Saskia Bruysten
A leader in the social business movement, Saskia co-founded Yunus Social Business (YSB) together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and Sophie Eisenmann. YSB runs Philanthropic Venture Funds that turns donations into investments in sustainable social businesses that […]
Roberta Ventura
Roberta Ventura left her twenty-year career in Investment Banking and Asset Management in 2016, to run the Social Enterprise she founded, SEP Jordan, on a full-time basis along with her husband Stefano. SEP Jordan is a fashion and lifestyle brand, […]
Rashi Mittal Nair
Rashi Mittal Nair is a word‐of‐mouth marketing addict, that has spent the last 13 years obsessing over what really gets people talking and how brands can best leverage those insights. She’s also an avid believer of linking business success to […]
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu
Nnaemeka is a farmer, community radio agricultural presenter, Founder and CEO of ColdHubs and Executive Director of Smallholders Foundation. He founded Smallholders Foundation (www.smallholdersfoundation.org.ng) in 2003 at the age of 21; the organization uses its Smallholder Farmers Rural Radio (FARM […]
Nasreen Ali Mohamed
Nasreen Ali is also the Founder and CFO of Cherehani Africa, a social enterprise that leverages mobile technology to provide credit, financial education and market information to women and adolescent girls who own micro-enterprises. Cherehani aims to build thriving communities […]
Luis Von Ahn
Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is considered one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is known for co-inventing CAPTCHAs, being a MacArthur Fellow, and selling two companies to Google […]
Latifa Al-Khalifa
Latifa Al-Khalifa is a Social Entrepreneur and STEAM education advocate and one of the founding members of Clever Play, a social purpose-driven startup with a mission to inspire, educate and empower 1 million children in MENA STEAM skills by 2030. […]
Katrina Shum
Katrina Shum leads Lush Cosmetics’ sustainability program across five manufacturing facilities, two distribution centres and 250 retail shops in North America. She works closely with cross functional teams across the business and supply chain to develop strategies that integrate and […]
Henry May
Henry May is a Social Entrepreneur from the UK currently living in Colombia where he currently serves as the CEO of CoSchool, an education business focussed on Social & Emotional learning in K-12 education. He has set up two successful […]
Freddy Vega
Freddy Vega is Co-Founder and CEO of Platzi, a fast-growing e-learning platform with an impressive 70% completion rate by students who take the company’s courses. In 2019, Platzi launched 1,000 scholarships in collaboration with Facebook for Brazilian, Colombian and Mexican […]