Category: Expert of the Week

Pepita Elena McKee – Offering social risk and impact strategies

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Pepita Elena McKee says that The Impact Resolutions team offers diverse experience in business development, engagement, and relations, strategic socio-economic, gender and health impact research and analysis in a broad range of sectors. “The sectors include mining, oil and gas, multi-purpose hydro, forestry, linear infrastructure, health, indigenous peoples organizations, non-profits, and provincial and federal governments, … Continued

Timea Pal – Helping companies improve their impact on the lives of workers and their communities

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Timea Pal is a political economist with over ten years’ research and consultancy experience in promoting social sustainability through global supply chains and international trade. “Through the course of my work, I engaged with various stakeholders from both public and private sectors across the United States, Europe, Asia and North Africa to devise sustainable development … Continued

Alexandra Vásquez – Creating corporate responsibility and social investment strategies

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Alexandra Vásquez is a consultant in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. “I am dedicated to creating corporate responsibility and social investment strategies aligned with the type and business objectives of each client.” Alexandra says that she assures herself that these strategies are sustainable. She also manages actions so that the value chain of her clients … Continued

Rajprakash Prabagaran – Experienced product manager working across various IT technologies

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Rajprakash Prabagaran is an experienced product manager working across various IT technologies using both waterfall and agile methodologies in the development, management, and launch of both consumer-focused and enterprise-focused native mobile applications. “My specialty in mobile products includes product definition for redesign projects, market analysis, creation and prioritization of product backlog, strong focus on the … Continued

Isabella Wagner – Researching resilience, sustainability, social innovation, and its different aspects

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Isabella Wagner is a researcher of research policy evaluation and social innovation. She works for Austrian Plattform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation (fteval), and is also a Regional Team Lead of Zeitpolster. She has worked at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI). ZSI is a scientific institute based in Vienna. ZSI has researched social … Continued

Richard Valentine – Improving operations, financial performance, human resource strategy, and metrics

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Richard Valentine is an innovative professional with demonstrative leadership competencies in positions of progressive responsibility in the telecommunications, government, financial services, consulting, and call center industries. Richard has a successful background of improving operations, financial performance, human resource strategy, and metrics with Fortune 100 companies and state governments. He is recognized for solid leadership and … Continued

Okiemute Omuta – Making people’s lives easy by implementing simple but effective solutions

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Okiemute Omuta is a full-stack developer who is passionate about making people’s lives easy by implementing simple but effective solutions. “However, I’m a business-minded individual, with genuine interests in several other topics besides computers, like music, health, photography, and forex, just to mention a few.” Okiemute has experience in software development and he has been … Continued

Philip Baerfuss – “My customers come to me because they either want to go digital or go international”

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Philip Baerfuss was born and raised in Switzerland. Later Philip moved to Bulgaria because of the country’s innovative digital ecosystem. “I started my career in pharma and private banking. I manage my companies and advise on growth methods to third parties. I propose realistic solutions which I can also implement should my customer want me … Continued

Veronika Gregorková – Lean is not just a method, but a culture

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Veronika Gregorková met lean at the beginning of her working career in 2010 at Magneti Marelli, where she held the position of leader of World Class Manufacturing methodology for several years. “Later, I went through the management of regional divisions of companies focused on personal leasing in quality control, innovative projects in the manufacturing industry, … Continued

Teemu Lehtinen – Making Finland a forerunner in the sustainable digitalization of the built environment

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Teemu Lehtinen is CEO of KIRAHub, a non-profit innovation hub for the real estate and construction sector in Finland. Previously Teemu coordinated the KIRA-digi project (2016–2019) as a Chief Digital Officer. “I have also been at Stanford University as a visiting scholar twice and the local lead for AEC Hackathons in Finland. Currently, KIRAHub coordinates … Continued