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Gender Smart Investing
Social Enterprise Open Camp – Gender Smart Investing
An international event dedicated to social entrepreneurship that brought together in Naples and Salerno – June 22 – 25, 2019 – the most significant voices in the field of social entrepreneurship worldwide
EVENT
A training event to develop the social enterprises of the future and to promote the favorable encounter between capital and investment, technology, innovation and female entrepreneurship…
PROGRAM
An intensive and residential training event that offers numerous workshops and plenary sessions on the most relevant and current issues related to social entrepreneurship…
SPEAKERS
Internationally renowned speakers, social entrepreneurs, knowledge experts, and workshop leaders bring their contributions and stimulate reflections and insights…
CASE STUDIES
Social enterprises founded and managed by women, or with a strong female corporate governance, are the protagonists of the workshops…
Enel
Innovazione per lo sviluppo
UBI Banca, Fondazione CRT, AICS
British Council
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«A wonderful experience, which goes beyond all boundaries, enriching both professionally and humanly: You can do business ethically, indeed you must! #Bethechange.»
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Originally from Gabon, Delisia is an entrepreneur, coach, Afrofood blogger, ambassador of the culinary traditions of French-speaking Africa, creator of the Afrofood Diet and founder of Blackalicious Afrofood .
Hamed Ahmadi (nato a Bamyan, Afghanistan nel 1981), ha fondato e ideato il concept per i ristoranti Orient Experience e Africa Experience, basati sull’esperienza culinaria di viaggio di migranti provenienti dal Medio Oriente e dall’Africa. Dopo l’infanzia e l’adolescenza trascorsi in Iran e il completamento degli studi universitari decide di tornare in Afghanistan. Qui sviluppa una passione per il cinema, che lo porta per la prima volta in Italia nel 2006, invitato alla Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia insieme a due colleghi. Il destino o il caso vuole che il corto da loro presentato non sia gradito da molti estremisti in Afghanistan. Hamed è costretto a richiedere l’asilo politico in Italia.
Marco Traversi is actually CEO of Project Ahead, a social enterprise involved in the management of projects funded by EU, national and regional programmes or private funders in the fields of enterprise creation, young employment services, third sector and social enterprise consultancy and social innovation.
La Rada Consortium, Italy
Proodos Consortium / ParteNeapolis Cooperative, Italy
Matteo is the financial director of the CGM Cooperative Group, the largest network of social enterprises in Italy. He is a specialist in management control and financial planning, acts as a consultant for the Group’s companies and runs training courses for the cooperatives of the network. Born in Cantù, a small city in northern Italy, in 1983, after a degree in Economics and a brief experience at FAO, he held the position of financial manager in a social enterprise before starting the collaboration with the CGM network. Since 2019 he has been elected as a board member of CGM Finance, the financial branch of CGM Group.
Ubi Banca, Italy
Co.Re. Consortium/Bambù Cooperative, Italy
Born in 1973, a degree in Political Science at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, he attended the Master MAINS in “Innovation Management” at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. In Enel since 2001, he has held various positions in various functions: Procurement, ICT, Digital Communication and Internal Communication, in which he was appointed focal point of the New global Intranet and related Internal Media System area. Since October 2014 he has been working in the CSV, Sustainability Projects and Practice Sharing Unit, within the Innovation & Sustainability function, with the role of Head of Sustainability Projects and Partnership at a global level, with a particular focus on application of CSV (“Creating Shared Value”) in the Group’s value chain, combining the corporate business perspective with the needs of the communities in which the Group operates.
Owen has recently joined the British Council as Senior Consultant on the Global Social Enterprise Programme, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to this, he co-delivered the inaugural report of the Equality Impact Investing project, which is working to ensure the UK’s social investment sector has a positive effect on equality outcomes. He has previously worked, volunteered and undertaken research with a range of social enterprises – from Bristol Bike Project which supports asylum-seekers through bicycle repair, to the Stitching Project which employs local people to make high-end garments in Rajasthan, India.
Consorzio Proodos / Sant’Anastasia, Italy
Mayor of Naples
Fondazione CRT, Italy
Guido is responsible for the commercial division “Third Sector and Civil Economy” of UBI Banca. He has structured several innovative initiatives (ie social bonds, project finance, and social impact) and built important partnerships with primary organizations in the third and religious sectors. Previously, he has gained extensive experience in the financial and credit fields. As an expert, he has participated in several institutional tables in the field of social finance, e.g. 2014/15 Advisory Board Italy -Task Force G8 and 2017 Ministry of Social Policies for the Third Sector Reform). Guido graduated from the L. Bocconi University in Business and Economics with of specialization in corporate finance and is an AIAF financial analyst. Currently, he is a member of the board of Social Value Italy, an association promoting the culture and practice of measuring social impact.
Non sono rifiuti, Italy
Gianluigi is part of the commercial division of UBI Banca dedicated to the Third Sector and Civil Economy since 2013. He develops social impact assessment processes related to projects supported by the UBI Community and coordinates the development of the commercial network. Previously he has experience from both corporate and retail banking as head of several UBI Banca branches and offices.
Ambiente Solidale Cooperative
An expert in Media Literacy, intercultural communication and cinema who has authored numerous educational and social documentaries, Patrizia has been a teacher by passion for 35 years. She served as Head of Communication and Advisor to the ACRA Foundation for 17 years. Since the early 1990s, Patrizia has also worked as a media and cinema consultant and trainer for Cinecittà Holding, MIUR, IRRSAE Lombardia, AGIS Lombarda, the Cinematographic Activity Sector of the Lombardy Region, the Autonomous Province of Trento and several other Italian provinces. She is a member of the Board of Directors of CEM (Centro educazione alla Mondialità).
Giuseppe has always been active in the world of cooperation. He approached it in 1992 as a volunteer in the cultural and environmental field with the association Movimento Azzurro, for which he became Chairman, and thereafter, in 1997, with the con l’Associazione L’Albero Azzurro. In 1999, he founded the social cooperative “Il Puzzle”, with a focus on childhood and adolescence, for which he was Chairman until 2015. In 2003 he specializes in the management of organizations of the third sector and completes a “Master in Management in social enterprise and social cooperation” in Trento. In the following years, he coordinates complex educational and socio-sanitary services. From 2010 to 2016 he was Chairman of the del Consorzio Reti Meridiane that associates cooperatives in Puglia, Basilicata, and Molise. He is currently Chairman of the Cooperative Group CGM and the consortium “La Città Essenziale”, for which he manages the business and institutional relationships and the strategic activities with a focus on welfare services and local development. He has developed innovative models in the field of energy, social tourism, social agriculture, housing, and urban regeneration, all aimed at work integration and community support. From 2010 to 2018 he was the Deputy Chairman of Federsolidarietà-Confcooperative. He is also a member of the board of Directors of Inecoop and since 2016 he is Chairman of Confcooperative Basilicata. From 2013 to 2019, he was board member of the Group Cooperativo CGM. From 2016 he was Deputy Chairman and, on May 24, 2019, he was elected Chairman.
Francesco Abbà, lodigiano, vanta una lunga esperienza come consulente e formatore sui temi della gestione e della finanza nelle imprese sociali nella rete afferente gruppo Cooperativo CGM. A partire dal 1990 svolge l’incarico di revisore per conto di Confcooperative svolgendo attività di ispezione ordinaria a cooperative. Diventa socio e viene assume il ruolo di amministratore in alcune cooperative e consorzi dell’area milanese (Spazio Aperto Servizi, Aurora 2000, Chico Mendes, consorzio SIS) con deleghe su attività economiche e finanziarie. Nel 2010 viene nominato consigliere di amministrazione di CGM Finance, e nel 2014, viene eletto Presidente. Dal 2017 è consigliere di amministrazione di Cooperfidi Italia, Consorzio Garanzia Fidi dell’economia cooperativa e sociale. Ha maturato esperienze come amministratore di imprese sociali, consorzi e cooperative sociali che operano nel settore della sanità, housing sociale e rigenerazione urbana.
Gerry is Managing Director of Social Enterprise World Forum and Director of International Enterprise at Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS). These dual roles were created in January 2019 as Social Enterprise World Forum required more capacity to support its ambitious programme to build a global social enterprise movement and, after 13 years as CEO of CEIS, Gerry wanted to focus on the international dimensions of social enterprise in Scotland. He is also a Director at Social Value Lab, CEIS Ayrshire, DSL Business Finance, Social Enterprise UK and Societi. Gerry has a BA in Education and a MSc in Business Studies and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Social Enterprise UK in 2017. Gerry has many years of experience in developing and leading social enterprises and works with government agencies and third sector partners internationally to create supportive social enterprise ecosystems. His current work includes oversight of major programmes to support social enterprise development and to contribute to social enterprise policy at home and abroad. Gerry is committed to social justice and has spent over 30 years working in the social enterprise sector to assist individuals, communities, and enterprises to fulfil their potential.
Dioma Cleophas is trainer, educator, journalist, Chairman of the Le Réseau association, Artistic Director of the African October Festival (www.ottobreafricano.org), Chairman of the RomAfrica Film Festival (www.romafricafilmfest.com), and coordinator of the “Migration and Development of the National Council for Development Cooperation” (MAECI). Since 2017, Dioma Cleophas organizes the Italy Africa Business Week forum (www.iabw.eu). He has long experience of intercultural communication and international cooperation and has been working as an educator, trainer and cultural mediator. In 2011, he was a jury member of the Official African Cinema Festival in Verona. Since 2015, he is part of the “Consiglio Nazionale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and coordinates the “Migration and Development” group. Furthermore, living in Rome, he works to create a platform in collaboration with the African embassies to better present their countries on a cultural and economic level and thus accompany Italian and African companies in the implementation of strategic projects in Africa and Italy.
After a degree in Physics at the University of Naples, he began his professional career at Olivetti, then moved to Microsoft, where he remained for more than twenty years, holding various important positions in Italy and abroad, achieving important successes, including the launch of the Xbox console in Italy and in Central-Eastern Europe. After having founded Em Dzee and having held the role of CMO at Inventia srl, he continues his entrepreneurial adventure with Life Based Value, from 2019 with the strategic role of Head of Business.
Reza is the co-founder and COO of NaTakallam. He is responsible for the recruitment, pairing and payment of refugees, as well as developing strategic partnerships with NGOs and International Organizations. Previously to NaTakallam, Reza worked with the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in monitoring and evaluation, and with the Carter Center in Tunisia and Egypt. He has a dual Master degree in International Development and International Security from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris.
Masresha is a social entrepreneur with 8+ years of experience in the Technology world. Currently, she is the Managing Director of OmniTech Consultancy PLC, a social enterprise in Ethiopia that aims to reduce the gender gap in technology through different school organized activities. Masresha holds bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hawassa University and master’s degree from University of Kerala, India. She is a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow and has completed a Business and Entrepreneurship Institute at Cambridge College in USA. She is also Reach For Change Ethiopia’s 2017 Change Leader.
Davide has over 25 years of experience in companies linked to the world of technological innovation. His professional background, determination and leadership skills made him found Gencom srl in 2001. Gencom is based in Forlì and offers professional ICT solutions and services tailored to support the digitalization of business processes. The company has received important awards as a Cisco Partner over the years (2000 VoIP Avvid Partner of the Year Italy, 2006 Premier Partner of the Year Italy, 2017 Winner Circle Partner EMEA, 2018 Software Partner of the Year EMEA). Davide is also a member of the Board of the Social Enterprise CavaRei. His openness to change and strong technological competence have led him to constantly invest in professional training which is also reflected in his private life: he has a great passion for the latest technological innovations and sports where dynamism is master…. mountain biking, tennis, skiing.
Melat Yosef, born in 1986, has an M.A in Marketing Management from St. Mary University and B.A in Public Administration from Addis Ababa University. She has more than ten years of work experience in business administration and management. Having a hard time finding good information on how to prepare a nutritious baby meal from the locally available ingredients for her firstborn, she established her company VitaBite Nutrition with her partner in 2015. Currently, VitaBite offers an education service by providing recipes and information to parents, caregivers, and other health workers. This is done through different communication tools: books, SMS, cooking demonstrations, website, mobile apps and through training in urban and rural areas.
Valentina is an entrepreneur and a journalist with a Masters in peace studies, Human Rights, and EU policies. She is the founder of Startups Without Borders, a platform that supports and connects refugee and migrant entrepreneurs to resources to launch their businesses, wherever they are. Valentina has been involved in the Middle East’s entrepreneurial landscape since 2013, having laun-ched Egypt’s largest platform on entrepreneurship, Startup Scene Middle East, in 2017. Valentina has been actively involved in the Middle Eastern startup landscape giving workshops and keynote speeches at conferences in Egypt, Palestine, Russia, Norway, France, and Italy, including Lean Startup Nights Cairo, Egypt’s RiseUp Summit, and Techfugees.
Amelia is 34 years old and runs a family business called « il Casale Nibbi » located in Amatrice. The farm spreads over 90 hectares, 10 devoted to fruits and 80 to cereals and pastures for the cattle. They have both cattle and a dairy farm, where they produce a range of dairy products including yogurt, ricotta, and mozzarella. Everything they produce is 100% bio. In 2016, with the first earthquake, the sales point was damaged and declared “unusable”. In January 2017, with the second earthquake, the dairy farm, the sheds, the apple fridge and two out of three stalls were destroyed. Despite countless difficulties, Amelia and her family have not given up and have started rebuilding. Amelia was also supported by the crowdfunding initiative “Alleva la speranza” promoted by Lega ambiente and Enel.
Teresa is 47 years old and runs a farm in Pietralta, Valle Castellana (Teramo). When she inherited it from her father-in-law, they had eighty sheep. Today, they have more than 450 goats and sheep and cattle, rabbits and chickens. The farm was hit by the earthquake in 2016 and the heavy snowfall in 2017, which put the entire production at serious risk. However, Teresa did not want to leave her farm and Teramo. Instead, she decided to relaunch the farm, continue to promote the “capra teramana” and carry on the bio district project to help the whole community. Thanks to the crowdfunding initiative “Alleva la speranza” promoted by Lega ambiente and Enel, Teresa will be able to purchase a silo, a milking wagon, and a feed mixer wagon.
Enrico has a Ph.D. in “Economy and management of enterprises and local systems” at the University of Florence. His work focuses on “Ecosystems facilitating social entrepreneurship”. Since 2009, he manages the research center ARCO (Action Research for CO-development), a research and consultancy agency working on issues as local and inclusive development, social economy, impact assessment, circular economy, and sustainability of the agri-food chains In 2011, Enrico founded the Yunus Social Business Centre at the University of Florence, in collaboration with the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, that promotes the start-up of social enterprises both in Italy and abroad. In 2012, he launched the program “Social Business City” which today is active in Pistoia, Barcelona, and Taoyuan. In 2018, Enrico published the book “Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation: Ecosystems for Inclusion in Europe” with his colleagues Biggeri, Bellucci, Roel, and Persson. His areas of expertise include social enterprises, inclusive business, monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment and local development. In the last 10 years he has worked in Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Palestine, Dominican Republic, Romania, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Graduated in Political Science, she holds a Master’s degree in Training and Gender policy. Project manager, expert in labor policies and social inclusion.
Evelyne Sarah Afaawua, 27 years old, origin from Ghana, born in France and raised in Italy, in 2014 she created Nappytalia, the first blog entirely in Italian about Afro-natural hair care that immediately became a reference point for women with African and Latin origins. The portal, in addition to providing practical advice, offers the possibility to purchase the specific products for afro hair.
Hadil is the CCO and the managing partner of Lailaki, an “Italian Modest Fashion Brand” founded in 2016. She is a professional interpreter and translator and a member of the national Islamic and cultural association and an expert in fashion and web trends.
Marie Terese left Rwanda in 1994, when the country was in chaos due to the war, and arrived in Italy in 1996. In 2001, she founded the cooperative called Karibù (Karibù in Swahili means “welcome”), that offers assistance to immigrants. It now employs 159 people (social workers, psychologists, cultural mediators) of which 147 are Italians.
Marketing Manager at TechSoup Italia .Come from a humanistic background and got passionate over time about the challenges of marketing and digital transformation.
Mirko Tricoli, born in 1982, graduate in international studies and cooperation began to work on development policies and programs in the decentralized cooperation office of the Municipality of Siena. At the beginning of his carreer, he managed different projects in Palestine, including promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian municipalities.
Raffaele has an extensive background in management, organization and communication of social impact projects (European Commission, Banca Prossima-Intesa San Paolo Group). In 2012, he co-founded Piano C to propose new organizational models built on diversity. In 2014-2015, he was a thinker consultant for a Member of the European Parliament. Based in London, Raffaele coordinates Life Based Value’s daily core functions, overseeing the international development, and is passionate about delivering the best for the company’s customers.
From 26 February 2018, Dott. Leonardo Carmenati, is the new Technical Deputy Director of the Agency. In the last ten years he has held the position of Director of Operations at the Italian Red Cross and he has been responsible for all national and international programs and operations.
She is a former development aid manager with 16 years’ experience in supporting social sustainability for the EU and UN.
Birgit is Senior Project Manager for Strategic Projects at Lufthansa Cargo. She has long experience in project management and global account management, heading international teams, developing new markets or industries, and setting up new processes and regional teams according to design thinking methods. She has been active as trainer of new leadership principles for managers of the Lufthansa Group and has been setting up a group wide change network. Previously she has had various business development positions in the Lufthansa Group and Bosch Telecom. She has a MBA from University of Cologne and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japan and is fluent in German and English, as well as a good knowledge of French, Japanese and Latin.
She is CEO at SocialFare |Center for Social Innovation Italy and President of the first impact seed fund in Italy, SocialFare Seed.
Raya is a serial entrepreneur, writer, educator, and futurist. She is the founder and CEO of Awecademy, an award-winning educational organization that offers future-focused and wisdom-based education for high schools. She is the co-founder of various national and international initiatives including The Dubai Science Festival, Intelligent Optimism and Cafe Scientifique Dubai, all organizations that serve to increase scientific literacy and have received up to 40,000+ annual visitors.
Veronica Chiodo has a Ph.D. at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. She completed her Master of Art degree in Social Economy in 2014 at the University of Bologna, with a thesis about the relationship between impact investors and social enterprises in the Indian market. At present, her research interest focuses on financial needs of social enterprises in their scaling and the sources they can access. She took part in the work of G8 Taskforce on Social Impact Investment (SIIT) as supporting staff and member of the Working Groups on Measurement of Social Value. She is project manager of TIRESIA observatory on Social Impact Finance. She has worked as consultant with venture capitalist, banking and microfinance institutions to develop a measurement system able to assess the social impact performance of social enterprises in the screening, due diligence and monitoring phase.
Alice Borrello is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. She graduated in Management Engineering in 2016 at Politecnico di Milano, with a master thesis on Impact Investing, focusing on the role of Public Sector in this market. She works in TIRESIA, the Politecnico di Milano School of Management’s Research Centre for Impact Finance and Innovation since 2017. She is involved in projects on Impact measurement for social businesses and Impact investors. Her research looks at Impact Investing ecosystem and Impact measurement systems. She is also performing tutor activities in Social Innovation and Business in Transformation Lab courses in the master’s degree in management engineering.
Chris Richmond N’zi was born in Ivory Coast and graduated in international rights and diplomacy in Switzerland. He worked as a senior analyst at Frontex and since 2017 he is the founder and CEO of Mygrants. Mygrants is the first app based on micro-learning designed especially to deliver support to immigrants through a series of thematic module quizzes. Through the database, companies have the opportunity to pick in real-time, or track the weekly performance and program the onboarding of the most suited immigrant according to the role they require.
After a degree in Business Communication and a Master in Media Relations, she started her marketing career in advertising agencies, companies and consulting firms in Italy and abroad, such as McCann Erikson, Leo Burnett, Fininvest, Bain & Co.
Luca is researcher at the Department of Business and Management of Luiss Guido Carli University, holding a post-doc fellowship on Social Innovation Based Entrepreneurial Models: assets and contextual conditions in urban regeneration and regional developments. He has a PhD in Urban Planning, Design and Policy at the Politecnico di Milano and has been PhD visiting fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Furthermore, Luca has consulted for different institutions: Nesta, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan Center for Food Law and Policy, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, IEFE/Bocconi University, Institute for Social Research (IRS, Milan), the European Research Center on Cooperatives and Social Enterprises and the Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation (Apulia Regional Government). His research includes the analysis and evaluation of public policies, the organisational and policy implications of social innovation, cultural and community-based entrepreneurship, social impact of new technologies. He has published articles in several national and international scientific journals. In 2014, together with Sara Le Xuan, he published the book “Imprese Comuni: Community Enterprises and Urban Regeneration in the UK” for Maggioli Editore. In 2018, together with Flaviano Zandonai, the book “Local Italy: the domains of the community sector in Italy”, published for Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation publisher.
Chair of the Department of Business Administration and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at John Cabot University – Rome; Executive Director of the Startup AdVenture program at LUISS Business School; Social innovation expert; Has been researcher at the CeRIIS – International Research Center for Social Innovation at LUISS Guido Carli. Riccardo holds a PhD in Management and he is a visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School. He recently participated in the ideation and launch of the first Alumni investment club of the LUISS University called LA4G where he is in charge with the investment deal flow.
Sara is an architect and a social innovation and urban regeneration consultant. She is currently working with implementation and definition of social innovative services at Social Seed, an innovation laboratory for organizations and social enterprises. She is facilitating co-design processes, mentoring, managing project, and developing new projects for calls. She focuses on urban regeneration as tool to enable community participation and sustainable development, and on labor issues. She is contributing to the implementation of project, promoted by a partnership of private and public actors, which aims to empower and find work for unemployed in difficult socio-economic conditions. As an architect, Sara has worked has worked for some architectural firms and she has participated in a course by “Architetti senza Frontiere Italia Onlus”.
Federica is a Project Manager at Nesta Italia where she works with projects related to urban policies for inclusion and intercultural practices, but is also supporting the work in other areas (education, arts and new technologies). She heads a pilot for the experimentation of new methodologies for the development and innovation of urban policies in the field of inclusion. Before joining Nesta Italia, Federica was Advocacy & Engagement Coordinator for the Mozilla Foundation, coordinating the advocacy actions in Italy and Spain and the relations between the Foundation and the EU Commission regarding campaigns for digital rights, creativity and open source. She has been part of many EU financed projects in the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship and has gained numerous experiences in curating artistic-cultural projects. She has a degree in Law, European and International Relations with a research thesis in Community Governance and Problem Oriented Policing.
Roy supports the Social Enterprise Academy Scotland as an Associate Tutor, delivering leadership programs in Scotland, Africa, Asia and Europe. Roy’s interest in social enterprise derives from his passion for strengthening and developing communities particularly in rural areas. His mantra is “if the problems are in the community, the solutions are in the community”. He established and ran his own successful business in Oban and the west highlands of Scotland before selling the business to focus on social enterprise and community development. He is an associate consultant with Imani Development, an employee-owned economic and development consultancy partnering with Social Enterprise Academy South African hub.
David is ‘Head of Rural’ for Social Enterprise Academy International and manages the Academy’s Highlands & Islands Hub. Before joining the Academy, he worked for the Community Resources Network for Scotland as Development Officer for the north of Scotland, managed a local rural partnership in Sutherland and lectured in rural development at Moray College at University of the Highlands & Islands. David is also an Associate Lecturer with the Open University on Environment modules. He lives in the Highlands and enjoys running, walking and camping in the hills and generally keeping up with his four kids, which takes up all his spare time!
After graduating in Philosophy, Sabina took a Master’s Degree in Management of Public Services at the Politecnico of Milan. Since then, she has been working in the field of local development to support social enterprises start up and development. She has been Vice president of a Cooperatives Employers’ association at regional level dealing with social enterprises support and development, and Chairman of Consorzio Sociale Light (a consortium of social enterprises based in Italy) responsible for all activities concerning social Economy and Social Inclusion targeting different types of disadvantaged target groups (e.g. disabled, refugees etc.). With more than 15 years of experience, Sabina has developed extensive expertise on issues related to social economy development from start-up techniques to funding systems and mechanisms, to effective development strategies and internationalization.
Guglielmo è un Designer e Imprenditore Sociale. Come Designer lavora con Somos Más, agenzia internazionale specializzata nella valorizzazione dell’intelligenza collettiva, e con Social Seed, agenzia italiana specializzata nella progettazione di processi innovativi.
Tracey è una nota imprenditrice sociale che ha fondato tre società prima di avviare Copia. Ma il suo compito più impegnativo è servire da mamma a tre bambini piccoli e un grosso cane. Nel suo tempo libero ha completato 11 Ironman. Tracey ha conseguito una laurea in ingegneria ed economia presso il Dartmouth College e un MBA presso la Stanford Business School.
Training in international relations, master in Management of Development (UN International Training Centre/ILO) and instructural design for distance learning, since 1999 working in development cooperation (decentralized cooperation, ong, UN). She holds a post in Cariplo Foundation since 2008. She is program officer in the Welfare department, in charge of the program “Innovation for development” and member of the team of the program Cariplo Social Innovation for the capacity building initiatives targeting civil society and social enterprises.
Binta Jammeh is the co-founder and COO of Konexio. An advocate for global education and the socio-economic inclusion of disadvantaged publics, she has previously worked with refugee communities in the United States and more recently with youth in at-risk priority education areas in France as a Fulbright Scholar. She is an honors graduate of Syracuse University with dual degrees in International Relations and Public Relations with a focus on education and intercultural communication. She was recently named one of Forbes’ 92 Women Disrupting Tech in France.
Imprenditrice sociale, filosofa e pedagogista esperta in competenze cliniche, tre figli. Gestisce come presidente del CDA e Direttrice Generale l’impresa sociale Stripes (Studio Ricerca Intervento Pedagogia Extrascolastica). Consulente e supervisore pedagogico di scuole e servizi educativi per conto di numerosi Enti locali in provincia di Milano. Formatrice e progettista esperta in processi educativi e relazioni famigliari. Docente presso il Master di primo livello “Professione educatore” nell’Università Bicocca. Autrice di testi pedagogici sul gioco e i comportamenti infantili è componente del Comitato di redazione della Rivista di educazione, formazione e cultura Pedagogika.it.
Maurizia has more than thirty years of experience in social cooperatives. In 1987, she was one of the founding members of the social cooperative “Il Cammino”, that later incorporated the cooperative Tangram creating Cooperativa Sociale CavaRei for which Maurizia is Chairman of the Board. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of CGM and since 2013 she is Chairman of the Consorzio Solidarietà Sociale di Forlì-Cesena which brings together 5 social cooperatives and two voluntary associations.
Attilia, born in 1955, two children and a cat, has been an entrepreneur since 1992 working with communication within the cultural, social, scientific and technological fields. She is a partner and member of the Board of Directors of TiConUno srl and Triwù srl. She has coordinated and collaborated on numerous projects focusing on women enpowerment funded by the European Union: “Women at work”, “Women and new technologies”, and “Women’s time”. She has collaborated with the Lombardy Region for projects to strengthen the “Centri Risorse Donne” (Women’s Resource Centers), with the Milan Chamber of Commerce for entrepreneurial orientation courses, with networks of Municipalities for the definition of “Piani di Tempi”. In 2016, she published the book “È sempre questione di tempo – Politiche temporali e Smart City” (“It is always a matter of time – Temporal policies and Smart City”).
Sociologist, work in the field of social enterprise for about twenty years, carrying out research, training, consulting and publishing. He was senior researcher at Euricse where he deals in particular with the study of social innovation, community entrepreneurship and social regeneration of buildings and public spaces. He was also secretary of Iris Network, the network of research institutes for social enterprise where he was editor of the review “Impresa Sociale”, co-author of the Report on social enterprise in Italy and manager of the “Workshop on social enterprise”, the main event in Italy for social entrepreneurs based on the presentation and dissemination of good practices of social enterprise. Today is open innovation manager in the Cgm cooperative group in wich operate to promote communities of social entrepreneurs that want develop and disseminate innovation. He collaborates with the magazine Vita and manages “Tempi ibridi”, a blog dedicated to institutional innovation and the new value chains between profit and nonprofit. @editormanque
Investment Director Italy Opes-Lcef. Twenty-year experience in investment banking and investing in Europe and emerging countries. He has worked for large financial institutions such as HSBC, Fortis and ABN Amro in senior investment banking and markets roles. He also had experience in Investment management roles as a Partner at Silk Invest where he helped build the fixed income and private equity business from inception. He has been involved in Cooperation and Development in supporting the creation of ABREC, a renewable energy policy agency in west Africa. He is on the Board of a Microfinance company in Kenya that develops financial service products for the BOP and he is a firm believer and supporter of Social Innovation projects.
Ha co-fondato Konexio sulla base della sua ricerca come Fulbright fellow durante la quale ha studiato migrant policy alla Paris School of Economics. E’ stata anche Rubenstein fellow presso l’Harvard Kennedy School Center per Public Leadership, si è laureata a Stanford in economia e biologia umana e ha lavorato come consulente strategico presso Analysis Group. Di recente è stata nominata da Forbes come una delle “Top Women Distrupting Tech” in Francia.
