Françoise de Valera Rose
CEO
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PACK2EARTH
Françoise is the co-founder and CEO of Pack2Earth, an impact and innovation company which has developed robust biomaterials to replace contaminating, fossil-based plastic. Françoise is a Spanish entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience in entrepreneurship & international corporate positions; she spent 6 years as Chief Operating Officer of the GSMA, where she was responsible for moving the GSMA Mobile World Congress from France to Barcelona, growing it and setting it up to become the world's largest carbon neutral congress in 2014. She has also worked in senior consultancy positions in international companies such as British Telecom and Balfour Beatty. Françoise holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Edinburgh Business School (UK), a BA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada (Spain) and she is an IEMA-certified environmental consultant. In her spare time, Françoise is a trail runner, long-distance hiker, organic farmer and beekeeper.