CEOs Without Borders

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Doctors Without Borders. Why is it
successful?Doctors donate their time and talent
to do what they do best.
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How could we, CEOs and business people,
contribute to wealth and job creation? By
helping businesses in less developed countries do
what we know best create and develop
opportunities
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It is widely agreed that humanitarian aid is
successful in alleviating the effects of natural
and economic disasters, but it will not bring
economic development. Only a strong business
community can achieve economic growth and
eradicate poverty. SME are critical to
consolidate a business community that provides
opportunities for more people.
GDP per capita
Entrepreneurial activity
Jobs Wealth
Poverty
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Hence, successful business leaders who understand
the complexity of today's business world are in a
unique position to help
We should use our know-how and experience to
foster business growth in developing countries.
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IntroducingA global network of business
people working to foster business growth job
creation in less developed countries.
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What we do

• Services
• Matching Centre
• Social Network
• Strategic Alliances
• Learning Zone
• Consultancy

Goal
Business Cooperation
Entepreneurship Development
Leverage
Structural Development
Build share Knowledge
Increasing aid Effectiveness
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CEOs without borders is a distinguished club with
unique expertise, advise, experience, technology
financial support channelled through the
following services
Matching Social Network Strategic Alliances
Learning Zone Consultancy
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Matching Centre Online Social Network

• CWB puts in place platforms that allow the global
  business community to find the right match
  between their know-how expertise and the
  challenges entrepreneurs from less developed
  countries face today.
• Type of partnerships we are building
• know-how transmission,
• strategic advice,
• transfer or exchange of technologies,
• commercial cooperation.

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Matching Centre Cases technology support

• AQUAFRESH (Accra, Ghana)
• Juice producer
• Mr. Millet, CEO

FOODTECH (Madrid, Spain) Global leading company
in food processing
Mr. Millet cannot commercialize orange juice
because of the acute bitterness of the local fruit

• Food Tech collaborates by analyzing in its
  laboratories the problems/causes of the
  bitterness, and finds the best way to turn Mr.
  Millets final concentrate into a marketable
  product.

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Matching Centre Cases know-how transmission

• BAAH ENTERPRISES
• 1st supermarket chain in Ghana
• Mr. Baah, CEO

CONDIS GROUP Leading chainstore in Spain Mr.
Ezquerra, CEO
Mr Baah needs assistance in the creation of a
leader chain store

• Assistance in the design of a successful business
  model and growth strategy
• Recommendations for the financial account
  management

• Mr. Baah now carries out PL by business units,
  learning which units are more profitable.

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Matching Centre Cases technology and know-how
transmission

• ROYAL DALEX (Tema, Ghana)
• IT company in Ghana that builds tailored software
• Mr. Alexander Aquaye, CEO

SOFTOBERT (Barcelona, Spain) Luis Trevino, CEO
and ex-manager at Microsoft
Mr. Acquaye wants to integrate website
development in his service portfolio

• Training in website design
• Hosting to offer complete website packages

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Matching Centre

• Private institutions that shape the business
  environment also share know-how and expertise
• IESE Business School (Barcelona) shares know-how
  on business case analysis with Strathmore
  University (Nairobi)
• PIMEC business association (Barcelona) shares
  know-how on their business model and training
  courses with the Association of Ghana Industries
  (Accra)

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CEOs without borders is a distinguished club with
unique expertise, advise, experience, technology
financial support channelled through the
following services
Matching Social Network Strategic Alliances
Learning Zone Consultancy
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Strategic Alliances

• CWB teams up with business schools, financial
  institutions, NGOs and other organizations who
  look at developmental aid from a business
  perspective.
• We jointly support entrepreneurs from less
  developed countries with scalable and sustainable
  interventions.
• We jointly promote the replication of business
  solutions that serve market needs (ex. M-pesa
  success in cell phone banking in Kenya,
  MamaMikes.com success to enables the expatriate
  community from Kenya and Uganda to pay for
  products or services for family and friends in
  their homeland, etc.)
• CEOs Without Borders provides support in the form
  of know-how, expertise and network.

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Strategic Alliances Cases

• Organizing Migration Streams
• The Spanish market is experiencing an important
  low-skilled labor shortage that, together with
  the little job perspectives of young workers in
  Senegal, brings to increasing uncontrolled
  streams of unskilled Senegalese workers risking
  their lives to arrive to Spain.
• Visions Ent. and Goupe ISED are professional
  training centres in Senegal. Youth dont pay for
  the training. Their practices in private local
  enterprises finances the school. Nevertheless,
  alumni cant get a job because of high
  unemployment rates.
• CWB together with Grupo Timenta, a Spanish
  company with headquarters in Dakar, is working to
  establish a communication channel between the
  INEM (the governmental employment institution in
  Spain) and training schools in Senegal to match
  the training they provide with the Spanish
  markets needs.
• Strategic partners relevant governmental
  institutions that facilitate working permits for
  the alumni trained in sectors experiencing labor
  shortages (Immigration Ministry) introduce
  Senegalese students to the Spanish customs
  language (Instituto Cervantes in Dakar).
• If developed with success, this model could be
  replicated wherever there are uncontrolled
  immigration streams.

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Strategic Alliances Cases

• Generating new opportunities in agro-industry
• Universitat Politecnica of Catalonia (Barcelona)
  researchers have found the formula to freeze
  ready-to-eat fruit. CEOs without borders is
  contributing to build a fund to finance a pilot
  plant using this process. If developed with
  success, this would open the door to new
  possibilities for the agro-industry sector in
  Africa which could then offer to western markets
  optimum matured fruit.
• Malaria eradication through business
• CEOs without borders is collaborating with the
  private sector in Ghana and Universitat
  Politecnica of Catalonia to develop an affordable
  and commercially viable mosquito repellent system
  that could be painted on the walls of African
  homes.

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CEOs without borders is a distinguished club with
unique expertise, advise, experience, technology
financial support channelled through the
following services
Matching Social Network Strategic Alliances
Learning Zone Consultancy
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Learning Zone

• CWB Library
• Useful tools for business development
• Guides on business cooperation
• Research on results from entrepreneurial support
  aid programmes
• Blog platform set up for member companies to
  share experiences and ideas for upcoming
  challenges (relevant information is analysed and
  developed together with expert research centres
  and posted back in the CWB-library).
• CWB Events CEOs without borders periodically
  holds meetings where member CEOs meet and share
  their vision and experiences.

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Consultancy Services

• Aid interventions must take into account the
  sustainability and impact on local business
  communities in order to avoid unexpected and
  undesirable consequences
• CWB expertise can help you ensure that the CSR
  projects you lead strengthen the local community.

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Aid interventions must take into account local
businesses
2003 Emmanuel Teteeh graduates from the Ghana
University, specializing in Website Development
2004 Emmanuel starts working as a Graphic
Designer. Later that year, he partners with SOFT
Internet Solutions (Gh) Limited, building dynamic
websites for corporate institutions
2005 The German Government, in an effort to
boost the Ghanaian business community, decides to
provide free website.
2006 SOFT Internet Solutions loses bids, one
after the other, against the GG. Later that year,
the company had to close down.Nevertheless, the
story has a happy ending By 2007, Emmanuel sets
up another IT company, which he is still running
now.
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Current Players
CEOs Without Borders Xavier Sala-i-Martin
President, CWB-NY Joan Oliver President,
CWB-BCN Mariona Puig CEO Advisory Board Cesar
Alierta CEO, Telefonica     Carlos Colomer
President, The Colomer Group Peter Loescher
CEO, Siemens Christian Morales Vice-President,
Intel   Mario Rotllant President, NABC   John M.
Scott President, KPMG Ferran Soriano CEO, NODE
NPO
Financial Institutions
BusinessSchools
CWB
Diaspora
Businesses In DC
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Getting Involved
How can you get involved?
What can you offer?
EXPERTISE
Business Cooperation
NETWORKS
ADVICE
Building Network
EXPERIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
Membership
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
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CEOs without borders Story
2006Incorporation of CWB in Barcelona.Establis
hment of strategic alliances with worldwide
business associations, business schools and other
organizations that can contribute to the project.
Start of pilot cooperation projects in Ghana.
2007 Incorporation of CWB in NY.Scaling up of
strategic alliances and pilot projects in Ghana
and Senegal. Documentary filming.
2008 - 2009 Incorporation of new members to the
Advisory Board. Consolidation of structure and
project. Public presentation of the CEOs without
borders foundation in Davos.
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Contact Information

• Barcelona
• Empresaris Sense Fronteres
• Enric Granados 32, 2. 1.
• 08008 Barcelona 
• Tel [phone]
• Email info_at_empresariossf.org