large corporations, entrepreneur and CEO of SMEs.

Lê Thị Thu Hà – Foreign Trade University

Associate Professor Le Thi Thu Ha is the Director of Innovation and Incubation Space (FIIS) at Foreign Trade University and co-founder of Education Technology Hub. She is a leading Vietnamese expert in helping start-ups increase their value through intellectual property management strategies. Over the last decade, she has been a driving force behind the development of research and teaching in the domain of intellectual property at university level in Vietnam. Thanks to her initiatives, FIIS has been considered as an exemplary intermediary institution for the State and businesses. It is now an important connection point for government policies, infrastructure investments, business angel investments, and startups. FIIS receives support from governments, international organizations, and alumni with a mission to turn ideas into start-ups and nurture entrepreneurs with the spirit of innovation.

María Esther Fragoso Terán – Universidad Veracruzana

María Esther Fragoso Terán is Director of the Faculty of Accounting and Business, Universidad Veracruzana, and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz. María has a Ph.D. degree in Government and Public Administration and a master’s degree in International Business. Having worked in different sectors, she has a wide array of skills and a large professional network. For the last 15 years, she has been dedicated to university teaching, working closely with young people, and participating in local, national, and international entrepreneurship competitions. Her outstanding contributions to social entrepreneurship education are widely recognized. She has published numerous articles about social entrepreneurship, the greening model, inclusion, etc. in the International journal “ICERI” in Spain and in the journal “EDULEARN”. She has participated in different panels, conferences, lectures, and congresses at the national level. She was a judge in the Hult Prize Competition and ANFECA. She won the first place with “Trek Hub” Project in the 2017 Edition of the Social Business Creation Competition, the 7th position with “DANDESI” Project in the 2019 Edition, the third place with “Rivers Alive” Project and Top 5 with “OxyCare” Project in the 2021 Edition.

Natalie Voland – Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis inc.

EVALUATION OF EXECUTION AND SCALE-UP

Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores – Universidad Veracruzana

Candidate for an engineering Ph.D. in emerging technologies, Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores is a naval engineer who developed strong expertise in quality assurance and ISO 14 001 advisory. Notably, she has worked in AUGUSA, Astilleros. She graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a master’s degree in educational technologies. She currently contributes to the Universidad Veracruzana by teaching the Offshore Specialty and coordinating Naval Engineering Career. In addition, she works as a coordinator and instructor for tutors involved in distance education in TECNM. She has been an SBC coach (2019-2022) with trainer certification (Social Innovation Generation at the associate Level and Business Model Innovation at the expert level). She won the best project prize in “24 hours of innovation Montreal”, “CORE Maritime Sector”, “2018 Distinguished Engineer AMIME”, and “SBC 2021 Most Impactful Educator Award”. She is the Founder group Young Women Naval Engineers and Young Naval Architects Mexico, a member of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA), a Member of WISTA Mexico, a member of Cátedra de Mujeres en la Ciencia y la Tecnología, and a representative of the Diversity Committee. She is also the creator of a maritime ambassador and mentor programs Ms for women’s empowerment in naval, maritime & port sectors.

Ana Luiza Rossato Facco – Lecturer at Universidade de Cruz Alta

Ana Luiza Rossato Facco is an SBC alumnus and recipient of SBC 2021 Most Impactful Educator. At Universidade de Cruz Alta, she teaches Business Administration with a focus on the disciplines of human resources and corporate social responsibility. She is a doctoral candidate and Social Innovation Researcher at Unisinos Business School-Brazil. Drawing on her experience as a Rotary volunteer, AIESEC employee, and Brazilian delegate to the 24th session of the Youth Assembly in Washington DC, she is writing her doctoral thesis on “The scalability of social innovation based on a territorial approach.” For her expertise, she is a member of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Board of Latin America in Emerald Publishing.

Arturo Rivera López – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Arturo Rivera López is a professor at Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. Being an industrial engineer and holding a Bachelor of Administration with an MBA, Arturo has more than 20 years of experience as a manager in various industrial and service companies where he has performed roles such as lead auditor for ISO 9000 quality management systems, advisor and business consultant. Above all, he loves to share his knowledge in order to help his students become successful entrepreneurs.

Bùi Mai Thuỷ – Foreign Trade University

Bùi Mai Thuỷ is an officer at the International Office of the Foreign Trade University (FTU) where she is in charge of developing international partnerships, strengthening the cooperation with existing partners for student exchange, scientific research, dual degrees, and organizing international conferences, etc. Before joining FTU, she had gained rich experience in communication and marketing in the role of Vice Director of Communication at Sungroup Corporation, Senior Executive at Techcombank, and PR manager at VTC Online. She holds a Master’s degree in Marketing, Sales and Services (MMSS) from Sorbonne Business School (Pantheon-Sorbonne University) and ESCP Europe.

Charles Perreault – IT Director at Fonds de solidarité FTQ

Charles Perreault is a manager with a proven track record of over 25 years in business and IT strategy, managing large IT teams and projects/programs/portfolios. After his graduate studies in Management at HEC Montreal, he has been a leader of innovative IT teams that are client-focused and results-driven. His rich experience across various industries (from tech to finance) and organizational sizes (from start-ups to large corporations) gives him a broad perspective on a business’ merits and challenges. Being passionate about the social contribution of organizations, he is even more so about the creativity of entrepreneurs who are trying to make the world better.

Christopher Rockwell Bent – Piccles

Chris Bent was born an entrepreneur. He has started businesses to scratch his creative itch. He became obsessed with creativity when he got his first soul-crushing corporate job that had no outlet for creative expression. Winner of the MIT Creative Arts Competition, Chris is now building a collaborative drawing experience and is passionate about helping others reach their creative potential. He is the Founder of Piccles, an audience response platform to percolate ideas, collect sentiment or create “just have fun” events for human resources managers, event planners, and experiential marketers.

Christian Alan Acosta Terán – Universidad Veracruzana

Christian Alan Acosta Terán holds a degree in computing systems and a master’s degree in computer sciences. He is currently working for the faculty of medicine at the Universidad Veracruzana. Feeding a passion for social innovation and self-achievement, Christian dedicates his own time to the coaching and the development of promising entrepreneurs..

Christian Dominique – President of Dominique Strategic Consulting

He has been the president of Dominique Strategic Consulting since 2013 and is a digital health expert, having worked extensively with both healthcare (hospitals, biotech and pharma) and IT (software, hardware, EMR, ERP, CRM, AI, blockchain) and combining the two disciplines. He attended and spoke at various IT and healthcare conferences around the world, including Asia Economy TV. Christian Dominique did his MBA in international business in 2004 at HEC Montreal and his BSc in Physiology at McGill University in 2000. He has traveled and worked in more than 100 countries and brought a strong international business component to strategic management.

Connie Linder – CEO and Founder — Intengine Enterprises, Inc.

As an entrepreneur and business strategist, Connie is recognized as one of Canada’s top leaders and sustainability professionals and has been involved with helping develop successful companies in the clean energy space. She has mentored hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs through the Women’s Enterprise Centre, the University of British Columbia, the Minerva Foundation for BC Women, and the Women’s Executive Network. For her work, Connie has received numerous awards, including the TECHGREEN Award from the Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of BC, the Women of Worth Sustainable Living Award, a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Minerva Leadership Award, the BC Innovation Council’s New Ventures Award, and she was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women as a Trailblazer/Trendsetter.

Coryell Boffy – Senior Director, Society and Culture at Axelys

Coryell Boffy is a unifying leader with more than 10 years of experience in building collaborations and partnerships between governments, non-profit organizations, academic institutions and businesses, at the local and international levels. He is specialized in governance, corporate strategy and C-Level consulting in a broad range of industries.

Daniel Caissy – Senior Manager, Wealth Management Solution Architecture at National Bank of Canada

Daniel Caissy is an IT executive with a track record in innovation, social business start-ups and coaching. He is involved in the start-up and innovation community since 2004 and is responsible for 3 start-ups, including 1 with an international and social aim. He has completed the Strategic Innovation program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In his career, he occupied different roles in business development, corporate management, and technology fields, in different industries such as banking, investments, energy, transportation, governments, retail, and sports. He is currently mentoring small social businesses that have a positive impact in the community.

Đào Thị Diệu Linh – Head of the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Ms. Dao Thi Dieu Linh (Ph.D.) – Head of the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Ulis, VNU). Her research and teaching interest is mental health, educational psychology, teaching methods, training employable skills, creative thinking, Design Thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurship for students. She has conducted many pieces of training on life skills for children/youth, and many ToT life skill training courses for teachers. She is now working actively in the psychology field and developing a network of entrepreneurial educators within VNU and between VNU with other Institutes/companies.

Davender Gupta – Industrial Technology AdvisorIndustrial Technology Advisor at National Research Council Canada

Davender Gupta is an Industrial Technology Advisor with Canada’s National Research Council, providing advice and funding for growing companies that leverage innovation to create impact. In addition, Davender teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Quebec at Montreal School of Management Sciences and lectures at the Baccalaureat and Master levels at business schools in France. His passion is to guide entrepreneurs to realize their vision in these unpredictable times by developing the knowledge, skills, and confidence to think and act strategically. His first career was as an aerospace research and development engineer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. For a second career, he founded and grew a technology startup in digital imaging. Davender’s third career, for more than 20 years, is as a coach, mentor, and trainer of startups, building an international reputation for excellence. He has started several startup programs across Canada and is a facilitator and mentor for Startup Weekend. Davender has a specific interest in how startups transition from developing innovation to deploying it in the market. He Davender holds an Executive MBA from McGill-HEC Montreal, an MSc from the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology, a BEng from Royal Military College of Canada, and advanced certificates in entrepreneur development from MIT-Sloan School of Management and Babson College.

Denis Gregoire – Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montréal

Denis A. Grégoire is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal, where he also holds the Rogers-J.A.-Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship Research. His current research centers on the cognitive processes supporting 1) the identification of entrepreneurial, strategic and international opportunities, 2) entrepreneurs’ decision to expand their firm’s activities in foreign markets (international entrepreneurship), and 3) the contribution of business angels and other early-stage investors to the launch and growth of entrepreneurial ventures. Prior to returning to HEC, Denis was a Faculty at Georgia State University (Atlanta) and Syracuse University, where he was primarily teaching MBA courses in strategy and entrepreneurship. At HEC Montréal, he primarily teaches graduate courses in research methods. He also teaches the MBA course sequence in the Creative Destruction Lab – Montreal, a seed-stage program for massively scalable, AI-focused companies. He also acts as the Research and Selection Lead within this Program.

Diana Hernández Serrano – Universidad Veracruzana

A doctoral student in senior management and certified in positive organizations and positive psychology, Diana Hernández Serrano is specialized in building high-performance sales and talent management teams. For the last 4 years, she is teaching business management and Administration at Universidad Veracruzana. In addition, she offers advisory services for the startup of an educational institution of primary and secondary level in her city. Previously, she worked for 7 years as director of sales and marketing for private educational institutions such as ITESM and TecMilenio. Diana graduated in Administration from UNAM and holds a master’s degree in innovation for business development from the TecVirtual.

Edgar Alfonso Sansores Guerrero – Autonomous University of the State of Quintana Roo (UAEQROO)

Edgar Alfonso Sansores Guerrero is a Doctor in Organizational Studies. He is a Professor at the Autonomous University of the State of Quintana Roo (UAEQROO) and a specialist in experiential teaching methods and gamification. He has served as Director of the Entrepreneurial Business Center and founded the UAEQROO Business Incubator. He has written scientific articles in international journals on entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Business Management. Internationally, he received the Outstanding Research Award from the Institute of Business and Financial Research. He collaborated at the Small Business Development Center at Buffalo State College and at the Mauricio Gastón Institute at UMass-Boston.

Edna Dolores Rosas Huerta – Professor in the Naval Architecture Program, Universidad Veracruzana

Edna Dolores Rosas Huerta is a Professor of Naval Engineering at the Universidad Veracruzana and Internationalization Coordinator of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Sciences. Edna Dolores has extensive experience in shipbuilding management, including the construction of offshore platforms, in national and international contexts. As a project director, she oversaw the first project to convert a chemical tanker to an FPSO (petroleum processing) vessel carried out in Mexico.

Elisa Pereira Murad – Federal University of Lavras

Elisa Pereira Murad is a PhD candidate in Business Administration at the Federal University of Lavras – Brazil, and Social Entrepreneurship Researcher, with ten years of experience in this field. She works as a management consultant for Civil Society Organizations, supporting strategic planning, diagnosis and project development, as well as providing mentoring for managers. She has a huge passion for education and social entrepreneurial actions, and created a initiative called “Liaes”, to share knowledge about Social Entrepreneurship Education, in order to help, educate and inspire students, educators and social entrepreneurs.

Elsa Bruyère – Fabrique_A

Passionate about innovation, Elsa Bruyère has been working for several years as a consultant and entrepreneur in the Montreal ecosystem. She has participated as a speaker and coach in several events including Startup Fest, Events Business (Innovation Management), Parcours innovation PME ville de Montréal, Conference on major cities, Movin’on Michelin and the Table des livings labs de TechnoMontréal. In addition, Elsa has accumulated a decade of experience in large organizations, for industrial and service groups, in contexts of organizational fusion and transformation. Her entrepreneurial spirit gave birth, with other partners, to Fabrique_A, Fabrique des Mobilités Québec (FabMobQc), Katapult and Bleu Blanc Tech, Montreal Hub of the French Tech label.

Estela Del Carmen Fernández Rodríguez – Professor at the Faculty of Electric mechanic engineering, Universidad Veracruzana

Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez has been involved in social innovation and entrepreneurship since 1977. Notably, she contributes as a facilitator for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a member of the WAGGGS, and a mentor and coach of SBC living labs. In addition, she is a professor at the Universidad Veracruzana where she teaches Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Sciences, and Applied Sciences. As coordinator of the University’s affairs department, Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez is also responsible for the relationship between the University and the industry sectors, including the government entities and the community projects.

Fabian Vicente Moreno, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montreal

Hồ Thị Hải Thuỳ – University of Economics

Hồ Thị Hải Thuỳ is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Economics with a high interest in sustainable development. She graduated from Queensland University of Technology (Australia) with a master’s degree in Marketing. Thuy currently works as lecturer of Marketing and Intellectual Property at the Foreign Trade University, in Vietnam. With more than 10 years of passionate involvement in education, she has been always trying to deliver qualified lessons to students and support them in the participation of different business competitions such as Young Spikes, Student Research Competition and Nielsen Case Competition.

Hoàng Nhật Trường – VNUHCM – University of Science, Vietnam

Mr. Truong is a Master of Management of Natural Resources and Environment at Institute for Environment and Resources and a Bachelor of Environmental Science in VNUHCM – University of Science, Vietnam. His main fields of research include renewable energy and environmental restoration. His main skills include Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM), Multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), Geographic information system (GIS), Modeling environmental quality, Renewable Energy resources and Sustainable Development.

Hoàng Thị Bích Thủy – Professor and Head of the Department of Electrochemistry and Corrosion Protection and Head of Dynamic Lab for Innovation and Transformational Entrepreneurship (D-Lab), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Assoc. Prof. Hoang Thi Bich Thuy has more than 25 years of teaching and doing research in the field of electrochemical engineering at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology. As the Head of the Dynamic Lab for Innovation and Transformational Entrepreneurship (D-Lab), which was established through collaborative projects with the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University, she has been leading large initiatives to transform mindsets and promote entrepreneurship. Currently, she is working on innovative education and transformative entrepreneurship to support the achievement of sustainable development s in Vietnam. She was a mentor, a coach, and a judge in SBC 2021.

Hussein-Elhakim Al Issa – Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montreal

Before joining HEC Montreal as a visiting professor, Dr. Hussein-Elhakim Al Issa taught and did research at A’Sharqiyah University in Oman, Gime American Univesrsity in Turkey, and Tripoli College of Management in Libya. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Universiti Utara Malaysia. His research interests center on applying strategy and business concepts to social changes. His work has been published and presented at national and international conferences and research colloquia, and he currently has several manuscripts under review at leading research journals.

Huỳnh Kim Bảo Trân – Diva Petcare

Huynh has more than eight years of experience in managerial positions in Sales, Trade Marketing, and Customer Experience at multinational FMCG corporations and leading technology companies in Vietnam. Currently, she is the Co-founder and CEO at Diva Petcare Joint Stock Company – the first enterprise in Vietnam to provide premium beauty care products for pets. In 2018, she graduated as the Top Student for the master’s degree in Marketing, Sales & Services program at French-Vietnamese Center for Management (CFVG), a program by ESCP Europe and IAE Paris Sorbonne University. In joining SBC, she contributes to sharing both practical experience and professional knowledge for the youth, as well as guiding teams on how to commercialize their business ideas later.

Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Professor Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt is a postgraduate coordinator of the Faculty of Administration of the Veracruzana University in Veracruz Region. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics, a master’s degree in Finance, and a doctorate degree in Public Finance. With more than 11 years of experience in the field of higher education, his work has focused on issues of economics, finance, entrepreneurship, and foreign trade. Also, he is a member of the academic group called Entrepreneurship, Management and Internationalization and is a member of the International Entrepreneurship Network AFIDE.

Israel Ortiz Vargas – Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Veracruzana

Israel holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Veracruzana University, and a doctorate degree in Education from the Escuela Libre de Ciencias Politicas y Administración Pública de Oriente. Currently a professor at the Veracruzana University, Faculty of Nursing, Veracruz Region, and a collaborator of the Human Development Veracruz, he is responsible for the generation and application of knowledge in health care. With 6 years of work experience in public and private institutions in the health sector. Nurse, member of the College of Nurses of the state of Veracruz, certified as a teacher with a suitability profile endorsed by SEP.

João Miguel Milanez – HEC Montreal

João Miguel Milanez is a Ph.D. candidate at HEC Montreal, part-time lecturer, aspiring Professor in Business. Before the doctoral studies, he had eight years of experience in investment. At RJ Investimentos and Força Trader, he assisted investors in achieving their financial goals through the best financial assets available in the XP Investimentos open platform. His passion is tackling social issues, such as poverty and inequality.

Joel Adams

Joel is a former entrepreneur, policymaker, and media consultant. In 2007, with three co-founders, he launched RJS Spirits and Rhythm liqueur. After exit, he began working with other startups as well as candidates for elected office. Recently, he concurrently led strategy and fundraising for a Techstars-graduate telematics venture and led a statewide education reform organization until joining Kelley’s PhD in Entrepreneurship program shortly after the passage of the landmark legislation he helped craft. Through his research, Joel seeks to advance our understanding of how entrepreneurs’ decisions and behaviors are influenced by their values and visions. His current work explores the nature of commitment and authenticity in entrepreneurs.

Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares – Universidad Veracruzana

A great defender of the social economy and professor at the Faculty of Accounting of the Universidad Veracruzana, Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares teaches economics, international economics, corporate and public finances. Also, he is the founder and general coordinator of the Center for Studies for Business Development (CEDEM). He has developed a strong experience in applying models for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) with a focus on stimulating regional economics. In addition, he widened is influence as a member of many associations such as the Regional Sustainability Commission and the College of Economists of the state of Veracruz A.C.

Jorge Humberto Mejia, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, HEC Montreal

José Andrés Ruiz Blanco – Universidad Veracruzana

Professor José Andrés Ruiz Blanco is an accountant and Ph.D. candidate with a master’s degree in Foreign Trade Administration. He worked in different organizations as manager and developed a strong expertise in bail-bond advisory. Currently, he is a member of the academic corps and an international, mobility and graduate coordinator. In addition, he has authored different articles about foreign trade and contributed as student’s evaluator in a lot of professional works searches.

Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce – Professor at the Chemistry Engineering, Universidad Veracruzana

Dr. Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce is currently teaching at the Universidad Veracruzana. She advocates comprehensive and extended training to equip students with tools and skills for a successful professional and personal life. She graduated with an industrial engineer degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz, completed postgraduate studies in Quality Management, and a Ph.D. in Senior Management. From her twenty-eight years of work experience, sixteen years have been dedicated to developing expertise in quality assurance activities.

Julio Cesar Castañeda Escobar – Co-founder of Turbodega – The winner of SBC2019

Julio has great passion for retail innovation and entrepreneurship. From eight years working in the Consumer Goods and OTC Pharmaceutical industries, he learned that challenging what needs to be fixed is the only way to move forward. From colleagues, partners, and customers, he is driven to consistently create business opportunities. In 2019, he co-founded Turbodega, a software management tool that builds a network of small grocers in emerging countries and tracks their daily-sales in real time to provide them: lower cost of goods, access to fair working capital lines of credit, and data-backed business advice. Julio is a holder of an MBA from McGill University.

Laurent Simon

Laurent Simon is Full Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Co-Director of Mosaic, in the Creativity and Innovation Hub, at HEC Montréal. He conducts research projects on the management of creativity and innovation, with qualitative approaches (ethnography and case studies), in different fields: management of creative projects in the video-game industry, multimedia, software, high-tech firms, manufacturing, aeronautics, advertising and communication, performing arts and cultural organizations, banking and financial services. His present projects focus on the development of techno-creative products, creative contexts, and creative practices and processes, with analyses of creative communities, ideas development, the organization and management of innovation, collaborative innovation, co-design, creative cities and territories, policy design, and public policies for creativity and innovation. The aim of his work is to develop a better understanding of the determinants of creativity in the management of innovation. He is presently coaching and consulting for various organizations, including Ubisoft, Cirque du Soleil, Desjardins, Bombardier, Hydro-Québec research centre, City of Montréal, Chanel parfums et cosmétiques, Adeo Leroy-Merlin, Olymel, the Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation of Quebec; Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec, Ivanohe Cambidge, IACO, and ACI International, in order to help them develop their creative capabilities for innovation. He has published or co-published several scientific papers on the matter.

Lê Hằng Mỹ Hạnh – Foreign Trade University, Ho Chi Minh City

Ms. Le Hang My Hanh holds a master’s degree in Finance & Investment and works as a lecturer and researcher of Microeconomics and Econometrics at Foreign Trade University, Ho Chi Minh City. Her research is in the fields of economics, public finance, and fiscal policy. In addition, she is Chief Advisor of the Youth Economic Club, and used to be the leader of a neighborhood project for charity fundraising. After years of consultancy experience, she has developed a strong knowledge of tax, finance, and startup businesses.

Leticia Murcia López – Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana

Leticia Murcia López is Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana Xalapa region. Primarily teaches tax and accounting classes because she has her master’s degree in tax administration and her doctorate in administrative sciences. She served as coordinator of the accounting degree for four years and currently as coordinator of the university system for business improvement. Her publications are focused on issues of taxes, accounting, sustainability, environmental accounting. She has professional experience in the public and private sectors. With the training about social projects, she has been able to get involved as a judge and has evaluated different projects of great social contribution.

Mabel Gonzalez – Co-founder of Nuestro Flow

Mabel has over 15 years of professional experience in several countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, EEUU, Bolivia & Egypt), working in designing and implementing projects and innovative interventions, advising and managing public and private organizations at the local, national, and international level. She holds a master’s degree in International Economics and Sustainable Development from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin and DESS in Management of Cultural Organisations from HEC Montreal. She is a Co-Founder of @Nuestro Flow, a social enterprise and a platform aimed at promoting equality and diversity. In addition, Mabel is a Senior Advisor, International Relations at the Development Bank of Canada, BDC, where she acts as Head of Operations and Sustainability of The Montreal Group, a global forum for development banks focused on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and I lead the agenda on sustainable finance. Besides business, Mabel has a strong background in performing arts with several years of experience in television, theatre, cinema, and radio as an actress, director, and writer. She is the director and writer of “Mujeres con Todas las Letras,” a popular children’s book recently published to give visibility to inspiring women from Central and South America.

María Esther Fragoso Terán – Director of the Faculty of Accounting and Business, Universidad Veracruzana, and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz

María has a Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration and a master’s degree in International Business. Having worked in different sectors, she has a wide array of skills and a large professional network. For the last 15 years, she has been dedicated to university teaching, working closely with young people, and participating in local, national, and international entrepreneurship competitions. Her outstanding contributions to social entrepreneurship education are widely recognized. She has published numerous articles about social entrepreneurship, the greening model, inclusion, etc. in the International journal “ICERI” in Spain and in the journal “EDULEARN”. She has participated in different panels, conferences, lectures, and congresses at the national level. She was a judge in the Hult Prize Competition and ANFECA. She won the first place with “Trek Hub” Project in the 2017 Edition of the Social Business Creation Competition, the 7th position with “DANDESI” Project in the 2019 Edition, the third place with “Rivers Alive” Project and Top 5 with “OxyCare” Project in the 2021 Edition.

Mariana Silva Ortega – Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Science, Universidad Veracruzana

Mariana Silva Ortega is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Naval Engineering at Universidad Veracruzana. She holds a master’s degree in Naval and Oceanic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo. She teaches at the Faculty of Mechanics and Naval Sciences (FIMCN) at the Universidad Veracruzana (U.V.) and coordinates FIMCN alumni. She is also a coordinator of the Hydrodynamics Academy in the Naval Engineering program. She is a holder of the PRODEP Profile (2021-2023). She participates in the postgraduate program in Applied Engineering of the Universidad Veracruzana, which is recognized within the CONACYT quality postgraduate program. She has published articles in Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, and Vortex Induced Vibration.

Marina Elizabeth Salazar Herrera – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Veracruz University, México

Public accountant and auditor with a master’s degree in administration and a doctorate in organizational studies, Marina is a full-time professor at the Universidad Veracruzana. In more than 25 years of academic work, she has been teaching accounting, finance, computers, and investment in the educational programs of administration and tourism. As a hobby she enjoys sports, traveling and good cooking. Marina loves to do research and publish studies on institutions, organizations, education, and new technologies.

Matthias A. Tietz – University of St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia – Singapore

Prof. Dr. Matthias A. Tietz is an Assistant Professor and leads the Competence Center for Entrepreneurship at the St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia (SGI-HSG), which is the local institute of the University of St.Gallen in Singapore. His research interests are in the area of entrepreneurial decision making, corporate innovation, and business model copycats. As an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and SME Management, Matthias is a member of the School of Management at the University of St.Gallen and teaches on the bachelor and master level. Matthias regularly presents at prestigious international conferences in the fields of entrepreneurship and management, including the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Academy of Management Annual Meetings and the International Council for Small Business Conference. He holds affiliate positions at IE Business School in Madrid where he researched and taught for seven years, as well as at the INDEG ISCTE Institute in Lisbon and the Mediterranean School of Business in Tunis.

Mayssam Daaboul -Instructor at the American University of Science & Technology

Mayssam Daaboul is a managing partner and COO at TeleMedic SAL and a professor at the American University of Science & Technology in Lebanon. With a background in microbiology and biotechnical management, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in business administration to further explore the businesses that act as a fundamental layer in every industry. He has diverse experience in various industries ranging from medical, pharma, online, retail, and NGO, to several other industries. He is a member of the Honorable Regional and Global Judging Committees of the 6th edition of the Social Business Creation competition for the education and development of social entrepreneurs, University of HEC Montreal, Canada.

Naomi Huck Ananou – HEC Montreal

Naomi Huck Ananou is a respected lawyer, holder of two master’s degrees. She teaches law and ethics at HEC. She is a tax expert and has worked for KPMG. Naomi is co-chair of the Jewish General Hospital Youth Charitable Organization, and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for a Tanzanian orphanage she has been involved with for over a decade.

Ngo Ngoc Quang – Foreign Trade University HCMC

Dr. Ngoc Quang Ngo currently works as a lecturer in Finance & Banking at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Ho Chi Minh City, and as a business course developer for the Vietnam – Japanese Institute for Human Resource Development (VJCC). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Europa Viadrina University. In addition, Dr. Ngo is a Certified Coach (ICF), Certified Trainer (S.R.) and a mentor. He has 15 years of experience as an expert and consultant in the field of finance, investment, security market, asset evaluation, and business startup.

Ngô Thị Thanh Vân – Faculty of Foreign Languages, Foreign Trade University

Ngo Thi Thanh Van is a lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Foreign Trade University. An EFL teacher, she has been teaching English to different types of learners with various levels for more than 7 years. With passion, she founded the Channel “Advanced English Lessons” which share knowledge and support English learners. Besides teaching, she has been a mentor in FTU Mentoring Project, Sharing-Mentoring-Inspiring Project, and The ICEBREAKER Season 2 in which her team won the third prize. She is also an administrator at Kitchen for Love Charity Group, Spring Volunteer Campaign, and The SJV South Viet Nam – a global non-governmental organization. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English Linguistics and Literature from Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities and a Master’s of Arts in Linguistics from Benedictine University, USA.

Nguyễn Hoàng Ánh – Associate Professor of FPT School of Business and Technology

Nguyen is an influencer on social media, notably on Facebook with a large number of followers. She is the author of two self–help books (“Living for Happiness” and “Learning to Smile”) and many articles on education, culture, and society on Vietnamnet, VnExpress, Tien Phong, Nhan Dan, Kenh 14, Zing… She has more than 30 years of experience in research and teaching of international business, business ethics, social responsibility, business culture, etc., and used to be a mentor for student projects of SIFE, AIESEC, YRC, LSC (Life Skills Club) on entrepreneurship, anti-corruption in schools and Social Responsibility.

Nguyễn Hồng Ngọc – Lecturer at School of Tourism, UEH University

Ruby (Hong Ngoc) Nguyen holds a Master of Science in Hospitality Administration from Oklahoma State University, the USA, and a Bachelor of Science in International Hospitality Management (First Class Honours) from Sunway University, Malaysia. Her expertise and research interests are primarily in marketing and consumer behaviors, and sustainability and innovation in hospitality and tourism. From experience working in different countries (i.e. Malaysia, Vietnam, and the United States) and in different departments (i.e. food and beverage, sales marketing, and catering and events), she has learned how fascinating the hospitality industry is by virtue of its multiple sectors and

Nguyễn Minh Phúc – Foreign Trade University

Nguyễn Minh Phúc is an experienced lecturer, researcher and project coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the international higher education environment. Before joining Foreign Trade University, he was the chief investigator of the ASEAN-Japan Centre where he worked on issues in global value chains in ASEAN. He also had two years of experience working in major banks in Vietnam. He is skilled in Supply Chains, Logistics, International Trade, and Cargo Insurance. He earned an MSc degree in Supply Chain Management from Aston University in the UK, and a Ph.D. degree in Logistics & Supply Chains from RMIT University in Australia.

Nguyễn Ngọc Quang – Researcher at Hanyang University

Nguyen is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Chemistry – Hanyang University. He works as a Research Assistant at Research Institute for Convergence of Basic Sciences (RICBS – Hanyang University) and Professor Assistant – Hanyang University Business School. Besides, he is an Editor-in-chief Assistant at 2 scientific journals, namely APJIE – Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and MRIJ – Management Review: International Journal. He is fascinated by social entrepreneurs’ work and thus focuses his research on social entrepreneurship.

Nguyễn Phương Chi – Lecturer at Foreign Trade University

Nguyen is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration at Foreign Trade University. She teaches e-commerce, operation management, and management sciences. Her research focuses on digital transformation and business model innovation while covering e-commerce applications, kaizen in enterprises, and management science applications. She has published several articles in journals and contributed several book chapters. She was a judge in Kawai Business Start-up Competition, the year 2019-2021. She has participated in many projects relating to training and consulting for students and enterprises such as training active citizen social enterprise, business planning courses, and consulting RangDong enterprise in selling to the global market.

Nguyen Thi Hai Yen – Center for Higher Education Technology- Science Transfer-Research under Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges (CETSTR at AVU&C)

Ms. Yen Nguyen- Center for Higher Education Technology- Science Transfer-Research under Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges (CETSTR at AVU&C). She oversees partnership engagement and involved in several international cooperation projects to bring impacts in digital transformation to HEIs. Ms. Yen Nguyen has strong experience in both foreign-aid projects and corporate organizations at different roles which was enabled by her training in economics at bachelor’s degree and in sustainable development. Her expertise intersects between managerial-financial management and how synergy can be brought about by innovative and strategic resource planning. She is highly appreciated by the utilization of both tangible assets and intangible assets in every activity she joins as a sustainability practitioner.

Nguyễn Thị Nhật Thu – Lecturer at the Faculty of Chinese language, Foreign Trade University

Dr. Nguyễn Thị Nhật Thu obtained her Ph.D. degree from Foreign Trade University (FTU). Before that, she received a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Business from the same university. She has 16 years of international trade-related experience while working as a lecturer in the Chinese Language Department. She mainly gives lectures on international trade and commodity trade, investment trade, and e-commerce between Vietnam and China. In addition, she is one of the founders and managers of the Talent Development Fund, Chinese Language Department, Foreign Trade University.

Orly Fruchter – Manager at Neurodiverse Initiatives, Azrieli Foundation

Orly Fruchter has over 13 years of experience working in international development and disaster response. With a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA, she specializes in developing sustainable and replicable services and programs for people with disabilities in partnership with governments, academia, service providers, and those with lived experience in Canada and abroad. Orly is currently working for the Azrieli Foundation as Manager of Neurodiverse Initiatives.

Phạm Thị Mai Khanh – Lecturer at the Department of Business and International Trade, Foreign Trade University

Dr. Khanh Pham is a senior lecturer at Foreign Trade University (FTU). She graduated from the University of Melbourne in Tertiary Education Management and earned a master’s degree (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from the University of Turin. She also obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Foreign Trade University. She teaches international investment policies, project management, and intellectual property law to students and executives. Dr. Khanh has gained her experience in facilitating social business projects by serving as an adviser and/or a judge in a number of competitions such as the I.P. Challenge, Hult Prize, and Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge.

Raul Gomez Velasquez – Développement International Desjardins

Raul Gomez Velasquez is a Digital Transformation Advisor at Développement International Desjardins (DID Canada). Besides his main job at Desjardins, Raul is an active participant in international conferences, webinars, discussion forums, and other knowledge-sharing and networking spaces to promote financial inclusion and digital financial services to meet the needs of the most vulnerable with more effective and impactful solutions in the future.

Sheila Beatriz Mikel Sanchez – Universidad Veracruzana

Sheila Beatriz Mikel Sanchez graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a degree in Business Management and currently studying Computer Systems Engineering. She has worked in administration, accounting, as an English-Spanish interpreter, and design. Highly committed to environmental protection and social entrepreneurship, she has been working as a mentor and coach in several entrepreneurial projects. In her free time, she likes to read and improve my knowledge with courses or certifications. Believe technology is our future, we must learn to work with it and find the point of union of our profession with the virtual world. That is why she has decided to complement her studies with a degree in computer systems engineering.

Su Han Moh Aung – Burmese language instructor and co-founder of LANN

Ms. Su Han Moh Aung – freelance instructional designer who works in technology education, burmese language instructor and co-founder of LANN (peer resource center) which focuses on providing quality education. Drawing on her experiences as a current fellow and former participant of the Social Impact Leadership Accelerator at Volunteer in Asia (VIA), an alumni of the Exploring Social Innovation program in San Francisco, an alumni of BossBizz Academy, she is now developing an online program which teaches social entrepreneurship concepts to kids.

Tạ Hương Thảo – Program Manager

Thao is a lean startup coach and impact innovation trainer. She coordinates KisStartup training and coaching activities for hundreds of startups, universities, and organizations all over Vietnam. At the same time, she takes management and training roles in IMPACT F, aiming at providing impact startups with toolsets and a mindset to build a sustainable business model and to measure their social and/or environmental impact. Additionally, Thao manages investment matching activities to connect startups to potential local and regional investors, partners and supporters. Thao wants to contribute to the development of Vietnam’s startup ecosystem by enhancing the capacities of impact startups and developing a strong network of key impact startup ecosystem players, including investors, mentors, coaches, and business development providers.

Thibault Bloyet – Polytechnique Montreal

Thibault Bloyet is a business coach at Polytechnique Montreal. In 2015, along with Haider Miraj, director of Concepts Unlimited incubator in Pakistan, Thibault published a master’s thesis on psychological influences in startup success. Ever since, he has applied his multidisciplinary knowledge across various Montreal-based startup incubators and accelerators (District 3, L’Esplanade, La Piscine, Bonjour Startup Montreal, Polytechnique Montreal). Thibault was also the CEO of Triooo, an eco-conscious food delivery company later sold to Montreal competitor A La Carte Express. Thibault is not only focused on social businesses but also on entrepreneurs themselves as he came to realize that the sum of collective intentions and actions will shape the future of our economy and our planet. His specific business and psychology takeon helped him understand the human dynamics of business creation when he launched his startup in 2017. Thibault has advised 100+ startups at Polytechnique Montréal.

Trần Nguyên Chất – Lecturer at the Division of International Business and Trade, FTU

Dr. Tran Nguyen Chat is an educator with over 18-year experience in lecturing, research, and business consultancy. Her interests cover various themes including international economic integration, trade in services, international business, and export and marketing management. In addition, she is actively involved in various projects related to trade promotion and business consultancy in Ho Chi Minh city.

Trần Thị Bích Hạnh – Head of Business Department in Swinburne Vietnam

Dr. Tran Thi Bich Hanh is the Head of Business Department in Swinburne Vietnam. She received her Ph.D degree in marketing from University of Ulsan, South Korea in 2017. She had rich experiences of teaching marketing courses at FPT University, RMIT University, Vietnam Japan University, International School of Vietnam National University, and University of Ulsan in Korea. Dr. Hanh had several research papers published in top tiered ISI-indexed journals of marketing and business such as Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, and Journal of Management & Organization. She was the principal investigator of 6 research projects, especially a national-level project (NAFOSTED), a ministerial level project, and a JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) project. Besides, Dr. Hanh had experiences as chair of session in international conferences, a reviewer of journals and conferences of business, and an advisor for several research and business-related projects.

Trần Thị Ngọc Diệp – Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer of International University (I.U.)

After getting a Ph.D. degree in Horticulture from Michigan State University in 2018, Dr. Tran Thi Ngoc Diep came back to Vietnam and was assigned as director of the Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer of International University (I.U.) in Ho Chi Minh City. She is also a key coordinator for the Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, Southern Vietnam. In addition, she facilitates the transfer of sustainable and innovative ideas of I.U. faculty, generated by students, into marketable products and services.

Trinh Thi Phan Lan – Professor at the Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University

Trinh Thi Phan Lan – Professor at the Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University
Dr. Trinh Thi Phan Lan is currently interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as the issues related to environmental protection or/and sustainable finance. At presence, she is one of 20 active innovation Ambassadors in the network of innovation educators at Vietnam National University, Hanoi. She is also a member of the Vietnam Personal Financial Network. The value that she pursues is to bring a prosperous and happiness to the Vietnamese people.

Valeria Arellano Delgado – Founder of Afortunada Mente

Valeria Arellano is the founder of Afortunada Mente (“Lucky Mind” in English), a social business that promotes financial education through fun. Also, she is the creator of a board game that trains children and adults in social entrepreneurship, finance, and socioemotional skills. She has won 6 international prizes, including three prizes at the Social Business Creation 2018 and one prize at the International Business Learning Games Competition. She has helped +50,000 families through online courses and her board game in +200 schools working with the Secretary of Education, the Mexican Senate, and other public organizations in Mexico. An SBC coach, judge, and coordinator for Mexico, Valeria works in synergy with public policymakers such as The Senate, and the Secretary of Finance, Education, and Economy in Mexico, to increase social impact. OECD has published her social business as an innovation in public policy.

Veronica Itzel Lopez Castro – Universidad Anahuac

Veronica Itzel Lopez Castro earned a Ph.D. in Business Sciences at Antonio de Nebrija University with a Cum Laude mention and a Masters in Economics and Business and Industrial Engineering Bachelor at Anahuac University. She has been trained in various workshops and programs in entrepreneurship, innovation and education. Over the past 14 years, she has gained wide experience developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem. In this sense, she was in charge of the Business Accelerator at Anahuac University for almost 12 years. She researches and teaches entrepreneurship education and innovation methodologies. She has participated in various consulting projects and has been a mentor and judge for entrepreneurs’ challenges.

Virginia Lagunes Barradas – Universidad Veracruzana

Virginia Lagunes Barradas is Associate Professor at Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Xalapa and Professor at Universidad Veracruzana. She specializes in creating multimedia tools for the generation of logical-mathematical skills, as well as projects based on web and mobile technology linked to satisfying the needs of the productive and service sectors.

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Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores – Universidad Veracruzana

Ana Le My Nga – CEO Hermes Management Co., Ltd

Besides leading Hermes Management, she is also a Vietnam Representative of ABS Group, the worldwide Certification and Technical Verification Organization in Marine & Energy. In this role, she is responsible for managing relationships with worldwide internal partners, ensuring operational excellence, and ensuring that international standards are provided to valued customers in Vietnam.

Ana Luiza Rossato Facco – Lecturer at Universidade de Cruz Alta

Ana Luiza Rossato Facco is an SBC alumnus and recipient of SBC 2021 Most Impactful Educator. At Universidade de Cruz Alta, she teaches Business Administration with a focus on the disciplines of human resources and corporate social responsibility. She is a doctoral candidate and Social Innovation Researcher at Unisinos Business School-Brazil. Drawing on her experience as a Rotary volunteer, AIESEC employee, and Brazilian delegate to the 24th session of the Youth Assembly in Washington DC, she is writing her doctoral thesis on “The scalability of social innovation based on a territorial approach.” For her expertise, she is a member of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Board of Latin America in Emerald Publishing.

Arturo Rivera López – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Bhawna Kumar – Professor and Vice President of Amity Education Group

Bhawna Kumar: Bhawna Kumar – Professor: Professor Bhawna Kumar has worked for over 27 years in strategic management, international business, and entrepreneurship. Currently, she is a senior professor at the Amity International Business School and a vice-president of the Amity Education Group who is strongly associated with the strategic initiatives in the areas of training, consulting, and Internationalization of all its institutions. She has conducted over 60 training programs, workshops, management development programs and has been the chief coordinator of many international conferences. An educationist, innovator, researcher, trainer, writer, and consultant, Professor Bhawna Kumar is passionate about sharing her knowledge for the benefit of the community.

Đào Thị Diệu Linh – Head of the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Diana Hernández Serran – Coordinator of the HUB Social Business Creation at the Universidad Veracruzana

Diana Hernández Serrano: Currently, She is the Coordinator of the HUB Social Business Creation at the Universidad Veracruzana Faculty of Accounting and Business. Another of her activities is giving consultancies for the sales and marketing areas of Educational Institutions and other lines of business. She has served as Director of Sales & MKT for 9 years for private educational institutions such as Tec de Monterrey and TECMILENIO.

Dorthe Brandi – Owner and Executive Advisor of Brandicon

Working as an executive advisor within the fields of Business Development, Corporate Innovation and Commercialization, Dorthe Brandi is an experienced advisor to executive leadership teams, entrepreneurs and business owners. Next to running her own company, Brandicon, she works as a board member, independent advisor/innovator for entrepreneurs and member of the national censor corps for business economics supporting the Danish Universities and the Technical University of Denmark. She currently contributes to the World Guide Foundation with a mission to turn today’s young people into tomorrow’s leaders. Next to this Dorthe Brandi work as Business Development Advisor for SME, External Examiner BSc./ MSc./HD/MBA within the field of Innovation, Marketing, Branding, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Business Development and have more than 10 years of experience in boardrooms. Dorthe Brandi did her Master of Business Administration at the University in Aarhus.

Eber Jardiel Pérez Zúñiga – Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

An academic member of the Faculty of Accounting and Administration in the Audit Area, Eber has authored several books related to the Audit area and chapters in specialized books on auditing and tourism. He has also published scientific articles in national peer-reviewed journals besides presenting papers at International Congresses with publications in extensive memoirs with ISBN. Over the last several years, he has been directing undergraduate and postgraduate studies on issues related to auditing, costs, tourism, and gastronomy.

Edgar Alfonso Sansores Guerrero – Autonomous University of the State of Quintana Roo (UAEQROO)

Edna Dolores Rosas Huerta – Professor in the Naval Architecture Program, Universidad Veracruzana

Elías Michelena – Financial Analyst at RISQ

Elías works as Financial Analyst and Pre-Startup Coordinator at Quebec’s Social Investment Network fund (RISQ) in Canada. He collaborates closely with promoters, support organizations, and other financial partners in enhancing social economy projects (nonprofits and cooperatives) and shaping an adaptive funding strategy for each one. Having been part of social economy projects himself, he finds deep joy in discovering the impact potential of social businesses and in learning every day to better serve them. Elías is also thrilled to keep in touch with HEC Montréal, one of his alma maters, and is currently a CFA candidate.

Erwin Lizarondo – Lecturer at Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Thames International University

Erwin Lizarondo M.A., M.P.P. actively works in the social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Asia. He is a well-sought resource speaker and trainer around Asia on social business strategy, design thinking, and creating impact. He mentors early-stage social enterprises startup on their business plan and marketing strategy. He is a mentor for various organizations such as Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC), Resolution Project, and Silver Lining which are both located in New York. He earned a master’s degree in Public Policy in International Development from Yeungnam University, South Korea, and took his fellowship with GSIH University of Pennsylvania. He is an alumnus of the Social Business Creation Competition from the 2021 Edition.

Estela Del Carmen Fernández Rodríguez – Professor at the Faculty of Electric mechanic engineering, Universidad Veracruzana

Gabriela Garcia Taboada – Professor of Marketing & E-commerce at the Department of Engineering, Universidad Austral, and Professor of Strategy at the School of Economics, Universidad of Buenos Aires

Gabriela Garcia Taboada is an entrepreneur and professor with over 20 years of experience, with the highest commitment in motivating students and companies to build social businesses. Her career went from marketing to business transformation for companies based in Argentina and Mexico. In addition to teaching at universities, she has worked as a marketing manager at La Nacion Newspaper and founded templura.com in 2004, a platform where companies find aid and creative ideas to deliver value-added gifts made by artisans and small producers of specialty food.

Geneviève Beaupré Bérard – Master’s degree in Business Strategy

Geneviève Beaupré Bérard holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Development and Globalization and a Master’s degree in Business Strategy. During her Master’s degree, she worked at Maison de l’innovation sociale on business tools for social entrepreneurs. After graduating, she worked with a startup business developing a strategy to obtain the B-Corp Certification. Curious by nature, Geneviève also holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and has field experience in Senegal working as a journalist reporting on social issues. She now works in e-commerce bridging the gap between social impact and profit.

Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Israel Ortiz Vargas – Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Veracruzana

João Miguel Milanez – Lecturer, HEC Montreal

Miguel is a Ph.D. student and lecturer of Corporate Social Responsibility at HEC Montreal. His research focus is on hybrid organizations, and he is passionate about social responsibility, social impact, and sustainability. Before coming to Canada for his doctoral studies, Miguel was a financial advisor in Brazil, with a focus on developing financial literacy on his clients, teaching them to manage their own investments and understand what happens with their money. Now he is building his career in teaching in Social Issues in Management.

Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce – Professor, Chemistry Engineering, Universidad Veracruzana, México

Leticia Murcia López – Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana

Luis Alberto García Peña – Facultad de Administración Universidad Veracruzana

He is social, enthusiastic and responsible. He currently has 20 years of academic experience, thanks to this, it has allowed him to create a network of more than 10,000 graduates of different generations with whom they have been able to develop, together with some of them, a series of projects for update the contents of their undergraduate and postgraduate study programs; sign academic agreements with them so that students can carry out their professional internships and social service; carry out talks and conferences between graduates and students. So, this opportunity can help the students in order to engage in activities for the benefit of society.

María Del Carmen Meza Tellez – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Professor María del Carmen Meza Tellez holds an MBA at TecMilenio, a bachelor’s degree in Personnel Administration at ITESM, and a diploma for Advisors and Directors of the SBDC of the University of Texas and the Universidad Veracruzana. She is an academic recognized by the Subsecretary of Higher Education of Mexico and the Certified Academic in Administration. She is a certified Instructor and a member of the Association for Training, Research and Development of Entrepreneurship (AFIDE). She has been a trainer for the Business Leadership and Creativity Workshop aimed at micro-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs as well as a teacher in Administration and Human Resources. Her line of research is in Entrepreneurial Intention, Social Entrepreneurs, and Entrepreneurship Education.

María Esther Fragoso Terán – Director of the Faculty of Accounting and Business, Universidad Veracruzana, and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz

Mariana Silva Ortega – Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Science, Universidad Veracruzana

Marina Elizabeth Salazar Herrera – Faculty of Administration, Veracruz University, México

Matthias A. Tietz – University of St. Gallen

Mayssam Daaboul -Instructor at the American University of Science & Technology

Miriam Remess Pérez – Professor atthe Facultad de Ingeniería de la Construcción y el Hábitat de la Universidad Veracruzana

Miriam Remess Pérez is an architect, with a master’s degree in administration (Universidad Veracruzana) and a Ph.D. in Architecture (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). She is a teacher in undergraduate and graduate programs in Architecture and coordinates the Habitability and Sustainable Technology research group. She belongs to the Academic Committee for the Architecture Exam of the National Center for the Evaluation of Higher Education. Throughout her architecture career, she has organized students and teachers in projects for social benefits. She is the co-author of three books and several articles in journals and has carried out research stays abroad.

Naomi Huck-Ananou – HEC Montreal

Ngo Ngoc Quang – Foreign Trade University HCMC

Ngô Thị Thanh Vân –Faculty of Foreign Languages, Foreign Trade University

Nguyen Duc Nhu Nguyen – Senior brand business developer for Scavi

Nguyen Duc Nhu Nguyen: Her name is Nhu Nguyen and she is a Senior brand business developer for Scavi owed by Financière B’Lao. She is an accomplished data analyst for reasonable quotations with maximum customer satisfaction and turnover for each project. She enjoys using her skills to contribute to the exciting technological advances that happen every day and in each social impact project. While in her current position, besides the achievement reached for each season, she used to be a Coach and Mentor for a successful recycling project that goes to the final round in SBC 2021.

Nguyễn Hoàng Ánh – FPT School of Business and Technology

Nguyễn Hồng Ngọc – School of Tourism, UEH University

Nguyễn Ngọc Quang – Hanyang University

Nguyễn Phương Chi – Lecturer at Foreign Trade University

Nguyen Thi Hai Yen – Center for Higher Education Technology- Science Transfer-Research under Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges (CETSTR at AVU&C)

Nguyễn Thị Nhật Thu – Lecturer at the Faculty of Chinese language, Foreign Trade University

Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh – Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility

Ms. Nguyen Quynh has wide experience in Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility. Starting her career in Carlsberg Indochina as a Communication Executive taking charge of communication of the company in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand market after graduating from Keele University, United Kingdom with an MA in Marketing Management. Personally, she has also actively joined to support social initiatives such as House Vision, Docomomovietnam, Hanoi Alumni Mentoring,… While participating in social responsible activities, Nguyen Quynh has specially got interest in Sustainable development and Circular economy and has got certification for “Sustainable Economy and Circular economy” by Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK.

Nguyen Thu Hang – Lecture at Foreign Trade University

Dr. Nguyễn Thu Hằng obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Before that, she received a master’s degree from the Leeds Metropolitan University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Business from Foreign Trade University (FTU). She has 14 years of international trade related experience as teacher and subject matter expert for projects from UNDP, GIZ, and ITC. Currently, she works as lecturer at Foreign Trade University, and is the Director of Training and Development Section of FTU Innovation and Incubation Space (FIIS). Also, she is the national coordinator of the Vietnam Hub of Social Business Creation.

Orly Fruchter – Manager at Neurodiverse Initiatives, Azrieli Foundation

Phạm Thị Mai Khanh – Foreign Trade University

Dr. Khanh Pham is a senior lecturer at Foreign Trade University (FTU). She graduated from the University of Melbourne in Tertiary Education Management, received a master’s degree (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from the University of Turin, and obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Foreign Trade University. She teaches international investment policies, project management and intellectual property law to students and executives. Dr. Khanh has gained her experience of facilitating social business projects by serving as an adviser and/or a judge in a number of competitions such as I.P. Challenge, Hult Prize, and Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge.

Phan Hồng Giang – Lecturer, Investor, Innovation Coach, Startup Mentor

Phan Hồng Giang was awarded the Vietnam National University’s “Innovative Educator” awards in 2020 and 2021 and Social Business Creation’s “Most Impactful Educator” award in 2021. She is an investor, an innovation coach, a startup mentor, and an advisor for social projects including women’s development projects, community projects, and ethnic-minority-based projects. In addition, he co-founded Redmoon Kindergarten.

Phan Nam – FPT School

Mr. Nam Phan is a Business and Career Readiness Teacher at FPT School, Danang, Vietnam, who is passionate in Future workforce, Experiential Education, and Training. He is currently doing extensive individual research to find out How to provide the necessary skills to help VNA students of all ages catch up requirements of the international workforce in the 4.0 Industry Revolution. His top skills include Management and Leadership.

Raul Gomez Velasquez – Développement International Desjardins

Salomé Pérez Prieto – Universidad Veracruzana

Salomé Pérez Prieto is a graduate in international business and holds a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is passionate about teaching and her family. She is proud to be a woman who was born and raised in a family of loving and hard-working parents who transferred their human values to their four daughters, including the benefits of teamwork and the importance of including those in need, with a commitment to equity and caring for the planet.

Sheila Beatriz Mikel Sanchez – Universidad Veracruzana

Stephanie Theriault – Senior Manager Retail Lending, Scotiabank, Canada

Experienced Senior Lending Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Credit, Communication, Customer Satisfaction, Sales, and People Management. Strong people leader with a DESS focused in Management from HEC Montréal.

Su Han Moh Aung – Burmese language instructor and co-founder of LANN

Tạ Hương Thảo – Program Manager

Trần Minh Tùng – Business lecturer at Swinburne Vietnam

Tran Minh Tung gains a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA Degree) in Marketing Management from University of Technology and Management (UITM), Poland and a Master’s of Science in Business Information Systems from Heilbronn University, German. He is the Founder of EDUTab Academy which is his start-up project in education. He is currently Director of Academic cum Business Lecturer at Swinburne Vietnam – Danang Campus, Vietnam. He has over 16 years of work experience and over 11 years in teaching and sharing at both over 40 Enterprises and over 22 Higher Educational Institutions in Vietnam. His research interests are in Marketing, Marketing in Higher Education, Innovation Teaching Methodology, Data Driven Marketing, Information Systems, Standards Based Curriculum, Experience Learning and Gamification.

Trần Nguyên Chất – Lecturer at the Division of International Business and Trade, FTU

Dr. Tran Nguyen Chat is an educator with over 18-year experience in lecturing, research, and business consultancy.  Her interests cover various themes including international economic integration, trade in services, international business, and export and marketing management.  In addition, she is actively involved in various projects related to trade promotion and business consultancy in Ho Chi Minh city.

Trần Thị Bích Hạnh – Head of Business Department in Swinburne Vietnam

Dr. Tran Thi Bich Hanh is the Head of Business Department in Swinburne Vietnam. She received her Ph.D degree in marketing from University of Ulsan, South Korea in 2017. She had rich experiences of teaching marketing courses at FPT University, RMIT University, Vietnam Japan University, International School of Vietnam National University, and University of Ulsan in Korea. Dr. Hanh had several research papers published in top tiered ISI-indexed journals of
marketing and business such as Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, and Journal of Management & Organization. She was the principal investigator of 6 research projects, especially a national-level project (NAFOSTED), a ministerial level project, and a JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) project. Besides, Dr. Hanh had experiences as chair of session in international conferences, a reviewer of journals and conferences of business, and an advisor for several research and business-related projects.

Trần Thị Ngọc Diệp – Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer of International University (I.U.)

Trần Thị Trang Ly – International Programs Coordinator at the Faculty of International Education, Foreign Trade University

Ms. Tran Thi Trang Ly is the International Programs Coordinator at the Faculty of International Education, Foreign Trade University. She has a decade of experience working in the field of international education in order to enable students in Vietnam to easily get access to qualified programs and degrees. She works with students and schools alike, from a multitude of countries and has taken on the role as the voice of the faculty in partner negotiations with prestigious Universities worldwide. She also a member of the Youth Assembly at Foreign Trade University. She is very energetic and very knowledgeable in the sphere of international education, helping students complete their university degrees all while always being bubbly, easy to approach and positive. Apart from academic works, she is an expert in public relations field with impeccable public speaking skills.

Trinh Thi Phan Lan – Professor at the Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University

Trịnh Thị Phan Lan – Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University
Dr. Trinh Thi Phan Lan is Professor at the Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University . She is currently interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as the issues related to environmental protection or/and sustainable finance. At presence, she is one of 20 active innovation Ambassadors in the network of innovation educators at Vietnam National University, Hanoi. She is also a member of the Vietnam Personal Financial Network. The value that she pursues is to bring a prosperous and happiness to the Vietnamese people.

Valeria Arellano Delgado – Founder of Afortunada Mente

Yesenia Janeth Juárez Juárez – Teacher at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana

In her academic background, she is a Doctor of Administration, Master of Administration, Bachelor of Economics and Administration from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (U.M.S.N.H). She currently works as a teacher at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana campus Coatzacoalcos. She has participated in the updating of current plans and study programs of the Bachelor of Administration and Accounting and has participated as a speaker in national and international conferences. She is a collaborator of the Academic Body in Consolidation Economy of knowledge and innovation.

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Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores – Universidad Veracruzana

Candidate for an engineering Ph.D. in emerging technologies, Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores is a naval engineer who developed strong expertise in quality assurance and ISO 14 001 advisory. Notably, she has worked in AUGUSA, Astilleros. She graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a master’s degree in educational technologies. She currently contributes to the Universidad Veracruzana by teaching the Offshore Specialty and coordinating Naval Engineering Career. In addition, she works as a coordinator and instructor for tutors involved in distance education in TECNM. She has been an SBC coach (2019-2022) with trainer certification (Social Innovation Generation at the associate Level and Business Model Innovation at the expert level). She won the best project prize in “24 hours of innovation Montreal”, “CORE Maritime Sector”, “2018 Distinguished Engineer AMIME”, and “SBC 2021 Most Impactful Educator Award”. She is the Founder group Young Women Naval Engineers and Young Naval Architects Mexico, a member of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA), a Member of WISTA Mexico, a member of Cátedra de Mujeres en la Ciencia y la Tecnología, and a representative of the Diversity Committee. She is also the creator of a maritime ambassador and mentor program for women’s empowerment in naval, maritime & port sectors.

Ana Le My Nga – CEO Hermes Management Co., Ltd

Ana Luiza Rossato Facco – Lecturer at Universidade de Cruz Alta

Ana Luiza Rossato Facco is an SBC alumnus and recipient of SBC 2021 Most Impactful Educator. At Universidade de Cruz Alta, she teaches Business Administration with a focus on the disciplines of human resources and corporate social responsibility. She is a doctoral candidate and Social Innovation Researcher at Unisinos Business School-Brazil. Drawing on her experience as a Rotary volunteer, AIESEC employee, and Brazilian delegate to the 24th session of the Youth Assembly in Washington DC, she is writing her doctoral thesis on “The scalability of social innovation based on a territorial approach.” For her expertise, she is a member of the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Board of Latin America in Emerald Publishing.

Arturo Rivera López – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Aura Leonora Mora Sánchez – Universidad Veracruzana

She’s a dentist with a master degree in Oral Rehabilitation and has a doctorate in Education. She has taught at the faculty of Dentistry of the “Universidad Veracruzana” in Mexico since 2011. At the University there are some programs where community service is done, for example, a campaign to take care of oral health and preventive care. She also has her own private practice.

Bhawna Kumar – Professor and Vice President of Amity Education Group

Đào Thị Diệu Linh – Head of the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Diana Hernández Serrano – Coordinator of the HUB Social Business Creation at the Universidad Veracruzana Faculty of Accounting and Business

Do Thi Huong Thao – Founder and CEO of VinaStraws J.S.C

Ms. Do Thi Huong Thao is founder and CEO of VinaStraws J.S.C, a company who produce cereal straws to replace plastic straws. She has almost 20 years experience in doing business with foreigners. She loves the environment and would like to do something good for the earth like planting trees and producing eco-friendly products. She would like to spread the green living lifestyle to more and more people.

Dorthe Brandi – Owner and Executive Advisor of Brandicon

Eber Jardiel Pérez Zúñiga – Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Edgar Alfonso Sansores Guerrero – Autonomous University of the State of Quintana Roo (UAEQROO)

Edna Dolores Rosas Huerta – Professor in the Naval Architecture Program, Universidad Veracruzana

Elías Michelena – Financial Analyst at RISQ

Emilie Abdallah – Private Sector Recovery officer, CESVI, Lebanon

Emilie Abdallah has more than 20 years of work experience since she started her journey as a young salesperson with a passion to learn and an eagerness for knowledge. While struggling in the civil war and facing lots of challenges to receive an academic degree, she decided not to miss any chance to have self-learning and self-studies. She jumped between Gulf countries (UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain) and worked in different sectors not missing a chance of gaining experience but also leaving a positive impact with successful achievements.

Enrique Contreras Torres – ECT AGENCY

Great skill in problem-solving, leadership, bachelor’s degree in Business Entertainment. He is a Co-founder of Biobook and CEO of ECT AGENCY. Good with teamwork and time management and adaptable to work in diverse environments, he has been an element of change in several social projects.

Erwin Lizarondo – Lecturer at Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Thames International University

Estela Del Carmen Fernández Rodríguez – Professor at the Faculty of Electric mechanic engineering, Universidad Veracruzana

Flora Moreno Marín – Oral Rehabilitation

She is a Dentist expert in Oral Rehabilitation, she is interested in being able to achieve something in the areas of gender equity and sustainability.

Gloria Del Rocío Ibargüen Ramón – Professor at the Faculty of Education and Language Center, Universidad Veracruzana

Gloria del Rocío Ibargüen Ramón graduated in Pedagogy and in Teaching English as a Foreign Language with a master’s degree in Education. She also holds a Master of Education Basing in Innovation & Educational Technologies. She has been working in the education sector since 1991. An English professor at the Language Center and Faculties at the Universidad Veracruzana in Veracruz, Mexico, her academic interests are in teachers’ training, educational innovation, and sustainability.

Hoang Ngoc Nhung – Head of the Department of Science and Technology of HUTECH

Dr. Nhung Hoang is the Head of the Department of Science and Technology of HUTECH. She teaches Project Design with a focus on how to help students discover social problems, find causes, provide solutions and commercialize those solutions. She has her own project helping to solve sustainable consumption and environmental protection that win at the IIA 2021 (Leipzig University, Germany) and Top 9 Seed Planter (Canada).

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Huynh Hong Mai – Deputy Director of Nguyen Tat Thanh University’s Innovation and Incubation Center (NIIC)

Ms. Huynh Hong Mai holds a Master’s Degree of Economics at Ho Chi Minh city University of Economics, Vietnam. She also owns two Bachelor’s Degrees in Business Administration and Biology. She is currently Deputy Director of Nguyen Tat Thanh University’s Innovation and Incubation Center (NIIC). She has many experiences in teaching and training entrepreneurship at colleges, universities, businesses in Vietnam, and the Founder of Company FreshDeli specializing in manufacturing and distributing cheese and pizza. Since 2015, she has been the Facilitator of the SEA Universities Partnership Program, which creates a network of leaders, lecturers and students exchange between universities and vocational colleges of Vietnam with universities in ASEAN Region and with Chinese Universities. She is a trainer of multiple areas such as Soft Skills, Possitive and Creative Thinking, Entrepreneurship Skill, Presentation Skill, Teamwork Skill, Communication Skill, Time Management, etc.

Huynh Kim Bao Tran – CEO, Diva Petcare

Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Israel Ortiz Vargas – Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Veracruzana

João Miguel Milanez – Lecturer, HEC Montreal

José Andrés Ruiz Blanco – Accountant and Ph.D. candidate with a master’s degree in Foreign Trade Administration

Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce – Professor at the Chemistry Engineering, Universidad Veracruzana

Laura Roesch Ramos – Director and professor at Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Faculty of Dentistry

Dr. Laura Roesch Ramos – Director and professor at Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Faculty of Dentistry. She teaches Research Methodology and Receptional Experience. She is Doctorate in Legal, Administrative and Educational Sciences and a Master’s Degree in Integral Stomatology. She currently supports the Sustainability and Entrepreneurship project of the Faculty of Dentistry and is working on a thesis on “physical properties of dental cements”.

Le Thi Thanh Hoa – Director of AAG Vietnam Consulting and Training Company Limited

Ms Hoa Le is director of AAG Vietnam Consulting and Training Company Limited. Currently she specializes in consulting enterprise management. She is a financial advisor for CEOs; installs and analyses business projects as well as evaluates their feasibility, advises on the duration of project implementation, data analysis; training employees for local enterprises in the field of finance, enterprise accounting… CFO: Financial director for companies including manufacturers, commercers, services, construction, investment.

Leticia Murcia López – Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Universidad Veracruzana

Maria Alejandra Buitrago Solis –

María Del Carmen Meza Tellez – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Universidad Veracruzana

Maria Del Pilar Ledesma Velazquez – Pediatric Dentist and has a Doctorate in Education

She is a Pediatric Dentist and has a Doctorate in Education. She has been teaching for more than 18 years in public and private universities. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Dentistry at the Universidad Veracruzana, author of several international publications. She is an evaluator for public and private universities. She was involved in the Rotary youth exchange program.Participate in sustainability projects.

María Esther Fragoso Terán – Director of the Faculty of Accounting and Business, Universidad Veracruzana, and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz

Mariana Silva Ortega – Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Science, Universidad Veracruzana

Marina Elizabeth Salazar Herrera – Professor at the Faculty of Administration, Veracruz University, México

Marisol Pérez Mugica – Professor at the Business and Accounting Faculty, Universidad Veracruzana

Marisol is a professor at Universidad Veracruzana working in technological aspects related to instruction and education aside from accounting, business, and marketing updates. She has two bachelor’s degrees in Electronics and Accounting and holds master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Business. She has obtained over 10 years of experience teaching in schools of higher education and 8 years working in the supply chain and logistics business. She is an active collaborator in a UV academic group and promotes integral education in students.

Mayssam Daaboul -Instructor at the American University of Science & Technology

Michelle Clement – Professor at School of Business, Camosun College

Michelle holds a BA and MBA from the University of Victoria in BC and a Doctorate of Education in social entrepreneurship from the University of Liverpool. Her dissertation is on social entrepreneurship and signature pedagogy. Michelle joined Camosun in 2005 after 15 years with Procter & Gamble specializing in sales and marketing. She has a passion for working within the community and helping launch socially enterprising ideas. She lives in beautiful British Columbia where you can find her outdoors year-round embracing the beauty of nature and bringing sustainability into her teaching practice.

Miriam Remess Pérez – Professor at the Facultad de Ingeniería de la Construcción y el Hábitat de la Universidad Veracruzana

Nguyễn Hoàng Ánh – Associate Professor of FPT School of Business and Technology

Nguyễn Hồng Ngọc – Lecturer at School of Tourism, UEH University

Nguyen Minh Phuong – Lecturer at Foreign Trade University

Ms. Phuong is currently a lecturer at Foreign Trade University. Her focused fields of research include international trade, trade agreements, trade policy and international business. She holds a Master of Science Degree with Merit in International Business Management, University of Sunderland London, United Kingdom. She has diverse working experiences both in the United Kingdom and in Vietnam.

Nguyễn Ngọc Quang – Researcher at Hanyang University

Nguyễn Phương Chi – Lecturer at Foreign Trade University

Nguyễn Quang Linh – Lecturer in the field of Intellectual Property and International Trade Policy at Foreign Trade University

Mr. Nguyen Quang Linh is currently a Lecturer in the field of Intellectual Property and International Trade Policy at Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. He is a double – major graduate in the fields of International Business Economic and International Trade Law. Mr Linh has great knowledge of Import-Export strategy, Business Strategy and Legal Consultation.

Nguyen Thi Hai Yen – Center for Higher Education Technology- Science Transfer-Research under Association of Vietnam Universities and Colleges (CETSTR at AVU&C)

Nguyễn Thị Nhật Thu – Lecturer at the Faculty of Chinese language, Foreign Trade University

Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh – Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility

Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen – Lecturer and Researcher at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen has more than 10 years of teaching and doing research at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. Her research focuses on the electrochemical sensor, metal surface treatment technology and metal recovery and environmental treatment by electrochemical technique. She also has experience in manufacturing management and technology consulting. She is the member of the Dynamic Lab for Innovation and Transformational Entrepreneurship (D-Lab), which was established through collaborative projects with the International Centre Transformational Entrepreneurship, for Coventry University. Currently, she is working on innovative education and transformative entrepreneurship to support the achievement sustainable of development goals in Vietnam.

Nguyen Thu Hang – Lecturer at Foreign Trade University

Norma Patricia González Riego – Docente at Área de Formación Básica General, Universidad Veracruzana

Norma is a professor of Entrepreneurial Development and Social Responsibility at UVM online, CDMX: Master in Business Administration with studies in Quality and Productivity. Besides her more than 10 years of teaching experience, she works as a Commercial Managers, Communication Coordinator and Text Reviewer in companies that are dedicated to the implementation of advertising campaigns.

Orly Fruchter – Manager at Neurodiverse Initiatives, Azrieli Foundation

Patricia Michelena – Partner Success Manager, Startup Grind

Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Patricia is a proud Latina passionate about equity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and using technology for social impact. She has a background in PR and communications and has worked in marketing, operations, and product management at national, regional, and global levels. Her experience on over 4 continents has challenged her perspectives and taught her the importance of diversity and multicultural understanding. After spending a year working as a technical project manager at Flyt, part of Just Eat Takeaway group, she recently joined Startup Grind, the largest global network for entrepreneurs, as a Partner Success Manager.

Phạm Hoàng Long Biên – Head of English Division, Faculty of English Language Education, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi</

Phạm Hoàng Long Biên is currently the Head of English Division 1, University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. She has strong experience in teaching and mentoring students in Creativity and Entrepreneurship courses in ULIS, VNU. She holds a diploma in Creativity and Entrepreneurship for Educators at the University of Dublin, Ireland.

Phạm Thị Mai Khanh – Lecturer at the Department of Business and International Trade, Foreign Trade University

Phan Hồng Giang – Lecturer, Investor, Innovation Coach, Startup Mentor

Phan Thị Thu Hiền – Professor at the Department of International Business, School of Economics and International Business Phan Thị Thu Hiền – Professor at the Department of International Business, School of Economics and International Business

Associate Professor Dr. Thi Thu Hien Phan is a senior lecturer of international business and cross-border trade at the Vietnam Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. She worked as a specialist in international business in the automobile industry in Vietnam before her academic career. She is a known expert on international trade transactions and customs affairs. She has been not only lecturing at her university but also training and supervising Vietnam’s business community and customs officers. She is an active researcher in cross-border trade in Vietnam with projects in illicit trade, informal trade and customs in Vietnam, trade costs of Vietnamese enterprises, and timber value chains in Vietnam.

Phan Nam – FPT School

Raul Gomez Velasquez – Développement International Desjardins

Rosa Isela Aguilar Castillo – Professor at the Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Xalapa, Universidad Veracruzana

She is teaches graduate in Accounting, Administration; Master in Auditing and Doctor in Legal, Administrative and Educational Sciences. expert in issues related to administration, management, ethics, and auditing. With various investigations, book chapters, and papers. With ten years of professional experience and eight in teaching. Rosa has strong national and international links.

Salome Perez Prieto – Professor, Faculty of Accounting and Business, Universidad Veracruzana

Salomé Pérez Prieto is a graduate in international business and holds a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is passionate about teaching and her family. She is proud to be a woman who was born and raised in a family of loving and hard-working parents who transferred their human values to their four daughters, including the benefits of teamwork and the importance to include those in need, with a commitment to equity and caring for the planet. Over the past years, she has been contributing to social projects as a coach and mentor and following extensive training to be an effective agent of change.

Sheila Beatriz Mikel Sanchez

Stephanie Theriault – Senior Manager Retail Lending, Scotiabank, Canada

>Steve Lamoureux – Senior Architect, Desjardins Group, Montréal, Canada

Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences and has been working for Desjardins Group for more than 25 years. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, environment, and technology, and has proven his leadership in developing innovative solutions that address a social or financial problem. In addition, Steve had the opportunity to act as a judge in different competitions over the past 30 years. From computer-animated short films to environment-led challenges, and passing by financial-oriented competitions, every subject drives his passion and interest.

Su Han Moh Aung – Burmese language instructor and co-founder of LANN

Tạ Hương Thảo – Program Manager

Tania Karely Castellanos Arévalo – Consulting services

She is a Mechanical Engineer with experience in leadership of social projects, mechanical structures, and thermodynamics. Committed to creating positive social impacts in society, she believes that social business is the right way to solve problems in our environment.

Thái Bình An Khang – Startup Support Specialist of Nguyen Tat Thanh University

He is working as a Marketing Executive in an Agency and Client in F&B, Fashion,…Working as a Startup Support Specialist at Nguyen Tat Thanh University..

Trần Minh Tùng – Business Lecturer at Swinburne Vietnam

Trần Thị Trang Ly – International Programs Coordinator at the Faculty of International Education, Foreign Trade University

Trần Nguyên Chất – Lecturer at the Division of International Business and Trade, FTU

Foreign Trade University – Hochiminh City Campus
Dr. Tran Nguyen Chat is an educator with over 18-year experience in lecturing, research, and business consultancy.  Her interests cover various themes including international economic integration, trade in services, international business, and export and marketing management.  In addition, she is actively involved in various projects related to trade promotion and business consultancy in Ho Chi Minh city.

Trinh Thi Phan Lan – Professor at the Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University

Valeria Arellano Delgado – Founder of Afortunada Mente

Valeria Lizette Correa Ávalos –

Professor and researcher at Universidad Veracruzana since 2013, Vania Lizette Correa Ávalos conducts researches on human resources and millennials. In particular, she has published articles on stress and its impact on Mexican organizations, the entrepreneurial potential of students, and the analysis of stakeholders in the teaching performance evaluation process. In addition, she received the Teacher’s Performance Award in 2019 and 2020 by Universidad Veracruzana. Lastly, she was involved in marketing and administration activities in a micro-business for 9 years and collaborated for 5 years to the administrative office of the Faculty of Business of Universidad Veracruzana.

Vũ Thị Bích Hải – Business Strategy, International Economics and Languages

Vũ Thị Bích Hải: Ms. Hai currently owns two Master’s Degree in the fields of English Studies at Hanoi University, Vietnam and International Business at La Trobe University, Australia. She is a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration at Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. She is experienced in Business Strategy, International Economics and Languages.

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Candidate for an engineering PhD in emerging technologies, Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores is a naval engineer who developed strong expertise in quality assurance and ISO 14 001 advisory. Notably, she worked in the company AUGUSA, Astilleros. She graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana and holds a master’s degree in educational technologies. She currently contributes to the Universidad Veracruzana by teaching the Offshore specialty and coordinating Naval Engineering Career. In addition, she works as a coordinator and instructor for tutors involved in distance education in TECNM. Member of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA).
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Ana Luiza Rossato Facco
Ana Luiza Rossato Facco is an assistant professor at Universidade de Cruz Alta where she teaches Business Administration with a focus on the disciplines of human resources and corporate social responsibility. She is a doctoral candidate and Social Innovation Researcher at Unisinos Business School-Brazil. Drawing on her experience as a Rotary volunteer, AIESEC employee, and Brazilian delegate to the 24th session of the Youth Assembly in Washington DC, she is now writing her doctoral thesis on “The scalability of social innovation based on a territorial approach”.
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Arturo López Saldiña
Being an expert in computer sciences and research methodology, Dr. Arturo López Saldiña is teaching information systems at the Faculty of accounting at Universidad Veracruzana. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Computer Sciences and a Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration. Also, he supports micro, small and medium enterprises when they face challenges related to the implementation of their information systems.
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Arturo Rivera López
Arturo Rivera López is a professor at Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. Being an industrial engineer and holding a Bachelor of Administration with an MBA, Arturo has more than 20 years of experience as a manager in various industrial and service companies where he has performed roles such as lead auditor for ISO 9000 quality management systems, advisor and business consultant. Above all, he loves to share his knowledge in order to help his students become successful entrepreneurs.
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Artyom Mamzhiev
Artyom Mamzhiev is a senior business consultant, entrepreneur, and product manager with over 15 years of experience in a highly demanding management consulting environment at both IBM and KPMG. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, transformative innovation, and scaling companies. He has worked with many startups in the US and Canada in framing opportunities, fundraising, marketing, sales, business development, financial modeling, etc. At present, he is working in Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster, which funds ambitious, collaborative technology projects that develop digital products and platforms. DTS is a growing community of more than 1000 organizations. It has a diverse portfolio of over 70 projects and has invested over $200 million so far.

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Bhawna Kumar
Professor Bhawna Kumar has worked for over 27 years in strategic management, international business, and entrepreneurship. Currently, she is a senior professor at the Amity International Business School and a vice-president of the Amity Education Group who is strongly associated with the strategic initiatives in the areas of training, consulting, and Internationalization of all its institutions. She has conducted over 60 training programs, workshops, management development programs and has been the chief coordinator of many international conferences. An educationist, innovator, researcher, trainer, writer, and consultant, Professor Bhawna Kumar is passionate about sharing her knowledge for the benefit of the community.
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Cheryl Perera
Cheryl Perera has been a dedicated member of the Ontario Caregiver Coalition (OCC) for 12 years, Chair of OCC for over 3 years, and, since the fall of 2020, Co-Chair. Prior to becoming Chair of OCC, Cheryl led the Awareness and Communications Working Group for many years. As a caregiver herself, Cheryl is passionate about OCC’s work to help advocate for more supports for family caregivers in Ontario. Cheryl has held senior-level positions in the community health and mental health/developmental services sectors for most of her career. In her current role at Lumenus Community Services, Cheryl has oversight for several enterprise-wide functions in the areas of partnerships, growth, innovation, and organizational excellence. Cheryl holds a MSW from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. The skills she brings to OCC include strategic planning, marketing, business development, and partnership building.
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Christian Alan Acosta Terán
Christian Alan Acosta Terán holds a degree in computing systems and a master’s degree in computer sciences. He is currently working for the faculty of medicine at the Universidad Veracruzana. Feeding a passion in social innovation and self-achievement, Christian dedicates his own time to the coaching and the development of promising entrepreneurs. [/author_info] [/author]

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Christian Dominique
He is the president of Dominique Strategic Consulting since 2013 and is a digital health expert, having worked extensively with both healthcare (hospitals, biotech and pharma) and IT (software, hardware, EMR, ERP, CRM, AI, blockchain) and combining the two disciplines. He attended and spoke at various IT and healthcare conferences around the world, including Asia Economy TV. Christian Dominique did his MBA in international business in 2004 at HEC Montreal and his BSc in Physiology at McGill University in 2000. He has travelled and worked in more than 100 countries and brought a strong international business component to strategic management.
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Diana Hernández Serrano
A doctoral student in senior management and certified in positive organizations and positive psychology, Diana Hernández Serrano is specialized in building high-performance sales and talent management teams. For the last 4 years, she is teaching business management and Administration at Universidad Veracruzana. In addition, she offers advisory services for the startup of an educational institution of primary and secondary level in her city. Previously, she worked for 7 years as director of sales and marketing for private educational institutions such as ITESM and TecMilenio. Diana is graduated in Administration from UNAM and holds a master’s degree in innovation for business development from the TecVirtual.
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Edna Dolores Rosas Huerta
Edna Dolores Rosas Huerta is Professor of Naval Engineering at Universidad Veracruzana and Internationalization Coordinator of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Sciences. Edna Dolores has extensive experience in shipbuilding management, including the construction of offshore platforms, in national and international contexts. As project director, she oversaw the first project to convert a chemical tanker to an FPSO (petroleum processing) vessel carried out in Mexico.
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Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez
Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez has been involved in social innovation and entrepreneurship since 1977. Notably, she contributes as a facilitator for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as a member of the WAGGGS and as a mentor. In addition, she is a professor at the Universidad Veracruzana where she teaches Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Sciences, and Applied Sciences for the Master’s degree. As coordinator of the University’s affairs department, Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez is also responsible for the relationship between the University and the industry sectors, including the government entities and the community projects.
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Hồ Thị Hải Thuỳ
Thuỳ Hồ Thị Hải is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Economics with a high interest in sustainable development. She graduated from Queensland University of Technology (Australia) with a master’s degree in Marketing. Thuy currently works as lecturer of Marketing and Intellectual Property at the Foreign Trade University, in Vietnam. With more than 10 years of passionate involvement in education, she has been always trying to deliver qualified lessons to students and support them in the participation of different business competitions such as Young Spikes, Student Research Competition and Nielsen Case Competition.
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Hoàng Thị Bích Thủy
Associate Professor Hoàng Thị Bích Thủy has more than 20 years of teaching and research in the field of electrochemical engineering at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology. She is also the co-founder and the head of Dynamic Lab for Innovation and Transformational Entrepreneurship (D-Lab). This lab was set up under the UK-VN Higher Education Partnership as the result of a collaboration between the Hanoi University of Science and Technology and Coventry University in the U.K. More recently, she has been working on innovative education and transformative entrepreneurship with the aim of supporting the achievement of sustainable development goals in Vietnam.
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Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt
Professor Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt is a full-time lecturer and postgraduate coordinator of the Faculty of Administration of the Veracruzana University, Veracruz Region. His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in Economics, a master’s degree in Finance and a doctorate in Public Finance. With more than 11 years of experience in the field of higher education, his work has focused on issues of economics, finance, entrepreneurship and foreign trade. Also, he is a member of the academic group called Entrepreneurship, Management and Internationalization and is a member of the International Entrepreneurship Network AFIDE.
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Israel Ortiz Vargas
Dr. Israel Ortiz Vargas is a professor at the Faculty of nursing, Veracruzana University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Veracruzana University, and his doctorate in education from the Escuela Libre de Ciencias Politicas y Administración Pública de Oriente. With 6 years of work experience in public and private institutions of the health sector, he offers his expertise to the Human Development Veracruz academic body for any health care related matter. In addition, he is member of the College of Nurses of the state of Veracruz, and certified as a teacher with a suitability profile endorsed by SEP.
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Johora Akter Polin
Johora Akter Polin is a lecturer for the Computer Sciences and Engineering Department at the Daffodil International University in Bangladesh, and an SBC alumnus who completed the Yunus Centre / HEC Montreal program in 2019. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences and engineering. Being passionate about social business, networking, and data analytics, Johora is especially interested in using technologies to enable social innovations. She is also actively involved in the community as a public speaker and a mentor to support social entrepreneurs who want to turn their ideas into reality.
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Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares
A great defender of the social economy and professor at the Faculty of Accounting of the Universidad Veracruzana, Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares teaches economics, international economics, corporate and public finances. Also, he is the founder and general coordinator of the Center for Studies for Business Development (CEDEM). He has developed a strong experience in applying models for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) with a focus on stimulating regional economics. In addition, he widened is influence as a member of many associations such as the Regional Sustainability Commission and the College of Economists of the state of Veracruz A.C.
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Jose Andres Ruiz Blanco
Professor José Andrés Ruiz Blanco is an accountant and Ph.D. candidate with a master’s degree in Foreign Trade Administration. He worked in different organizations as a manager and developed strong expertise in a bail-bond advisory. Currently, he is a member of the academic corps and an international, mobility and graduate coordinator. In addition, he has authored different articles about foreign trade and contributed as a student evaluator in a lot of professional works searches.
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Juan Manuel Fragoso Terán
Experienced in software development, Juan Manuel Fragoso Teran is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad Veracruzana. He has published his research in many scientific journals. Also, he is a founding member of the Professional College of Engineers and Graduates in Systems and Informatics, where he promotes the quality of education for Spanish-speaking countries. In addition, Prof. Fragoso has taken part in many forums and competitions related to entrepreneurship and education with acknowledged results and recognitions. He is also involved in the Drone Challenge, a contest where members of the university community can prove their maneuverability skills on testing tracks.
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Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce
Dr. Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce is currently teaching at the Universidad Veracruzana. She advocates comprehensive and extended training to equip students with tools and skills for a successful professional and personal life. She graduated with an industrial engineer degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz, completed postgraduate studies in Quality Management, and a PhD in Senior Management. From her twenty-eight years of work experience, sixteen years have been dedicated to developing an expertise in quality assurance activities.
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Lê Hằng Mỹ Hạnh
Ms. Le Hang My Hanh holds a master’s degree in Finance & Investment and works as a lecturer and researcher of Microeconomics and Econometrics at Foreign Trade University, Ho Chi Minh City. Her research is in the fields of economics, public finance, and fiscal policy. In addition, she is Chief Advisor of the Youth Economic Club, and used to be the leader of a neighborhood project for charity fundraising. After years of consultancy experience, she has developed a strong knowledge of tax, finance, and startup businesses.
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Lê Mỹ Hương
Huong My Le is a lecturer at Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Vietnam, who has developed a public policy mindset with more than 5 years of research in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). As a former value chain specialist at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Vietnam and a junior researcher at the Ministry of Health in England, she returned to FTU in 2008 as a lecturer in Supply Chain Management (SCM) while pursuing her aspiration to become a scientist lecturer in SSCM. She is driven by her passion and the development of an inclusive business model that would create a resilient and sustainable supply chain; such a model would protect against disruption threats and would create added values for the small stakeholders.
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Lê Thị Thu Hà
Dr. Le Thi Thu Ha is Associate Professor and Director of Innovation and Incubation Space at Foreign Trade University (FTU). Dr Le has over 15 years of experience in researching, teaching, and consulting on many issues of enterprises. Her strength is on improving the competitiveness of enterprises through creating intellectual property, encouraging innovation, and building brand. Besides, she has been an independent consultant for projects funded by non-governmental organizations in Vietnam and the Government of Vietnam. Dr Le has led the key activities of FTU towards entrepreneuship through developing curriculum and supporting projects with innovative, community-oriented, and sustainable solutions in the last years.
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Maëlle Le Bras
As an experienced manager with a strategic mind, she combines the power of collaboration and creativity to build unique projects that create value. After 15 years of advising companies on their strategic and operational needs, she joined Ville en vert, an organization dedicated to transition, to support its mission and projects. Optimistic, sensitive to others and to the world around her, she knows how to federate and bring together teams as well as build a network to advance ideas further.
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María Esther Fragoso Terán
Recognized for her high expertise in social entrepreneurship, Dr. María Esther Fragoso Terán is Professor at the Universidad Veracruzana and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz. For the last 15 years, she has dedicated herself to teaching strategic business management and innovation while participating in local, national, and international competitions. Her exceptional contribution includes publications in international magazines about social entrepreneurship, the greening model, and the inclusion principles; participation in different panels and lectures at national conferences; and the participation as a judge in the Hult Prize Competition. Dr. María Esther Fragoso Terán holds a Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration and a master’s degree in international business.
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María Josefa Montalvo Morales
María Josefa Montalvo is a Professor of Economics at Universidad Autonoma Metropilitana (UAM), licenciated in economics at UAM and with posgraduate studies in Economics at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico . She has imparted several classes and seminars about political economy, agricultural economics, macroeconomics and labour economics. Her work involves organizing activities between students and local communities to produce local products, construct greenhouses and orchards. She is also related with different enterprises in the metropolitan zone, such as cooperatives, collective projects and factories. Another activity is researching and analyzing the average labour market conditions related to the environmental impact to find alternatives in solidary social economics.
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Mariana Silva Ortega
Mariana Silva Ortega is an Assistant professor at the Department of Naval Engineering at Universidad Veracruzana. She holds a master’s degree in Naval and Oceanic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo. She teaches at the Faculty of Mechanics and Naval Sciences (FIMCN) of the Universidad Veracruzana (U.V.) and coordinates FIMCN alumni. She is also a coordinator of the Hydrodynamics Academy in the Naval Engineering program. She is a holder of the PRODEP Profile (2018-2020). She participates in the postgraduate program in Applied Engineering of the Universidad Veracruzana which is recognized within the CONACYT quality postgraduate program. She has published articles in Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction and Vortex Induced Vibration.
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Michelle Clement
Michelle Clement is a professor of marketing at Camosun College. Michelle holds a BA and MBA from the University of Victoria in BC and a Doctorate of Education in social entrepreneurship from the University of Liverpool with a dissertation on social entrepreneurship and signature pedagogy. Michelle joined Camosun in 2005 after 15 years with Procter & Gamble specializing in sales and marketing. She has a passion for working within the community and helping launch socially enterprising ideas. She lives in beautiful British Columbia where you can find her outdoors year-round embracing the beauty of nature and bringing sustainability into her teaching practice.
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Miriam Remess Pérez
Miriam Remess Pérez is an architect, with a master’s degree in administration (Universidad Veracruzana) and a Ph.D. in Architecture (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). She is a teacher in undergraduate and graduate studies in Architecture and coordinates the Habitability and Sustainable Technology research group. She belongs to the Academic Committee for the Architecture Exam of the National Center for the Evaluation of Higher Education. Throughout her architecture career, she has organized students and teachers in projects for social benefits. She is the co-author of three books and several articles in journals and has carried out research stays abroad.
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Mohammad Badruddozza Mia
Mohammad Badruddozza Mia is a Professor of Management at the United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the position of Director of BBA Program of UIU. Previously, he taught at the University of Buckingham, UK, the Southeast University and the University of Business and Technology in Dhaka. In addition, Dr. Mohammad worked for different development and research organizations such as Proshika, IDS (University of Sussex), WorldFish Center, and PIACT Bangladesh. Dr. Mohammad obtained his PhD from the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. He completed his master’s degrees at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, and at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Murray Hirsh
Murray Hirsh is the co-founder of 3GU – Three Generations United, a multi-generational social economy project. The fundamental aim is to create new opportunities for the personal flowering of our youth, of new immigrants, and of workers aged 50+ whose valuable skills and experience are presently not being put to optimal productive use. University taught him that without a clear objective one can wander aimlessly for years. Lacking an action plan, he was motivated by curiosity and a wish to explore different fields. In small companies, a few large organizations, and two start-ups that he co-founded, he did technical design, computer programming, hands-on development of automated machinery, business systems analysis, and sales and marketing of business computer systems and then telecommunications technology. He worked with brilliant inventors on their speculative projects. His passion, developed late in life, is to work with young people to develop innovative community-based social projects.
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Ngô Ngọc Quang
Dr. Ngoc Quang Ngo currently works as a lecturer in Finance & Banking at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Ho Chi Minh City, and as a business course developer for the Vietnam – Japanese Institute for Human Resource Development (VJCC). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Europa Viadrina University. In addition, Dr. Ngo is a Certified Coach (ICF), Certified Trainer (S.R.) and a mentor. He has 15 years of experience as an expert and consultant in the field of finance, investment, security market, asset evaluation, and business startup.
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Nguyễn Thu Hằng
Dr. Nguyễn Thu Hằng obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Before that, she received a master’s degree from the Leeds Metropolitan University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Business from Foreign Trade University (FTU). She has 14 years of international trade related experience as teacher and subject matter expert for projects from UNDP, GIZ, and ITC. Currently, she works as lecturer at Foreign Trade University, and is the Director of Training and Development Section of FTU Innovation and Incubation Space (FIIS). Also, she is the national coordinator of the Vietnam Hub of Social Business Creation.
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Nusrat Jahan
Nusrat Jahan holds a master’s degree in Textile Wet Processing from Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX). She started her career at the H&M production office, Bangladesh, as a fabric technician and a material merchandiser trainee in the woven fabric supply chain. Currently, she works as a lecturer in the Department of Textile Engineering at NUB since September 2018. She is very keen to guide young social dreamers who will take part in SBC challenges. Being a lecturer, she meets every day with young dreamers. Her words for youth innovators are to be passionate and optimistic while being transparent and perseverant in more tough times.
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Phạm Thị Mai Khanh
Dr. Khanh Pham is a senior lecturer at Foreign Trade University (FTU). She graduated from the University of Melbourne in Tertiary Education Management, received a master’s degree (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from the University of Turin, and obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Foreign Trade University. She teaches international investment policies, project management and intellectual property law to students and executives. Dr. Khanh has gained her experience of facilitating social business projects by serving as an adviser and/or a judge in a number of competitions such as I.P. Challenge, Hult Prize, and Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge.
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Salomé Pérez Prieto
Salomé Pérez Prieto is graduated in international business and holds a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is passionate about teaching and her family. She is proud to be a woman who was born and raised in a family of loving and hard-working parents who transferred their human values to their four daughters, including the benefits of teamwork and the importance to include those in need, with a commitment to equity and caring for the planet.
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Sandra Molina Mata
Sandra Molina Mata is a professor at the Division Science and Art for Design at the Autonomous Metropolitan University. She is the coordinator of the LeNS Network for Mexico and Central America. In addition, she manages the LeNS Lab Mexico and the research unit for Sustainable Design, Life Cycle Assessment and Social innovation. Since 2018, she has designed and coordinated the Mexico’s LeNS Jam and promoted social innovation through product design. Her most recent publications include “Conceptual approaches to ecodesign” and a chapter in the book “Social Innovation and Design”.
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Tạ Hương Thảo
Tạ Hương Thảo is capacity building manager at KisStartup and managing director at IMPACT F, an incubator and pre-accelerator for startups with impact. As a trainer, Thao coordinates the training and coaching activities at KisStartup for hundreds of startups, universities, and organisations all over the country. She is passionate about providing impact startups with toolsets and mindset to build sustainable business models and to measure their impact. In addition, Thao manages investment matching activities to connect startups to potential local and regional investors, partners and supporters.
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Trần Nguyên Chất Dr. Tran Nguyen Chat is a lecturer at the Foreign Trade University, Vietnam, with over 18-year experience in lecturing, research, and business consultancy. Her interests cover various themes including international economic integration, trade in services, international business, export, and marketing management. In addition, she is actively involved in various projects related to trade promotion and business consultancy in Ho Chi Minh city.
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Trần Thị Ngọc Diệp
After getting a Ph.D. degree in Horticulture from Michigan State University in 2018, Dr. Tran Thi Ngoc Diep came back to Vietnam and was assigned as director of the Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer of International University (I.U.) in Ho Chi Minh City. She is also a key coordinator for the Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, Southern Vietnam. In addition, she facilitates the transfer of sustainable and innovative ideas of I.U. faculty, generated by students, into marketable products and services.
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Trương Thu Hà
Trương Thu Hà is a lecturer from the Vietnam National University (VNU) and an innovation ambassador in the Vietnam-Ireland Bilateral Education Exchange Program between Vietnam National University and Innovation Academy, University College Dublin (UCD). In addition, she delivers courses in human resource management, project Management, startup management, creativity, and Innovation. She is also a master facilitator of the Active Citizen Social Enterprise program by the British Council, delivering training in social innovation and social enterprise.
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Valeria Arellano
Valeria Arellano is the founder of Afortunada Mente, a social business that promotes financial education through fun. Also, she is the creator of a board game that trains children and adults in social entrepreneurship, finance, and socioemotional skills. She won 6 international prizes, including three prizes at the Social Business Creation 2018 and one prize at the International Business Learning Games Competition. She has helped +50,000 families through online courses and her board game in +200 schools working with the Secretary of Education, the Mexican Senate, and other public organizations in Mexico.
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Vania Lizette Correa Ávalos
Professor and researcher at Universidad Veracruzana since 2013, Vania Lizette Correa Ávalos conducts researches on human resources and millennials. In particular, she has published articles on stress and its impact on Mexican organizations, the entrepreneurial potential of students, and the analysis of stakeholders in the teaching performance evaluation process. In addition, she received the Teacher’s Performance Award in 2019 and 2020 by Universidad Veracruzana. Lastly, she was involved in marketing and administration activities in a micro-business for 9 years and collaborated for 5 years to the administrative office of the Faculty of Business of Universidad Veracruzana.
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Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores
Candidate for an engineering Ph.D. in emerging technologies, Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores is a naval engineer who developed strong expertise in quality assurance and ISO 14 001 advisory. Notably, she worked in the company AUGUSA, Astilleros. She graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana and holds a master’s degree in educational technologies. She currently contributes to the Universidad Veracruzana by teaching the Offshore specialty and coordinating Naval Engineering Career. In addition, she works as a coordinator and instructor for tutors involved in distance education in TECNM. Member of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA).
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Andrea Paola Dorado Diaz
Andrea Paola Dorado Díaz holds an MBA and is offering her knowledge as a professor at the National University of Mexico. For more than 15 years, she has sustained the creation of companies through the promotion of innovation at the National University of Mexico. In addition, she has advised more than 500 entrepreneurial projects and incubated more than 25 technological innovation companies on topics such as environment, software, robotics, energy, industrial, health, and biotechnology. Notably, she has been an evaluator of entrepreneurship projects in: Possible, Startup Weekend, Mass Challenge, MIDE Idea Space, BAW, CIEBT-IPN, UNITEC Business Incubator, and Lean Startups México.
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Andrea Richardson
Andrea is a Senior Programme Manager at Nesta, the UK’s Innovation Foundation, where she works in the challenge prize team (Nesta Challenges). She leads Nesta Challenge’s Canadian portfolio, working with governments and mission-driven organizations to research, design, and deliver outcome-based funding projects. In this role, she’s run and advised on projects to produce next-generation fintech services using open banking, improve access to financial and careers tools in the wake of COVID-19, increase production of sustainable fresh produce, design energy-efficient boats and reduce harm from the opioid crisis. Outside of work, you’ll find Andrea getting excessively competitive over casual board games or training for her next triathlon.
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Andréanne Laurin
Andréanne Laurin is the co-founder and general manager of LOCO ecological and zero waste grocery stores. LOCO is the first chain of zero waste grocery stores in Quebec and now has 4 branches in Villeray, Verdun, Brossard, and Ahuntsic. With a bachelor’s degree in marketing communications and a master’s degree in environmental sciences from UQAM, Andréanne launched the LOCO grocery stores with three colleagues. Since its opening, LOCO has become increasingly well-known and visible. LOCO participated in the Parcours Innovation PME Montréal, which aims to stimulate the growth of SMEs through personalized coaching over a one-year period. In addition, in 2019, Andréanne received the Prix de la Femme Francophone, which recognizes her involvement in LOCO and as a model of female commitment to the fight against climate change.
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Angelica Novoa
Graduated in Community Economic Development from Concordia University, Angelica Novoa is passionate about developing innovative solutions that have an impact on communities. As co-founder and, eventually, co-director of a local Montreal charity, Angelica spent 12 years shaping a faith-based community into a hub for social entrepreneurs. She developed and implemented an initiative to improve the lives of people who live outside in the streets of Montreal. She trained and coached community members on developing and implementing their social initiatives. In addition, Angelica co-founded a specialty-foods business as an answer to local, diet-related health problems and as a way to stimulate the local artisan economy.
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Artyom Mamzhiev
Artyom Mamzhiev is a senior business consultant, entrepreneur, and product manager with over 15 years of experience in a highly demanding management consulting environment at both IBM and KPMG. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, transformative innovation, and scaling companies. He has worked with many startups in the US and Canada in framing opportunities, fundraising, marketing, sales, business development, financial modeling, etc. At present, he is working in Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster, which funds ambitious, collaborative technology projects that develop digital products and platforms. DTS is a growing community of more than 1000 organizations. It has a diverse portfolio of over 70 projects and has invested over $200 million so far.

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Bruner Nozière
Bruner Nozière currently heads BRUNER CANADA a Business and IT consulting firm he founded 15 years ago. He previously worked as a consultant for an Internet company Mediacom and a Scotiabank as a senior accountant in his home country, Haiti. After his immigration to Canada in 2005, he decided to start his own business and get noticed at the Entreprendre show in May 2006 as a speaker and entrepreneur. By combining his passion for computer science and his studies as an accountant while studying e-business at Université of Quebec in Montreal, with the firm he started offering IT tools such as customer relationship management (CRM) solutions using Open Source technologies. Two times nominated for entrepreneur of the year in 2008 and 2010, M. Nozière received the Réseau Québecois Credit Communautaire (RQCC) public choice award from the Labor Minister 2006. He continues to work with startup entrepreneurs via his business.
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Cao Quốc Việt
Dr. Viet Quoc Cao is a lecturer in the research methodology department at the School of Management (University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City – UEH, Vietnam). He earned a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City in 2018. His research interests include boycott behavior (consumer behavior), entrepreneurship, and innovation. He has some publications in the Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, Science and Technology Development Journal, Journal of Economic Studies, Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, Journal of Security & Sustainability Issues, and Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management (MOJEM).
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Charles-Éric Lavery
Charles-Éric Lavery is the Director of Development and Social Impact – l’Itinéraire Community Group. This is a charitable organization that manages several social economy enterprises (i.e., Le Magazine L’Itinéraire, the Café L’Itinéraire, Les Productions L’Itinéraire, the magazine Géotourisme) whose aims are to provide work for people who have difficulty adapting to the current job market. During his university career, he was a project coordinator and counselor for autistic people at the Centre Didache. In addition to having been a volunteer mediation coach for Exeko for three years, he is now the director of development and social impact at Groupe communautaire L’Itinéraire. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from Université de Montréal and a Master’s degree in International Development and Humanitarian Actions from the Université Laval.
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Cheryl Perera
Cheryl Perera has been a dedicated member of the Ontario Caregiver Coalition (OCC) for 12 years, Chair of OCC for over 3 years, and, since the fall of 2020, Co-Chair. Prior to becoming Chair of OCC, Cheryl led the Awareness and Communications Working Group for many years. As a caregiver herself, Cheryl is passionate about OCC’s work to help advocate for more supports for family caregivers in Ontario. Cheryl has held senior-level positions in the community health and mental health/developmental services sectors for most of her career. In her current role at Lumenus Community Services, Cheryl has oversight for several enterprise-wide functions in the areas of partnerships, growth, innovation, and organizational excellence. Cheryl holds a MSW from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. The skills she brings to OCC include strategic planning, marketing, business development, and partnership building.
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Christian Alan Acosta Terán
Christian Alan Acosta Terán holds a degree in computing systems and a master’s degree in computer sciences. He is currently working for the faculty of medicine at the Universidad Veracruzana. Feeding a passion for social innovation and self-achievement, Christian dedicates his own time to the coaching and the development of promising entrepreneurs. [/author_info] [/author]

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Claudia Beatriz Enriquez Hernández
Dr. Claudia Beatriz Enríquez Hernández is a world-renowned professor, researcher, author, and speaker in nursing. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Sciences at Work from the University of Guadalajara; a master’s degree in Nursing Sciences from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León; and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Universidad Veracruzana. As author and co-author, she accounts for multiple refereed and indexed articles and books. In addition, Dr. Claudia Beatriz Enríquez Hernández is Head of the Academic Body “Human Development-Veracruz” since 2013 and a member of the Mexican Federation’s executive secretariat of Schools and Faculties of Nursing (FEMAFEE).
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Christian Dominique
He is the president of Dominique Strategic Consulting since 2013 and is a digital health expert, having worked extensively with both healthcare (hospitals, biotech, and pharma) and IT (software, hardware, EMR, ERP, CRM, AI, blockchain) and combining the two disciplines. He attended and spoke at various IT and healthcare conferences around the world, including Asia Economy TV. Christian Dominique did his MBA in international business in 2004 at HEC Montreal and his BSc in Physiology at McGill University in 2000. He has traveled and worked in more than 100 countries and brought a strong international business component to strategic management.
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Đoàn Thanh Hải
Đoàn Thanh Hải has been working in the social enterprise field since 2012 and has gathered experience in various aspects of the social enterprise ecosystem, including impact measurement, social business incubation, mainstreaming social innovation in higher education, impact investment, policy advocacy, and public awareness on social enterprises. From 2018 until now, Hai has been managing the Society Program of the British Council in Vietnam, which has focused on promoting social enterprise since 2009 and currently mainstreaming the Active Citizens Social Entrepreneurship program in universities across Vietnam. Previously, she worked as a project manager for Social Innovation Incubation Platform and as a consultant for other projects of the Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP). From 2012 to 2014, Hai worked as Hanoi manager of Thrive fund, giving free-interest loans for SMEs and promoting SMEs’ social responsibilities. During 2015-2019, Hai was also founder and director of Kids Need Books social enterprise whose mission is to foster reading culture for children in Vietnam by running a community library and weekend educational story-time for children.
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Dorthe Brandi
Working as an executive advisor within the fields of Business Development, Corporate Innovation, and Commercialization, Dorthe Brandi is an experienced advisor to executive leadership teams, entrepreneurs, and business owners. Next to running her own company, Brandicon, she works as a board member, independent advisor/innovator for entrepreneurs, and member of the national censor corps for business economics supporting the Danish Universities and the Technical University of Denmark. She currently contributes to the World Guide Foundation with a mission to turn today’s young people into tomorrow’s leaders. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration.
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Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez
Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez has been involved in social innovation and entrepreneurship since 1977. Notably, she contributes as a facilitator for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as a member of the WAGGGS, and as a mentor. In addition, she is a professor at the Universidad Veracruzana where she teaches Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Sciences, and Applied Sciences for the Master’s degree. As coordinator of the University’s affairs department, Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez is also responsible for the relationship between the University and the industry sectors, including the government entities and the community projects.
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Fabien Lanteri-Massa
Fabien specializes in bank financing, project financing, and asset-based financing. He has been involved in numerous bank and project financings in Canada, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Other areas of expertise include renewable energy and infrastructure projects, as well as public-private partnerships (P3). Fabien acts for banks, financial institutions, pension and private equity funds, development banks, sponsors, and companies. He is particularly interested in investments related to impact investing, and in this context, he advises investors and financial institutions. Prior to joining Blakes, Fabien practiced for more than four years as a project finance lawyer at the Paris office of an international law firm.
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Fabrice Lauzon
Fabrice Lauzon is a Program Coordinator at Centech, a deep tech incubator based in Montréal where he provides support for high-potential companies to grow. He is a tech enthusiast with a passion for sustainable development. He holds a bachelor degree in business administration from École des Sciences de la Gestion de l’UQÀM, Montréal. Fabrice developed his business acumen from various experiences in the business field, from being an entrepreneur himself to helping other entrepreneurs develop their companies.
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Gabriela Garcia Taboada
Gabriela Garcia Taboada is an entrepreneur and professor with over 20 years of experience, with the highest commitment in motivating students and companies to build social businesses. Currently, she teaches Marketing, Strategy and E-commerce at the School of Engineer of the Universidad Austral and the School of Economics of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her career went from marketing to business transformation for companies based in Argentina and Mexico. In addition, she worked as marketing manager at La Nacion Newspaper and founded templura.com in 2004, a platform where companies find aid and creative ideas to deliver value added gifts made by artisans and small producers of specialty food.
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Gustavo Severo Borba
Dr. Gustavo Severo Borba is a Professor at Unisinos Design School with 25 years of higher education experience. For the last ten years, he has been focusing his research on two different areas. The first one is on how the design of a classroom could improve curriculum and classroom management while better engaging students. The second one is on how the process of social innovation in local communities could be enhanced through a strategic design approach. Dr. Gustavo Severo Borba holds a Ph.D. in Engineering, and a master’s in Strategic Design. He remains involved on the international scene, notably, he was a visiting scholar at Boston College and at the University of Ottawa.
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Ho Thuy Ngoc
Dr. Ho Thuy Ngoc is currently the Dean of Faculty of International Education, at the Foreign Trade University. She has been working in public education for 15 years, managing international programs, providing program advisory and delivering lectures. With expertise in international trade law, she has advised various Vietnamese entrepreneurs in business establishment, investment, and dispute settlements. She believes that hard work and commitment are vital elements of success for any startup
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Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares
Great defender of the social economy and professor at the Faculty of Accounting of the Universidad Veracruzana, Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares teaches economics, international economics, corporate and pubilc finances. Also, he is founder and general coordinator of the Center for Studies for Business Development (CEDEM). He has developed a strong experience in applying models for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) with a focus on stimulating regional economics. In addition, he widened is influence as a member of many associations such as the Regional Sustainability Commission and the College of Economists of the state of Veracruz A.C.
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Jose Andres Ruiz Blanco
Professor José Andrés Ruiz Blanco is an accountant and Ph.D. candidate with a master’s degree in Foreign Trade Administration. He worked in different organizations as manager and developed a strong expertise in bail-bond advisory. Currently, he is a member of the academic corps and an international, mobility and graduate coordinator. In addition, he has authored different articles about foreign trade and contributed as student’s evaluator in a lot of professional works searches.
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Josée Desjardins
Josée Desjardins is a project manager at Innovation. She was the logistics manager for the HEC Corporate Responsibility Challenge, which received the “Coup de Cœur du Jury” award at the Prix Reconnaissance. With over 15 years of experience in project management, in Canada and internationally. Josée has distinguished herself by her management of strategic files such as the collaboration with the hotel and the catering service. Perfectly bilingual, she is recognized for her customer orientation, rigor and ability to build relationships of trust. She also stands out for her ability to manage several files at the same time and for her creativity in dealing with unforeseen circumstances. She has a strong interest in humanitarianism and corporate social responsibility. She holds an MBA from HEC Montreal.
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Juan Manuel Fragoso Terán
Experienced in software development, Juan Manuel Fragoso Teran is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad Veracruzana. He has published his research in many scientific journals. Also, he is a founding member of the Professional College of Engineers and Graduates in Systems and Informatics, where he promotes the quality of education for Spanish speaking countries. In addition, Prof. Fragoso has taken part in many forums and competitions related to entrepreneurship and education with acknowledged results and recognitions. He is also involved in the Drone Challenge, a contest where members of the university community can prove their maneuverability skills on testing tracks.
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Julia Lo
is the Director, Marketing & Communications for the McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill. She has more than eight years of progressive experience with youth-focused and civic leadership organizations. Most recently, Ms. Lo was National Director, Community Engagement at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, where she helped bring about a new brand and strategic vision for 100+ member charities. She has also worked with the Loran Scholars Foundation and the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance. Ms. Lo has a BA from the University of Toronto, including a year at Université Laval as a C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation Scholar, and an MBA from HEC Montréal.
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Krista Richmond
Krista Richmond is a lecturer on AI for Northeastern University. Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, her 25-year career in the cleantech industry has spanned utilities, manufacturing and regulation. Through roles across customer experience, operations and IT is where Krista found her true passion; aligning people, processes and technology application to enable corporate innovation and venture creation. Her work creating innovation partnerships between corporations and academic institutions and implementing corporate innovation programs has led to hands-on experience with emerging technology including AI, IIoT, and AR/VR. More recently, her interest has turned to renewable energy and how emerging technologies can be integrated to meet a net-zero carbon future. Supporting diversity and inclusion as the catalyst for innovation and being a lifelong learner are the values that form the foundation of her success. Krista is a Board Member for the Women in Communications and Technology Association, a career mentor of female leaders in technology through Locelle.
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Laura Gomez
Laura Gomez is an entrepreneur with demonstrated success in conceptualization, development and execution of new business models as well as a strategist in innovation and digital transformation. She is currently a Partner at LatinLeap VC – EdTech Fund which is a Venture Capital Studio (VC Studio) with bases in Latin America and Asia to soft-land purpose-driven tech companies in Latin America and provide market access to international scale-ups deployment in Latin America. She has founded companies in biotech, energy, media, fashion, fintech, and retail. Experience working in different industries, ventures, corporates, and VC, allows me to have a broad vision, focused on purpose, growth, and sustainability.
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Lê Thị Thu Hà
Dr. Le Thi Thu Ha is Associate Professor and Director of Innovation and Incubation Space at Foreign Trade University (FTU). Dr. Le has over 15 years of experience in researching, teaching, and consulting on many issues of enterprises. Her strength is in improving the competitiveness of enterprises through creating intellectual property, encouraging innovation, and building a brand. Besides, she has been an independent consultant for projects funded by non-governmental organizations in Vietnam and the Government of Vietnam. Dr. Le has led the key activities of FTU towards entrepreneurship through developing curriculum and supporting projects with innovative, community-oriented, and sustainable solutions in the last years.
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Lương Thị Đài Trang
Ms. Luong Thi Dai Trang is currently a researcher in intellectual property, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Foreign Trade University (FTU) and Innovation and Incubation Space (FIIS), in Vietnam. Recently, she has been mentoring undergraduate students at FTU who are working to gain academic research experience. She has been a participant and organizer of the Active Citizen – Social Enterprise boot-camps organized by FIIS and the British Council. At the Social Business Creation, Ms. Trang wishes to supply fair, constructive, and encouraging comments for teams to better their projects.
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María Estela Ruíz Godoy
María Estela Ruíz Godoy is a consultant and professor in entrepreneurship and innovation at Universidad Anáhuac. She has recently been appointed as a Lean Starups Mexico Program Coordinator. Over the last 16 years, she has been teaching and acting as a judge in several boot camps, challenges, assessments, and contests in entrepreneurship. She has co-founded three enterprises and is experienced in human capital management at international companies and the redesign of business models. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administrator and a Postgraduate Degree in Innovation for Business Development from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
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María Esther Fragoso Terán
Recognized for her high expertise in social entrepreneurship, Dr. María Esther Fragoso Terán is a Professor at the Universidad Veracruzana and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz. For the last 15 years, she has dedicated herself to teaching strategic business management and innovation while participating in local, national, and international competitions. Her exceptional contribution includes publications in international magazines about social entrepreneurship, the greening model, and the inclusion principles; participation in different panels and lectures at national conferences; and participation as a judge in the Hult Prize Competition. Dr. María Esther Fragoso Terán holds a Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration and a master’s degree in international business.
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Martin Bader
Prof. Dr. Martin A. Bader is a European and Swiss Patent Attorney. As well as being Partner and Co-Founder of the specialized innovation and intellectual property management advisory group BGW AG St. Gallen, he is a Professor for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Applied Sciences Ingolstadt (THI). Previously, he was Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Infineon Technologies, Munich, incl. its IPO, and Head of the Intellectual Property Management Competence Center at the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He is a mediator at the Mediation Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and has for many years been regarded as being among the top 300 intellectual property strategists worldwide according to the Intellectual Asset Management magazine’s IAM strategy 300 index. He is also a long-standing author of numerous specialist publications and an internationally sought-after speaker in the field of intellectual property management.
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Mayssam Daaboul
Mayssam Daaboul is managing partner and COO at TeleMedic SAL and professor at the American University of Science & Technology in Lebanon. With a background in microbiology and biotechnical management, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in business administration to further explore the businesses that act as a fundamental layer in every industry. He has diverse experience in various industries ranging from the medical, pharma, online, retail, NGO’s, and several other industries.
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Mohammad Badruddozza Mia
Mohammad Badruddozza Mia is a Professor of Management at the United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the position of Director of BBA Program of UIU. Previously, he taught at the University of Buckingham, UK, the Southeast University, and the University of Business and Technology in Dhaka. In addition, Dr. Mohammad worked for different development and research organizations such as Proshika, IDS (University of Sussex), WorldFish Center, and PIACT Bangladesh. Dr. Mohammad obtained his Ph.D. from the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. He completed his master’s degrees at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, and at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Murray Hirsh
Murray Hirsh is the co-founder of 3GU – Three Generations United, a multi-generational social economy project. The fundamental aim is to create new opportunities for the personal flowering of our youth, of new immigrants, and of workers aged 50+ whose valuable skills and experience are presently not being put to optimal productive use. University taught him that without a clear objective one can wander aimlessly for years. Lacking an action plan, he was motivated by curiosity and a wish to explore different fields. In small companies, a few large organizations, and two start-ups that he co-founded, he did the technical design, computer programming, hands-on development of automated machinery, business systems analysis, and sales and marketing of business computer systems and then telecommunications technology. He worked with brilliant inventors on their speculative projects. His passion, developed late in life, is to work with young people to develop innovative community-based social projects.
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Nguyen Duc Nhu Nguyen
Graduated in International Business from the Hue Economic University, Nguyen Duc Nhu Nguyen works as a business developer at SCAVI – Global Outsourcing Services in the lingerie, swimwear, and sportswear industries, mostly contributing to the running and gym brand of Decathlon. She is passionate about sharing the culture of travel, helping deaf women learn the sign language, and supporting youth girls with weaker conditions.
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Nguyễn Phương Chi
Nguyen Phuong Chi is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Trade University. At the university, she teaches e-commerce, operation management, and management sciences. Her research focuses on digital transformation and business model innovation while covering eCommerce applications, kaizen in enterprises, and management science applications. She has published several articles in journals and contributed to chapters of several books. She was a judge in Kawai Business Start-up Competition, for the year 2019-2021. She took part in many projects relating to training and consulting for students and enterprises such as training active citizen social enterprise, business planning courses, and consulting RangDong enterprise in selling to the global market.
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Nguyen Thi Hanh
Nguyen Thi Hanh holds an MBA degree and works as a lecturer in Innovation Management at Foreign Trade University (FTU), in Vietnam. She was one of the 36 lecturers in Vietnam who was certified in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) by the Innovation Partnership Program, a joint program between Vietnam and Finland in 2016. She was selected as one of the 30 lecturers to join Active Citizen & Social Enterprise Programme by the British Council and Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Train in 2020. As a coach, mentor, and leading trainer of nearly 20 contests and workshops among students, teachers, and entrepreneurs, she has gained a deep understanding of social entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Nguyễn Thu Hằng
Dr. Nguyễn Thu Hằng obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Before that, she received a master’s degree from the Leeds Metropolitan University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Business from Foreign Trade University (FTU). She has 14 years of international trade-related experience as a teacher and subject matter expert for projects from UNDP, GIZ, and ITC. Currently, she works as a lecturer at Foreign Trade University and is the Director of Training and Development Section of FTU Innovation and Incubation Space (FIIS). Also, she is the national coordinator of the Vietnam Hub of Social Business Creation.
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Orly Fruchter
Orly Fruchter has over 12 years of experience working in international development and disaster response. Combining a bachelor’s degree in psychology and MBA, she specializes in developing sustainable and replicable services and programs for people with disabilities in partnership with governments, academia, service providers and those with lived experience in Canada and abroad. Orly works for the Azrieli Foundation as Manager of Neurodiverse Initiatives.
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Phan Hồng Giang
Phan Hồng Giang was awarded the Vietnam National University Innovative educator awards in 2020. She is an investor, an innovation coach, a startup mentor, and an advisor for social projects including women’s development projects, community projects, and ethnic-minority-based projects. In addition, he co-founded Redmoon Kindergarten.
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Prateek Deka
Prateek Deka is a global professional with vast experience in education domain. Currently, he is a senior manager for international affairs at Amity University India. He looks after various collaborations and projects with universities, schools, embassies, governments, corporate, media and other organizations from Canada, USA, Latin America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Rest of the World. He is a research scholar too, researching in interdisciplinary areas of management, innovation, technology, creativity, psychology and allied fields. He has travelled extensively in India and across the globe like New Zealand, Fiji, China, Thailand, Europe, UK, USA, Brazil etc. for studies, training, conference participations, projects and events. He is passionate towards further progress of his nation and the global society at large.
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Ramón Castellanos Angeles
A human rights Ph.D. candidate and professor with training in physical culture and sports, Ramón Castellanos Angeles hold a master’s degree in health sciences at work. Currently, he is researching the impacts related to human rights in education, especially in the comprehensive training of high-school students in Mexico. He is interested in social entrepreneurship and is looking forward to contributing to the development of the community.
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Sergio Iván Vázquez Colunga
A Ph.D. candidate, Sergio Iván Vázquez Colunga dedicates his time to marketing consulting. He holds a master’s in strategic communications from Universidad Panamericana (México) and a master’s in marketing and sales management from Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). He received certifications in digital advertising (UP, México); marketing for the arts (ITESO, México), and strategic planning (Complot, school of creatives, Spain). Before, he worked as Chief Communication Officer at Teatro Diana of Universidad de Guadalajara (2012-2019) where he worked in over 500 local, national and international shows. Also, he worked as Communications Director at the Ministry of Culture of Jalisco (2019-2020).
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Trần Minh Thu
Graduated in Business Administration and Finance, Dr. Trần Minh Thu holds a master’s degree in HRM from the Keele University, U.K. and a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. Currently, she teaches principles of management and entrepreneurship at FTU. She is passionate about social innovation and believes that great achievement comes from small efforts. She takes pride in her student’s achievements and she invests herself in every single thing she does for her students.
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Trần Nguyên Chất
Dr. Tran Nguyen Chat is a lecturer at the Foreign Trade University, Vietnam, with over 18-year experience in lecturing, research, and business consultancy. Her interests cover various themes including international economic integration, trade in services, international business, export, and marketing management. In addition, she is actively involved in various projects related to trade promotion and business consultancy in Ho Chi Minh city.
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Sarah Zargarpour
Sarah Zargarpour is the Global Marketing Lead in the Strategic Business Unit of Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) whose mission is to unleash the possibilities of coffee & tea to create a better future. JDE is part of JDE Peet’s, the world’s largest pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands. For more than 265 years, JDE has been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. Today, JDE unleashes the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 developed and emerging markets, through a portfolio of over 50 brands that collectively cover the entire category landscape led by leading household names such as L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, Old Town, Super, Pickwick and Moccona. Prior to JDE, Sarah was a business analyst at BC Hydro and then a marketing manager at Unilever.
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Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores
Candidate for an engineering PhD in emerging technologies, Aguivar Olidel A. Vite Flores is a naval engineer who developed strong expertise in quality assurance and ISO 14 001 advisory. Notably, she worked in the company AUGUSA, Astilleros. She graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana and holds a master’s degree in educational technologies. She currently contributes to the Universidad Veracruzana by teaching the Offshore speciality and coordinating Naval Engineering Career. In addition, she works as coordinator and instructor for tutors involved in distance education in TECNM. Member of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA).
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Alain Deslongchamps
Alain Deslongchamps, president of Imagine Films Communication, holds a DESS in Communication Marketing Management from HEC Montreal. Conscious of the importance of high-quality visual content to sustain brand’s identity, he co-founded Imagine Films Communication, with the mission of designing, producing and implementing digital communication strategies to sustain brands from the angle of visual storytelling, combining high-end video and social media. At Imagine Films Communication, he is responsible for the creative direction and participates as an award-winning director and producer.
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Alejandra Arboleda Bedoya
Alejandra Arboleda is an industrial engineer from the National University of Colombia, with a master’s degree in finance and an MBA at Rotterdam School of Management. Alejandra has worked for 14 years at Grupo Sura, a holding company with investments in asset management, insurance and banking in Latin America. During these fourteen years, she has worked in areas of finance, risk management, strategic planning, and innovation. Currently, Alejandra is the Corporate strategy Director at the holding company. She supports the strategic definitions to consolidate the group’s presence in Latin and Central America and the business plans for projects that promote synergies and strategic conversations among the companies of the group.
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Ana Luiza Rossato Facco
Ana Luiza Rossato Facco is and assistant professor at Universidade de Cruz Alta where she teaches Business Administration with a focus on the disciplines of human resources and corporate social responsibility. She is a doctoral candidate and Social Innovation Researcher at Unisinos Business School-Brazil. Drawing on her experience as a Rotary volunteer, AIESEC employee and Brazilian delegate to the 24th session of the Youth Assembly in Washington DC, she is now writing her doctoral thesis on “The scalability of social innovation based on a territorial approach”.
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Andrea Paola Dorado Diaz
Andrea Paola Dorado Díaz holds a MBA and is offering her knowledge as professor at the National University of Mexico. For more than 15 years, she has sustained the creation of companies through the promotion of innovation at the National University of Mexico. In addition, she has advised more than 500 entrepreneurial projects and incubated more than 25 technological innovation companies on topics such as: environment, software, robotics, energy, industrial, health and biotechnology. Notably, she has been an evaluator of entrepreneurship projects in: Posible, Startup Weekend, Mass Challenge, MIDE Idea Space, BAW, CIEBT-IPN, UNITEC Business Incubator and Lean Startups México.
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Angelica Novoa
Graduated in Community Economic Development from Concordia University, Angelica Novoa is passionate about developing innovative solutions that have an impact in communities. As co-founder and, eventually, co-director of a local Montreal charity, Angelica spent 12 years shaping a faith-based community into a hub for social entrepreneurs. She developed and implemented an initiative to improve the lives of people who live outside in the streets of Montreal. She trained and coached community members on developing and implementing their social initiatives. In addition, Angelica co-founded a specialty-foods business as an answer to local, diet-related health problems and as a way to stimulate the local artisan economy.
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Cao Quốc Việt
Dr. Viet Quoc Cao is a lecturer in the research methodology department at the School of Management (University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City – UEH, Vietnam). He earned a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City in 2018. His research interests include boycott behaviour (consumer behaviour), entrepreneurship, and innovation. He has some publications in the Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, Science and Technology Development Journal, Journal of Economic Studies, Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, Journal of Security & Sustainability Issues, and Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management (MOJEM).
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Charbel Haddad
Charbel Haddad is a CIO and Senior Consultant at BAITS Global Inc. He holds a Master of Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, a Minor in Philosophy, a University Certificate in Business Administration, a College Diploma in Information Technology, and a myriad of industry-specific certifications and specializations. He has a love for psychology, philosophy, and anthropology, rich educational background, and diverse language skills. These help him instantiate, nurture and maintain healthy, long-term relationships with individuals from all walks of life, regardless of their stature, cultural affiliations, and/or ethnicity. After leaving a successful, seventeen-year international career in InfoTech management, training, and mentoring, over five years ago now, he found himself committed to the one sector he is most passionate about: Education.
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Cheryl Perera
Cheryl Perera has been a dedicated member of Ontario Caregiver Coalition (OCC) for 12 years, Chair of OCC for over 3 years and, since the fall of 2020, Co-Chair. Prior to becoming Chair of OCC, Cheryl led the Awareness and Communications Working Group for many years. As a caregiver herself, Cheryl is passionate about OCC’s work to help advocate for more supports for family caregivers in Ontario. Cheryl has held senior level positions in the community health and mental health/developmental services sectors for most of her career. In her current role at Lumenus Community Services, Cheryl has oversight for several enterprise-wide functions in the areas of partnerships, growth, innovation and organizational excellence. Cheryl holds a MSW from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. The skills she brings to OCC include strategic planning, marketing, business development and partnership building.
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Christian Alan Acosta Terán
Christian Alan Acosta Terán holds a degree in computing systems and a master’s degree in computer sciences. He is currently working for the faculty of medicine at the Universidad Veracruzana. Feeding a passion for social innovation and self-achievement, Christian dedicates his own time to the coaching and the development of promising entrepreneurs. [/author_info] [/author]

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Claudia Beatriz Enriquez Hernández
Dr. Claudia Beatriz Enríquez Hernández is a world-renowned professor, researcher, author and speaker in nursing. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Sciences at Work from the University of Guadalajara; a master’s degree in Nursing Sciences from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León; and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Universidad Veracruzana. As author and co-author, she accounts for multiple refereed and indexed articles and books. In addition, Dr. Claudia Beatriz Enríquez Hernández is Head of the Academic Body “Human Development-Veracruz” since 2013 and a member of the Mexican Federation’s executive secretariat of Schools and Faculties of Nursing (FEMAFEE).
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Danny E. Bash
Danny E. Bash is a social entrepreneur driven by his passion for making the world a better place. He managed several projects around the world including U.A.E, Qatar, France, Spain, and several other middle eastern and African countries. In Qatar, Danny played an important role in the tourism industry was as a general manager, rebuilt and ran a touristic complex of 12 restaurants and a hotel, who contributed to the Olympic Asian gymnastics games. As a Project manager, Danny helped many SMB’s in the construction, Information technology, robotics, and consulting industry grow their business. He helped to build successful F&B and Wellness concepts is the co-founder of a real estate investment app, and is a contributor to the social innovation ecosystem. Danny holds a Master’s in project management, a GDP of Business Administration, and is an SBC graduate. He currently is the co-founder of Mighty Grey a social concept with a mission to help retired businessmen reintegrate society while helping young entrepreneurs build their businesses.

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Đoàn Thanh Hải
Đoàn Thanh Hải has been working in the social enterprise field since 2012 and gathered experience in various aspects of the social enterprise ecosystem, including impact measurement, social business incubation, mainstreaming social innovation in higher education, impact investment, policy advocacy and public awareness on social enterprises. From 2018 until now, Hai has been managing the Society Program of the British Council in Vietnam, which has focused on promoting social enterprise since 2009 and currently mainstreaming Active Citizens Social Entrepreneurship program in universities across Vietnam. Previously, she worked as a project manager for Social Innovation Incubation Platform and as a consultant for other projects of the Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP). From 2012 to 2014, Hai worked as Hanoi manager of Thrive fund, giving free-interest loan for SMEs and promoting SMEs’ social responsibilities. During 2015-2019, Hai was also founder and director of Kids Need Books social enterprise whose mission is to foster reading culture for children in Vietnam by running a community library and weekend educational story-time for children.
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Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez
Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez has been involved in social innovation and entrepreneurship since 1977. Notably, she contributes as a facilitator for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as a member of the WAGGGS, and as a mentor. In addition, she is a professor at the Universidad Veracruzana where she teaches Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Sciences, and Applied Sciences for the Master’s degree. As coordinator of the University’s affairs department, Dr. Estela del Carmen Fernandez Rodriguez is also responsible for the relationship between the University and the industry sectors, including the government entities and the community projects.
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Fernando Ruiz
Fernando Ruiz López holds a Law degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and a SME Management certification. He was born and lived in Spain where he worked in the banking sector and as a civil servant. Being passionate about languages, he founded “Cours d’espagnol por favor” in Montreal, a school dedicated to teaching Spanish to adults. He has collaborated with several NGOs over the past twenty years, notably was a member of Results Canada whose goal is to reduce poverty. In 2015 he launched the campaign 3MINMAX to raise awareness about climate change.
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Gabriela Garcia Taboada
Gabriela Garcia Taboada is an entrepreneur and professor with over 20 years of experience, with the highest commitment to motivating students and companies to build social businesses. Currently, she teaches Marketing, Strategy, and E-commerce at the School of Engineer at the Universidad Austral and the School of Economics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her career went from marketing to business transformation for companies based in Argentina and Mexico. In addition, she worked as marketing manager at La Nacion Newspaper and founded templura.com in 2004, a platform where companies find aid and creative ideas to deliver value-added gifts made by artisans and small producers of specialty food.
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Guillermo Larios-Hernandez
Dr. Guillermo J. Larios-Hernandez is an Entrepreneurship Research Professor and Academic Coordinator at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico. He is also chair of the entrepreneurship research group and responsible for the development of entrepreneurship curricula and related extracurricular programs, which includes the university incubator. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Mexico’s National University (UNAM), and his Master’s degree in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas. In addition, Dr. Larios-Hernandez is a qualified instructor of scientific entrepreneurship by NoBI/iCorps and a Certified International Trade Professional by FITT. A notable contribution includes his role as Trade Commissioner at Global Affairs Canada for Science, Technology & Innovation/ Information and Communications Technologies in Mexico City.
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Hồ Thị Hải Thuỳ
Thuỳ Hồ Thị Hải is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Economics with a high interest in sustainable development. She graduated from Queensland University of Technology (Australia) with a master’s degree in Marketing. Thuy currently works as a lecturer of Marketing and Intellectual Property at the Foreign Trade University, in Vietnam. With more than 10 years of passionate involvement in education, she has been always trying to deliver qualified lessons to students and support them in the participation of different business competitions such as Young Spikes, Student Research Competition, and Nielsen Case Competition.
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Ho Thuy Ngoc
Dr. Ho Thuy Ngoc is currently the Dean of Faculty of International Education, at the Foreign Trade University. She has been working in public education for 15 years, managing international programs, providing program advisory, and delivering lectures. With expertise in international trade law, she has advised various Vietnamese entrepreneurs in a business establishment, investment, and dispute settlements. She believes that hard work and commitment are vital elements of success for any startup
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Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt
Professor Ignacio Ortiz Betancourt is a full-time lecturer and postgraduate coordinator of the Faculty of Administration of the Veracruzana University, Veracruz Region. His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in Economics, a master’s degree in Finance, and a doctorate in Public Finance. With more than 11 years of experience in the field of higher education, his work has focused on issues of economics, finance, entrepreneurship, and foreign trade. Also, he is a member of the academic group called Entrepreneurship, Management and Internationalization and is a member of the International Entrepreneurship Network AFIDE.
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Israel Ortiz Vargas
Dr. Israel Ortiz Vargas is a professor at the Faculty of nursing, Veracruzana University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Veracruzana University, and his doctorate in education from the Escuela Libre de Ciencias Politicas y Administración Pública de Oriente. With 6 years of work experience in public and private institutions of the health sector, he offers his expertise to the Human Development Veracruz academic body for any healthcare-related matter. In addition, he is a member of the College of Nurses of the state of Veracruz and certified as a teacher with a suitability profile endorsed by SEP.
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Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares
A great defender of the social economy and professor at the Faculty of Accounting of the Universidad Veracruzana, Jorge Antonio Acosta Cázares teaches economics, international economics, corporate and public finances. Also, he is the founder and general coordinator of the Center for Studies for Business Development (CEDEM). He has developed a strong experience in applying models for the development of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) with a focus on stimulating regional economics. In addition, he widened his influence as a member of many associations such as the Regional Sustainability Commission and the College of Economists of the state of Veracruz A.C.
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Jose Andres Ruiz Blanco
Professor José Andrés Ruiz Blanco is an accountant and Ph.D. candidate with a master’s degree in Foreign Trade Administration. He worked in different organizations as a manager and developed strong expertise in the bail-bond advisory. Currently, he is a member of the academic corps and an international, mobility and graduate coordinator. In addition, he has authored different articles about foreign trade and contributed as a student evaluator in a lot of professional works searches.
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Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce
Dr. Juana Gabriela Mendoza Ponce is currently teaching at the Universidad Veracruzana. She advocates comprehensive and extended training to equip students with tools and skills for a successful professional and personal life. She graduated with an industrial engineer degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz, completed postgraduate studies in Quality Management, and a Ph.D. in Senior Management. From her twenty-eight years of work experience, sixteen years have been dedicated to developing expertise in quality assurance activities.
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Krista Richmond
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Krista Richmond’s 25-year career in the cleantech industry has spanned utilities, manufacturing, and regulation. Through roles across customer experience, operations and IT is where Krista found her true passion; aligning people, processes, and technology application to enable corporate innovation and venture creation. Her work creating innovation partnerships between corporations and academic institutions and implementing corporate innovation programs has led to hands-on experience with emerging technology including AI, IIoT, and AR/VR. More recently, her interest has turned to renewable energy and how emerging technologies can be integrated to meet a net-zero carbon future. Supporting diversity and inclusion as the catalyst for innovation and being a lifelong learner are the values that form the foundation of her success. Krista is a Board Member for the Women in Communications and Technology Association, a career mentor of female leaders in technology through Locelle, and is currently completing her studies in Strategy and Innovation from MIT.
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Lê Thị Thu Hà
Dr. Le Thi Thu Ha is Associate Professor and Director of Innovation and Incubation Space at Foreign Trade University (FTU). Dr. Le has over 15 years of experience in researching, teaching, and consulting on many issues of enterprises. Her strength is on improving the competitiveness of enterprises through creating intellectual property, encouraging innovation, and building a brand. Besides, she has been an independent consultant for projects funded by non-governmental organizations in Vietnam and the Government of Vietnam. Dr. Le has led the key activities of FTU towards entrepreneurship through developing curriculum and supporting projects with innovative, community-oriented, and sustainable solutions in the last years.
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María del Carmen Meza Téllez
Professor María del Carmen Meza Tellez holds an MBA at TecMilenio, a bachelor’s degree in Personnel Administration at ITESM, and a diploma for Advisors and Directors of the SBDC of the University of Texas and the Universidad Veracruzana. She is an academic recognized by the Subsecretary of Higher Education of Mexico and the Certified Academic in Administration. She is a certified Instructor and a member of the Association for Training, Research, and Development of Entrepreneurship (AFIDE). She has been a trainer for the Business Leadership and Creativity Workshop aimed at micro-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs as well as a teacher in Administration and Human Resources. Her line of research is in Entrepreneurial Intention, Social Entrepreneurs, and Entrepreneurship Education.
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María Esther Fragoso Terán
Recognized for her high expertise in social entrepreneurship, Dr. María Esther Fragoso Terán is a Professor at the Universidad Veracruzana and Director of Social Business Creation in the State of Veracruz. For the last 15 years, she has dedicated herself to teaching strategic business management and innovation while participating in local, national, and international competitions. Her exceptional contribution includes publications in international magazines about social entrepreneurship, the greening model, and the inclusion principles; participation in different panels and lectures at national conferences; and participation as a judge in the Hult Prize Competition. Dr. María Esther Fragoso Terán holds a Ph.D. in Government and Public Administration and a master’s degree in international business.
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Mariana Silva Ortega
Mariana Silva Ortega is an Assistant professor at the Department of Naval Engineering at Universidad Veracruzana. She holds a master’s degree in Naval and Oceanic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo. She teaches at the Faculty of Mechanics and Naval Sciences (FIMCN) of the Universidad Veracruzana (U.V.) and coordinates FIMCN alumni. She is also a coordinator of the Hydrodynamics Academy in the Naval Engineering program. She is a holder of the PRODEP Profile (2018-2020). She participates in the postgraduate program in Applied Engineering of the Universidad Veracruzana which is recognized within the CONACYT quality postgraduate program. She has published articles in Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, and Vortex-Induced Vibration.
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Minerva Catalina Aguilar Olivares
Minerva Catalina Aguilar Olivares is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Rights. She has a graduate degree in Marketing and a master’s degree in Health Sciences at Work from the University of Guadalajara. Her line of research interest is dedicated to the human-oriented approach of companies and how they can develop a better social impact.
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Mohammad Badruddozza Mia
Mohammad Badruddozza Mia is a Professor of Management at the United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is currently holding the position of Director of BBA Program of UIU. Previously, he taught at the University of Buckingham, UK, the Southeast University, and the University of Business and Technology in Dhaka. In addition, Dr. Mohammad worked for different development and research organizations such as Proshika, IDS (University of Sussex), WorldFish Center, and PIACT Bangladesh. Dr. Mohammad obtained his Ph.D. from the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. He completed his master’s degrees at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, and at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Ngô Ngọc Quang
Dr. Ngoc Quang Ngo currently works as a lecturer in Finance & Banking at the Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Ho Chi Minh City, and as a business course developer for the Vietnam – Japanese Institute for Human Resource Development (VJCC). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Europa Viadrina University. In addition, Dr. Ngo is a Certified Coach (ICF), Certified Trainer (S.R.), and a mentor. He has 15 years of experience as an expert and consultant in the field of finance, investment, security market, asset evaluation, and business startup.
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Nguyễn Bảo Thoa
Dr. Nguyen Bao Thoa is currently director of Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of livelihood improvement for disadvantaged people, community-based tourism, women empowerment, and capacity building for small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Dr. Thoa is also an expert in fair trade, market liaison, and branding. In addition, she has been involving in more than 200 development projects while contributing to bringing back better lives for local people, especially for women in rural areas of Vietnam.
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Nguyen Duc Nhu Nguyen
Graduated in International Business from the Hue Economic University, Nguyen Duc Nhu Nguyen works as a business developer at SCAVI – Global Outsourcing Services in the lingerie, swimwear, and sportswear industries, mostly contributing to the running and gym brand of Decathlon. She is passionate about sharing the culture of travel, helping deaf women learn sign language, and supporting youth girls with weaker conditions.
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Nguyễn Hoàng Huy Tú
Nguyễn Hoàng Huy Tú is a lecturer at Foreign Trade University (FTU), Ho Chi Minh City. Tú holds a master’s degree in Algebra and is responsible for teaching Advanced Math and Probability Statistics to undergraduate students. In addition, Tú also has many years of experience teaching math in high schools. Tú likes to share his passion to make his classroom teaching more interesting and effective. Notably, he makes his students understand math by applying it directly to work and life experiences.
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Nguyễn Phương Chi
Nguyen Phuong Chi is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Trade University. At the university, she teaches e-commerce, operation management, and management sciences. Her research focuses on digital transformation and business model innovation while covering eCommerce applications, kaizen in enterprises, and management science applications. She has published several articles in journals and contributed to chapters of several books. She was a judge in Kawai Business Start-up Competition, the year 2019-2021. She took part in many projects relating to training and consulting for students and enterprises such as training active citizen social enterprise, business planning courses, and consulting RangDong enterprise in selling to the global market.
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Nguyen Thi Hanh
Nguyen Thi Hanh holds an MBA degree and works as a lecturer in Innovation Management at Foreign Trade University (FTU), in Vietnam. She was one of the 36 lecturers in Vietnam who was certified in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) by the Innovation Partnership Program, a joint program between Vietnam and Finland in 2016. She was selected as one of the 30 lecturers to join Active Citizen & Social Enterprise Programme by the British Council and Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Train in 2020. As a coach, mentor and leading trainer of nearly 20 contests and workshops among students, teachers, and entrepreneurs, she has gained a deep understanding of social entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Nguyễn Thị Thu Dung
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Dung is a lecturer at the University of Languages and International Studies. As a Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking, and as an advisor for the “Fostering Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship” project, he creates highly attractive programs that aim to develop students with further knowledge and skills in social innovation. In addition, she supports external networking missions through the offering of aid to nationwide students who starts their own businesses. Notably, she has been selected as a facilitator for the Active Citizens Social Enterprise program (supervised by the British Council), and as the mentor of Project 1665 (supervised by the Ministry of Education and Training).
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Nguyễn Thu Hằng
Dr. Nguyễn Thu Hằng obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Before that, she received a master’s degree from the Leeds Metropolitan University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Business from Foreign Trade University (FTU). She has 14 years of international trade-related experience as a teacher and subject matter expert for projects from UNDP, GIZ, and ITC. Currently, she works as a lecturer at Foreign Trade University and is the Director of Training and Development Section of FTU Innovation and Incubation Space (FIIS). Also, she is the national coordinator of the Vietnam Hub of Social Business Creation.
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Pablo Fernandez
Dr. Pablo Fernadez is an associate professor at the Faculty of IAE Business School, IAE Universidad Austral. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Emlyon Business School in Lyon, France. His research focus relates to the institutional theory and topics related to power and resistance in and around organizations. He is currently studying processes of social inclusion in which marginalized actors seek to organize and work together to regain their dignity. At a broader level, he is interested in understanding the mediation between structures and agencies. Part of his research has been published in Organization Studies, in Journal of Business Ethics, and in Business and Society.
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Phạm Thị Mai Khanh
Dr. Khanh Pham is a senior lecturer at Foreign Trade University (FTU). She graduated from the University of Melbourne in Tertiary Education Management, received a master’s degree (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from the University of Turin, and obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Foreign Trade University. She teaches international investment policies, project management, and intellectual property law to students and executives. Dr. Khanh has gained her experience in facilitating social business projects by serving as an adviser and/or a judge in a number of competitions such as the I.P. Challenge, Hult Prize, and Vietnam Social Innovation Challenge.
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Rogerio Canales
Rogerio Canales became passionate about innovation after he worked for a “waste to energy” startup in the Netherlands. His failure to consolidate his own solar energy startup in his native Mexico led him to study innovation and entrepreneurship more closely. After years of study, he started working at Mexico’s largest university where he worked as an entrepreneurship coordinator. He is a professor at both UNAM and Universidad Anahuac in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has received training from different institutions around the world. Besides his academic positions, he collaborates with Strategyzer as a coach and has his own startup in the health sector.
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Ruchika Gupta
Dr. Ruchika Gupta is a Professor and HOD at Amity Business School. She holds an academic experience of 17 years during which she has played multifaceted roles of a teacher, trainer, mentor, and administrator. She holds a Ph.D. with three master’s degrees. Her research areas are diverse and focus on interdisciplinary research. She owns 34 copyrights and has published research papers in national and international journals and conferences. In addition, she serves as editor, reviewer, and advisory board member of several indexed journals.
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Steve Lamoureux
Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences and has been working for Desjardins Group for more than 25 years. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, environment, and technology, and has proven his leadership in developing innovative solutions that address a social or financial problem. In addition, Steve had the opportunity to act as a judge in different competitions over the past 30 years. From computer-animated short films to environment-led challenges, and passing by financial-oriented competitions, every subject drives his passion and interest.
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Tạ Hương Thảo
Tạ Hương Thảo is capacity building manager at KisStartup and managing director at IMPACT F, an incubator and pre-accelerator for startups with impact. As a trainer, Thao coordinates the training and coaching activities at KisStartup for hundreds of startups, universities, and organizations all over the country. She is passionate about providing impact startups with toolsets and mindsets to build sustainable business models and to measure their impact. In addition, Thao manages investment matching activities to connect startups to potential local and regional investors, partners and supporters.
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Tô Hải Yến
Tô Hải Yến is a project manager and communication manager of the Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute. She has developed expertises such as capacity building, seminars and training, craft villages and craft products, value chains, community-related policies, income generation, product development, and consultancy for local, companies and producers. Her main research focuses on value chains and policies related to community arts and crafts, particularly for ethnic groups.
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Trần Minh Thu
Graduated in Business Administration and Finance, Dr. Trần Minh Thu holds a master’s degree in HRM from the Keele University, the U.K., and a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Foreign Trade University, Vietnam. Currently, she teaches principles of management and entrepreneurship at FTU. She is passionate about social innovation and believes that great achievement comes from small efforts. She takes pride in her student’s achievements and she invests herself in every single thing she does for her students.
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Trần Nguyên Chất
Dr. Tran Nguyen Chat is a lecturer at the Foreign Trade University, Vietnam, with over 18-year experience in lecturing, research and business consultancy. Her interests cover various themes including international economic integration, trade in services, international business, export and marketing management. In addition, she is actively involved in various projects related to trade promotion and business consultancy in Ho Chi Minh city.
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Grand final round

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chantal-Thieblin-Goffoz_hd.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Chantal Thieblin Goffoz is a devoted businesswoman, Chantal is committed to Quebec entrepreneurs. She is co-founder and President of Divergent Capital, a private impact-first investment fund. She is also Managing Partner at Credo, a consulting firm specialized in social impact strategy, for corporate as well as non-profit and public institutions. Furthermore, Chantal is actively involved with accelerators in Montreal, Longueuil, Sherbrooke, and Gatineau. She also sits on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Committees (Inc and NPOs). Chantal aims at providing informed and solid insights into strategic issues while ensuring the operational viability of entrepreneurial projects.[/author_info] [/author]

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Martins_Emily.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Emily Martins is recognized as a strategist with a creative twist, Emily Martins is a Senior Consultant in the Strategy team at KPMG. She has worked closely with companies across a variety of industries and countries and has supported them in building strategic and business plans, growth strategies, diversifications plans, market entry strategies, etc. Previously, she worked in marketing and operations in the small business community. She has a Bachelor of Commerce from JMSB and a Masters in International Business from HEC Montreal.[/author_info] [/author]

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20171017-District-3-Staff-045.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Julie Hamel is a management advisor/coach with over 30 years of experience in Montreal. She began her career as an entrepreneur, having had several franchises in the food industry, before becoming a social economy advisor in 2006. Her expertise includes business development, marketing, financing, and governance. Julie has been involved with Concordia’s District 3 Innovation Center since 2015 as an expert in social entrepreneurship. She received a BA in Economics and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.[/author_info] [/author]

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Photo_Pauline_2021-scaled.jpg [/author_image] [author_info] Pauline Laurainne is a business consultant and the co-founder of Journey Groupe Conseil. Working with organizations and companies of all sizes, her strong suits are in strategy, business structuring, customer journey and process improvement. She helps her clients grow innovative and continuous improvement cultures. In 2021, she founded Journey Groupe Conseil with the objective of developing a more accessible and responsible consulting practice, in order to help organizations have a greater positive impact on people and on the environment, and therefore contribute to the sustainability of our society.[/author_info] [/author]

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/200814_Photo_Stephanie_Barker-e1631119885382.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Stephanie Baker, As the Executive Director of Space for Life Foundation since 2019, she oversees the philanthropic development of Canada’s leading natural science museum district, furthering the conservation, research, education and outreach mission of Montreal’s Biodome, Biosphere, Insectarium, Botanical Garden, and Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan. Previously, she was Assistant Director-General of The Lighthouse Children and Families, Quebec’s first pediatric palliative care hospice, after being Chief of Operations for Campus Montreal, the joint campaign for the University of Montreal, HEC Montreal, and Polytechnique Montreal, which resulted in a billion-dollar impact in the community. Stephanie was also Head of Outreach at the National Film Board of Canada, and Director of Community and Public Relations at Historica Foundation. Throughout her career, she volunteered with numerous organizations and remains involved with the Loran Scholars Foundation; Stephanie also serves on the Boards of iScola (Innovations scolaires) and Humanity & Inclusion (Handicap International) Canada. [/author_info] [/author]

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/thibaultbloyet.png[/author_image] [author_info]Thibault Bloyet is a business coach at Polytechnique Montreal. In 2015, along with Haider Miraj, director of Concepts Unlimited incubator in Pakistan, Thibault published a Master’s Thesis on psychological influences in startup success. Ever since, he has applied his multidisciplinary knowledge across various Montreal-based startup incubators and accelerators (District 3, L’Esplanade, La Piscine, Bonjour Startup Montreal, Polytechnique Montreal). Thibault was also the CEO of Triooo, an eco-conscious food delivery company later sold to Montreal competitor A La Carte Express. Thibault is not only focused on social businesses but also on entrepreneurs themselves as he came to realize that the sum of collective intentions and actions will shape the future of our economy and our planet.[/author_info] [/author]
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Judges in Round 1 & 2

In Round 1 & 2, the judges evaluated 98 teams’ online submissions. In round 1, projects were evaluated by their business concept presentation, stakeholder analysis, and proof of social support. In round 2, teams were evaluated by their online pitches and crowdfunding performances.

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Cedric-B-Robert.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Cedric B. Robert, partners in TMI (Project SpacePulse®) and Équipe Totem Inc.

Passionate about corporate sustainability, data analytics, strategy, as well as developing resilience against climate change threats and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) integration, Cedric B. Robert spent more than 15 years (as founder) leading a boutique consultancy specialized in environmental performance management in the renewable energy sector in Western Canada. A graduate of the McGill-HEC EMBA Program, an entrepreneur at heart and a value-based executive, Cedric is known for building lasting relationships, for his collaborative leadership approach, and for his business acumen. Valuing people, authenticity, and integrity above all, Cedric is determined to have a positive impact on tomorrow’s low-carbon economy. Foundationally, he believes that a business can become a societal force of good while thriving in today’s ever-changing business landscape. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jean-Michel-Champagne.jpg[/author_image][author_info]Jean Michel Champagne, Sustainable Development Manager at HEC Montréal (https://www.hec.ca/)

Jean-Michel Champagne acts as HEC Montréal’s Sustainable Development Officer since 2018. Before joining HEC, he worked for 8 years as an environmental and sustainability advisor in infrastructure and real estate management, serving public and private institutions across the country. He completed his Environmental Sciences Master (M.Sc.) at UQAM in 2012 and his MBA at HEC Montréal in 2017. His fields of specialization include infrastructure environmental management (energy, water, waste, pollution control) and ecosystemic management of urbanized and natural landscapes. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Joanna-Klimczak.jpg[/author_image][author_info]Joanna Klimczak, Cofounder at My Vision (https://www.myvisionglobal.com)

Joanna is a Rhodes Scholar, entrepreneur and social innovator interested in the interactions between business and society and the responsibilities the two hold to one another. She is likewise fascinated by the solutions technological and business innovation can bring to pressing societal issues. Joanna is the Co-Founder of MyVision, an international accelerator for start-ups tackling human-centric problems and a community of post-secondary students questioning the notion of “business as usual”. In that capacity, together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Advisor and Endorser of MyVision, Muhammad Yunus, Joanna led the Young Challengers meeting at the Global Social Business Summit 2012: a discussion among young leaders on business solutions to the former United Nations Millennium Development Goals. She also co-founded Hand in Hand International, an initiative in eight countries mobilizing and enabling high schoolers to actualize their desire for social change into on-the-ground projects. Alongside, she has worked in private sector development and leveraged social innovation in the trade industry across Haiti, Canada and the United States. Joanna is currently on professional retreat exploring questions at the crossroads of sustainability, human progress and the complexity of the systems in which we live. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from McGill University. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Joseph-El-Khoury.jpg[/author_image][author_info]Joseph El-Khoury, Lecturer at HEC Montreal (https://www.hec.ca/)

Joey El-Khoury is a lecturer at HEC Montreal, teaching “Corporate Social Responsibility” and “Sustainability management”, and founder of Jardins Sans Frontières. His nine-year career in business development in Mali, West Africa ignited in him a passion for ecological agriculture, community development and social and organizational innovation. It was after this experience with the community Kamaka in the Sahel region that he undertook his big green. Through a partnership with CREDIL and Québec Without Borders, he undertook Winter 2013 Action Research in Senegal on permaculture with Baback Serere community. Today, he is working with GRIDD-HEC (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Sustainable Development) as part of his doctoral studies in Applied Human Sciences at the University of Montreal. His thesis is on permaculture and social entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social and organizational innovation. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Laurence-Beaugrand-Champagne.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Laurence Beaugrand-Champagne, Project Manager at IDEOS Hub (https://ideos.hec.ca/)

Laurence Beaugrand-Champagne is an Alumni of HEC Montreal. She graduated in 2015 with an M.Sc. in Management. She also completed a first-degree diploma in Anthropology. Her thesis was on the evolution of leadership in the history of humanity. Laurence is part of the full-time staff at Pôle IDEOS as a project manager. After graduating from HEC Montréal, she worked for Exeko, a non-profit organization in social innovation. Through her job at Pôle IDEOS, Laurence works with business students on campus to promote social innovation, social entrepreneurship, social initiatives, and works to catalyze their ideas into activities aimed at the HEC Montréal community. She is also a board member for Temps Libre Coop, a co-working and free public space. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author][author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Marie-christine-Daxl.jpg[/author_image] [author_info] Marie-Christine Daxl, Co-Founder at Winifred Creative (https://www.winifredcreative.com/)

Marie-Christine is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of Consulting and Industry experience. Her career has taken her from Marketing to Business Transformation to Technology to the Creative Arts. Over the years, Marie-Christine has assisted companies in their various transformations. She has been involved in strategic initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and Start-ups in Canada, the USA and Europe. Marie-Christine propels companies by focusing on operational excellence and linking marketing, creativity and technology. Her approach is based on a deep understanding of a company’s strategic goals and brand essence in order to maximize its omnichannel customer journey. In 2018, she co-founded the Winifred Creative with a film producer friend. Together, they are helping their clients communicate better through the moving image and are working on creative transmedia projects that combine entertainment and marketing for the enjoyment of all. Contact on LinkedIn. [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Marie-Claude-Lacerte.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Marie-Claude Lacerte, Founder of Renard (https://www.renard.ca)

When asked by a teacher on her first week in business school what the ultimate purpose of a company was, Marina answered: “to improve the wellbeing of its community”. Even though that statement triggered quite a few laughs back then, Marina has since been putting management tools and methodologies at the service of social impact. As the coordinator of Atypic, then as a CHNGR ambassador promoting social and collaborative economy on the UdeM campus, and finally as the co-founder and operations director of the social enterprise Récolte, that aims to support social innovation and change in the Montreal food ecosystem. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Michelle-Clement.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Michelle Clement, Instructor at Camosun College and Royal Roads University (http:/www.royalroads.ca)

Michelle holds a BA and MBA from the University of Victoria in BC and a Doctorate of Education in social entrepreneurship from the University of Liverpool. She has a passion for working within the community and helping launch socially enterprising ideas. She lives in beautiful British Columbia where you can find her outdoors year-round embracing the beauty of nature and bringing sustainability into her teaching practice. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author][author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Niamh-Leonard.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info]Niamh Leonard, Program Officer at The McConnell Foundation (http://mcconnellfoundation.ca)

Niamh Leonard is a program officer at the McConnell Foundation; a family foundation that applies social innovation and social finance approaches to areas such as the reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, the transition to a low-carbon economy, and community well-being. Niamh also chairs the board of directors of Apathy is Boring and is a member of the Montreal Youth Council. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Nicolas-Perroton.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Nicolas Perroton, Team leader of Interconnexion Program at Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (https://acclr.ccmm.ca/)

Nicolas Perroton has more than 15 years of international experience in the areas of business development, talent acquisition, human resources and employability. He has a master’s degree in international business acquired with a trilingual cursus in France, Spain and England. He worked for 10 years in Barcelona as a consultant for, among others, Michael Page and Privalia before starting his own consulting company in international specialized recruitment. Since his arrival in Canada in 2015, Nicolas Perroton has focused on the professional integration of skilled newcomers. He became head of the interconnection program of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal in 2018. If he chose to reorient his career and specialize in the integration of newcomers in Quebec, it is because he believes in equal opportunities and was driven by the desire to give back to society. As an immigrant himself, he wants to help ensure that the professional skills of newcomers are recognized for their true worth, regardless of their country of origin, in order to foster a harmonious integration into their host society. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Susana-Esper.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Susana Esper, PhD Candidate at HEC Montreal (https://www.hec.ca/)

Susana Esper’s research interests are organizational theory and critical management studies with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility, business ethics and the relation between businesses, governments and the civil society. Empirically, she is interested in developing countries. Contact on LinkedIn.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Alex-Dumesle_5x7.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Alex Dumesle, Investment optimization Lead – Energy Advisory Services, WSP (https://www.wsp.com/fr-CA)

Having managed a solar power development start-up, led one of the most prominent eco-business programs in the world in partnership with Toronto Pearson International Airport (Partners in Project Green) and, more recently, developed SNC-Lavalin’s renewable energy strategy. Alex has over fifteen years of experience in sustainability, green infrastructure, renewable energy, investment development and business strategy. Accomplished engineer and MBA, Alex leverages his versatility and entrepreneurial drive to empower leading businesses to stay ahead of the curve in the low-carbon economy transition. Contact on LinkedIn. [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/amadea_camozzi.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Amadea Camozzi, Operation Lead at Creative Destruction Lab (https://www.creativedestructionlab.com)

Amadea is Operation Lead at Creative Destruction Lab. Before that she was the Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at e180, a social business that created Braindate to allow people to learn from one another. She is a proud alumna of the HEC MBA program (2017). Prior to this, she completed a BA in Honours International Development Studies at McGill University. As part of her degree, she participated in an internship in Honduras supporting women entrepreneurs to launch their own boutique and grow their network. She then worked in the non-profit sector for four years, namely at Santropol Roulant as the Social Entrepreneurship Coordinator and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. She is passionate about using business as a force for social change. Contact on Linkedin.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Hélène-Headshot.png[/author_image] [author_info]Helene Lesage, Network Activator at Ashoka Canada (https://www.ashoka.org/en-US/country/canada)

Hélène was born and raised in western France where her ancestors were farmers generation after generation on the lands of Brittany. She came to Canada two years ago to finish her studies and completed an MBA in Strategy & Innovation at Université Laval. Prior to joining Ashoka Canada, Hélène worked for Ashoka France in Paris where she coordinated the programming fostering co-creation between Ashoka Fellows and companies. She now leads the first steps of the selection process and research for the Ashoka Fellowship in Canada, where she gets a glimpse of the fascinating life trajectories of social innovators. Contact on Linkedin.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/jorge-h.mejia_.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Jorge Mejia, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (https://www.hec.ca/en/profs/jorge-h.mejia.html)

Jorge Humberto Mejia, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montreal, previously served as a full time faculty member at ITAM Business School. Professor Mejia holds a Ph.D. from HEC Paris, an MSc at Paris-Dauphine University, an MBA and B.B.A. with a special major that combined international and strategic entrepreneurship at ITAM. Recently he participated as a visiting research scholar at Texas Christian University, USA. Professor Mejia’s research is focus on: 1. Entrepreneurial intentions, purpose of life, social entrepreneurship and ethics; 2. Entrepreneurial networks of immigrants and families; 3. SMEs management, new ventures, scalable businesses and technology based firms; 4. Corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial boards, Top Management Teams and environmental issues in organizations. Jorge Humberto has coauthored numerous journal publications, conference articles, books and book chapters in the aforementioned topics. Professor Mejia’s research has earned scholarly recognition from Strategic Management Society, USA, Federal Business Disciplines, USA and CONACYT in Mexico. Jorge Humberto is an award-winning educator who teaches courses in strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduates, MBAs, EMBAs and Executives. He is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma AACSB-Honor Society. Prior and during his academic career, he worked as a consultant of large corporations, entrepreneur and CEO of SMEs.[/author_info] [/author]

Semi-final Judges

In the Semifinal Round, 33 teams were selected to present at HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte Sainte Catherine, H3T 2A7 on Monday September 30, 2019. They are evaluated on their social and business innovation as well as the feasibility of their business model. Click here to see Semifinal evaluation form and here to see the schedule of presentations (p. 16-17).

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/amadea_camozzi.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Amadea Camozzi, Operation Lead at Creative Destruction Lab (https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/

Amadea is Operation Lead at Creative Destruction Lab. Before that she was the Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at e180, a social business that created Braindate to allow people to learn from one another. She is a proud alumna of the HEC MBA program (2017). Prior to this, she completed a BA in Honours International Development Studies at McGill University. As part of her degree, she participated in an internship in Honduras supporting women entrepreneurs to launch their own boutique and grow their network. She then worked in the non-profit sector for four years, namely at Santropol Roulant as the Social Entrepreneurship Coordinator and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. She is passionate about using business as a force for social change. Contact on Linkedin.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Christopher-Baenninger.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Christopher Baenninger, President and Creative Director of NewBase Media (http://www.newbasemedia.com)

Christopher Baenninger has extensive experience leading teams in delivering excellence in the fields of marketing & communication. He has founded several successful Creative shops, including Blast Media, where he & his partners delivered world class creative content & marketing strategies to companies like Tetra Pack, Adidas & Bombardier. In late 2011, Christopher founded NewBase Media, an advertising agency specialised in the promotion of Sustainable products and services For A Better World. He and his super talented team have been going from success to success and are rapidly setting themselves to become the premiere Sustainable Advertising Agency in Canada. Christopher also has a keen passion for Art and is currently setting up a new AI-based online art platform to help give exposure to undiscovered Artists, to be launched in 2019. [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chrystal-Healy.png[/author_image] [author_info]Chrystal Healy, corporate director of Environment at Kruger (https://www.kruger.com/)

Chrystal Healy is a corporate social responsibility specialist who has been working in the field for 13 years. She has recently joined Kruger as corporate director of Environment, where she is responsible for developing and implementing the corporation’s environmental strategy. This includes identifying relevant environmental issues and associated risks and opportunities, as well as the engagement of various stakeholders. With an MBA from JMSB and a Master’s in Science from McGill, Chrystal approaches CSR in a pragmatic and strategic way, with the goal of creating shared value for the company, its employees and society.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Diane-Bérard.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Diane Bérard, columnist Les Affaires (https://www.lesaffaires.com/auteur/diane-berard/682)

Diane Bérard is a columnist and impact reporter for the newspaper Les Affaires. She contributes to the printed edition, Web content and event animation. She practices “solution journalism” which is to present, critically, initiatives that attempt to solve societal problems. Her areas of interest are the new capitalism, social innovation, ethics, governance and entrepreneurship.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’][/author_image][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/fabian.moreno.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Bio to come (https://www.hec.ca/en/profs/fabian.moreno.html)[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ghani-Kolli.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Ghani Kolli, CEO – Créateur d’Impact at HumanYo+Impact (https://HumanYoImpact.com)

Having spoken to 3,600 people over the past 15 years at workshops, conferences, and consulting assignments, Ghani knows how critical is the alignment of individuals with their organizations and organizations with their clients need. His career as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur shapes his contribution to innovative projects aimed at creating value for his clients. It is this commitment to business that he shares with passion as impact entrepreneurs, strategic advisor and business coach. Co-creating and innovating with his clients, in collaboration with his peers in a framework that leaves space for creativity and excellence, is his the main driver. Ghani Kolli is a certified Business Model & Value Proposition Designer as well as Business Model You practitioner. He helped entrepreneurs and business leaders successfully rethink their business models. He founded HumanYo project, an Artificial Intelligence startup that predict team efficiency and co-founded the strategic design firm HumanYo+Impact to create human impact within innovative organizations by using design thinking, lean startup, customer development, design a better business, and blue ocean methodologies. Ghani is co-creator and contributor of the books Business Models for Teams and The Real Startup Book.[/author_info] [/author][author][author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Guy-GERVAIS.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Guy Gervais,President (HumanID)

As a CEO, Guy has led the success of Vulcain, a manufacturer of gas detection monitors. On top of achieving outstanding financial results, the company was awarded numerous awards for its innovation ability and steady growth. Since his exit in 2004, Guy is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is actively involved in the strategy and operations of companies in which he invests his financial capital. He also acts as a coach / mentor in several accelerators such as Impact 8 and Espace Inc. Guy invests solely in impact ventures.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LAURENCIA-PERRIN.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Laurencia Perrin, Programs Lead at Impact8 (https://www.impact8.org/en/home-page/)

Laurentia is Programs Lead at Impact8, the acceleration platform of l’Esplanade dedicated to entrepreneurship and social innovation. She oversees the success of the different programs (design, facilitation, operations & performance) and supports entrepreneurs in the development of purpose-driven business models. In parallel, she actively participates in the development of other innovation ecosystems such as incubators, accelerators, entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship programs and open innovation laboratories. Her previous experiences in project management in France, West Africa and Germany, ignited in her a passion for social entrepreneurship, open innovation strategies and community building. [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/MABEL-PAOLA.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Mabel-Paola Gonzalez, Head of the Canadian branch of Vigeo Eiris (http://vigeo-eiris.com/fr/)

Mabel has more than 12 years of experience, managing social, cultural and economic programs as well as building partnerships in Colombia, Germany, Egypt, Bolivia and Canada. Her work has mainly focused on areas such as sustainable development, human rights, public policies and transparency. Originally from Colombia, she lives in Montréal since 2014 with her two girls and husband. In 2016, Mabel and her sister participated in the first Social Business Creation Programme, with a project called “El negro está de moda”, aimed at fighting discrimination in Colombia. Their project was selected as first among the 5 team that best perform in round 2 and as third among the three finalists After the competition, Mabel and her sister established a social enterprise called Nuestro Flow and are now running several initiatives in Colombia, Chile and Peru and working with different public and private partners such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the city of Bogotá. Mabel combines her time working as co-founder and responsible of business development at Nuestro Flow with her role as Head of the Canadian branch of Vigeo Eiris, an European company offering tools and research to investors with the aim to promote responsible investments by integrating the way companies manage their social, environmental and governance risks into the investment decision process.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Marie-Christine-Daxl-_5281_HD-2.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Marie-Christine Daxl, Co-Founder at Winifred Creative (https://www.winifredcreative.com/)

Marie-Christine is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of Consulting and Industry experience. Her career has taken her from Marketing to Business Transformation to Technology to the Creative Arts. Over the years, Marie-Christine has assisted companies in their various transformations. She has been involved in strategic initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and Start-ups in Canada, the USA and Europe. Marie-Christine propels companies by focusing on operational excellence and linking marketing, creativity and technology. Her approach is based on a deep understanding of a company’s strategic goals and brand essence in order to maximize its omnichannel customer journey. In 2018, she co-founded the Winifred Creative with a film producer friend. Together, they are helping their clients communicate better through the moving image and are working on creative transmedia projects that combine entertainment and marketing for the enjoyment of all. Contact on Linkedin. https://www.winifredcreative.com/aboutus [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Marie-Claude-Lacerte.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Marie-Claude Lacerte, Founder of Renard (https://www.renard.ca)

Marie-Claude holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication and a Master’s degree in Marketing. She taught creativity and innovation for three years at HEC Montréal, while completing her thesis on sustainable business models in the field of communication. Marie-Claude has also coached the Entrepreneurial Innovation Team of the Jeux du Commerce for HEC for three consecutive years. She now runs her business Renard, whose mission is to help families live a movement-rich life. Contact on Linkedin.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Richard-Bruno.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Richard Bruno PH. D., President and CEO, Beyond IFTM Corporation and Fellow Guest Academic, inventor, innovator, executive, entrepreneur and mentor, Richard Bruno began his career in 1971 as a professor of solid physics and joined N. V. Philips in Europe in 1974 as head of the research group. At Philips for more than 16 years, he managed billions of dollars of breakthrough innovations in: renewable energy systems, Minitel, computers and video games Philips and the Compact Disc in its various formats. In 1989, he launched his first startup in the karaoke market and then became a six-time successful entrepreneur in the IT field. After twenty-five years as an entrepreneur, he now advises the next generation of entrepreneurs and plays an active role in public and private boards.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EY_9310-2.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Nguyen Pham, Manager in EY Business Modelling group based in Montreal (www.ey.com/ca)

Nguyen Pham is a Manager in the Business Modelling group in the EY’s Montreal office. With his background in Operations Research, his focus is on developing analytical solutions to decision-making problems in business using optimization, simulation, and statistical models. Nguyen has obtained his doctorate at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland with research topics on complex scheduling solutions and their applications in healthcare and transportation. His research works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals. Prior to joining EY, he has worked at a utility in Canada, where he has developed solutions and quantitative models to various planning problems.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/@myriambariltessier___2019DSC05974.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Hélène Saint-Jacques, Project Manager, Développement économique durable, PME MTL Centre-Est

Hélène holds a Master in Environmental Sciences and has studied Public policies and Regional development at the PhD level. She currently works with PME-MTL Centre-Est as a Project manager in sustainable economic development and assists businesses and social businesses into implementing environmental initiatives and creating ripple effects into the ecosystem. She is a passionate citizen, always trying to improve governance and to facilitate access to public policies and processes. She is involved in health care as a patient-partner in the creation of a new obstetric department in a Montreal Community Hospital and before that, was involved in the construction of a birthing house. Photo credit: Myriam Baril-Tessier. [/author_info] [/author]

Grand Final Judges

Three finalists are selected among the top 7 teams of the semifinal round (best team from each of the 7 rooms) to pitch to the grand public in the evening of Monday September 30, 2019 at HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte Sainte Catherine, H3T 2A7. They are evaluated by their ability to captivate the audience with their social business. Click here to see Final evaluation form.

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Christopher-Baenninger.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Christopher Baenninger has extensive experience leading teams in delivering excellence in the fields of marketing & communication. He has founded several successful Creative shops, including Blast Media, where he & his partners delivered world class creative content & marketing strategies to companies like Tetra Pack, Adidas & Bombardier. In late 2011, Christopher founded NewBase Media, an advertising agency specialised in the promotion of Sustainable products and services For A Better World. He and his super talented team have been going from success to success and are rapidly setting themselves to become the premiere Sustainable Advertising Agency in Canada. Christopher also has a keen passion for Art and is currently setting up a new AI-based online art platform to help give exposure to undiscovered Artists, to be launched in 2019.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Claude.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Claude Pinard, Saputo Foundation (http://www.saputo.com)

Over the past 25 years, Claude Pinard has honed his skills in communications, public relations, philanthropy, marketing and professional sports management. Claude Pinard is currently Executive Director of the Mirella and Lino Saputo Foundation and acts as Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Jolina Capital, a private family holding in Montreal. Claude has held different positions in both the public and the private sectors. He acted as Special Advisor to the Chairman at Hydro-Québec before joining Saputo in August 2001 as Vice President of Communications, where he was responsible for internal and external communications, press relations and investor relations. He was appointed to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of this Division in 2006, a position that he held for three years.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Jean-Francois-Archambault.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Jean-Francois Archambault, CEO and Founder of La Tablée des Chefs and Executive Director, Fellow of Ashoka Quebec (http://www.tableedeschefs.org)

Soon after his studies in Hotel Management at the ITHQ, Jean-François became a manager in the hospitality industry. After working as a sales representative at Château Vaudreuil and Fairmont Tremblant, Jean-François worked as a sales manager at several major hotels in the metropolitan area. In 2002, he presented his concept of food recovery from hotels and caterers to leaders of the culinary and hospitality industry; his project then took shape and became La Tablée des Chefs. With this organization, Jean-François hopes to socially mobilize chefs and cooks because he believes in their incredible ability to intervene on the issue of hunger and to address its many challenges.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lucy.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Lucy Stoyak, Director of Mosaic Summer School (http://ecole-ete.hec.ca/en/)

Lucy Stojak has over 15 years of experience in the development and management of international, interdisciplinary and intercultural educational programs. She served as Director of the Space Studies Program, a 9-weekprofessional development program in the aerospace field, offered by the International Space University (ISU). She is a lawyer specialized in space law. Her fields of interest include security and space, the commercialization of space, and intercultural negotiation and team building. She has been a member of the Canadian delegation to international organizations such as the United Nations, the EU, the OECD, the Conference on Disarmament and the European Space Agency (ESA). She is a Faculty member of the ISU..[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/natalie-voland.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Natalie Voland President of Gestion immobilière Quo Vadis inc. (https://www.lofts-mtl.com/)

Natalie Voland has been reinventing the process of real estate development over 20 years. Her roots as a social worker allows her to have a unique and purpose driven design centered outlook on development that priorities historical protection of civic assets while being forward thinking to help buildings unite communities. She is a leader of the Quebec B Corp Movement where her companies are stewards of the environment, foster social inclusion, while making market driven profit to help the economic development of Montreal. Natalie controls 1.5 million square feet, supports over 500 entrepreneurs, and is an active public speaker. She partners with several universities to use her assets as teaching and prototype tools for pushing the concept on what city do we want to build as citizens and is a Professor of the Harvard School of Public Health in Sustainable Leadership for CEO’s. She has won extensive awards for her work and lectured on the global stage; while remaining true to her values of social and economic inclusion.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Patrick-Dubé.jpeg[/author_image] [author_info]Patrick Dubé, codirector, Social Innovation House (Maison de l’innovation sociale)

After a master’s degree in anthropology and doctoral studies on the theory of complexity, Patrick began a career in innovation in the medical sector, then went on to work with a variety of organizations. He co-led the research department at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) for six years and founded Umvelt Service Design, an open innovation consulting firm behind several collaborative projects involving SMEs, community organizations and territories. His experience has made him a key player in the emergence of a community of live laboratories and the development of social innovation in Quebec. Co-leader of MIS since its beginnings in 2017, his ability to “go from 10,000 feet of altitude to twenty thousand leagues under the sea” in a fraction of a second according to the team represents an essential force in the design projects supported by MIS and allows to quickly grasp their stakes from both a conceptual and a practical point of view.[/author_info] [/author][/learn_more]
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Judges in Round 1 & 2

In Round 1 & 2, the judges evaluated 53 teams’ online submissions. In round 1, projects were evaluated by their business concept presentation, stakeholder analysis, and proof of social support. Click here to see Round 1’s evaluation form. In round 2, teams were evaluated by their online pitches and crowdfunding performances. Click here to see Round 2’s evaluation form.

[author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Alice-Chipot-Rivera.png[/author_image] [author_info] Alice Chipot Rivera, Consellor – Strategy and financing research

Alice holds a master’s degree from the Rennes Institute of Political Studies. She first became interested in the role of public institutions, guarantors of the quality of living together and of the respect for the general interest. Subsequently, her attention shifted to organizations and the role they play in society. She then understood that any organization, whether private or anchored in the social and solidarity economy, is a potential vector of social transformation. Thanks to a master’s degree at the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montreal), Alice has developed her analytical skills. Today, she helps organizations “to build” their strategic vision, better understand the ecosystem in which they operate and develop approaches aligned with their mission and growth objectives. A Franco-Dominican of origin, Alice works regularly in the Dominican Republic and she is interested in the political evolution in Latin America. She wonders how to create alternative bridges between so-called “northern” communities and our contemporaries in the “south”.

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[author_info]De Jorge Mejía, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/jorge-h.mejia.html)

Jorge Humberto Mejia, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montreal, previously served as a full time faculty member at ITAM Business School. Professor Mejia holds a Ph.D. from HEC, Paris, a MSc at Paris-Dauphine University, a MBA and B.B.A. with a special major that combined international and strategic entrepreneurship at ITAM. Recently he participated as a visiting research scholar at Texas Christian University, USA. Professor Mejia’s research is focus on: 1. Entrepreneurial intentions, purpose of life, social entrepreneurship and ethics; 2. Entrepreneurial networks of immigrants and families; 3. SMEs management, new ventures, scalable businesses and technology based firms; 4. Corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial boards, Top Management Teams and environmental issues in organizations. Jorge Humberto has coauthored numerous journal publications, conference articles, books and book chapters in the aforementioned topics. Professor Mejia’s research has earned scholarly recognition from Strategic Management Society, USA, Federal Business Disciplines, USA and CONACYT in Mexico. Jorge Humberto is an award-winning educator who teaches courses in strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduates, MBAs, EMBAs and Executives. He is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma AACSB-Honor Society. Prior and during his academic career, he worked as a consultant of large corporations, entrepreneur and CEO of SMEs.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GHandfield-e1522866235809.png[/author_image] [author_info]Geneviève Handfield, Coordinator IDEOS Hub (https://ideos.hec.ca/)

Geneviève Handfield has always worked in the field of social organizations and sustainable development. She holds a Master degree in information sciences from University of Montreal and a DESS in territorial planification and local development from University of Quebec in Montreal. From developing a active transportation program and infrastructures across the province of Quebec to managing programs and activities for university students or local organizations, passing by collecting data for researches, Geneviève is trying to be a part of a social change.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Hugo-Steben-e1522865262527.png[/author_image] [author_info]Hugo Steben, Director of social entrepreneurship – Maison de l’innovation sociale (https://www.mis.quebec/)

Hugo Steben is Director of Social Entrepreneurship at the Maison de l’innovation sociale (MIS), an organization that supports the emergence and deployment of social innovation initiatives. Before joining MIS, Hugo Steben worked mainly in consulting in strategy and innovation management, as well as a university lecturer on various topics related to strategy, innovation management and organizational development. In the context of his functions at MIS, he leads efforts to develop social innovation capabilities at the organizational, territorial and community-level, as well as to support the deployment of the social impact initiatives that emerge from MIS’s activities in their transition from idea to impact.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/JMChampagne.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Jean-Michel Champagne, Sustainable Development Manager at HEC Montréal

Jean-Michel Champagne acts as HEC Montréal’s Sustainable Development Officer since 2018. Before joining HEC, he has been working for 8 years as an environmental and sustainability advisor in infrastructure and real estate management, serving public and private institutions across the country. He has completed his Environmental Sciences Master (M.sc.) at UQAM in 2012 and his MBA at HEC Montréal in 2017. His fields of specialization includes infrastructure environmental management (energy, water, waste, pollution control) and ecosystemic management of urbanized and natural landscapes.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lamiya-Morshed_ED_Yunus-Centre.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director, Yunus Centre, Bangladesh

Ms Morshed has been the Executive Director of Yunus Centre, the global hub for social business activities of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, since its inception as the Yunus Secretariat in 2006 and its formal incorporation in 2008. She has worked with Grameen for more than 23 years. In 1994, she joined Grameen Trust, which supports and implements poverty-focused microcredit programs in more than 45 countries, and was part of numerous high level missions to develop partnerships and create microcredit institutions around the world including project and business plan development of microcredit programs in Kosovo, China, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Turkey. During her tenure at Grameen Trust and Yunus Centre, she has participated and presented at high level international forums, conferences, and summits around the world on the subject of microcredit and social business, on many occasions representing Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with whom she works very closely. In addition to her responsbilities at Yunus Centre, she serves as the Managing Director of Grameen Healthcare Trust. Ms Morshed serves as board member of the following social businesses Grameen Healthcare Services Ltd, Grameen Creative Lab (Germany), Grameen Intel, Grameen Uniqlo and Japan Automechanic Co Ltd. She also serves as the Board Director of Grameen Trust, as well as Yunus Social Business, Albania. She is member of the Management Committee of Grameen Caledonian Collage of Nursing (GCCN), a joint venture nursing collegue established by Grameen Healthcare Trust and Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Laurence-BC.png[/author_image] [author_info]Laurence Beaugrand-Champagne, Project Manager at IDEOS Hub

Laurence Beaugrand-Champagne is an Alumni of HEC Montreal. She graduated in 2015 with an M.Sc in Management. She has also completed a first-degree diploma in Anthropology. Her thesis was on the evolution of leadership in the history of humanity. Laurence is a full time staff at Pôle IDEOS as a project manager. After graduating from HEC MTL, she worked for Exeko, a non-profit organization in social innovation. Through her job at Pôle IDEOS, Laurence works with business students on campus to promote social innovation, social entrepreneurship and social initiatives; and to catalyze their ideas into activities aimed at the HEC MTL community. She is also a board member for Temps Libre Coop, a co-working and free public space[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/linda-bensalah.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Linda Bensalah, PhD Candidate at HEC Montreal

Linda Bensalah is a PhD student at HEC Montreal in management, strategy and organization. Her research interests are organizational theory with a particular focus on sustainable development, social innovation, social impact and practices. She is also a teaching assistant for “Organizational Theory” and “Sustainable Development” courses. Prior to joining HEC she worked at the United Nations Development Program where she initiated, managed and monitored several development projects with high social and environmental impacts.

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[author_info]Manaf Bouchentouf, Executive Director of Business Support, HEC Montréal Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Acquisition and Business Families Hub – HEC Montreal (https://iebn.hec.ca/equipe/)

Manaf Bouchentouf is Executive Director and Coach at Pôle entrepreneuriat, repreneuriat et familles en affaires at HEC Montréal. He cofounded and and directs Accélérateur Banque Nationale – HEC Montréal as well as Incubator entrePrism. He is certified in Project Management (PMI) and Regulatory Affairs by Harvard University. In exective education programs at HEC Montreal, he provides customized training in entrepreneurship and technological innovation at the business model level. He holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Université Laval and an MBA from HEC Montréal. [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/marie-ange.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info]Marie-Ange Masson, Lecturer at HEC Montreal and Coordinator of Parcours entrepreneurial Rémi-Marcoux (http://iebn.hec.ca/)

Marie-Ange Masson worked as a coordinator and co-created the Rémi-Marcoux Entrepreneurial Track that supports young entrepreneurs in their early stage project and soft skills development. She is deeply engaged in different training projects like MOOCs, books, action-based workshops, executive education. She coaches entrepreneurs and uses their feedback to always improve tools, supports, workshops, etc. She has a MSc in marketing from HEC Montréal and a Business Model Certification. She is interested in business models, entrepreneurship, innovation and intrapreneurship.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MBouchard.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Mathieu Bouchard, PhD Candidate at HEC Montreal

Mathieu Bouchard is PhD candidate at HEC Montréal’s department of management. He studies the influence of clientele activism on professional practices and occupational jurisdictions in the empirical context of mental health care. From a theoretical standpoint, he explores the emergence of negotiated order theory within symbolic interactionism and its recent rediscovery by a group of researchers associated with organizational institutionalism. Mathieu is also interested in cross-sectoral relations and is currently lecturer in sustainable development and environmental management at the bachelor’s degree.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/penelope.codello.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Pénélope Codello, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/penelope.codello.html)

Pénélope Codello, professor at HEC Montréal and Gestalt coach. Trained for a long time at Gestalt Therapy at IFAS – Gestalt Humanist School (www.gestalt.fr), Pénélope Codello is a Gestalt therapist in France and today a Gestalt coach in Canada and France as well. About her university education, she has a doctorate in management. She has worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University in France for more than 15 years and is currently a Professor at HEC Montréal. Pénélope Codello has been developing coaching and team management courses for MBA / DESS / Master / BAA students and managers for several years.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Rym.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Rym Lamrani, Business and Partnership Development, CERESO

Rym Lamrani works at the CERESO, a centre of expertise and support in social innovation based in the Cégep regional de Lanaudière of L’Assomption. She holds a Masters Degree in Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry from Grenoble-Alpes University and a DESS in Management and Sustainable Development from HEC Montréal. She got involved in social innovation networks in 2011, following the thought that the people should come before the dollar. She believes that community-based project and bottom-up approaches can democratize economy and reduce inequalities, with the condition that an inclusive governance is laid out.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Esper-picture.png[/author_image] [author_info] Susana Esper, PhD Candidate at HEC Montreal

Her research interests are organizational theory and critical management studies with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility, business ethics and the relation between business, governments and the civil society. Empirically, she is interested in developing countries.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Thu-Trang-Tran.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Thu Trang Tran, Lecturer, Foreign Trade University

Thu Trang Tran, who earned her PhD in Management from HEC Montréal, has been teaching at Foreign Trade University (Hanoi) since 2007. Her research projects focus on social innovation, entrepreneurship and institutional change in developing economies. Trang is among the trainers for Vietnam Youth Social Innovation Program (VYSIP) supported by British Council Vietnam. She has been a mentor for the Enterprising for Development (EFD) Program of Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP) – the first incubator of social enterprises in Vietnam. In addition, Trang has served as a jury member of several local and international student competitions such as “Greenovation Challenge” and “Hult Prize Challenge”.

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/VZSalas-e1522866369759.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Verónica Zuñiga-Salas, professional researcher at IDEOS Hub (https://ideos.hec.ca/)Bio to come![/author_info] [/author]

Judges in Semifinal Round

In the Semifinal Round, 25 teams were selected to present at HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte Sainte Catherine, H3T 2A7 on Monday September 17, 2018. They were evaluated on their social and business innovation as well as the feasibility of their business model. Click here to see Semifinal evaluation form and here to see the schedule of presentations

Mr. Bruner Nozière currently manages the Entrepreneurship acceleration & incubation program for startups within the Groupe3737. He worked in his home country for Scotiabank and Media company Mediacom as a senior accountant. After immigrating to Canada in 2005, he decided to start his consulting and training firm. He was nominated twice Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 and 2010. In addition to being an entrepreneur and teacher, Mr. Nozière continues to work as entrepreneur in financial technology. He recently founded with his partner a Fintech company Netdollar.ca while working with young entrepreneurs as coach. Former member of the board at the Haitian Junior Chamber of Commerce (JCCH). On October 3, 2008, Mr. Bruner Nozière received from the Minister of Employment and Solidarity M. Sam Hamad, the public award by the Société Lavaloise de Credit Communautaire (SOCLE) and the Community Credit Quebec Network(RQCC). He served on several boards including Zap.coop (Montreal-wifi) and the Committee’ selection of the Montreal Young metropolitan chamber of commerce (JCCM). Mr. Nozière involves in many philanthropic activities as volunteer and speaker. He also teaches in high school and college to promote entrepreneurship and technology. He advocates against dropping out in collaboration with government organization such as the Association for the Development Research and Innovation of Quebec (ADRIQ). He also involves and supports startup projects as a mentor for young entrepreneurs in the Caribbean with the Center Richard Branson. He got in 2010 recognition from the foreign minister for his mission in Africa by the Franco-Quebecois Youth Office(OFQJ). He is the author of two electronic books business opportunities and Fundraising raising Guide. Mr. Nozière advocates for e-business and Edu-action which enabled him to receive awards and grants to travel to Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His motto is simple: #LAUGH, #LEARN, #LIVE, #LOVE.[/author_info] [/author][author][author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Christopher-1.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Christopher Baenninger, President and Creative Director of NewBase Media (http://www.newbasemedia.com)

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Emile.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Emile Roux, General Manager of the Social Development Society (http://www.courtier.social)

Emile Roux is General Manager of the Social Development Society, the largest social broker in North America. He began his career working in Europe and Africa for the television group Canal +. In 2012, he moved to Montreal to launch a music discovery application and then became marketing director for Metix, a consulting firm specialized in the development of IT solutions. He holds a master’s degree in communication and marketing from Istec Paris. [/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/JMChampagne.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Jean-Michel Champagne, Sustainable Development Manager at HEC Montréal

Jean-Michel Champagne acts as HEC Montréal’s Sustainable Development Officer since 2018. Before joining HEC, he has been working for 8 years as an environmental and sustainability advisor in infrastructure and real estate management, serving public and private institutions across the country. He has completed his Environmental Sciences Master (M.sc.) at UQAM in 2012 and his MBA at HEC Montréal in 2017. His fields of specialization includes infrastructure environmental management (energy, water, waste, pollution control) and ecosystemic management of urbanized and natural landscapes.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’off’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ludivine.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info] Ludivine Ventura, Analyst at SVX Quebec (www.svx.ca)

Ludivine has been using finance as a tool to have an impact for the past 10 years with experiences in microfinance, banking, philanthropy and non-profits. She has worked for BNP Paribas in 4 different countries, for Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation, the McConnell Family Foundation and World Wide Hearing. Analyst for SVX Québec, she supports social businesses in defining their financial needs and seeking funding, and motivates investors to turn to impact investing. Ludivine is particularly interested in collaborating with stakeholders from various sectors to solve the most pressing social and environmental issues of our time.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’off’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/luis-felipe.cisneros-martinez.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info] Luis-Felipe Cisneros-Martinez, Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/luis-felipe.cisneros-martinez.html)

Luis Cisneros is associate professor and scientific director of the Entrepreneurship and Business Families Hub at HEC Montréal (Canada). He cofounded the Entrepreneurial Track Rémi-Marcoux, the Institute for Entrepreneurship National Bank / HEC Montréal, the incubator EntrePrism, and the Business Families Center Deschênes / Molson / Lesage at HEC Montréal. He teaches creativity, entrepreneurship, and business modeling at HEC Montreal. He has published several chapters, articles and study cases about entrepreneurship and family business management. Dr. Cisneros holds a Masters in Management (University of Aguascalientes, Mexico), an MSc in Management Control (University Paris-Dauphine, France) and a PhD in Management (Group HEC Paris, France).[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/mabel.jpg[/author_image] [author_info] Mabel-Paola Gonzalez-Pacheco, Founder of El negro está de moda (https://www.elnegroestademoda.com)

Mabel has more than 12 years of experience, managing social, cultural and economic programs as well as building partnerships in Colombia, Germany, Egypt, Bolivia and Canada. Her work has mainly focused on areas such as sustainable development, human rights, public policies and transparency. Originally from Colombia, she lives in Montréal since 2014 with her two girls and husband. In 2016, Mabel and her sister participated in the first Social Business Creation Programme, with a project called “El negro está de moda”, aimed at fighting discrimination in Colombia. Their project was selected as first among the 5 team that best perform in round 2 and as third among the three finalists After the competition, Mabel and her sister established a social enterprise called Nuestro Flow and are now running several initiatives in Colombia, Chile and Peru and working with different public and private partners such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the city of Bogotá. Mabel combines her time working as co-founder and responsible of business development at Nuestro Flow with her role as Head of the Canadian branch of Vigeo Eiris, an European company offering tools and research to investors with the aim to promote responsible investments by integrating the way companies manage their social, environmental and governance risks into the investment decision process.
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[author_info] Nguyen Pham, Manager in EY Business Modelling group based in Montreal (www.ey.com/ca)

[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’on’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rislaine.jpg[/author_image] [author_info]Rislaine Benfelkat, Cofounder and General Manager at Ma MobiClinique

General pediatrician with nearly 9 years of experience in pediatric hospital, nursery and pediatric emergencies. Significant interest in the development of community-based pediatrics. In 2017 she co-founded Ma MobiClinique, a mobile pediatric clinic actually installed in a bus and intended to offer medical care for children in Montréal’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The MobiClinique is an innovative alternative to drop-in pediatric clinics, and includes a web application that parents can easily use to sign up a day ahead. With the contribution of Pôle IDEOS, Rislaine and her partners won for their project, the Toqueville Challenge (2018), a competition aimed at fostering community engagement, building citizen solidarity and promoting social responsibility and innovation. [/author_info] [/author][author][author_image timthumb=’off’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sidiki-Sow.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info] Sidiki Sow, Founder and president of ProtERA (http://www.proterafarms.com/)

Agro-Environmental economist by training from McGill University, Sidiki A. SOW will shortly become a Professional Agronomist by entering the Order of Quebec Agronomists. As a consultant, he has already developed a project worth ½ a million dollars of profit for a multinational West African agribusiness firm. He recently founded ProtERA Farms, a disruptive start-up that aims to tackle the challenge of sustainably feeding 2 additional billion people by developing insect farming for feed and food in West Africa. ProtERA recently received the first prize at HEC Social Business Creation and was selected as one five winners at Accelerate 2030 launched by Impact Hub Geneva in collaboration with the UNDP.

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[author_info] Tanya Giannelia, MBA, Ph.D. Candidate HEC MontrealBio to come.

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[author_info] Thibaud Joubert, Chief Sales Officer, ECOTIERRA(https://www.ecotierra.co)Bio to come.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’off’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/TiberiusBrastaviceanuphoto.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info] Tiberius Brastaviceanu, Founder of Sensorica (http://www.sensorica.co/home)

Co-founder of SENSORICA and initiator of the Multitude Project, Tibi is a leader in the peer to peer and open source movement. Trained as a physicist, Tibi’s technical background is in laser applications and non-linear optics – he is very active in optical sensing projects. In working with this passion, Tibi saw the need to create an alternative to traditional hierarchical working conditions. Starting with the Multitude Project and continuing to innovate with SENSORICA, Tibi co-developed a framework for peer to peer production, using a robust tool to track and capture the work produced by a diverse and collaborative cohort of workers. The framework is now commonly referred to as the Open Value Network Model, or OVN. Animated by big ideas and adventure, Tibi loves freedom in action, is invigorated by chaotic environments, and brings a wealth of knowledge of the on the ground processes and conditions needed for a peer to peer network to thrive.

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Judges in Grand Final

Three finalists were selected among the top 5 teams of the semifinal round (best team from each of the 5 rooms) to pitch to the grand public in the evening of Monday September 17, 2018 at HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte Sainte Catherine, H3T 2A7. They were evaluated by their ability to captivate the audience with their social business. Click here to see Final evaluation form.

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Jean-Francois Archambault, CEO and Founder of La Tablée des Chefs and Executive Director, Fellow of Ashoka Quebec (http://www.tableedeschefs.org)Soon after his studies in Hotel Management at the ITHQ, Jean-François became a manager in the hospitality industry. After working as a sales representative at Château Vaudreuil and Fairmont Tremblant, Jean-François worked as a sales manager at several major hotels in the metropolitan area. In 2002, he presented his concept of food recovery from hotels and caterers to leaders of the culinary and hospitality industry; his project then took shape and became La Tablée des Chefs. With this organization, Jean-François hopes to socially mobilize chefs and cooks because he believes in their incredible ability to intervene on the issue of hunger and to address its many challenges.[/author_info] [/author][author] [author_image timthumb=’off’]https://socialbusinesscreation.hec.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Diane.jpg[/author_image]
[author_info]Diane Bérard, Les Affaires (https://www.lesaffaires.com/auteur/diane-berard/682)

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[author_info]Ghani Kolli, CEO – Créateur d’Impact at HumanYo+Impact (https://HumanYoImpact.com)

Having spoken to 3,600 people over the past 15 years at workshops, conferences, and consulting assignments, Ghani knows how critical is the alignment of individuals with their organizations and organizations with their clients need. His career as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur shapes his contribution to innovative projects aimed at creating value for his clients. It is this commitment to business that he shares with passion as impact entrepreneurs, strategic advisor and business coach. Co-creating and innovating with his clients, in collaboration with his peers in a framework that leaves space for creativity and excellence, is his the main driver. Ghani Kolli is a certified Business Model & Value Proposition Designer as well as Business Model You practitioner. He helped entrepreneurs and business leaders successfully rethink their business models. He founded HumanYo project, an Artificial Intelligence startup that predict team efficiency and co-founded the strategic design firm HumanYo+Impact to create human impact within innovative organizations by using design thinking, lean startup, customer development, design a better business, and blue ocean methodologies. Ghani is co-creator and contributor of the books Business Models for Teams and The Real Startup Book. Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghanikolli .

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[author_info]Lucy Stoyak, Director of Mosaic Summer School (http://ecole-ete.hec.ca/en/)

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[author_info]Natalie Voland, President of Gestion immobilière Quo Vadis inc. (https://www.lofts-mtl.com/)

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[author_info]Pinard Claude, Saputo Foundation (http://www.saputo.com)

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Judges in Round 1

In Round 1, the judges evaluated teams’ online submissions: business concept presentation, stakeholder analysis, and proof of social support. Click here to see Round 1’s evaluation form.

1 Luciano Barin Cruz, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/luciano.barin-cruz.html)

Luciano Barin Cruz is an Associate Professor of Management and Sustainability at HEC Montréal, Canada. He leads several research projects and teaches in the field of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and social innovation, in different regions of the world, with a particular focus on Latin America. He has been a visiting scholar in several Universities in Latin America. His research, which investigates the role of organizations for social and environmental inclusion, has been published in Journal of Management Studies, World Development, Organization, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Decision and the Journal of Cleaner Production.

2 Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/mai-thi-thanh.thai.html)

Mai Thi Thanh Thai, MBA. Ph.D. is Associate Professor at HEC Montreal where she teaches entrepreneurship, strategies in emerging markets and qualitative methods. She is also the Editor-in-chief of Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, an international journal that publishes both in English and French. Her research focuses on the link between entrepreneurship and its socioeconomic, cultural and political contexts. She published two books and several articles in peer-reviewed journals, contributed several book chapters, and presented at numerous academic conferences. For her excellence in research and teaching, she has received several local and international awards

3 Joey El-Khoury, Lecturer at HEC Montreal

Judges in Round 2

In Round 2, the judges evaluated teams’ business concept pitch and proof of crowdfunding campaign results. Click here to see Round 2’s evaluation form.

1 Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director, Yunus Centre, Bangladesh (http://www.muhammadyunus.org/)

2 Marie-Ange Masson, Lecturer at HEC Montreal and Coordinator of Parcours entrepreneurial Rémi-Marcoux (http://iebn.hec.ca/)

At HEC Montreal, Marie-Ange Masson develops action-based entrepreneurship education and tools to support entrepreneurs wishing to create or take over a company. She is interested in the relationship between the entrepreneur and the opportunity to develop business models, innovation and intrapreneurship. She has co-written books on the creation of business opportunities and coordinated the entrepreneurial course Rémi Marcoux to help young entrepreneurs develop their soft skills.

3 Christopher Baenninger, President and Creative Director of NewBase Media (http://www.newbasemedia.com)

CHRISTOPHER BAENNINGER has hadextensive experience leading teams indelivering excellence in the field of advertising& communication for over 12 years. He hasfounded several successful Creative shops,including Blast Media, where he & his partnersdelivered world class creative content tocompanies like Tetra Pack, Adidas & Bombardier for the worldwide launch of theirGlobal 7000. In late 2011, Christopher foundedNewBase Media, an advertising agencyspecialized in the promotion of Sustainableproducts and services For A Better World. He and his super talented team have been goingfrom success to success and are rapidly settingthemselves to become the premiere SustainableAdvertising Agency in Canada. Christopher isalso an international Art consultant with a keeninterest in Art across the ages and he is apractising multimedia artist himself, when hefinds the time.

4 Luciano Barin Cruz, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/luciano.barin-cruz.html)

5 Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/mai-thi-thanh.thai.html)

6 Nguyen Pham, Manager in EY Business Modelling group based in Montreal (www.ey.com/ca)

Judges in Round 3

Round 3’s presentations took place on Monday September 18, 2017 at HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte Sainte Catherine, H3T 2A7

Pitch Round (9 am – 12 pm in two parallel sessions)

Click here to see Pitch evaluation form

1 Christopher Baenninger, President and Creative Director of NewBase Media (http://www.newbasemedia.com)

2 Marie-Ange Masson, Lecturer at HEC Montreal and Coordinator of Parcours entrepreneurial Rémi-Marcoux (http://iebn.hec.ca/)

3 Guy Gervais, Président at HumanID (http://humanid.ca)

Guy Gervais As a CEO, Guy has led the success of Vulcain, a manufacturer of gas detection monitors. On top of achieving outstanding financial results, the company was awarded numerous awards for its innovation ability and steady growth. Since his exit in 2004, Guy is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is actively involved in the strategy and operations of companies in which he invests his financial capital. He also acts as a coach / mentor in several accelerators such as Impact 8 and Espace Inc. Guy invests solely in impact ventures.

4 Bruner Nozière, Founder of Bruner Canada (http://www.bruner.ca)

Bruner Nozière currently heads BRUNER CANADA a Business and IT consulting firm he founded 10 years ago. He previously worked as a consultant for an Internet company Mediacom and a Scotiabank as a senior accountant in his home country, Haiti. After his immigration to Canada in 2005, he decided to start his own business and get noticed at the Entreprendre show in may 2006 as speaker and entrepreneur. By combining its passion in computer science and his studies as accountant while studying e-business in Université of Quebec in Montreal, with the firm he started offering IT tools such as customer relationship management (CRM) solutions using Open Source technologies.Two times nominated for entrepreneur of the year in 2008 and 2010, M. Nozière received the Réseau Québecois Credit Communautaire (RQCC) public choice award from the Labor Minister 2006. He continues to work with startup entrepreneurs via his business. And he’s also now managing partner of the startup program of incubator Groupe3737.

5 Mélanie Gagnon, Director of Corporate Donations, HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/fondation/nous-joindre/index.html)

Mélanie Gagnon has been at the HEC Montréal Foundation for more than 10 years now. As Director of corporate donations, she has contributed too many fundraising campaigns with enterprises and the HEC Montréal Young Philanthropists Club (Club des 100) allowing the Foundation to raise up to $14 million annually in the last few years. She previously worked at UNICEF Québec as Youth Programs Director, with the Red Cross Emergency and Disaster Services and as Youth Ambassador for the Department of Foreign Affairs anti-personnel landmines campaign. Mélanie has been involved as a volunteer in various not for profit organizations such as the Bruny Surin Benefit Gala Executive Committee, the Centraide-HEC Campaign Committee, the UNICEF Québec Board and also participated in the Québec-Montréal Relay Race to raise funds for the HEC Montréal Foundation and is now involved in innovation and social business related projects.

6 Alain-Olivier Desbois, Executive Director, SVX Québec

Alain-Olivier Desbois is Directeur principal of Social Venture Connexion (SVX) Québec, a full service online platform that connects social enterprises and funds with accredited investors looking to make investments with demonstrable social and/or environmental impact and the potential for financial return, from non-profit education projects to health ventures focused on early cancer detection. He is a result-oriented entrepreneur with more than 20 years of finance, venture capital, operational, business creation and strategic development experience in start-up companies and private equity investment funds. Alain-Olivier has a passion for impact investment and development of new business models that integrate sustainability and life cycle analysis. He brings an extensive network of collaborators and broad experience as an investor, board member and hands-on value creation advisor to make start-up companies financing ready and to connect them with the right investors. LinkedIn

Final Round (3 pm – 6 pm in Banque Nationale on RC floor)

Click here to see Final evaluation form.

1 Natalie Voland Gestion immobilière Quo Vadis inc. (https://www.lofts-mtl.com)

By blending the worlds of social work and real estate development over the last twenty years, Natalie Voland has built a portfolio consisting of 1.5 million square feet and 500 SME’s, namely located in the Southwest of Montreal. As a leader of the B Corp movement, Natalie’s portfolio demonstrates that economic performance can include social and environmental stewardship. She leads Gestion Immobilière QuoVadis as an interdisciplinary real estate solutions company as an innovator, designer, and branding expert. Natalie is an active public speaker and is a board member of the Quartier de l’Innovation with McGill University, ÉTS, and Concordia University, to redesign impact into real estate development.

2 Manaf Bouchentouf, Director entrepPrism (http://iebn.hec.ca/equipe/)

manaf Manaf Bouchentouf established and directed the accelerator National Bank – HEC Montreal and HEC Montreal incubator (entrePrism). He is also a coach and instructor in the field of project management and valuation. He provides customized training in entrepreneurship and technological as well as business model innovation. He holds a Masters and PhD in Bioengineering (Laval University) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in finance and entrepreneurship. He completed several certifications including Project Management (Project Management Institute) and regulatory affairs (Harvard University).

3 Marie-Lucy Stojak, Mosaic (http://ecole-ete.hec.ca/en/)

4 Johanne Turbide, Full Professor at Pôle IDEOS, HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/johanne.turbide.html)

Johanne Turbide is professor at HEC Montréal. She hold a PhD degree from the University of Warwick, UK and is a member of Quebec CPA Order. She is Director of Sustainability Development at HEC and co-funder of IDEOS, a hub dedicated to management practices for social enterprises and social innovation. Her main research interests include governance, strategic, financial management and performance evaluation for non-profit organizations. She directed different partnership research grants financed by governmental agencies and the Social sciences and Humanities Research Council. Different textbooks, governance tools and management guides are available. Professor Turbide is a member of non-profit boards such as Conseil des arts de Montréal, Fondation du Dr Julien and ACFAS (Association francophone pour le savoir).

5 Diane Bérard, Columnist at Journal Les Affaires (https://www.lesaffaires.com/auteur/diane-berard/682)

6 Claude Pinard, Saputo Foundation (http://www.saputo.com)

7 Chad Lubelsky, Progam Director, The J. W. McConnel Family Foundation (www.mcconnellfoundation.ca/)

Chad Lubelsky A proud Montrealer, Chad is the program lead for RECODE at the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. RECODE provides social innovation entrepreneurship opportunities for College and University students to become drivers of progress and change (www.re-code.ca, @letsrecode). Chad also serves as a Mentor for the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation and as a Board Member for l’Abri en Ville, a Montreal-based Mental Health organization. Prior to joining the Foundation, Chad was the Executive Director of Santropol Roulant; developed leadership and community engagement programs for the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation; worked as an Assignment Editor for NBC news in San Francisco; managed global Internet Rights advocacy for the South African based Association for Progressive Communications; and was a Founding Trustee of the Montreal Awesome Foundation. Chad holds a BA in Communications, Master Degrees in Communication and Leadership and is excited to be at his first EWB conference.

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Judges in Round 1 and Round 2

In Round 1, the judges evaluate teams’ online submissions: (business concept presentation, stakeholder analysis, and proof of social support. Click here to see Round 1’s evaluation form. In Round 2, the judges evaluate teams’ business concept pitch and proof of crowdfunding campaign results. Click here to see Round 2’s evaluation form.

1 Michael Brohm, Managing Director at Grameen Creative Lab (http://www.grameencreativelab.com)

Michael Brohm has more than 16 years of experience in event business while working at different live communication agencies. He holds a Master’s degree in politics, sociology and philosophy. Besides managing Grameen Creative Lab, he works as a freelancer for different research projects at Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt.

2 Luciano Barin Cruz, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/luciano.barin-cruz.html)

3 Mai Thi Thanh Thai, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/mai-thi-thanh.thai.html)

4 Marie-Ange Masson, Lecturer at HEC Montreal and Coordinator of Parcours entrepreneurial Rémi-Marcoux (http://iebn.hec.ca/)

5 Johanne Turbide, Full Professor at Pôle IDEOS, HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/johanne.turbide.html)

Judges in Round 3

Round 3’s presentations will take place on Monday September 12, 2016 at HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte Sainte Catherine, H3T 2A7

Pitch Round (9 am – 12 pm in three parallel sessions)

Click here to see Pitch evaluation form

Pitch Room 1 (Demers Beaulne, 1st floor, green section):

1 Guy Gervais, Président at HumanID (http://humanid.ca)

2 Natalie Voland Gestion immobilière Quo Vadis inc. (https://www.lofts-mtl.com)

3 Diane Berard, Columnist at Les Affaires (http://www.lesaffaires.com)

Diane Bérard is a columnist for the popular newspaper Les Affaires. Previously she directed the magazine Commerce for seven years. Regularly invited to comment on the economic news in the media, she is appreciated for the her ability to democratize complex information and desire to bring out human issues. Author of three bestsellers (“Deux filles le mercredi soir”, “Les fous du roi” and “J’ai perdu ma montre au fond du lac”), Diane employs her limitless energy to transmit her passion in the business world. Specialist in international issues, she is particularly interested in new challenges of capitalism, ethics and governance as well as entrepreneurship. She writes a blog called “Le fil de Diane”.

4 Marie-Ange Masson, Lecturer at HEC Montreal and Coordinator of Parcours entrepreneurial Rémi-Marcoux (http://iebn.hec.ca/)

Pitch Room 2 (Cogeco, 1st floor, blue section):

1 Louis Cleroux, President of LeadWeb (http://www.lead-web.com)

2 Bruner Nozière, Founder of Bruner Canada (http://www.bruner.ca)

3 Christopher Baenninger, President and Creative Director of NewBase Media (http://www.newbasemedia.com)

Christopher Baenninger has had extensive experience leading teams in delivering excellence in the field of advertising& communication for over 12 years. He has founded several successful Creative shops, including Blast Media, where he & his partners delivered world class creative content to companies like Tetra Pack, Adidas & Bombardier for the worldwide launch of their Global 7000. In late 2011, Christopher founded NewBase Media, an advertising agency specialized in the promotion of Sustainable products and services For A Better World. He and his super talented team have been going from success to success and are rapidly setting themselves to become the premiere Sustainable Advertising Agency in Canada. Christopher is also an international Art consultant with a keen interest in Art across the ages and he is a practising multimedia artist himself, when he finds the time.

4 De Jorge Mejía, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/jorge-h.mejia.html)

Jorge Humberto Mejia, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montreal, previously served as a full time faculty member at ITAM Business School. Professor Mejia holds a Ph.D. from HEC, Paris, a MSc at Paris-Dauphine University, a MBA and B.B.A. with a special major that combined international and strategic entrepreneurship at ITAM. Recently he participated as a visiting research scholar at Texas Christian University, USA. Professor Mejia’s research is focus on: 1. Entrepreneurial intentions, purpose of life, social entrepreneurship and ethics; 2. Entrepreneurial networks of immigrants and families; 3. SMEs management, new ventures, scalable businesses and technology based firms; 4. Corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial boards, Top Management Teams and environmental issues in organizations. Jorge Humberto has coauthored numerous journal publications, conference articles, books and book chapters in the aforementioned topics. Professor Mejia’s research has earned scholarly recognition from Strategic Management Society, USA, Federal Business Disciplines, USA and CONACYT in Mexico. Jorge Humberto is an award-winning educator who teaches courses in strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduates, MBAs, EMBAs and Executives. He is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma AACSB-Honor Society. Prior and during his academic career, he worked as a consultant of large corporations, entrepreneur and CEO of SMEs.

Pitch Room 3 (Rona, 1st floor, blue section):

1 Fernando Ruiz, Founder of Social business à Montréal (http://www.socialbusinessamontreal.com)

Fernando Ruiz is the founder of Social Business à Montréal at which he launched 3MINMAX campaign to raise awareness about global emission and stop idling cars as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Montreal. More than 800 drivers have been informed and 350 engines are turned off. He is working on EPARK, a solar station to generate electricity for mobile phones and other devices in developing countries. This project aims at providing clean energy at affordable price to create sustainable communities.

2 Guillaume Coulombe, Founder of Procédurable (http://procedurable.com/)

Guillaume Coulombe is a resource person for Communautique which which he cofounded Fab Labs Québec. Guillaume specializes in merging lean process design with the art of hosting and sometimes, operational semantics. He is the Founder of Procédurable, a firm working in team at a tactical level, transforming operation systems into continuously improving operation systems.

3 Mélanie Gagnon, Director of Corporate Donations, HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/fondation/nous-joindre/index.html)

4 Philippe-Aubert Messier, President & CEO at APOLLOMUSICSTORE® (http://www.apollomusicstore.com)

Philippe-Aubert holds a bachelor degree in music from Montreal University and an MBA from McGill University. Having been a music composer and a sound engineer, he founded and co-founded multiple creative companies since 2000. Under the Apollo Group umbrella, the companies strive to deliver creative production services to the advertising industry in a dozen countries. Philippe-Aubert is the current CEO of Apollo Music.

Final Round (3 pm – 6 pm in Banque Nationale on RC floor)

Click here to see Final evaluation form.

1 Claude Pinard, Saputo Foundation (http://www.saputo.com)

2 Manaf Bouchentouf, Director entrepPrism (http://iebn.hec.ca/equipe/)

Manaf Bouchentouf established and directed the accelerator National Bank – HEC Montreal and HEC Montreal incubator (entrePrism). He is also a coach and instructor in the field of project management and valuation. He provides customized training in entrepreneurship and technological as well as business model innovation. He holds a Masters and PhD in Bioengineering (Laval University) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in finance and entrepreneurship. He completed several certifications including Project Management (Project Management Institute) and regulatory affairs (Harvard University).

3 Marie-Lucy Stojak, Mosaic (http://ecole-ete.hec.ca/en/)

4 Johanne Turbide, Full Professor at Pôle IDEOS, HEC Montreal (http://www.hec.ca/en/profs/johanne.turbide.html)

5 Danica Straith, Canadian director Ashoka U (http://canada.ashoka.org)

Interim Ashoka U Director Danica Straith has an ambitious goal: to make changemaking education the new normal in Canada. She is one among many in a national network of change leaders putting social innovation at the forefront of higher education. While seeking out and engaging prospective Changemaker Campuses, she continues to grow support among students and administrators alike. “We all have it: some skill or perspective that, when combined with others, becomes incredibly powerful. Changemakers can range from a silent supporter to a charismatic leader, from a thoughtful mediator to a bold entrepreneur.” Danica was a changemaking student herself, co-founding a social enterprise between completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at McGill. She has also worked in Germany and East Africa as a researcher and consultant for social enterprises. Living and breathing the idea of “Everyone a Changemaker,” Danica is a firm believer in education as the driver of positive social change.

6 Chad Lubelsky, Progam Director, The J. W. McConnel Family Foundation (www.mcconnellfoundation.ca/)

A proud Montrealer, Chad is the program lead for RECODE at the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. RECODE provides social innovation entrepreneurship opportunities for College and University students to become drivers of progress and change (www.re-code.ca, @letsrecode). Chad also serves as a Mentor for the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation and as a Board Member for l’Abri en Ville, a Montreal-based Mental Health organization. Prior to joining the Foundation, Chad was the Executive Director of Santropol Roulant; developed leadership and community engagement programs for the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation; worked as an Assignment Editor for NBC news in San Francisco; managed global Internet Rights advocacy for the South African based Association for Progressive Communications; and was a Founding Trustee of the Montreal Awesome Foundation. Chad holds a BA in Communications, Master Degrees in Communication and Leadership and is excited to be at his first EWB conference.

7 Guy Belisle, Directeur général Banque Scotia (www.scotiabank.com)

Guy Bélisle He has over 35 years experience in banking with the company. He was Managing Director, Global Transaction Banking for Scotiabank and responsible for deposits and cash management services to large companies in eastern Canada. Previously, he was Vice President, Risk Management, Strategic Development and International Trade for RBC Royal Bank. Guy holds a BBA from HEC Montreal and an MBA from Columbia University. He is also Vice Chairman of Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Montreal.

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