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Marc Castagnet, permanent Hong Kong resident, Director of ICS, holds MBA degrees from both France and USA. After a career in banking in New York and starting his business in China in 1989, he started SgT Group in 1990’s in Hong Kong and sold it in 2009. SgT has been a pioneer into offering quality control and outsourcing supply chain services in the garment and fabric industry. Marc holds multiple directorships or board seats in entrepreneurial companies in Asia, Europe, and USA. He lives in Hong Kong. ICS services is an investment vehicle company who help serve companies mainly between Europe, Asia, Africa and USA in Real Estate (Hospitality & development), Quality Assurance, Education, wine Services, agricultural organic products. Marc spends a fair amount of his time on Social Enterprise issues or organizations and strongly believes that overall social and environmental issues can only be solved through sustainable and hybrid systems and organizations within an entrepreneurial frame work.
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He has been a director and shareholder of Suntransfer (solar energy production and distribution for BOP). He is an advisor to one Earth design (Solar energy cooking & purification) and board advisor to Genashtim (teaching languages over the internet using blind and mobility reduced instructors) On the Educational Field, He is a board member of the largest French group of mainly non-profit French universities specialized in professional academic studies, continuous training and education for jobs for the BOP. He helps them more specifically on strategic, governance and international issues.(including being the representative board member of their university in Senegal). He is a board member of the English School Foundation (ESF) in Hong Kong (over 17.000 students-20 schools). Marc has also invested into organic food in Thailand and he joined its partners into Hill Tribe Organic (HTO) as shareholder and board member, HTO is producing and distributing organic egg in order to triple the income of Hill tribes in Northen Thailand. Marc holds several official positions at different trade, community and business organizations. Namely, he is a Member of YPO Gold (Young President Organization) and he is the Chair of the North Asia Region. He is panellist at Ashoka Globalizer event and different conferences related to social enterprise and supply chain.
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