JACK SOIFER
S H O R T R E S U M É
Email: jackfer@sapo.pt Tel: (351) 289.513388; Skype : jackfer1
Jack is a bras
o-swede educated in Stockholm and Stanford. He worked with training
in Sweden and for UNESCO, IDB, WB and consulting companies in the Philippines, China,
Angola, USA, Portugal, and the UK. He has been CEO for SWEDUC and developed 297 enterprises
and analysed another 80 in 38 sectors. He was a graduate professor in IT at the
Catholic University in Rio.
He has published 35 papers and books in 4 languages. A Grande Pequena Empresa, The Great SME and Empreender Turismo e Ecoturismo, Business in Ecotourism, both by Quality Mark, Brazil, are well-known. Empreender Turismo de Natureza, with foreword by the President of WTTC, and Entrepreneuring Sustainable Tourism, Lisbon, 2008, foreword by ex-World President of Rotary, have reached 11 countries.
Jack has been a managing director of four firms and member of the board of directors of nine others in five countries. He’s an active Rotarian and member of three chambers of commerce. He has been a member of the Presidential Council of President Lula in Brazil. See www.jacksoifer.org
He writes weekly about innovation and exports in OJE, Portugal’s largest business paper, monthly in BARLAVENTO, in TRIBUNA DOURO, and in PUBLITURIS. He is the editor of newsletters Skålgarve, and of Swedutech. Please read more in www.google.com.
In 2007 he was one of three judges in the International Ecotourism Awards, with representatives of UNWTO & UNEP; judge again in 2008 and 2009. Judge also in the International Film Tourism Awards 2009 and scheduled for 2010. In recent years he has been a speaker at associations and chambers of commerce in Brazil, Portugal, France and Sweden.
Businesses served by his consultancy include hotels and lodges, restaurants, fashion stores, transport, printing, shipbuilding, rubber/plastic, and furniture.
His new book, COMO SAIR DA CRISE A, has forewords by Presidential Councillor Miguel Anacoreta and by President of Fundação Gulbenkian, Rui Vilar. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’ books have summaries in English. Also bi-lingual THE FUTURE OF TOURISM is in larger bookstores.