Anthony Asael is the founder and executive director of AiA. Having travelled throughout the world and met different cultures, Anthony aims at building more tolerance through ARTistic communication. He wants AiA to be the international platform of art exchanges among children from all the countries of the world. A graduate of Solvay Business School in Belgium, he held management positions at various IT and telecommunication companies. He’s been dedicating 100% of his time to the nonprofit sector since 2005, when he co-founded AiA with his partner Stéphanie Rabemiafara. His famous expositions of “Colors and Scents” and the “UN Millennium Goals for Development through the eyes of the children” and his vivid work have been exhibited on several continents. More of his work can be seen online at www.anthonyasael.com
Regis Verschueren: VP Secretary
Regis Verschueren, from Belgium, has joined our Art in All of Us team at the beginning of 2006. Regis has a solid academic and professional background in marketing and business management, which are invaluable assets for AiA. Additionally, his very valuable experience as President of other non-profit organizations is also key to Art in All of Us’ daily management. He serves today as Secretary of our Board.
Sybille Smets – Director Belgium Bio coming soon
B. Board of Advisers
Ruggero Gabbai - Film Producer and Founder of Forma International Born in Belgium in 1964, he studied one year at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. then graduated from Rochester institute of technology with a B.F.A. in photography. At Columbia University, he obtained his Master Degree in Film-Directing and had the privilege to study and collaborate with well known directors such as Milos Forman, Emir Kusturica, Paul Shraderer and Paul Morrissey. He is the founder of Forma International a production house dedicated to cinematographic and documentary projects. In 1997, his film MEMORIA - on the last Italian Jewish survivors from Aushwitz - was selected at the Berlin film festival and received numerous awards around the world. Now he is directing the feature films Dancing Arabs a compelling story taken by the Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua’s first novel. www.formainternational.it
Lisa Tucci : Director Europe American Lisa R. Tucci has been living in Italy for over 15 years. For ten of those years, she’s been producing audioguides for museums, art cities, palaces and churches throughout the country. She is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of her own Company, Art&Media Communications, producing the Artineraries line of downloadable audio tours for iPods. She met Anthony & Stephanie while visiting Tel Aviv with Phil, and, after falling in love with their work, is trying to promote their mission by organizing shows in Italy. She lives with the love of her life, her little dog Trevor.
Jerome Waterkeyn Jerome from Belgium has joined AiA at the end of 2006 when the idea to launch the first AiA event in Belgium germinated. Jerome leaded the organization of AiA Event of the year with brilliance and is set also for 2008. Jerome has a degree in commercial engineering from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve. He works as an audit manager within PwC. Travels' lover, Jerome has crossed Southern Africa, South East Asia and South America. Jerome also decided to lead our board of advisers who will provide guidance to the Board of Directors in the development of Art in All of Us programs and in the follow-up of our mission.
Stephanie Rabemiafara: VP, Treasurer, photographer and Co-Founder
Stephanie Rabemiafara is the founder, treasurer and Program Officer of AiA. She was born in a Madagascar, in a binational family, and has shown interest in cultural diversity and exchanges since her early age. She has lived in Madagascar, Belgium, Germany, and Chile, impregnating herself of the local customs and cultures. Convinced that all the children should also be confronted to cultural diversity in order to raise interest and tolerance for foreign cultures and people, she founded AiA with Anthony Asael, giving children voices and the opportunity to know each other better. Rich of her personal values, her experience in different countries, and her professional work as an auditor for different auditing companies (PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte), she is dedicating her full time to AiA. Her work is focused on the programs implementation, as well as on the accounting.
Phil Micali: Director America
Philip Micali is founder and principal of bWell International, Inc. He is a pioneer in the area of introducing consumerism to healthcare and wellness through his managed care, behavioral health/EAP, disease management, and consumer driven health plan development and management experiences in the last 22 years. He is a visiting professor at the Masters in International Health Management, Economics and Policy at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and is an active advisory board member of the New York Business Group on Health, as well as the Journal of Disease Management and Health Outcomes. Phil was a member of our board of advisers since the creation of Art in All of Us(SM). Getting very keen on the further development of Art in All of Us(SM), he is now in charge of our American operations.
Hans Verheggen – treasurer Mr Hans Verheggen is a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Brussels, Belgium. He has more than eight years experience in management consulting with a focus on project management, financial accounting and cost controlling. Before starting work as a management consultant, Hans obtained a master's degree from the University of Antwerp specializing in international economic and diplomatic relations. As part of his degree, he studied economics and finance at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne for one year and participated in an exchange program with Georgetown University's School for Continuing Education. Hans obtained scholarships from the European Commission, the Koning Boudewijnfonds and the Belgian Foreign Trade Board.
Roberto Edwards - Photographer and President of the Fundación América The Chilean photographer Roberto Edwards was born in 1937, and after taking his first images at the age of 14 his vocation was established. After finalizing his studies of architecture, economy and cinema, at the age of 30 years, he concretized two projects that will mean an overturn in the editorial world in Chile: the publication of the magazine Paula, and the installation of revolving news in four colors in Editorial Lord Cochrane. From their first issue and for more than three decades, Roberto Edwards was in charge of the fashion photography in Paula. In 1976, he exposes at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago, one of his more emblematic works: Los Oficios. He registers a series of characteristic activities of the Chilean popular identity, saving them of their extinction in the fragile collective memory. The central theme of Roberto Edwards consolidates in the human being, that will always remain as main character of all its work. In this way, he conceives in 1981 one of the most ambitious projects in the cultural history of his country: Painted Bodies. Today, Roberto concentrates his energy through his Foundation America on a selected amount of projects that always include the social integration of the people and the human beings itself.
Egidio Crotti - UNICEF Representative Southern Cone Mr Crotti joined UNICEF back in 1985 as Assistant Program Officer in Bamako, Mali. He became Program Office in 1987, a position which he held until his transfer to UNICEF Peru in 1991, as Program Coordinator. He was responsible for the coordination, implementation and management of the UNICEF country program of cooperation to improve the status of women and children in Peru. In 1994, he served also as Coordinator of UNICEF’s Rwanda emergency operation in Goma, DRC. Afterwards, Mr Crotti served as UNICEF Representative in Tunisia from 1997-2002. He was responsible for policy development, implementation and management of country programs, human and financial resources management and communication. Today, Egidio Crotti assumes from Santiago de Chile the Representation of the UNICEF for the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay).
Liliane Petty Bio coming soon.
Sharad Sapra, Communication Director, New York, UNICEF Bio coming soon.
Regis Verschueren: VP Secretary
Sybille Smets – Director Belgium
Ruggero Gabbai - Film Producer and Founder of Forma International
Jerome Waterkeyn
