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CFI.co Meets the CEO of WIR Finanzierer: Mark H van den Arend
Sometimes, all one needs is a break – lucky or otherwise. Mark H van den Arend got his one when Deutsche Bank hired him despite being a teenager with a slightly crooked CV that contained no discernible experience in either
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CFI.co Meets the CEO and Executive Director of Earthport: Hank Uberoi
Hank Uberoi is a man of vision. He also embarked on a singular mission: to reinvent the wheel of cross-border payment processing. In fact, the much-improved wheel is already a reality, spins smoothly, and allows for international remittances to be
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CFI.co Meets the CEO of Edgars Stores: Linda Masterson
Linda started working for Edgars as Group Financial Director and, after executing various roles in the business, became CEO on the 1st of April 2010. After a difficult decade during which the group’s working capital was decimated by hyperinflation, Edgars
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Caroline Criado-Perez: Ordeal and Success by Social Media
The rise of social media has transformed the way in which the world communicates. However, this can be a double-edged sword as freelance journalist, broadcaster, and campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez discovered. Ms Criado-Perez has been prolific user of social media and
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Troy Wiseman: Bamboo – A Sustainable Source of Fibre
Over the last ten years, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) and REDD+ developments have proved that the price attributed to, and the willingness to pay for, forest based ecosystem services – whether through compliance or voluntary schemes
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Godiva Chocolatier: What’s in a Name?
While love-struck Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet proclaimed that a name is just a name, nothing so straight forward applies in business. Especially in the fast moving consumer goods sector the company name, brand, image, and logo all play
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Eduardo Galeano: Remembering a Forgotten Continent
In the last days of his presidency, José Mujica visited the Casmu Hospital in Montevideo to pay his respects to Uruguay’s foremost historian and poet. On April 13, Eduardo Hughes Galeano succumbed to lung cancer. A giant of progressive journalism,
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TD: Making the Environment Part of the Bank’s DNA
When Mike Pedersen joined TD Bank Group in 2007 as Group Head, Corporate Operations, he was tasked with putting an environmental strategy in place for the bank. Early on, he saw the need for full-time executive leadership to drive the
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CFI.co Meets the President and CEO of TD Bank: Mike Pedersen
As green as its corporate logo – or greener still: TD Bank Group, one of the six largest banks in North America and the first to fully offset its corporate carbon footprint, has placed the environment at the core of
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Ellen Ochoa: How Dreams Come True
Going into space is the stuff of dreams, fiction, or fantasy. Plans for space tourism may materialise in the future, but currently astronauts are a very select group numbering around 550. Growing up in California in the 1960s, schoolgirl Ellen
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