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Our Strategic Community Partners
Agility
Apax Partners
The Boston Consulting Group
Citi
Credit Suisse
Ernst & Young
GDF SUEZ
Hewlett-Packard Company
Siemens
UBS
VimpelCom
Agility is one of the world's leading providers of integrated logistics to businesses and governments. It is a publicly traded company with close to US$ 6 billion in annual revenue and 32,000 employees in over 550 offices and 120 countries. Agility brings efficiency to supply chains in some of the globe's most challenging environments, offering unmatched personal service, a global footprint, and customized capabilities in developed and emerging economies alike. Agility's commercial division, Agility Global Integrated Logistics (GIL), is headquartered in Switzerland and provides supply chain solutions to customers in technology, retail, chemicals, and other industries. Agility Defense & Government Services (DGS) offers logistics services to governments, relief agencies and international institutions worldwide. Agility Infrastructure group companies primarily focus on opportunities in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, providing infrastructure support in the areas of industrial real estate, customs optimization, and airline services.
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Apax Partners is one of the world's leading private equity investment groups, operating across the US, Europe and Asia. Funds advised by Apax Partners typically invest in companies with a value of between 1 billion and 5 billion euros, providing long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies in five growth sectors: financial and business services; healthcare; media; retail and consumer; and technology and telecom. The company's mission is to release the potential of companies, management teams and portfolio company employees to generate superior returns for the millions of individuals whose pension funds and investment plans commit to its funds. Apax Partners employs around 300 people. The team operates within an organizational infrastructure that promotes an entrepreneurial attitude towards the identification and realization of investment opportunities. Apax Partners and the companies in which Apax Funds invest are committed to operating with utmost integrity and professionalism.
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A global management consulting firm and a leading adviser on business strategy. It partners with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges and transform their businesses. The company's customized approach aims to give clients sustainable competitive advantage, more capable organizations and secure lasting results. Founded in 1963, it is a private company with 66 offices in 38 countries.
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Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services and wealth management.
www.citigroup.com
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As one of the world's leading financial services providers, Credit Suisse is committed to delivering its combined financial expertise and experience to corporate, institutional and government clients and high-net-worth individuals around the globe, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse serves its diverse clients through its three divisions: private banking, investment banking and asset management, which cooperate closely to provide holistic financial solutions based on innovative products and specially tailored advice. Credit Suisse's client-focused operations are underpinned by its prudent risk management approach and strict compliance and control culture. As an integrated global bank with an industry-leading capital position, Credit Suisse strives to achieve a superior performance that will ensure the long-term success and prosperity of all its stakeholders. Credit Suisse has a 150-year tradition of banking excellence, and its longstanding principles and values continue to guide the bank as it adapts to the constant changes in today's operating environment.
www.credit-suisse.com
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Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Ernst & Young is committed to achieving potential. It's how it makes a difference - for its people, clients and the wider communities. Ernst & Young is about 130,000 people, united by shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality, working together to help each other develop and succeed personally and professionally. It's about helping clients deliver on their promises to their markets and stakeholders. And it's about making a difference in the communities in which we live and work.
http://www.ey.com/
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GDF SUEZ develops its businesses around a model based on responsible growth to take up today's major energy and environmental challenges: meeting energy needs, ensuring the security of supply, fighting against climate change and maximizing the use of resources. The group provides highly efficient and innovative solutions to individuals, cities and businesses by relying on diversified gas-supply sources, flexible and low-emission power generation as well as unique expertise in four key sectors: liquefied natural gas, energy efficiency services, independent power production and environmental services. GDF SUEZ employs 214,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of 79.9 billion euros in 2009. The group is listed on the Brussels, Luxembourg and Paris stock exchanges and is represented in the main international indices: CAC 40, BEL 20, DJ Stoxx 50, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe, ASPI Eurozone and ECPI Ethical Index EMU.
http://www.gdfsuez.com
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HP is a technology solutions provider working to simplify technology experiences for consumers, businesses and institutions around the world. HP products and solutions span IT infrastructure, software and services, business and home computing and imaging and printing. Global collaboration, coupled with local insight, drives HP to constantly challenge the limits of technology to develop more meaningful solutions. With HP's global reach comes global responsibility. Global citizenship has been ingrained in the company's strategy since it was founded in 1939 and is based on a foundation of strong corporate accountability and governance, a commitment to environmental responsibility and active investment in local communities. HP understands that companies, governments and communities must work together to address common social and environmental challenges head on. HP strives to be a leader in reducing its carbon footprint, limiting waste and recycling responsibly. It takes this role seriously by being an economic, intellectual and social asset to the communities in which it does business.
www.hp.com
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Siemens stands for innovation, excellence and responsibility. Its products, systems and solutions set the standards and answer the toughest questions of our time. Over 400,000 employees prove this every day in nearly 190 countries around the world. With leading positions in the energy, industry and healthcare sectors, Siemens is committed to maintaining strong leadership positions in business and society by delivering sustainable value and by improving quality of life. Its environmental portfolio is the broadest and largest in the world. It has the potential to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 300 million tons by 2011 - an amount equal to the total CO2 emissions of seven major cities, including London, New York and Tokyo. With a corporate culture based on performance and the highest ethical standards, Siemens attracts the world's best and brightest people in all business practices. Siemens believes it is uniquely positioned to be among those few companies built to last for today, tomorrow and far into the future.
www.siemens.com
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UBS is a global firm providing financial services to private, corporate and institutional clients. Its strategy is to focus on international wealth management and the Swiss banking business alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS employs more than 65,000 people around the world. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS operates in over 50 countries and from all major financial centres worldwide.
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VimpelCom is a leading global provider of telecommunications services which operates in 19 countries around the globe. VimpelCom has a simple mission: to foster the freedom and delight of communications anytime and anywhere. The company is a customer-centric, world-class service provider of voice and data services through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Italy and Canada. The company provides services under the "Beeline", "Kyivstar", "djuice", "Wind", "Infostrada" "Mobilink", "Leo", "Banglalink", "Telecel", and "Djezzy" brands. VimpelCom has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: VIP) since 1996 and has a proud history as a global leader in openness, transparency and good corporate governance: factors that are fundamental to its core values as a service provider, partner, employer, and investment.
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Our "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" Partners
The Schwab Foundation is collaborating with partners to select the "Social Entrepreneur of the Year".
Africa
South Africa: Ernst & Young
Asia
India: Jubilant Bhartia Foundation
Indonesia: Ernst & Young
Philippines: Ernst & Young
Australia
: Ernst & Young
Central America
Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic: International Labour Organization (ILO)
Europe
Czech Republic: Ernst & Young
France: Boston Consulting Group
Germany: Boston Consulting Group
and FINANCIAL TIMES DEUTSCHLAND (FTD)
Switzerland: The Boston Consulting Group
, Credit Suisse
, Die Mobiliar
in collaboration with Jobzippers
Middle East
Israel: Globes
South America
Brazil: Folha Da Sao Paolo
Chile: El Mercurio & Revista Sabado
Venezuela: Venezuela Sin Limites
Our Partners
Deutsche Welle TV
The German public broadcaster providing a 24-hour-a-day source of news and information from Germany and Europe. It distributes from Berlin to five continents via a global satellite network and a few thousand cable network operators and TV channels. It also broadcasts to 5,800 hotels around the world and reaches over 210 million households in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, broadcasting in German, English, Spanish and Arabic.
http://www.dw-world.de/
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Foundation seeks to foster economic growth and opportunity globally. The Goldman Sachs Foundation was founded in 1999 with a donation from the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and today supports strategic programs that include 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses.
http://www2.goldmansachs.com/citizenship/foundation/
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