Rogério Oliveira

Rogerio Oliveira is a serial social entrepreneur who founded in 2013 the accelerator and social business investment fund Yunus Social Business in Brazil in partnership with Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus. After leading the acceleration of more than 40 social businesses and leading the first investments in that field in Brazil, he develop in 2016 the concept of a Corporate Action Tank, a social innovation program for big corporates to help them in creating their own Social Businesses. In 2016 he directly contributed to create the AMA Water launched in 2017 by Ambev as a social business and help to engage other companies as Bank of America, Randstad, Johnson & Johnson, Nestle and many others in developing their own social ventures. Currently Rogério is part of the Yunus Social Business Global team, leading social innovation initiatives with different corporates in different countries, mentoring corporate intrapreneurs and social impact entrepreneurs throughout global acceleration programs in India, Germany, South Africa, USA in fields as energy, health, mobility, water, sanitation and food

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