Anthony Asael: President, photographer and Co-Founder
Anthony Asael, President, 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. Lately, he has won several International photography prizes. More of his work can be seen online at www.photo-art.be
Regis Verschueren: VP Secretary
Regis Verschueren, from Belgium, has joined our Art in All of Us(SM) team at the beginning of 2006. Regis has a solid academic and professional background in marketing and business management, which will be a huge asset for us. Additionally, his very valuable experience as President of other non-profit organizations will be very helpful for Art in All of Us(SM).
Raphael Guilbert: Director Europe Raphaël was born in France, grew up in several African countries and had the chance for years to travel all around the world. Thanks to some fulfilling personal experiences and a solid academic and professional background in business, he now dedicates himself to preserve and support the richness and potential of human nature. Raphael has joined us last year and is now leading our public relations and the fundraising campaign in our Belgian office. He is today responsible for all our Belgian operations
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
Phil Micali - Founder and CEO bWell International
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.
Vicente Huidobro - President of the Vicente Huidobro Foundation Vicente García-Huidobro Santa Cruz was born in Santiago de Chile in 1942. He started to show interest for visual arts and literature at an early age. During his studies of agronomy and economy, he showed himself very active in arts, participating in paintings exhibitions, French cinema works, and has also represented young Chilean in various world wide conferences. In the 70’s, he worked in the area of sociology, and was involved in politics and government activities. He was also working as a university professor. He has then created, designed and organized various companies, and at the end of the 90’s created the Foundation Huidobro, after the name of his grandfather, the famous Chilean poet of the beginning of the century. In his quality of President of the Foundation, Vicente has impulsed numerous cultural initiatives and art actions, participating also in various national as well as international exhibitions in the United States and in Europe.
Michael Jacobs, Owner Seismo Michael is a talented architect and graphical designer. He is the conceiver of the website photo-art.be. After working several years, as both project-architect and IT Director in a renowned architect company, he started his own architecture firm Seismo, in Antwerp, Belgium 5 years ago with a local partner. His accurate advice and vision will be indispensable.
Stephanie Rabemiafara: VP, Treasurer, photographer and Co-Founder
Stephanie was born in Madagascar in a very multicultural environment: her father is Malagasy (from Madagascar), and her mother is Belgian. She has lived on that island for 18 years, and then has traveled to Belgium, for college studies. Stephanie has always had a passion for photography, and she could rapidly develop her work, and affirm herself in this art, ever challenging her creative eyes in new and different environments. Creating Art in All of Us with Anthony, and working with children worldwide, Stephanie has acquired an extraordinary experience in photography, and has developed a unique style in People Photography.
Phil Micali: Director America
Phil is also 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 additionally in charge of our American operations.
Rochelle Michaels: Director Canada Rochelle joined Art in All of Us in 2006. She is in charge of coordinating volunteer teams locally, organizing fund raising and Pen Pal Projects in Canada.
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.
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).
Hans Verheggen - Manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers 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 specialising 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 programme with Georgetown University's School for Continuing Education. Hans obtained scholarships from the European Commission, the Koning Boudewijnfonds and the Belgian Foreign Trade Board.
Regis Verschueren: VP Secretary
Ruggero Gabbai - Film Producer and Founder of Forma International
Phil Micali - Founder and CEO bWell International
Jerome Waterkeyn