9th CSR & Sustainability Meetup:Partnerships 911: driving value for business &

Welcome to our 9th CSR & Sustainability Meetup! Partnerships 911: driving value for business & society!

Join us on the 10th of June as we share the secrets behind winning partnerships that can bring value to your business and society as a whole!

Our 2nd guest speaker is: Benjamin de Terssac

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Benjamin is a web enthusiast and startup entrepreneur, passionate about the sharing economy. He is the happy founder of Carpoolarabia.com and TakeMine.co. Benjamin is also an experienced project leader with more than 5 years experience in Management Consulting.

Our 1st guest speaker: Nicolas Delaunay

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Nicolas has two decades of experience building high quality partnerships and innovative fundraising and communications platforms, delivering growth and elevating the profile of corporate responsibility and environmental initiatives for leading names such as CNN in Europe and WWF in the Middle East and now as Founder of a new Sustainability consultancy: Values Added.

As Director for Business Development & Marketing at Emirates Wildlife Society in association with WWF (EWSWWF, 2011 – 2014), Nicolas led major environmental awareness initiatives mobilizing action among the community, including Earth Hour UAE, TEDxWWF Abu Dhabi, or high profile events at World Future Energy summits in Abu Dhabi. He designed and grew long term corporate partnerships as well as successful community fundraising platforms (through events, merchandising, micro donation schemes or EWS-WWF Corporate Membership Programme) which enabled major science-based policy, conservation and education projects in the UAE and the Gulf region. Nicolas also contributed to redesigning EWS-WWF’s long term strategy and streamlining its operations as a member of the Management Committee.

Prior to WWF, Nicolas helped design and organize events at "Business for the Environment (B4E) Summits" in South Korea and Mexico, resulting in industry based recommendations and a call for action on climate. As Account Director CNN International in charge of France and select other French speaking territories, Nicolas developed strategic partnerships and bespoke TV, online content around environmental issues,