Crew & Collaborators
Focused on Spaceship Earth, our team operates at the intersection of worlds, between impact strategy, business and innovation design.
Craig Vezina
With over two decades of experience at the forefront of international education, Craig is also the founder and President of the Z-17 Collective (formerly ZSchool: The International School of Social Entrepreneurship) & a leading voice around the power of innovation for a more sustainable future for people + planet. Craig has worked with forward-thinking schools, NGOs and businesses and presented at a wide array of global education, sustainability and impact events (including the UN's Festival of Action, SXSWedu, ChangeNow Summit & many more). Craig is also a member of the global advisory board of Education for Sharing (E4S) and serves on OECD’s Education & Skills 2030 Global Forum & UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative.
Laura Francois
With a focus on creative design for sustainable development, Laura has been working globally empowering startups, nonprofits and governments to maximize sustainability and use creativity in business as a force for good in Canada and Southeast Asia. Laura is a trained social impact strategist and her work has been featured on BBC World News, Forbes, Netflix, TedX, The Disruptive Design Festival (DIF) and Singapore Design Week
Tod Gimbel
Tod brings over 30 years of executive experience in the corporate world to the Spaceship. A lawyer by training, he has established himself as a strategist & practitioner in the areas of messaging, stakeholder engagement, reputation building, advocacy & sustainability. All with an eye toward positive social impact but also focussed on the bottom line. The first part of his his career took place in the US and then he spent over a decade in Asia before returning to the US in 2019 to take on a global corporate role. Tod worked for well-known companies including Miller Brewing (now Miller-Coors), Kraft Foods (now Mondelez), Altria, Levi Strauss & Co., Citi & Herbalife Nutrition. He also ran a boutique Public Affairs Consultancy in Asia representing large corporate clients, NGOs and Trade Associations. He began to work in the sustainability space at Levi’s and took on the subject area in earnest by leading the effort to build the ESG program from scratch at Herbalife Nutrition. That journey equipped him to have a solid “hands on" understanding of what it takes to develop, build, launch & evolve a comprehensive program and a large company.
Greg Van Kirk
Greg is a pioneering impact entrepreneur, consultant and educator. For over two decades, he has worked with a diverse variety of organizations, leaders and communities across five continents. A two-time Ashoka Globalizer Fellow and World Economic Forum "Social Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012 (Latin America)", Greg has served as a consultant for organizations such as Levi Strauss Foundation, Deloitte, USAID, Chemonics, VisionSpring, Soros Foundation, Inter American Development Bank & many more. He also taught impact entrepreneurship at leading international schools such as the American School of Paris as well as renowned universities, including Columbia, NYU & the University of Wisconsin.
Maximilien Masson
Max brings business growth, recruitment, and marketing expertise. He was previously marketing head at foodpanda and business intelligence at Lazada after his first startup in the hospitality industry.
Valerian Fauvel
Valerian brings corporate finance, strategy, governance, and impact investing expertise. He spent the last ten years in Asia as a partner in a pioneer impact VC fund manager.
Andy Lopez
Andy has extensive experience in storytelling for social impact, namely brand content writing, copywriting as well as bringing people up together.
Marine Serot
Marine has 10 years of experience in all things related to HR: hiring, coaching, and managing careers across several geographies.
Yasmine Berrada
Yasmine has launched and managed tech for impact accelerators in France and North Africa. She has extensive experience in animating networks and building communities. Her involvement in all projects is as the connect-the-dots person.
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