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Elaine Cohenis the co-founder and managing consultant of Beyond Business Ltd , a leading CSR consulting and sustainability reporting firm, serving a long list of international companies and non-profit clients. Prior to work in this field, Elaine gained over 20 years of business experience with Procter & Gamble (eight years in supply chain executive roles in Europe), with Unilever (eight years as VP for Human Resources with Unilever Israel) and a range of other roles with smaller companies. Elaine served as Manager of the Israeli Society for Human Resources Management during the period 2005–2007. Elaine lectures widely on CSR and the connection between CSR and human resources, is a committed blogger on sustainability reporting via her blog, provides Expert Reviews of sustainability reports for CorporateRegister.com and Ethical Corporation Magazine, writes editorials and book reviews for CSRwire.com, records CSR commentary and insights for 3BL TV and writes for many printed journals and websites. She is a frequent Tweeter on CSR issues at @elainecohen. Elaine holds a (double) Honours BA Degree in Modern Languages from Bradford University, is Manchester (UK) born and has lived in Israel since 1990.
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John Scadeis Managing Director of MAS Business, Spanish consultancy specialised in Sustainability/CSR and assurance; AccountAbility’s International Standards Board member, member of Tomorrow’s Company, member of the Spanish Accounting Association’s (AECA) CSR advisory panel, member of the InnoBasque CSR commission, member of Business Ethics Committee of the Spanish ISO Standards Board’s (AENOR), European Climate Forum member. Before specialising in Sustainability/CSR, he had developed his career as Managing Director of a Spanish manufacturing and services company during 4 years and as Administrative and Financial Director for industrial and consumer multinationals for 7 years as well as Special projects Manager in Central America. Previously, he had worked for 16 years in international audit firms, first 4 years in England and the rest in Spain, the last 7 years of which as a manager in audit and consulting. It was precisely his experience in Central America that awoke a strong awareness for issues related to sustainability and CSR, and actually he dedicates his work to this in Spain and Latin America. His professional qualifications include: Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Censor Jurado de Cuentas (Spanish qualified Auditor) Associate Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner Masters in Management of Family Enterprises, Instituto de Empresa, Spain |
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Tobias Webb, is founder of Ethical Corporation, a ten year old company providing world-wide analysis and intelligence on sustainable business. Webb manages a global network of writers, researchers and event organisers creating research, analysis and events in global business sustainability. He teaches corporate responsibility to MSc students at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also publishing director of EC's parent firm, FC Business Intelligence, which publishes a dozen or so industry-focused websites, many about renewable energy. From 2006-8 Webb was co-chair of the Conservative Party working group on corporate responsibility, which authored current UK CSR policy. More on Ethical Corporation is at www.ethicalcorp.com . Webb blogs at: http://ethicalcorp.blogspot.com/
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Adela JansenExecutive Director of Human Resources Department, BRD - Groupe Societe Generale. Adela Jansen works in BRD since 2003 and has over 18 years experience in management, business development, logistic, sales, marketing, communication and human resources in diverse industries. After five years as General Secretary, in 2008 Adela became the Executive Director of Human Resources department of the bank – an organization with over 9000 employees. “In BRD the human resources strategy supports the business objectives on medium and long term. Throguh strategic projects we seek for continous professional development of our employees, in order to maintain effciency in our activity and a constant focus on our clients.” (Adela Jansen).
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Peter Barta Barta, is executive director of Post-privatization Foundation and has a wide, over 12 years experience in management, with a strong focus on project management and social entrepreneurship, due to his work in the for- profit and non-profit sectors. Currently Peter is the director of Post-Privatization Foundation, the most important foundation in Romania that addresses the importance of entrepreneurship. The foundation promotes entrepreneurial education and offers support to initiatives, which contribute to sustainable development of Romanian business sector, offering a special attention to SMEs initiatives and start-ups. |
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Ramona Gotteszman is the Community Impact Manager at United Way Romania Foundation. Alongside the Allocation Committee and United Way volunteers, she is responsible for selecting and implementing the projects supported by United Way Romania as well as for managing those nearly 300 corporate volunteers involved in the work of United Way. She is concerned with community impact-aimed project alignment and corporate volunteer training on understanding community needs and various project monitoring and evaluation issues. She is also involved in volunteer action planning where companies, corporate volunteers, non-governmental organizations and other community members from Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara get together to improve and match project intervention. Working for United Way Romania, she had the chance to take part in seminars and projects both in Romania and under the United Way International system which helped her acquire significant knowledge on corporate social responsibility matters from different countries and on the crucial importance of corporate community involvement. Related to this, she has stepped in to support companies and non-governmental organizations - United Way Romania partners – for their optimal collaboration and cooperation. In her spare time, she volunteers for several social NGO’s. |
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Suzana Gras has been with Raiffeisen Bank since 2007. She has been working in the Corporate Social Responsibility Department since its inception. Some of her responsibilities are CSR strategy and policy development and related communication strategy development, as well as CSR annual budget management. Suzana also takes care of sponsorship project analysis and management, overseeing project implementation. Under her co-ordination, in 2010, the Bank published its first corporate responsibility report revealing the value and community impact of 2009 sponsorship. The report was drafted in compliance with the LBG community involvement measurement model. Starting with 2011, the corporate responsibility report has embedded the GRI standard. Suzana has a Bachelor’s Degree in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University of Bucharest and a Master’s Degree in "Peace Culture" from the University of Barcelona. |
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Gabriel Biris s a founding partner of Biris Goran, and is widely regarded as one of the leading tax experts in the country, with experience of over 14 years in the sector. He regularly appears on talk-shows and is interviewed widely by Romanian television channels on taxation and general economic matters. He also regularly appears in the printed media, presents at numerous conferences and regularly publishes articles on tax issues in local and international publications.
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Dragos Dehelean iis Managing Partner of Selenis (communication consulting agency, specialized in online channels) and coordinator of ResponsabilitateSociala.ro, Romanian website dedicated to corporate social responsibility. Dragos Dehelean is founding member and Chairman of Ethos Association of Communication where he initiated projects such as ²Communication Olympics², Internetic's Digital Communication Festival, Civil Society Gala, AdPRint European Festival. He is double licensed in Political Science and Communication and Public Relations at SNSPA and is certified trainer in management and communication.
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Catalin Gheorghe is LBG Romania communications manager and consultant. In the past 15 years, Catalin has promoted and has actively supported community fundraising. He is also committed to building relationships between business and non-profit sectors. Holding a postgraduate degree in social development from North London University, Catalin participated in research conducted to observe Romanians’ philanthropic behavior and the field of CSR. As part of ARC team, Catalin has provided CCI consulting services to companies such as: Lafarge, BRD Groupe Societe Generale, Orange, and The Royal Bank of Scotland. |
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Ioana Szatmari is the manager of LBG Romania and of the Corporate Community Involvement Program at the Association for Community Relations. In the last seven years of working with ARC, Ioana has focused on national and regional CCI quantitative and qualitative research, LBG Romania development and management, on facilitating and building relationships between corporate and NGO partners, consulting on CCI strategy and mechanisms, as well as on CSR and CCI-related event planning. Her corporate consulting portfolio includes in-house research on CCI, CCI mechanism development or CSR strategy improvement and implementing plan development. Some of the companies she has worked with are BRD Groupe Societe Generale, Lafarge Romania, Orange Romania, Raiffeisen Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Terapia Ranbaxy, etc. |
Camelia Savoiu
Cosmina Frincu
Suzana Gras
Measuring the effects of Lafarge community investment is extremely useful because it offers a point of reference to the management team for improving business sustainability, on the one hand, and tactical guidelines on resource optimization, on the other.
To improve reporting, it is essential to get very detailed information from community partners. Without their help, we couldn’t put our finger on the impact reached by the projects we finance or build together.