UK: Mowgli recently announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Trustees as part of its on-going efforts to expand its impact on entrepreneurial ecosystems across the Middle East and North Africa region. Mowgli has appointed Martin Bury, Professor David Clutterbuck and Philippe Vogeleer to the Board of Trustees, which is comprised of individuals with entrepreneurial, corporate, investment, legal, trading, energy and diplomatic backgrounds.
Chaired by Tony Bury, Mowgli's Founder, the Board provides governance, visionary and ethical leadership. This steering enables Mowgli to continuously offer inspirational and impactful mentoring experiences, thereby ensuring sustainability of its operations, and realization of its vision, mission and goals.
Martin Bury, Senior Vice President with Capital Guidance in Geneva, Switzerland, has over 30 years of experience in operating businesses and financial investments. In recent years he has focused on the design of governance systems and leadership development. Bury has a strong affinity with the Middle East region and its people that dates back almost 50 years.
Professor David Clutterbuck, of the David Clutterbuck Partnership, has introduced and supported mentoring in Europe since the early 1980s. He has co-founded the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and is a visiting professor at York St. John, Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes universities. Clutterbuck also leads a global network of mentoring experts and trainers, Coaching and Mentoring International, and has authored 60 books.
Philippe Vogeleer, Senior Legal, Regulatory and Strategy Executive at Vodafone in the United Kingdom, has over 20 years of experience across a wide range of advocacy, compliance, governance, operations, legal, regulatory and strategy missions at various multinational corporations in Europe and the Middle East. Vogeleer is also a Non Executive Director Board Member at the Global Poverty Project and has extensive professional experience in the Middle East.
About Mowgli
The Mowgli Foundation is an award winning, UK-headquartered mentoring organisation, established in 2008, which has been pioneering and specializing in entrepreneurial mentoring and embedding leadership development through the philosophy of mentoring within MENA's governments, corporates, and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Mowgli provides mentoring that inspires, connects and guides entrepreneurs and leaders to overcome life's personal and business challenges through:
- Interactive, experiential and transformational 'Kickstart' workshops
- A unique environment for accelerated relationship building, mentor training and matching
- Engagement within a learning and mentoring focused global alumni network
Mowgli has an alumni with over 1650 members and has matched over 700 entrepreneurs with trained mentors in 13 countries; Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen and the UK. In December 2012, Mowgli was recognised with the Mohammed bin Rashid Award for Young Business Leaders Award for the 'Best Mentor Network in the Arab Region'. More information is available on Mowgli's website: www.mowgli.org.uk
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