Pierre Ferrari

 

He has 30 years of business experience ranging from large consumer package goods organization such as Coca-Cola (Senior VP, Coca-Cola USA) to smaller businesses. His business career is best characterized as having successfully introduced a wide variety of products, marketing and financial approaches that have changed business practices and created value for shareholders. From 1994 on, he focused his energies on a variety of social issues ranging from International Relief and Development (Special assistant to the President of CARE), support for the arts, Conscientious Commerce, Director of Ben and Jerry's, Director of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (private, non-profit equity fund deploying $200 million,) chair of the Advisory Council for The Emory Ethics Center as well as the environment (chair of Businesses and Environmentalist Allied for Recycling.) He is currently president of "Hot Fudge" venture capital fund, a community development venture capital fund whose purpose is to use venture capital to create jobs and wealth opportunities within distressed communities. He was a director of the boutique investment banking firm, The Nassau Group.

Pierre is also partner in a boutique communication firm, Tula Communications, whose focus is to be agents for ideas. Pierre holds a Masters degree in Economics from The University of Cambridge and a MBA (1976) from Harvard Business School.

He has two sons, reads voraciously, enjoys squash and golf.