Global Growth Companies - World Economic Forum€¦ · · 2014-01-16Global Growth Companies ... Its innovation strategy focuses on creativity, functionality and Cradle to Cradle®

Global Growth Companies

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 21-25 January 2014

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Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Managing Director, Access Bank, Nigeria

Nigeria's fastest growing bank, Access Bank has over five million customers and 305 branches and business offices located in major commercial centres and cities in

Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Zambia. It is currently ranked among the top four largest banks in

Nigeria.

Manuel Arroyo, President and Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Lauman and El

Financiero, Mexico

Grupo Lauman is a global independent communication and media group, recognized

for its leadership and ability to integrate innovative telecommunications solutions. The Group has more than 20 years of experience and 2,700 employees, with broadcast

and telecommunications operations in Mexico, Brazil and Central America. It has

recently bought the Mexican business newspaper El Financiero which, in a strategic partnership with global financial news provider Bloomberg, provides an integrated

finance and business media including multimedia contents in Web, television and mobile devices.

Tewodros Ashenafi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SouthWest Energy (HK), Ethiopia

SouthWest Energy is Africa's leading indigenous oil and gas exploration and

production company. It is in the top five oil and gas acreage holders in East Africa

and has a leading acreage position in the Jijiga Basin, Ethiopia's largest proven hydrocarbon system.

Aneel Bhusri, Chief Executive Officer, Workday, USA

Workday is a leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service solutions to manage global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach

to business applications. It delivers unified human capital management, payroll and

financial management solutions designed for today's organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud, leveraging a modern technology platform, it

offers a fresh alternative to legacy enterprise resource planning. It services more than 375 customers, spanning medium-sized organizations to Fortune 50 businesses.



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Marwan M. Boodai, Chief Executive Officer, Boodai Corporation, Kuwait

Boodai Corporation is a Kuwaiti business conglomerate with activities throughout the Middle East, including media, commercial aviation, logistics, cement, packaging and

distribution, mass transport, engineering services, and heavy equipment distribution and maintenance. Its brands, owned and operated through subsidiaries, include Alrai-

TV, Alrai daily newspaper, Jazeera Airways, Hilal Cement, City Bus, JTC Logistics and Boodai Trading.

Andreas Brodtmann, Managing Partner, Joh. Berenberg, Gossler, Germany

Established in 1590, Berenberg is today one of the leading European privately owned banks with a strong focus on investment banking (in particular pan-European equity

research, brokerage and capital markets transactions), asset management, corporate banking and private banking. It has headquarters in Hamburg, a significant presence

in London, Zurich and Frankfurt, and 14 further offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Its 1,100 employees are focused on driving the business forward while

maintaining a strong sense of tradition.

Tim Brown, Chief Executive Officer, IDEO, USA

IDEO is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centred, design-

based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate

and grow. It identifies new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviours and desires. It envisions new companies and brands, and designs

the products, services, spaces and interactive experiences that bring them to life. It helps organizations build creative culture and the internal systems required to sustain

innovation and launch new ventures.

Amjad Bseisu, Chief Executive Officer, EnQuest, United Kingdom

EnQuest is the largest UK independent oil producer in the UK North Sea. Since its IPO

in early 2010, it has been growing rapidly, it generated EBITDA of US$ 629 million in

2011 and is targeting compound annual production growth of over 20% p.a. to 2014. It has net 2P oil reserves of 115 million barrels and a reserve life of 13 years. It

operates its own production licences and has a workforce of 1,300. Its 2012 capital programme of US$ 1 billion is one of the largest in the UK North Sea.



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Juan Ignacio Casanueva Perez, Chairman, Grupo CP, Mexico

Grupo CP is a leading Mexican insurance broker and risk management corporation. It recently signed a joint venture with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the 4th largest

insurance broker and risk management services firm, with operations in over 110 countries and the private equity fund Evercore Protego. Over the past five years it

has had an approximate compounded annual growth of 30% and retained 98% of its clients. For more than three years it has been one of Mexico´s best places to work.

Suresh Chaturvedi, Group Chairman, Overseas Infrastructure Alliance

(India), India

Overseas Infrastructure Alliance is an acknowledged project development and

management leader and one of the pioneers from India in Africa on how to contribute to capacity building, knowledge, skill development and training in a wide range of

engineering solutions. It analyses, explores, builds and delivers essential nation-building projects. With core expertise in power generation and transmission, rural

electrification, sugar technology, agro-based industries, water management and

railways, the company is building a diversified range of infrastructure worldwide.

Alexander Collot d'Escury, Chief Executive Officer, Desso Holding,

Netherlands

Desso is a leading player in the design and development of carpet tiles and broadloom for both business and consumer markets and artificial grass pitches. The

company operates in more than 100 countries. Its innovation strategy focuses on creativity, functionality and Cradle to Cradle®. In signing a partnership agreement

with the Hamburg-based Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA), it

has become the first carpet manufacturer in EMEA to adopt the Cradle to Cradle® design.

Nicholas A. Curtis, Chairman, Lynas Corporation, Australia

Lynas Corporation seeks to become a global leader in rare earths for a sustainable future. It plans to become the benchmark for security of supply and a world leader in

quality and environmental responsibility to an international customer base.



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Richard Folsom, Representative Partner, Advantage Partners, Japan

Advantage Partners is a leading provider of services to private equity and similar funds focused on the Japanese and Asian markets. Founded in 1992, it has been

providing services to funds since 1997, when the firm established the first buyout fund in Japan. Its funds have invested in more than 40 companies representing total

invested capital approaching 300 billion yen across a wide range of industries and sectors. It is based in Tokyo and has an office in Hong Kong.

Gao Jifan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Trina Solar, Switzerland

Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) is a leading manufacturer of high-quality modules and has a

long history as a solar PV pioneer since its founding in 1997 as a system installation

company. It is one of the few PV manufacturers with a vertically integrated business model from the production of monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon ingots,

wafers and cells to the assembly of high-quality modules. The firm's products provide reliable and environmentally friendly electric power for a growing variety of end-user

applications worldwide.

Wadie Habboush, President and Chief Executive Officer, Habboush Group,

Iraq

Habboush Group is a leading energy, power and infrastructure enterprise which

exhibits a unique combination of Western style management skills and unparalleled local knowledge in emerging markets with an emphasis on Iraq. Its activities are

grouped under two divisions: Execution and Operation Services, which provides EPC, project management and O&M services for clients, including notable Fortune 500

companies and financial institutions; and Integrated Investments, where the Group

deploys its own capital and takes a leading role in the investment's execution and operation.

Paul R. Hogan, Chairman and Founder, Home Instead Senior Care, USA

Home Instead is the largest privately held senior care business of its kind in the world with operations in 16 countries including Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New

Zealand, South Korea, Ireland, the UK, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico and Italy. It operates nearly 1,000 offices

providing 40 million hours of care annually to 65,000 elderly citizens while employing

65,000 caregivers. It was the first company to apply a franchise model to home care, creating a new business segment.



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Yoshito Hori, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, GLOBIS Corporation;

President, GLOBIS University; Managing Partner, GLOBIS Capital Partners,

Japan

GLOBIS has become the number one MBA programme in Japan, in terms of the number of students enrolled at the Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Sendai campuses and

its ranking by Nikkei Career Magazine. It provides corporate training in English and Japanese to more than 300 corporate clients including Toyota, Canon and Sony, with

overseas offices in Shanghai and Singapore. GLOBIS Capital Partners, which manages

over US$ 400 million, has become the largest independent VC firm creating new industries in Japan.

David Iakobachvili, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, BioEnCo. Bioenergy Corporation, Russian Federation

Bioenergy Corporation is a diversified industrial holding company focusing on energy

production from peat biofuels, research and development in the energy sector, and the construction and manufacturing of energy equipment. The company covers the

entire production cycle, from peat extraction to the distribution of biofuels and heat

distribution to costumers.

Andrea Illy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, illycaffè, Italy

illycaffè produces and markets a blend of espresso coffee. It buys green coffee directly from the growers of Arabica through partnerships based on the mutual

creation of value. It is sold in more than 140 countries and is available in more than 50,000 restaurants and coffee bars. Espressamente Illy, a chain of Italian-style coffee

bars, is now present in 30 countries and comprises more than 230 outlets. It has also

founded a Università del Caffè.

Sir Mohammad Jaafar, Chairman and Managing Director, Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company, Kuwait

The Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company is the longest established manufacturer and

distributor of food and beverages in the Arabian Gulf. It is privately held and based in Kuwait. The company's dairy, juice and culinary products are household names.



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Sunil Kanoria, Vice-Chairman, SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, India

Srei Infrastructure Finance has been a pioneer in infrastructure financing in India, steadily contributing towards infrastructural development, and a better tomorrow. It

is synonymous with innovation in infrastructure financing, be it for its customized financing solutions or its innovative marketing programmes. It has empowered more

than 30,000 entrepreneurs over its 24 years in operation by offering innovative solutions in the infrastructure space through: infrastructure project finance, advisory

and development; infrastructure equipment finance; venture capital; capital market

and insurance broking.

Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab,

Russian Federation

One of the fastest growing IT security companies worldwide. Today, it is firmly positioned as one of the world's top four leading vendors of endpoint security

software. In 2010, its global revenue grew by 38% compared to the previous year and exceeded US$ 500 million. Kaspersky Lab operates in more than 100 countries.

Headquartered in Moscow, it currently employs over 2,500 highly qualified specialists.

The company has offices in 29 countries and its products and technologies provide protection to over 300 million users worldwide.

Gary Kovacs, Chief Executive Officer, AVG Technologies, USA

AVG was founded in 1991 with the express purpose of protecting people around the world using the latest in cutting-edge security technologies. AVG currently holds

corporate offices in Europe the US, the Middle East, Israel; and Asia. AVG employs some of the world's leading experts in software development, threat detection, threat

prevention and risk analysis, and continues to invest in R&D, teaming with leading

universities to maintain its technological edge.

Lee Bowei, Chairman of the Board, LCY Chemical Corp., Taiwan, China

Established in 1965, LCY Chemical Corp.'s business encompasses petrochemicals

ranging from C1 to C5 and electronic chemicals for the IC, LCD and solar cell

industries. Its Thermal Plastic Elastomers business ranks first in the world, with plants in Baytown in Texas, Siaogang in Taiwan and Huizhou in China.



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Li Guangrong, Chairman, Sinosafe General Insurance, People's Republic of

China

Sinosafe General Insurance is an insurance company, established in 1996, with 30

branches, including each capital city of China's provinces, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangdong and Hunan, and more than 700 sub-branches.

Henry Lin Yu, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, NQ Mobile, People's Republic of China

NQ Mobile is a leading global provider of consumer-centric mobile Internet services focusing on security and productivity. It was one of the first companies to recognize

the growing security threats targeting smartphone users and is now a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider with over 282 million registered user accounts

worldwide. Its comprehensive suite of mobile Internet services includes anti-virus,

anti-spam, anti-theft, privacy protection, data backup and parental controls applications. 2011 Technology Pioneer, World Economic Forum.

Alastair Lukies, Chief Executive Officer, Monitise, United Kingdom

Monitise (LSE: MONI) is a world leader in Mobile Money - banking, paying and buying with a mobile device. Leading banks, payments companies, retailers and mobile

networks utilize its technology platforms and services to securely connect people with their money. Already over 20 million consumers benefit from its patented technology

to “bank anywhere”, “pay anyone” and “buy anything” accounting for over US$ 30

billion of payments, purchases and transfers annually.

Serge Matta, President, comScore, USA

comScore provides a leading digital marketing intelligence platform that helps its customers make better-informed business decisions and implement more effective

digital business strategies. Its products and solutions offer customers deep insights into consumer behaviour, including objective, detailed information regarding usage of

their online properties and those of their competitors, coupled with information on

consumer demographic characteristics, attitudes, lifestyles and offline behaviour.



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Prashant Modi, President and Chief Operating Officer, Great Eastern Energy

Corporation (GEECL), India

Great Eastern Energy Corporation (GEECL) is a pioneer in Coal Bed Methane (CBM) in

India. In December 2005, it became the first Indian company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and in May 2010, the

company's GDRs were admitted to the main market of the London Stock Exchange. GEECL is a fully integrated, leading Indian CBM company focused on the monetization

of natural gas from coal seams. It is a vertically integrated gas supplier.

Carlos Moreira, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, WISeKey,

Switzerland

WISeKey provides advanced security for communications, identity and information, using a variety of technologies customized to meet each client's security

requirements. Based in Geneva, it is a provider of security, identity and trust services to companies, governments and individuals.

Scott Painter, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TrueCar, USA

TrueCar helps qualified dealer partners gain incremental market share and reduce

costs. As a transparent, visual publisher of new car transaction data, its price reports help both dealers and consumers agree on the parameters of a fair deal by providing

an accurate, comprehensive and simple understanding of what others actually paid

for the identically equipped new car over the last 30 days both locally and nationally. The company was founded in 2005 and has driven over 800,000 car sales.

Adar C. Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India, India

Serum Institute of India is engaged in the manufacture and export of life-saving

immunobiologicals and has established itself as the world's largest producer of measles and diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis group of vaccines. Its products have

been used in 145 countries across the globe. The Institute has a history of

philanthropy.



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Ratul Puri, Chairman, Moser Baer Projects, India

Moser Baer Projects is engaged in the development of power assets using conventional and non-conventional sources of energy. It is one of the fastest-growing

integrated power companies in India, operating across solar, hydroelectric, thermal and mining verticals offering end-to-end services such as power generation, power

trading and engineering procurement construction. The company plans to commission 6,000 MW of thermal, 1,000 MW of solar and 1,450 MW of hydro power to emerge as

a leading player in India's energy sector.

Hosain Rahman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jawbone, USA

Jawbone is one of the largest venture capital-backed consumer electronics companies

in the world. A 2010 IDSA Design of the Decade winner, the company created the

JAMBOX line of speakers, now the best-selling speakers in North America and the UK. It also invented NoiseAssassin® technology, the only military-grade, noise-eliminating

technology that is built into its Bluetooth headsets such as the Jawbone ERA and Jawbone ICON.

Alexey Repik, Chairman of the Board of Directors, R-Pharm, Russian

Federation

A Russian high-tech pharmaceutical enterprise founded in 2001, with over 2,800

employees at 41 branches and offices across the Russian Federation and CIS countries. The company is involved in R&D of innovative products and technologies,

production of various ready dosage forms, active pharmaceutical ingredients of a chemical nature and biotechnology substances, market access of modern high-

performance pharmaceuticals, cooperation with major int'l pharmaceutical companies

and int'l universities in drug development and combined clinical trials in Russia, education and training of specialists.

Alireza Roodsari, Chief Executive Officer, ARIA International GmbH,

Germany

ARIA International is a globally operating trading company for commodities with a

special focus on iron ore. Its business also includes trading in manganese ore, coal, steel and other commodities. The company's numerous strategic locations along the

global commodity trading routes mean that it is efficiently positioned. Its business

model stands on two pillars: trading in iron ore and other commodities; and project business for processing and extracting commodities - particularly iron ore.



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Shyam Sankar, President, Palantir Technologies, USA

Palantir Technologies is radically changing how the world's leading institutions solve their most critical data challenges. Its analytical platforms are deployed throughout

the intelligence, defence, law enforcement, regulatory and cyber security communities, the commercial sector and numerous philanthropic organizations. Its

engineering teams combine expertise in distributed systems infrastructure, big data processing and analytics, user experience design, data science and information

security. Palantir is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York,

Washington DC, Los Angeles, London and Singapore.

Dov Seidman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LRN, USA

LRN helps more than 500 companies worldwide navigate complex legal and

regulatory environments, foster resilient, innovative and winning cultures, and inspire principled performance in their operations. Its combination of tools, education,

metrics, and strategic advice helps companies translate their values into concrete corporate practices and leadership behaviours that create sustainable advantage. Its

solutions have directly reached and guided over 15 million employees working in over

100 countries. It has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Mumbai.

Sun Yinhuan, Chairman of the Board, Yida Group, People's Republic of

China

Yida Group is active in real estate, investment operations and the management of a

software park, IT consulting services, IT education and training, construction decoration, supporting services, modular machine tool manufacturing and cold chain

logistics. It was founded in 1984, consists of 75 holding and equity participation enterprises, and is located in Dalian, China.

Iqbal Survé, Executive Chairman, Sekunjalo Investments, South Africa

Sekunjalo Investments is part of the Sekunjalo Group, which has investment holdings in the oil and energy sector, and resources including gold and platinum, financial

services, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, fishing and aquaculture, ICT, hospital information systems, leisure, entertainment and tourism. It is an investor in

multinationals such as Siemens, British Telecom and Nokia NSN, and is a South African partner to international businesses in other sectors. It has over 130

investments, predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa.



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Jeffrey R. Tarr, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalGlobe, USA

DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from its own advanced satellite constellation, its

imagery solutions support a variety of uses within defence and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration,

infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology. With its collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary, the company offers on- and

offline products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and

integrate its imagery into their business operations and applications.

Conrad van Oostrom, Chief Executive Officer, OVG Real Estate, Netherlands

OVG is a leading (re)developer of sustainable real estate. The company has three

business units: OVG Nederland, OVG Deutschland and OVG Investment Management. OVG Nederland is responsible for all of OVG's development and redevelopment

projects in the Netherlands. OVG Deutschland works to expand its foreign activities, with Germany functioning as its second home market. OVG Investment Management

aims to create value for OVG and its external partners through investments in office

buildings in the Netherlands and Germany.

Sunny Varkey, Chairman, GEMS Education, United Arab Emirates

GEMS Education is a leading international education provider. It runs high-performing

schools and offers consulting services to the public and private sectors. For 50 years, it has provided high-quality education to hundreds of thousands of children. GEMS

has a global network of award-winning schools which provide high-quality holistic education to more than 130,000 students from 151 countries. It employs over 11,000

education professionals, specialists and staff. Its world-class leadership team

combines business and education expertise from around the globe.

Wishnu Wardhana, Vice-President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, PT

Indika Energy, Indonesia

Indika Energy is Indonesia's leading integrated energy company with strategic investments in three business pillars of energy resources, energy services and energy

infrastructure. The main businesses cover coal production (Kideco Jaya Agung,

Santan Batubara, Multi Tambangjaya Utama), multidisciplinary coal engineering, construction and contract mining (Petrosea), engineering, procurement and

construction services (Tripatra Engineering and Tripatra Engineers and Constructors), coal logistics and shipping (Mitra Bahtera Segara Sejati), and power generation

(Cirebon Electric Power).



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Wu Hougang, Chairman and President, Zhangzidao Group, People's

Republic of China

A large fishery enterprise active in the marine product industry and integrating the

breeding of seafood, marine aquaculture and the processing of aquatic products, domestic and overseas trade, and marine transportation. It is the largest domestic

enterprise of seafood bottom-sowing cultivation with the largest yield of scallops nationwide.

Andrew Zimmerman, President and Chief Executive Officer, frog, USA

frog works with the world's leading companies to design, engineer and bring to

market meaningful products and services. With more than 1,000 designers, strategists and software engineers, it spans multiple technologies, platforms and

media. It works in industries including consumer electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, automotive, media, entertainment, education, finance, retail and

fashion. Founded in 1969, it is headquartered in San Francisco, with locations in Amsterdam, Austin, Boston, Johannesburg, Kiev, Milan, Munich, New York, Seattle,

Shanghai and Vinnitsa.

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