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Steven Price, EIIL

A graduate of the Engineering, Manufacture and Management course at Manchester University, one of the first of the UK’s attempts to establish a Masters degree course to provide for future Captain’s of Industry. He began his career as a Maintenance Manager for ICI on Teeside in 1987. He progressed through a variety of manufacturing and business improvement roles before becoming a Project Manager with ICI Engineering in 1993. In this role he spent four years helping to establish new business ventures in the Far East. This included managing manufacturing plant design and construction projects, working in Malaysia, Singapore and Shanghai, PRC. He moved to NL in 1997 to develop the Manufacturing IT project portfolio for Unichema, part of the ICI group, and moved to Brussels in 1998 as European Regional IT Manager for ICI Specialties. He has been a Director of Price Coventry Consulting Limited since March 2001, and provides services as an independent project manager and project management ‘coach’. He also works in association with collaborative working specialists McCourts, helping client’s project teams develop the necessary personal and inter-personal skills to work together more effectively. His particular interest is in improving the effectiveness of partnering in the project environment. He is a Member of the Association for Project Management and Vice Chairman of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Benelux Branch.
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Paul Skehan, EUROCHAMBRES

Paul has acted as Deputy Secretary General of Eurochambres since February 1997. Eurochambres is the association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, whose membership comprises 45 countries, 2,000 Chambers of Commerce and 19,800,000 European enterprises. Eurochambres acts as a representative organisation, lobbying the European institutions on all matters affecting business; Eurochambres also develops and manages a number of services and products for Chambers around the world.

Prior to joining Eurochambres, Paul worked as CEO of the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland, having spent several years before that in the Irish Industrial Development Authority – responsible for attracting, and developing industry in Ireland.

He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin, and an MBA from UBI/Mercer University.

As a student, he also worked as a chimney sweep, proof reader, house painter, grape picker, seller of In Dublin magazine and merchandiser.
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Daniel Schaubacher, EBBF

Daniel SchaubacherDaniel Schaubacher is a management consultant who presently serves as representative to the European institutions of the European Bahá’­ì Business Forum - a business ethics professional network specializing in CSR and values-driven leadership in 50 countries. His career has encompassed marketing, economist analysis and trade promotion positions at Nestlé, Lémania/Omega Watch now Swatch group, Bobst Machinery, and the US Department of Commerce. A native of Switzerland, he is the President of People to People Belgium ASBL (international recipient of PTP Outstanding Leadership Award), and a member of the Executive Board of the Brussels-EU chapter of the Club of Rome.
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Dr. Christian Weinberger, European Commission

Christian WeinbergerChristian Weinberger joined the Commission Services in 1999 to work on technical harmonisation in the Common Market, using the New Approach with CE-marking and harmonized EN Standards. Since 2003 he is head of unit dealing with Entrepreneurship and SME policy, in particular the Entrepreneurship Action Plan and the European Charter for Small Businesses, by elaborating recommendations and identifying and disseminating good practices.
Before joining the European Commission, Christian Weinberger worked for 10 years with a large multinational corporation in Marketing, Sales, Pricing and Special Business Operations in various countries and at European HQ and then co-founded an international SME in Information Technology and was its CEO for 9 years.
Being a native Austrian, Dr. Christian Weinberger holds a Master of Physics in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Economics.
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Frédéric Soudain

Frédéric Soudain is a founder and partner of LOGOS with special responsibility in enterprise policy and related EU activities.

A specialist in the creation and management of international professional organisations, alliances and interest groups, he is on the Board of organisations such as the European Small Business Alliance and the Association to promote internet-based equity markets in European regions.

Frédéric lead the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs and was appointed by the European institutions in consultation Committees (SMEs-Bank Round Table, Information Society Forum, SMEs intergroup). He conducted several major European projects to promote new forms of entrepreneurship, to improve access to finance for SMEs and to experiment new forms of work organisation in Europe.

A founding member of ECCIR, the European Centre for Complex Issue Resolution, he is also a partner in a French company working on health projects with the World Bank, the European Fund for Development, and the African Bank for Development.

Frédéric holds an MBA from Lille Business School (France) and a post-graduate degree in European Affairs. His working languages are French, English and Spanish.
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Maarten Laga, Memobead

Maarten LagaIn my professional life, I seek demanding challenges which I can tackle with my entrepreneurial spirit, my international managerial experience, my sense of responsibility, my communication skills and my ability to quickly adopt to new situations. My keywords for a challenge are innovation and early-stage.
I’m seeking C-level missions with a high degree of strategic responsibility. I excel in starting and growing new ideas and building teams, be it in a venture backed start-up or in a new (international?) division of an established organisation. As a polyvalent senior manager, I handle human resource , financial, sales&marketing or business development challenges in an international setting (Europe and US). I have extensive experience in raising capital, in interacting with banks and VC’s and in reporting to boards of directors.
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Professor Nigel Roome PhD., MA, BSc.

Nigel Roome holds the Daniel Janssen Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at Solvay Business School, Free University of Brussels and is professor at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, where he is academic director of the GLOBUS competence centre at TIAS/NIMBAS Business School.

He previously held chairs in the Netherlands (Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tilburg University) and Canada (Schulich School of Business), and academic positions in Britain. He is widely published on topics that examine the relationship between business strategies, innovation and technology, and, corporate responsibility, sustainable development and global change. His books include management education for sustainability and corporate environmental management (1994); sustainability strategies for industry (1998); and the ecology of information and communications technologies (2002). He chaired the European Commission expert group and authored its report on sustainable production: challenges and objectives for EU research policy (2001). He has received a number of research grants, where his role has been to coordinate interdisciplinary research teams. In addition, over the past 15 years he has studied and published work on some exceptional companies, which have undertaken significant progress in embedding sustainability and corporate responsibility into their strategy and practices.

Professor Roome’s career has involved innovations in both education and research. In educational terms he developed the environmental management curriculum in the 1970s and the business and environment and corporate responsibility curricula in the 1990s. He has been involved in the foundation of institutes for Corporate Responsibility [UK: 1990-3], Business and the Environment [Canada: 1993-6], and, Globalization and Sustainable Development [Netherlands: 1996-9] and was involved in organizing, or serving on the advisory board of, more than fifteen national and international research and education conferences and collaborating on the design of more than 50 workshops at these and other conferences. In addition to his work establishing new centres he was Head of Department at Erasmus University Centre for Sustainable Development and Management from 2000-3. In 2004, the World Resources Institute acknowledged his role as a faculty pioneer in his field and his achievements as a European Faculty Pioneer over 20 years were acknowledged by The Aspen Institute in 2006. Nigel Roome was nominated as chair of the academic board of the European Academy of Business in Society to 2008 and is a member of the Academy’s management board.

He seeks to put his knowledge into practice through his own consulting company Capability Dynamics - advising companies and policy makers on the links between strategy, corporate responsibility, sustainability and innovation. He has worked with companies, trade associations, professional institutes and the voluntary sector in Europe, North America and Japan. Clients include companies in the forest products, chemicals, mining, power utilities, manufacturing and food sectors. His past work with professional bodies includes the American Academy of Management, the American Association for Engineering Education and the US National Academy of Sciences. He has also advised with the World Bank, the European Community and the government of Canada, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, and Mexico.

He has a distinguished record of public and community service. Past positions include: Chairman of the UK Environmental Information Committee, member of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Committee, Chairman of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council, member of the judging panel for the Canadian Business Environmental Awards, Environment Councillor, advisor to the president of Ontario Hydro and the Office of the Canadian Commissioner for Environment and Sustainable Development, member of ABB’s global stakeholder advisory group, expert to the European Commission’s ‘Futures’ project, and Chairman of the European Commission’s expert group on competitive and sustainable production systems to the year 2020. He has been invited to contribute his views on corporate responsibility and sustainability to meetings of the European Union, under successive Presidencies of Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland and Germany.
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Oliver Bücken

Oliver Bücken is currently a lecturer for Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Munich. He is lecturing “Busines Planning” and coaching Start-up teams arising from the UnternehmerTUM GmbH. He is committed as a Business Angel to various Start-ups.

He co-founded buecher.de, one of the big german internet book-retailer in 1997, which went public in 1999 and was sold in 2000. Prior to this venture he worked in the Venture Capital industry.

He holds a degree in business administration. He is the author of the handbook “Schlüsselkompetenzen” (Soft Skills), which the UnternehmerTUM GmbH publishes now in the third edition.
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Frederik Rijk de Pont - Observer

Frederik de Pont is the current Vice President in the Executive Board of JADE. In 2006 he served as commercial manager in UniPartners Delft, the Netherlands and was the founder and President of a new Junior Enterprise, UniPartners Rotterdam. During this year he also performed a knowledge management project at KPMG.

Frederik has the Dutch nationality and holds a BSc degree in International Business Administration of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His Bachelor thesis was about the influence of culture on cross-border acquisitions. He spent one year of his studies at the University of London, Royal Holloway. After the year in the board of JADE he will pursue a MSc program in Economics, focussing on game theory and industrial organization.
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Johannes Weissmann - Observer

Johannes WeissmannJohannes Weissmann is President (2007) of JADE, the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises. Born in Germany Johannes started studying Business Administration at the University of Nuremberg. Besides studying he worked as Software Developer and Business Consultant for ADESTIS IT-Service GmbH. Gathering experience he started his own business consulting company in 2004 and joined the Junior Consulting Team in Nuremberg the same year where he worked as account manager. In 2005 he became President of the Junior Consulting Team and decided to prepare himself to apply for the JADE Executive Board. In 2006 he was elected as the JADE President 2007, finishing his term the 1st of October 2007. After three years business studies he decided to change and is currently studying Engineering Physics at the Techical University of Munich.
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Alfredo Chiaro

Alfredo Chiaro is President and founder of JECoMM, Junior Enterprise Communication & Marketing Milano. Born in Cantù, Northern Italy, after obtaining the high school diploma as Business and Foreign Languages expert, he enrolled in the Communication & Society course at the Università degli Studi of Milan, from which he graduated in July 2007. In his thesis he focused on a listed corporation to discuss the deployment of Corporate Governance strategies in Italy. During the studies, he collected work experiences through both internships (in the area of marketing) and freelance projects as web designer. During the third academic year, he promoted the foundation (2007) of the newest Italian junior enterprise, carrying out projects in the fields of event management, marketing communication and IT solutions for small- and medium-sized companies. He is currently taking up a 2-year Master of Science in International Management at Università Bocconi, Milan.
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Clément Favier - Battle for Knowledge

My name is Clement, I’m 21 years old and was born in Rouen, France. I’m a 4th year student in Arts et Métiers ParisTech, a prestigious French engineering school and I will study one year in the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2008 to specialize in industrial organization. It will give me a French and Spanish double diploma.
My experience in AMJE Bordeaux, (a Junior Enterprise that carry out projects of mechanical design, industrial organization) , first as a project manager and now as a managing director gave me the longing to learn more about entrepreneurship, and consequently to participate to the first Generations Club. I have done two training periods for the moment, one in a small plane factory and another one in a marketing department in Roma. I’m now looking for a 3 month training period for next summer in an English speaking company.
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Filip Roelandt - Battle for Knowledge

Filip Roelandt is a second year master student in Commercial Engineering at EHSAL (European University College Brussels), in Brussels. He got his first real international experience by doing his third bacholar year at the “San Pablo CEU” University in Madrid, through the Erasmus/Socrates student exchange program. After that year, he joined EER (EHSAL Export Research) - an organisation with similar ideals as a Junior Enterprise, but which is built around another concept. One of his main responsibilities, besides executing a project within the framework of his Master dissertation, was advising and leading a team of 9 persons. Through this organization he came in contact with JADE, the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises, where he will work for as Treasurer for the year 2008.
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Natxo Treig - Generations Gap & Knowledge Transfer

My name is Natxo and I am 23 years old. I was born in Barcelona, Spain and I am studying 4th course in Computer Science in the Technical University of Catalonia, where I am also getting an IT & Data managing scholarship.
I entered Jedi (A computer consultancy Junior Enterprise in my university) four years ago when I was ending my first year at university. I started as a project developer, but I tried to know and participate in every department in my Junior. After a year and a half I became Treasurer and I have been member of the Executive Board of my Junior Enterprise since then. I am now finishing my year as Vice-President and I am willing to continue participating actively in the activities of my Junior Enterprise while I am at University.
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Paweł Ogonowski - Generations Gap & Knowledge Transfer

Paweł Ogonowski is a Business Consultant at ConQuest Consulting – a Polish Junior Enterprise based in Warsaw. He is currently 21 and was born in Staszow, Poland. Currently he is at 3rd year student at Warsaw School of Economics where he majores in Management and Marketing. He also specializes in Finance and Accountancy. In the beginning of his 2nd year at WSE he joined ConQuest Consulting and since then have taken part in a great variety of projects including market research, mystery shopping as a Consultant and a Project Manager as well. From March 2006 he has been a member of Scientific Circle of Knowledge Management at the WSE where he has participated in numerous meetings with people with experience in KM. In 2006 he took part in “Rountable of Knowledge Management” Conference at WSE.
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Thomas Laures - Battle for Knowledge

My name is Thomas, I`m 25 years old and I was born in Trier, Germany. I`m studying the 4th year in technology management in the University of Applied Sciences of Ravensburg. Before I started studying, I had done an apprenticeship as an IT system electronics technician and I worked two more years in this job at a small IT-Company.
In my first year of the university I participated at the kreaktiv e. V. junior enterprise. During my time there I was active in the resort treasury participated on national confederation meetings. At the moment I am working at JADE to gain some project managing skills and foreign country experience. Furthermore I am looking to get a practical training semester in a foreign country. This all fosters me to want take part at the Generations Club.
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Thorsten Havemann

Thorsten Havemann is a 4th year International Business Student from the University of Paderborn, Germany, with the mayors international management, HR and Organziational management. In his 2nd year of studies he joined the Junior Enterprise Campus Consult, where he became internally and externally active. In 2005/2006 he spent two terms studying abroad in Canada at the Carleton University, where he founded the Carleton University Communications and Presentations Club besides his studies.
During his commitment at Campus Consult he has conducted a non- neglectable number of projects in the areas of process-management, management of quality and business planning.
In 2007 he became president of Campus Consult where he is currently putting all his efforts in.
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Valentina Gradoli - Generations Gap & Knowledge Transfer

My name is Valentina and I’m 24years old. In 2005 I got the first level degree in Communication Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and after that I decided to continue my studies in Political and Social Communication. In November I will get my second level degree at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano). I got in touch with the Junior Enterprise concept helping a small group of people who wanted to start a JE: JECoMM, Junior Enterprise Communication & Marketing Milano, is now the 12th Italian Junior Enterprise. Being in a Junior Enterprise taught me lots of things, both professionally and as a human being. My studies and my work experiences in the Communication field have supplied me with many skills and now I will have the opportunity to improve them in an international environment, working as a Project Manager for JADE.
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