Meet the Speakers

Co-Chair, SME World Forum,  Rector at Universidad Nacional de Rafaela; ICSB Knowledge Hub Director, UNRAF, ICSB Past President

Co-Chair, SME World Forum.

Deputy Chair, Department of Management, GW School of Business

President & CEO, International Council for Small Business

Chair of the Board, International Council for Small Business

Immediate Past Chair, International Council for Small Business

Finance, Treasurer, and Secretary, International Council for Small Business

Provost and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Seton Hall University

Managing Editor, JICSB Journal, ICSB Board Member

Professor of Management at the Catholic University of Korea

 

Chairman at Korea Testing Certification (KTC)

 

Vice President of Humane Entrepreneurship at the International Council for Small Business

Meet the UNRAF Organizing Team

Rubén Ascúa is Rector of the National University of Rafaela since 2017, professor at the Rafaela Regional Faculty of UTN and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Kaiserslautern and Karlsruhe. He is a National Public Accountant (UNL-FCE),he has a BA in Economics (UNR-FCEyE) and a PhD in Economics (PWU San Diego).


His fields of research and teaching are: SME and start-up development; theory of the firm;
markets and financing instruments for SMEs; formulation and evaluation of industrial
investment projects; clusters and industrial districts.

National Public Accountant – Mg. in Business Management; Research Fellow; Professor in the subject Marketing and commercialization; Director of the Bachelor in Administration and Information Management; Director of the Master in Business Administration; Responsible for Interinstitutional Relations at UNRaf

Andrea Minetti is in charge of the Research and Technology Transfer Secretary and the Entrepreneurial Development Department at the National University of Rafaela. Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Organization (National Technological University, Argentina). Professor and researcher.

Advanced student with a Bachelor degree in Management of Technology. Intern in the Entrepreneurial Development
Department.

Bachelor’s degree in Administration; Master in
Agribusiness; College Professor: Entrepreneurial Development Department

Meet the ICSB Organizing Team

Chair, GW October Entrepreneurship Conference

 

Deputy Chair, Department of Management, GW School of Business

 

President & CEO, International Council for Small Business

Director of Sponsorship for the International Council for Small Business (ICSB).

GW Presidential Fellow

 

Senior Project Manager, ICSB

 

Director, ICSB Knowledge Hub Program

Senior Project Manager, ICSB