Founder & CEOWarc Africa
Emiliano was born in Buenos Aires, on May 28th 1984. He is an entrepreneur, business leader and investor in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. As Founder & CEO of Warc Africa, he sits at the intersection of fighting hunger and leveraging capital markets for conscious economic growth, making regenerative agriculture in Africa the norm.
Previously, Emiliano was a corporate manager at Henkel AG’s headquarters in Dusseldorf, a DAX 30 multinational with 55,000 employees. At 24, he was ranked as Top Manager (95 percentile) for his informal leadership abilities, co-managing a team of 15 globally and a procurement budget of Eur 500M. Emiliano and his team excelled at steering the global financial crisis which resulted in him winning the Purchasing Excellence Award twice in three years.
He studied Business Economics in Argentina’s Universidad di Tella, completed a master’s in international management in Barcelona’s ESADE, one-year long SEED Entrepreneurship Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business and became a CFA Charterholder in 2016. He is an international public speaker, having delivered talks in Georgetown, UC Berkley, Columbia, SoCap, TEDx, Borlaug Dialogue, among others. He is frequently advising governments and other organizations such as EU, USAID, FCDO (former DFID) among others.
Emiliano is an avid traveler and speaks five languages fluently. He visited over 75 countries and his trips shaped his desire to dedicate his life to the advancement of social and environmental goals.