We are pleased to announce Michele Sofisti as our new Head of Global Partnerships. Through his collaboration with corporate leaders, donors, and agencies Michele will help RESOLVE create unique sustainability opportunities.
We are pleased to announce Michele Sofisti as our new Head of Global Partnerships. Through his collaboration with corporate leaders, donors, and agencies Michele will help RESOLVE create unique sustainability opportunities for partners aligned with three current priorities:
Michele joined our Board of Advisors last year and has been leading the development of our work into Europe. Over the past year he has invested time in passionate networking with global brands, conservation groups, health companies, communications experts, and others to create the partnerships essential to addressing our planetary and health emergencies.
Michele has extensive experience working in the watch and jewelry industry and has also worked in the automobile, entertainment, fashion, food, and outdoor industries. An Italian born Swiss citizen and resident, Michele started his professional career as geologist before joining Ferrari as the CEO of the German Subsidiary in Wiesbaden. He later moved to Switzerland to join the watch and microelectronics Group SMH (known today as Swatch Group), becoming President /CEO of Omega first and then of Swatch. As a member of the SMH Group Board he was in charge of development in Greater China for all SMH brands. Between his work with Omega and Swatch, he spent a year in LVMH Group, in Paris, as CEO of Dior watches and Fred Jewellery. He has worked with Gucci watches/jewellery and Girard Perregaux watches (both belonging to the French Group Kering).
Michele is no stranger to building partnerships – he built on the partnership between Omega and NASA and the SWATCH partnership with the Olympics. Michele previously served as a member of the Council of Advisors at National Geographic Society and is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors at The Global Conservation Corps.
We are excited to welcome Michele into this new role as Head of Global Partnerships. He will focus first on our efforts to advance three new global partnership campaigns:
Please reach out to Michele if you are interested in partnering with us to help advance these efforts or if you would like our support to develop targeted, bespoke solutions to sustainability challenges.
Stephen D'Esposito
RESOLVE
June 21, 2021
At RESOLVE, we’re here to tackle the toughest global challenges. The ones nobody else wants to touch. Where people are in conflict and planet problems are stuck. We’re here to unstick them. It’s not easy. It takes grit and ingenuity. And finding and working with the right partners. But we’re not called RESOLVE for nothing.
