CSOSS 2023
Sessions & Speakers
All sessions will be taking place at Lakeside Auditorium.
Session 1: Entrepreneurship

Dr. Susan Amat

Nicole Agi

Eddy Alvarad
Theme: USCALE Sustainability Cohort
Agro360 is a social impact startup dedicated to creating technological solutions based on exponential technologies to improve agricultural productivity and climate change resilience of small-scale farmers to support the fight against hunger and poverty worldwide in support of the fulfilling of the Sustainable Development Objective (ODS) of the United Nations by reducing the food loss due agricultural diseases.

Martin Beaudoin Nadeau
Viridis Terra specializes in the field of ecosystem restoration and sustainable management to fight the global problem of land degradation. Its main activities focus on the restoration of degraded ecosystems, lands, and soils; and on the formulation, implementation and sustainable management of large-scale reforestation, afforestation and forest and agroforest landscape restoration projects.

Jonathan Defoy
FoodHero is a mobile app that connects grocery stores and consumers to quickly sell surplus food that would otherwise end up in the trash. FoodHero represents a rewarding way for its shoppers to save big on food, while helping supermarkets to massively reduce food waste and improve their bottom line.

Guy Doucet

Marie Helene David

Mashrur Shurid

Matheus Ribaski

Samet Yildirim
Session 2: Health Care

Dr. Karoline Mortensen
Karoline Mortensen is Associate Dean of Business Programs and Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami Herbert Business School. She is Associate Residential Faculty at Stanford Residential College, Associate Director of the Center for Health Management and Policy, and was the founding Director of the Master of Health Administration (MHA) program at the University of Miami. She previously was a member of the faculty in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Policy from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Donna Shalala
University of Miami. She was President of the University of Miami (2001-2015), Chancellor of
the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987-1993), and President of Hunter College of the City
University of New York (1980-1987).

Dr. Chad Perlyn
Specialist, the physician group practice of Nicklaus Children’s Health system, the region’s only
healthcare system exclusively for children.

Matthew Arsenault
Session 3: Finance

Brandon Hass

Don d'Adesky

Bernard Chua

Wendy Goodyear
Wendy is part of the territory sales team at American Century Investments® dedicated to growing and deepening relationships with financial advisors in both southern Florida and Puerto Rico. She has been in the financial industry for over 35 years. Prior to joining American Century Investments in 2008, Wendy worked for Calamos Investments, and John W Henry & Company and Citibank. Wendy is a graduate of The University of Virginia where she was an All-American swimmer. She received her MBA from New York University.

Michael Spaeth

Dan Carreno
Dan (he/him) has 19 years of experience in the finance and sustainable investment industries. Throughout his career he has consulted with countless individuals and institutions to help them meet their financial goals while making a positive impact through their investment decisions. Dan holds an MS in Environmental Policy and Management and is a Certified Investment Management Analyst®.

Richard Fontes
Richard A. Fontes is an ESG Product Manager at State Street who conceptualizes and implements integrations of ESG data and frameworks into the various technology platforms and investment services that State Street offers to the world’s leading asset owners and asset managers.
12 - 1 PM | Session 4
Networking Lunch
Session 5: The CSO Summit

Daniel Hicks
As a member of the economics faculty at the Miami Herbert Business School, Daniel D. Hicks specializes in sustainable business and the media sector; designs & manages workforce development initiatives through applied career experience projects, and coordinates the undergraduate minor in sustainable business. He organizes the annual CSO Summit & Symposium (CSOSS) conference.

Noel Anderson

Nancy Mahon

Susan Uthayakumar

Erin Meezan

Erin Black
Erin Black is Vice President, Risk Management at CocaCola Beverages Florida. She leads the company’s strategy and execution of Risk Management and Sustainability with proven enterprise-wide strategy creation. Ms. Black has extensive risk management, process improvement, compliance and process modeling and analyst experience, having formerly served as Coca-Cola Refreshments’ Vice President of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability. Prior to this, Ms. Black served as Senior Global Technical Director of Environmental and Safety at Kellogg Company. Ms. Black has also served as Director of Environmental, Health and Safety for Sara Lee as well as Burns Philip, Inc. She holds a MS from Drake University and undergraduate degrees from Keene State College.

Amy Quintana Avalos
Session 6: Keynote Speaker

Noah Williams

Clyde Prestowitz
Session 7: Blue Economy

Dr. David Kelly

Dr. Daniel Benetti

Dr. Jennifer Jacquet
Jennifer Jacquet is a visiting professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami, with an understanding of ESG as well as public health and animal-related issues in aquaculture systems.

Dr. David Letson
David Letson is a professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami, where he has worked since 1995. His research focuses on the economics of extreme weather and climate variations. He is interested in the value of predictions from the geosciences and in how those predictions are interpreted and used. Letson obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and has over 40 publications to his credit. Specialties: Economics of climate variations and extreme weather.

Damien Claire
Damien Claire is the Group’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Prior to joining Atlantic Sapphire, Mr. Claire was the President of Platina Seafood, Inc. Mr. Claire’s experience includes positions in several industries around the world. From 2009 to 2014, he served as Sales/Analyst for South Pacific Specialties in Miami. From 2004 to 2008 he also acted as Vice President of Business Development for Global Outsourcing in Chile. Damien earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from Lander University in South Carolina.

Jorge Alarcon

Gabriel Diaz
Gabriel Diaz has 18 years of experience in financial services. He is a Senior VIce President at Everest Capital Partners serving high net worth individuals and corporations. He is also an early investor and board member of Open Blue Sea Farms. He serves as board member of Latin America and Caribbean Initiatives (LACI) at Miami Herbert, Real Estate Development in Spain and Panama, and other Financial Institutions.
Session 8: Alumni Reunion & Career Reception
Chris Berger
Previously, Chris was an Advisory Partner with KPMG for 26+ years where he led KPMG’s Travel, Leisure & Hospitality segment out of their Charlotte, NC office. Mr. Berger joined RCG in January 2020 as the Chief Audit and Risk Officer for Royal Caribbean Group, where he grew his passion for developing leaders and transitioned into his present role. Chris is a speaker and purpose driven leader who enjoys collaborating with professionals to challenge, motivate and inspire them to achieve greater fulfillment and joy in their lives.