Alexandre Mars
Founder and CEO, EPIC Foundation
Alexandre Mars is a serial entrepreneur and an engaged philanthropist.
Alexandre's passion for entrepreneurship blossomed early. At 17, he started his first venture: a concert promotion firm. At 21, he founded one of Europe's first web agencies while continuing his studies at the HEC Paris business school and Paris Dauphine University. He ran his own venture fund, Mars Capital, from 1998-2001.
Over the last 15 years, he has successfully launched and sold several companies in Europe and the US across diverse business sectors, including venture capital, the Internet, mobile marketing, social media and advertising. His two latest start-ups, Phonevalley (the world's largest mobile agency) and ScrOOn (a social media management system) were recently sold to Publicis Groupe, and Blackberry, respectively.
Alexandre is passionate about fighting inequality. In 2014, he founded the Epic Foundation to bridge the gap between a new generation of individual and corporate donors and organizations supporting children and youth globally. Epic is developing new tools focused on enhancing how donors select, monitor and experience their impact.
His vision is to disrupt the philanthropic industry by combining passion and expertise with game-changing technology and partnerships. In 2015, Alexandre was named one of New York City's top 20 philanthropists under 40 by the New York Observer.
Fatima Gholem
100 Women in Finance Committee member
Wise and Wired
Fatima Gholem is an entrepreneur in philanthro
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her skills honed working in the financial sector
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After a career in the hedge funds industry, working for BNP Parisbas, Citco Fund Services and a French invesment manager, she decided to launch her own company Wise and Wired, a consulting company selecting high social impact projects for large
donors and sponsors.
She's been a committee member of 100 Women in Finance Paris for more than two years, organizing cultural
and philanthropic events with our partner Frateli for our members.
