Christian Ewert
Christian Ewert is an ex-offico member of the Governance Board of the ICTI CARE Foundation as well as President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Council of Toy Industries CARE Foundation since July 2004. The Foundation is the parent of the ICTI CARE Process, the industry’s ethical manufacturing program. In this role, he is responsible for launching and supervising the operation of this program, worldwide, beginning in China.
Prior to accepting his current position, Mr. Ewert was Chief Operating Officer of Zapf Creation, Europe's leading brand manufacturer of play, function and collector dolls and doll accessories, based in Roedental, Germany. His responsibilities included supervision of Zapf Creation’s supply chain management program, which helped to equip him for his position with ICTI.
Earlier experience included appointments at BMW in Munich and at Jacobs AG’s North Sails Lanka operation in Sri Lanka and its Mistral Sports Group in Penzberg, Germany. Mr. Ewert is a 1990 graduate of the University of Munich, where he received an MBA. He lives in Bremen with his family.
Jonas Astrup
Jonas Astrup is Director Operations Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for managing the Asian operations including the auditing process in China. Among other projects, Mr Astrup is supporting the work of the Asia Technical Advisory Board and coordinating the rules and procedures for the ICTI CARE Process.
Prior to joining the ICTI CARE Process, Mr Astrup was Policy Manager at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris where he headed ICC’s portfolio of international business policy in the fields of Commercial Law and Practice, Marketing and Advertising, and Financial Services and Insurance. Mr Astrup is a law school graduate from the University of Copenhagen.
Phone: +852 2111 2460
E-mail: asia@icti-care.org
Germaine Zhang
Germaine Zhang is Assistant Manager of ICTI's Asian office where she oversees factory audits and is responsible for reviewing audit reports with the Technical Advisory Board members, QC audits, and training and pilot projects. Miss Zhang holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and has strong industry and audit experience in both China and Canada. She previously worked for Disney as a Senior Auditor in charge of auditing, audit team management and training. Prior to that, Germaine worked at Jetta Company Ltd. as a Code of Conduct Officer.
Phone: +852-3571-9287
Email: germaine.zhang@icti-care.org
The ICTI CARE Process is governed by the Governance Board of the ICTI CARE Foundation, which is co-chaired by Mr. Alan Hassenfeld and Mme. Maria Livanos Cattaui.
Co-Chair: Alan Hassenfeld
Alan Hassenfeld is Chairman of the Board of Hasbro, Inc., a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment with $2.9 billion in revenues and an impressive blue-chip portfolio of familiar and popular brand names such as PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY and PARKER BROTHERS. Hassenfeld began his career at Hasbro in 1970. He was appointed Vice President of Marketing and Sales in 1978, became the President of the company in 1984, and received the titles of Chairman and CEO in 1989. In May 2003, he passed on the responsibilities of CEO in order to fully concentrate on his position as Chairman. Hassenfeld sits on the board of Hasbro's two philanthropic divisions, the Hasbro Charitable Trust and the Hasbro Children's Foundation. He is the former Chairman of the Right Now! Coalition and Admiral of Rhode Island Commodores (a governor-appointed business advisory group). Hassenfeld is the recipient of the Honorary Doctor of Humanities Award from Bryant College and the Honorary Doctor of Business degree from Roger Williams University and Johnson and Wales University.
Co-Chair: Maria Livanos Cattaui
Maria Livanos Cattaui became the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1996. Since then she has successfully organized the 32nd World Congress in Shanghai, which was attended by business leaders from all over the world. In a meeting at the United Nations in New York, Mrs. Cattaui was instrumental in establishing a close global partnership to secure greater business input into UN activities. Additionally, Mrs. Cattaui supervised preparations for the Geneva Business Dialogue in 1998, designed to build cooperation between business and governments in meeting the challenges of globalization. Before joining ICC, Mrs. Cattaui worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1977 to 1996, where she quickly rose through the organization to become a member of the Executive Board, then Managing Director.
Mrs. Cattaui serves on the boards of the International Youth Foundation, the International Crisis Group, the International Centre for Research on Women, the Council of Women World Leaders, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and several other organizations. She graduated from Harvard University and joined the Board of Trustees of the Institute of International Education in October 1998.
Amir Dossal
Amir Dossal leads the partnership between the United Nations and the UN Foundation – the philanthropic initiative established by Ted Turner’s $1 billion donation to UN causes. He has been behind UNFIP’s most innovative achievements and guided the development of strategic alliances with corporations, foundations and philanthropists for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. These include the Commonwealth Business Council, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Investment, the Coca-Cola Company, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, the European Foundation Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has also spearheaded UN partnerships in new areas such as the technology sector bringing Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard and Vodafone to collaborate with the Organization.
Prior to joining UNFIP in 1999, Amir established the Management Policy Office in 1997 and served as its first Director, in charge of implementing management reform within the UN. From 1993 to 1997, he was Chief of Financial Management in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, overseeing 24 peacekeeping missions with a total annual budget of over $3 billion.
He is a member of a number of Boards and Committees, including the Programme Committee of the European Foundation Centre, the Board of the Universal Education Foundation and ex-officio member of the UNFIP Advisory Board. Amir has written a number of articles and papers on public-private partnerships and regularly undertakes speaking engagements at academic institutions, companies, foundations, and civil society organizations across the globe.
Peter Eio
Peter Eio has more than 35 years experience in Marketing and General Management with leading global consumer brands including Alka-Seltzer, Brillo, Playtex and LEGO. For almost 20 years until his retirement in 2001, he was responsible for building the LEGO business, first in the UK and subsequently in the US. Educated in the UK, Mr. Eio is an alumnus of the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and holds an honorary degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic. For more than ten years he has been a Regent of the University of Hartford and is currently Chairman of the Board. Between 1998 - 2000 he served as Chairman of the Toy Manufacturers of America - the industry association for the $25 billion toy business in the US; he served as chairman of TIA in 1998-1999.
Mr. Eio currently serves on the boards of the American Forum for Global Education (Vice Chair), the Hartford Arts Council, the Connecticut Child Health Development Institute, and the advisory board for FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). Mr. Eio is a Director and Executive Committee member of Reflexite Corporation, a global specialized technology company based in Connecticut. He is also on the boards of Active International, a billion dollar financial services company headquartered in Pearl River, New York, and Heska Inc., a publicly traded veterinary pharmaceutical company. Prior to this, he spent seven years with the LEGO Group as Managing Director of LEGO U.K. Limited.
Gary Hutchens
Gary Hutchens has 40 years experience in the toy industry with Senior Sales and Marketing positions at Ideal Toy Corporation of Australia, Croner- Tyco and Mattel. He was Founder and Managing Director of Irwin Pacific in 1997. In 2002 Irwin Pacific merged with Dorcy Australia to become Dorcy Irwin Pacific and was appointed CEO. Mr. Hutchen retired as CEO in January 2005.
He was elected to the Board of the Australian Toy Association in 1999 and in 2003 he became president of ATA and currently holds this position. Hutchens was Appointed Vice President of ICTI in May 2005.
He is also a Board member of Napier Street Community Aged Care Hostel, and Foundation Patron- Gasworks Community Arts Park
Steve Jesseph
Mr. Jesseph serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Interim Executive Director for the Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP) organization, a nonprofit, factory certification group based in Arlington, VA. He served as the chair of the task force that formed the WRAP program from 1997 until WRAP started operations in 2000. Today, WRAP is the world’s largest factory certification program with participation from 22 international trade and business associations, and has certified factories in over 72 countries.
He recently retired as the Vice President for Compliance and Risk Management at Sara Lee Branded Apparel, an operating group of Chicago-based Sara Lee Corporation. His responsibilities included environment, health & safety, product liability, social compliance, claims, building services and security. Sara Lee Branded Apparel has over 70,000 employees in over 30 countries in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa and Asia, and manufactures brands such as Hanes, Playtex, Champion, Bali, L’eggs, Dim and Just My Size. He previously served as Executive Director for Sara Lee Corporation’s global health and safety group where he had responsibility for 154,000 employees in 55 countries.
Mr. Jesseph also serves as the co-chair of the Social Responsibility Committee of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, is a member of the Governing Board of the International Council of Toy Industries CARE Program, and serves on the Appalachian State University Graduate School Advisory Board. He is the author of numerous professional articles and is a frequent speaker at conferences and conventions. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Otterbein College and his Master’s degree from Xavier (Ohio) University. He is a native of Seattle, Washington, is married with four children and now resides in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Alan Munn
Alan Edward Munn has been President and CEO of Tomy Europe for the past 10 years and retired in March 2005. Prior to joining Tomy, he was Senior V.P with Hasbro International, a position he held following the acquisition of Milton Bradley in 1984. He was Managing Director of Milton Bradley, UK, Holland and Eire from1976-1984. A former management consultant, he was brought into Airfix Industries and then joined them from 1971 until 1976 as Deputy Managing Director.
In 1984, he was elected to the board of the British Toy and Hobby Association (BTHA) and has been a director until retirement in March 2005. He was appointed Chairman from 1990-1992 and President from 1993-1996. Whilst Chairman, he went on to form Toy Industries of Europe (TIE), a Brussels based action group representing the interests of the European toy industry. He was Chairman of TIE from 2000-2002 and President from 2002-2004. Also during his Chairmanship of the BTHA, he formed the Toy Trust, which is the UK toy industries charity for disadvantaged children. During his 10 years as chairman more than £2,000,000 was raised and distributed.
Alan was honoured by the Toy Retailers Association, with a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for services to the toy industry.
Jane Nelson
Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Director, Business Leadership and Strategy, at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF).
During 2001 she worked in the office of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, preparing a report for the United Nations General Assembly on cooperation between the UN and the private sector, which supported the first UN resolution on such cooperation. Prior to joining the IBLF in 1993, Nelson was a Vice President at Citibank and head of marketing for the bank's Worldwide Securities Services business in Asia Pacific.
She has been a lecturer in agricultural economics at the University of Natal in South Africa, and worked in a consultancy capacity for the Business Council for Sustainable Development; FUNDES (Fundación para desarrollo sostenible) in Latin America; and the United Nations Environment Programme. She is the co-author, with Ira Jackson, of a forthcoming book 'Profits with Principles' and other recent publications include: 'Business and the Millennium Development Goals'; 'Building Partnerships'; 'The Business of Peace'; and 'Building Competitiveness and Communities'.
T.S. Wong
Mr. T.S.Wong graduated from Hong Kong Technical College in 1967 and worked in toy industry since graduation in areas such as quality and engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member - Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Mr. Wong is the Honorary President of Hong Kong Toys Council and Toys Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong. He is also the Chairman of Asian Committee of Toy Industries.
Mr. Wong is the Managing Director of Jetta Company Limited, a major OEM toy manufacturer with six factories in China.
Mr. Wong has actively participated in International Council of Toy Industries since 1997. He is the President of International Council of Toy Industries since 2004. He participates in the drafting of the ICTI Code of Business Practices and the device of the CARE PROCESS.
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