SOCIETY 2045 - Key Persons
Alicia Castillo is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO of a seed capital fund and angel investor. She has consulted for over 500 start ups on strategy, including financing. She is an international expert on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.
A keen supporter of diversity in venture capital, she is a board member of Sand Hill Angels and is the founder of the Wealthing VC Club, a disruptive company that allows individuals to coinvest with unique deals in Silicon Valley. Philanthropically, she supports organizations that improve minorities' access to capital, and co-founded Box of Life, a non-profit that sends food and medicine to Venezuela.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Easier Inc
Andy Brogan is co-founder of Easier Inc and the Human.Learning.Systems collaborative, and founder of Next Stage Radicals. Through these collaborations, he is exploring how to create better ways of working and better places to work. UK based but going wherever learning and connection take him, Andy is particularly interested in the role of empathy and fellowship in unlocking better futures.
J. Kim Wright began working to transform the legal profession more than 25 years ago. She is an author and contributor to several books, including some published by the American Bar Association, and periodicals; co-creator of the Conscious Contracts movement, and a guiding force in the Integrative Law Movement.
Jacqueline Horani has been called an old soul, a renaissance woman, and a sparkplug. Nebraska raised, living in NYC, currently developing collaborative teams of global practitioners to transform experiences of ‘work' (Legally Unconventional). She enjoys figuring out & conveying the really simple ideas behind unnecessarily complex concepts. Recent interests: Permaculture, NVC, Family Systems. Also a fan of Heinlein.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Quality of Life World Foundation
Joeri Torfs, Operational Director of the Quality of Life World Foundation. Joeri is driven by knowledge and learning, his allergy to rules and authority made him choose to become an entrepreneur. He found his true calling in software development. He enjoys finding and building structures from chaos and challenging the status quo. His purpose is to free humanity from the enslavement of society by building and using systems, frameworks, and tools capable of converting human intuitive participative and collaborative energy into constructive outcomes. He's convinced that together we can increase our quality of life by accepting life's challenges, building trust, letting go of control and rely on frictionless participation and collaboration in a framework that evolves with societal needs.
Jose Leal started his first business at age 16. In his 20s, he co-founded Canada's first automotive media portal. After ten years with the media company that acquired it, he quit as VP. Corporate life had taught him how not to collaborate. For nearly six years, Jose has focused on understanding human nature and collaboration.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Wiefling Consulting
Kimberly Wiefling is the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. She strongly believes that companies doing business across borders and boundaries of every kind are a powerful force for peace and prosperity in Our World. She is committed to supporting purpose-driven organizations in attracting high-quality investors and the most talented people through the competitive advantage of proven best practices in leadership and a healthy, vibrant organizational culture. She is known globally for her highly interactive, engaging, and transformative workshops, both virtual and in-person.
Matt Perez spent many years building hardware and software products. Matt founded Nearsoft, in 2007. Under the influence of Ricardo Semler's Maverick, Nearsoft has been co-managed from day one. With Adrian Perez and Jose Leal, Matt is in the final throes of writing a book to try and give voice and shape to a different way of being and interacting-the book is tentatively called RADICALS: Co-owned and Co-managed Companies.
Pim Ampe is the Constitutional Director of the Quality of Life World Foundation. She is focused on the well-being of others and loves empowering people. Her purpose is to increase quality of life of people by expanding their ability to adapt and self-manage in the face of life challenges, whether they are emotional, social, physical, intellectual, or economic.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of the Movement Strategy Center
Taj James is the Executive Director of the Movement Strategy Center, based in Oakland, CA. MSC is a national intermediary that works with over 300 partner grassroots organizations, alliances, and networks which operate at local, regional, and national levels. MSC works across sectors, supporting local alliances that bring people in one place together across issues and constituencies, and supporting national alliances that unite groups working on common issues.
Tullio Siragusa is a 33-year veteran of disruptive technologies, futurist, speaker, and author. As an advisory board member to the University of California, Riverside, Design Thinking Executive Program, and founding member of RadicalPurpose.org Tullio promotes a human-centered approach to innovation, and a people-centric work environment.