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Board of Governors

José Manuel "Pepe" del Río Zamacona

President

BOG Term: 2012-2021
President Term: 2018 – 2019
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M. Shanmugam

President Elect

BOG Term: 2016 – 2019
President Elect Term: 2017 – 2019
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Dr. Luis Gaviria

Vice President

BOG Term: 2016-2020
Vice President Term: 2019-2020
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Anjali Nair

2nd Vice President

BOG Term: 2018-2021
2nd Vice President Term: 2019-2021
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Martha Pasternack, MMC

Secretary

BOG Term: 2016-2019
Secretary Term: 2016-2019
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Péter Rusznák

Treasurer

BOG Term: 2012-2018
Treasurer Term: 2017-2018
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Philip Beddows

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2014 – 2020
BOG Member Term: 2017 – 2020
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Leanne Chan

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2016-2019
BOG Member Term: 2016-2019
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Fernando Celis

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2018-2021
BOG Member Term: 2018-2021
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Monica Siu

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2019 – 2021
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Terry Lipovski

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2019 – 2022
BOG Member Term: 2019 – 2022
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Carla Cofiño

BOG Member

BOG Term: 2019 – 2022
BOG Member Term: 2019 – 2022
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IAC® Staff

Diana McFarlane

Virtual Assistant

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Becky Fyke

Bookkeeping

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Wendy Rumrill

Recording Secretary

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Juan "Charlie" Medina

Website Content

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Philip is a founding partner of the The Silk Road Partnership, which provides a range of coaching, mentoring, talent and leadership consulting services for senior individuals. It operates from London to Dubai & The Gulf, through India, SE Asia, Hong Kong and mainland China.

He has been working in the coaching and career development arena for over 23 years and was fortunate to have been trained by one of the pre-eminent Inner Game coaches. Whilst developing his coaching and mentoring practice, Philip has acquired considerable commercial insights from co-founding and owning, building, buying out and selling a number of businesses, including co-founding and leading the coaching practice of a renowned UK executive search firm.

Philip works with senior and emerging leaders, typically at critical transition points in their development and/or at key moments of commercial change in their organization. His sector experience is broad, but with a high level of expertise in financial and professional services, working in the heart of the City of London’s globally connected marketplace.

He has written in business, financial and HR media on topics ranging from leadership, succession, coaching & mentoring, careers, non-executive directorships & portfolio life, the economy and corporate purpose. He is interested in other cultures and has recently written a chapter on Coaching & Mentoring Across Cultures in a book published in association with the International Bar Association (IBA).

In addition to being a member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching (IAC), Philip is also a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching Professional Association (a Harvard Medical School affiliate), a Non-executive Director of the Institute of Mentoring and a Member & certified Senior Practitioner of European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC). He trained at The School of Coaching (Europe’s first coach training organization) and has a Certificate of Professional Development in Executive Coaching from The University of Strathclyde. He is also an accredited user of Harrison Assessments.

He was educated at the University of Reading where he gained a BA(Hons) in History, studied French at Université Stendhal (Grenoble 3) and is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society. He has a richly varied set of life experiences and has held leadership positions in the military, political, educational and charitable spheres.

Carla Cofiño is a Personal and Team Coach, she defines herself as a confidence and awareness coach for change and that is how her clients and students identify her. She is CEO, together with her husband Tomas Lozada, of the BCF Group, learning platform whose mission is to train leaders and empower teams with Coaching tools. They have trained about 300 Coaches since 2014 with their Training Program in Life & Sport Coaching and providing training and support to teams, project leaders and entrepreneurs in Venezuela, Panama and Chile in face-to-face format and in different Spanish-speaking countries in an online format.

From the age of 21, she has trained people, initially, in academic and technical areas such as economics and financial risk, and later in the management of organizational change, the development of communication skills, speaking, impact presentations and the strengthening of relationships on their teams.

Certified Coach by the International Coaching Community led by Joseph O’Connor (ICC #8006). Founding Coach of the Venezuela Chapter and the Panama Chapter of the International Association of Coaching. IAC Member #169756 with the IAC Masteries Practitioner Designation. Coach in training of the Empowerment Coaching Program of del Río Training.

As a Personal and Team Coach, Carla has specialized in working with beliefs, which has earned her the recognition of clients and colleagues for her Power Class Program “The World of Beliefs”, where she delivers her methods and tools to transform behaviors and results on a personal and professional level.

Economist (UCV University degree) with a Master in Financial Management (ISEAD & Westfield Business School, Spain) and a Teaching Diploma (UCV & UNEFA, Venezuela). Financial Risk Specialist with extensive experience in banking, reaching important positions at a young age. Researcher and Instructional Designer with experience in the design of models and methodologies.

Lover of physical activity, with training in different disciplines: CofiDance™ Free Dance, TRX® Suspension Training, Pilates and Functional Training System (FTS)®. Mother of a beautiful son and two pets (a furry cat and loving Pitbull), passionate about human potential and eternal apprentice with an extended family in the world.

Carla’s Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bcfgroupoficial/

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