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Satish Pai takes over from Sanjiv Mehta as Chairman of the Vikaasa Executive Committee

Xynteo is thrilled to announce the appointment of Satish Pai, Managing Director, Hindalco Industries, as the new Chair of Vikaasa. Mr Pai succeeds previous Chair Sanjiv Mehta, who over the last five years has been instrumental in shaping Vikaasa’s people and planet-positive impact since its inception in 2017.

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Building partnerships to improve plastic waste management in India

The Revaluing Plastics team from 2019’s Leadership Vanguard cohort travelled to Chennai and Bangalore to explore and advance strategic partnerships with two local impact enterprises, Kabadiwalla Connect and Hasiru Dala Innovations.

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Strategy

Driving scale to achieve a new kind of growth at the Xynteo Exchange Marketplace

Given the scale of the challenge and the response needed, business must play a central role in any credible response to challenges such as climate change and social inequality.

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Strategy

Five jobs to unlock Europe's future

Europe is a powerhouse of innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship. And yet we face, like the rest of the world, a set of serious challenges – from the climate crisis and social inequality, to uncertainty around employment and threats to our global competitiveness. It’s time to rise to these challenges. It’s time to unlock a vibrant future for Europe.

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Innovation

Connecting kids for learning through innovation

During last year’s Xynteo Exchange/Norway, Verizon hosted an open innovation Studio that brought together a diverse group of leaders and practitioners to investigate societal problems that connectivity can help address.

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Collaboration

What cane toads can teach businesses about growth

The dreaded cane toad has few friends in my home country, Australia, writes Xynteo MD Chester Cunningham. In 1935, 3000 of them were released in the country’s sugarcane plantations in an effort to eat the beetles that were devouring the valued crop.

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Collaboration

Want to achieve the SDGs? Start by scrubbing your windows.

This need for change is what motivates us at Xynteo to develop a theory of change that is unique. It’s a theory of change built with a view towards creating collaborative action.

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Sustainability

Exploring partnerships for sustainable mobility in Bangalore

Leadership Vanguard’s Low Carbon Cities team travelled to Bangalore to explore partnership opportunities with a local impact enterprise, Vogo, that works to reduce the city’s pollution and congestion challenges.

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Leadership

LV leaders select impact enterprises to accelerate in Seattle

Senior leaders from Mastercard, Energias de Portugal, Baker Hughes, HSBC, Shell, ICRC, Tata and Unilever meet with promising impact enterprises and a global community of experts and leaders.

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Inclusion

Imagine we could eradicate malaria...with paint!

Natsai Mutezo, a womanitarian, afropreneur and a chemical technologist on a mission to transform Africa with a microencapsulation technique to create products designed for use in the home that fight malaria.

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Sustainability

Saving the planet's coral reef ecosystem

On World Oceans Day, we caught up with James Beresford and Mahima Sukhdev on a project aiming to turn the tide on the catastrophic loss of our global coral reef ecosystem.

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Collaboration

Mobilising businesses for impact at scale

Each year at the Xynteo Exchange in Norway, hundreds of business leaders and innovators come together and choose one ground-breaking 'Impact Maker' – a start-up that is doing well by doing good and has great potential for scale.

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Leadership

Exploring solutions for sustainable megacities in Bangalore

Senior leaders from Baker Hughes, Tata, HSBC, Mastercard, Unilever, EDP, ICRC and Shell, the Leadership Vanguard travelled to Bangalore to meet with entrepreneurs innovating for a low carbon and sustainable city.

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