Brent Wilkinson
Chairman

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Luc Cardyn
Member of the Board

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Pascal Gauthier
Member of the board

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In late 2011, Pascal Gauthier founded an advisory and private equity activity to help corporations and organisations develop strategies and projects to address environmental needs and protection, and to face the future impact of energy cost increases and raw material rarefactions, as well as to materialise the benefit of resource recovery and renewable energies. He is also a direct capital investor in businesses such as plastics recycling, biomass preparation, water treatment, solid waste management, development of new environmental technologies.

Pascal is an independent member of various Board of Directors, a senior advisor to many operators in the environmental industry and the founder of Waste Force, an NGO addressing toxic waste pollution in emerging countries, in partnership with UNO.

Saskia Ozinga

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Stefan Nalletamb
Board Member

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Stefan Nalletamby is an international banking and finance professional with more than 35 years of experience across Europe, Asia and Africa.

He spent much of his career at the African Development Bank, where he held several senior leadership positions, including Director of the Financial Sector Development Department and Director of the Treasury Department. His work has covered financial sector development, capital markets, financial inclusion and trade finance, with a focus on strengthening financial systems and mobilising investment across Africa.

Stefan currently serves on several boards and continues to contribute his experience in finance, governance and international development.

Catharina Plummer
Director, Finance, HR & Legal

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Catharina has been with Earthworm Foundation since 2008 and has 25 years’ experience working in the financial sector. Cat has held various management positions at some of the world’s leading companies. Her experience includes 10 years at a Swedish bank in New York, and time in advertising agencies in Paris and Brussels where she focused on managing company budgets.  
 
After receiving an athletic scholarship for Florida international University in Miami, she achieved a BA major in Accounting. Cat is a keen runner, and finished within the top 100 women in the 1992 New York City Marathon. Very much multilingual, Cat speaks Swedish, English, French and Dutch.

Krisztina Bende
Board Member

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Krisztina Bende started her career at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland, working on international environmental issues. After having worked at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, she joined the Swiss Federal Department of Economy to work on international agriculture issues. She was part of the Swiss delegation to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and agriculture negotiator for Switzerland. When she took over the role of Head of Unit, in 2007, she oversaw negotiations with the European Union and third countries for agriculture and food. She negotiated agreements with Indonesia, Japan, the MERCOSUR countries, and the UK, among others. Krisztina works for the European Free Trade Association in Geneva as Director of Trade Relations. She is passionate about sustainable development, and geopolitical issues linked to agriculture production and nutrition. Krisztina holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Berne and an MBA from the Universities of Brown, USA and IE, Spain.

Julie Wynne
Member of the Board

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ulie Wynne is a highly regarded social impact lawyer with expertise in philanthropy, charity law and social entrepreneurship. As a partner at MLL, a Swiss business law firm, she advises individuals, non-profit organisations, and businesses aiming to create social and environmental impact. Julie (TEP) also advises nonprofit and cultural institutions on charity law, governance, legacies, fundraising, and sponsorship.

She is deeply involved in promoting philanthropy and using business as a force for good. She sits amongst others on the boards of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Movement Health and Earthworm Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Geneva Centre for Business and Human Rights and of Art for Action.

Julio J. Copo Terrés
Member of the Board

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Julio is an attorney with more than fifteen years of experience in Regulatory Law, Health and Life Sciences Law, Compliance and Anti-Corruption law, and Philanthropy. He graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana, holds a Master's in Administrative Law fromUniversidad Panamericana, and has a Master's in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame.

In the professional field, Julio works as Counsel at Arochi & Lindner. In the past he worked as Junior Counsel at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica; and as Senior Associate at Basham, Ringe y Correa where he had a foreign professional exchange with the firm FRORIEP in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a full member of the International Bar Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers, the Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados, where he heads the Administrative Law Commission and an active member of the Mexican Bar Association, where he was founding Coordinator of the Health Commission.

Since 2021, Chambers & Partners has consistently ranked him as a leading lawyer for "Life Sciences" in LatinAmerica. In 2022, they also recognised him as a "Thought leader" in the field.