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Vittorio Corbo Chairman of the
Board of the Central Bank of Chile
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Roberto Canessa
Uruguayan survivor of the Andes Mountains plane accident in 1972, talking
about “Leadership in times of crisis and/or extreme situations”
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Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Governance
World Bank Institute
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman and Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies
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Cyril de Bournet
Managing Director
Casa Lapostolle Winery
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Soumitra Dutta
Dean of Executive
Education
INSEAD
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Eric K. Clemons
Professor
The Wharton School
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George S. Day
Professor
The Wharton School
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Lourdes Casanova
Lecturer at INSEAD
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Gary Burtless
Senior fellow, Economic Studies program, Brookings Institution
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Olivia S. Mitchell
Professor
The Wharton School
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Mauricio González
Gordon
President of Spanish Wine Federation, FEV, CEO of Gonzalez Byass owner
of Tio Pepe Shery, Beronia (Rioja) and Altozano wine.
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Anthony Hamilton-Russell
Propietor of Hamilton Russell Vineyards, South Africa
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Robert Mangels
Chairman
Mangels Industrial
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Andrés Navarro
Presidente
Sonda
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Joseph Msays
General Manager, IGS Public Sector for Asia
Pacific
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Bruce Catania
Managing Director, Head of Citigroup Venture
Capital International - Latin America
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José Piñera
Former Minister of Labor and Social Security
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Hernán Büchi
Former Finance Minister
Counselor for Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo
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Joseph Harari
Director Credicorp Bank and Compañía Internacional de Seguros
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J. Antonio Baltodano
Chairman and Chief Executive Officier, Mercon Coffe Corporation
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Laird Pendleton
Founder, Cairnwood Cooperative Corporation and Chairman, Wharton Global
Family Alliance Advisory Board
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Raffi Amit
Professor Wharton School
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Julio de Quesada
Managing Director Banamex
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Carlos Franz
Chilean novelist
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Jaime Chico Pardo
General Director Telmex
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Luis Rivera Novo
Chief Executive Officer Endesa Internacional S.A.
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Shiv Khemka
Director SUN Group
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Ricardo Zabala
Board Member AFP Habitat
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Francisco Tomic
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Vice President for Human Development,
Codelco, Chile
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Oscar Von Hauske
Director, Telmex, México
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Martin Mayer-Wolf
Managing Director, Nidera S.A.
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Raffi Amit
Professor Wharton School
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Raffi Amit is the Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship
and a Professor of Management at the Wharton School. Dr. Amit
is the Academic Director of the Goergen Entrepreneurial Management
Programs which encompasses all of Wharton’s entrepreneurial
programs. As well, he co-founded and leads the Wharton Global
Family Alliance (WGFA), a unique academic-family business partnership
established to enhance the marketplace advantage and the social
wealth creation contributions of global families through thought
leadership, knowledge transfer and sharing of ideas and best
practices among influential global families.
Prior to joining the Wharton Faculty, Dr. Amit has been the
Peter Wall Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Commerce
and Business Administration, University of British Columbia
(UBC), where he was the founding director of the W. Maurice
Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Center.
Between 1983 and 1990, Dr. Amit served on the faculty of the
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University,
where he received the J.L. Kellogg Research Professorship and
the Richard M. Paget Research Chair in Business Policy.
Dr. Amit holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics, and received
his Ph.D. in Management from Northwestern University’s
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Dr. Amit serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic
Management Journal, and the Journal of Business Venturing.
He has completed a three-year term as an Associate Editor
of Management Science and a 9 year term on the Editorial Board
of Organizational Science. .His current research and teaching
interests center on entrepreneurship in independent and corporate
settings, business models and business strategy, performance
implications of family owned, controlled, or managed firms,
and on venture capital and private equity investments. Among
the journals that have published his extensive academic research
are the Academy of Management Journal, California Management
Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
the Journal of Business Venturing, the Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy , the Journal of Management, Management
Science, Operations Research and the Strategic Management
Journal.
Professor Amit has extensive industry and consulting experience.
He has held a range of management and Board of Directors positions
in entrepreneurial settings and participated in the formation
and growth of numerous companies. He served as Chair of the
Board of Directors of Creo Products Inc., (NASDAQ symbol CREO),
between January 1996 and February 2001. Creo is a global high
technology firm, with unique imaging technology, that is the
world’s leading supplier of computer to plate imaging
equipment for the printing industry. Dr. Amit is an active
early stage Venture Capital investor, and has also consulted
to private and public sector organizations in North America
and Europe on a broad range of strategic issues, and on entrepreneurial
management and new venture formation issues. Professor Amit
has helped form the Korean Global IT Fund, a $100 million
VC fund with offices in Palo Alto and Seoul and has served
as the first Chairman of the KGIF Advisory Board. He now serves
on the Board of Directors of Alvarion Inc. (NASDAQ: ALVR),
a leading wireless communication equipment company. Dr. Amit
has extensive experience in executive education having taught
a range of courses in the North America, Europe, Asia, and
in Australia.
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