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Shanthi Flynn is the Chief Human Resources Officer and member of the EC since March 2016. She is a British national.
Shanthi Flynn joined the Adecco Group as Chief Human Resources Officer in March 2016.
She graduated as a Bachelor of Science with joint honours in Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Manchester in 1986. She is a graduate of the institute of Personnel Development (IPD), UK.
Shanthi Flynn built the foundation of her HR career at Ford Motor Company in the UK between 1986 and 1995. She joined the Boots Company in 1995 where she held positions of increasing responsibility becoming Director of HR for all of Boots International retail and FMCG healthcare businesses in 2000. In 2003, she joined the AS Watson Group, Hong Kong and was promoted to Group International HR Director. In 2006 she founded her own consulting firm, S Flynn Consulting. In 2010, Shanthi Flynn joined Walmart in Asia and became Senior Vice President Human Resources for the Asia region leading the HR team for Walmart’s retail businesses in China, Japan and India. In 2015 she returned to her own Leadership consulting practice until joining Adecco.
Shanthi Flynn is a Board mentor for Criticaleye, UK and Asia and serves on the council of King George V school, Hong Kong.
Florin Salvisberg was an under-23 European
Champion in 2013, Swiss Vice-Champion in 2016,
and trains up to 30 hours a week. Inspired to
focus on triathlon at the age of ten, when
cheering on his swimming teacher at an Ironman
contest, Florin’s open mind has also helped him
cope with adversity and plan for the future.
When injury struck and impacted his sports
performance during 2014 and 2015, he fully
concentrated on studying for a Bachelor degree
which he finished in the fall of 2016.
Following a suggestion by through a presentation by the Swiss Olympic team, he contacted the ACP
manager of the Swiss ACP to get support in looking for an internship. The opportunity arose to join the
Adecco Group in support of the global employee sports programme Win4Youth.
Through the Athlete Career Programme, he was able to secure an internship opportunity with The
Adecco Group’s Win4Youth team which provides him with another perspective on his future vision,
enabling him to see the working world at the same time as pursuing his sports career. Having solved
some health problems, Florin has his aim now set for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020.
Armin Kohli, a double below-knee amputee,
formalized his racing career by qualifying for
the Sydney Paralympics in 2000. His specialty
is long-distance and ultra-distance touring.
Between 2001 and 2003, he cycled hundreds
of kilometers in races against able-bodied
cyclists.
His passion for cycling, active campaigning
against landmines, editing, and journalism led
him to undertake further fundraising and
awareness-raising tours.
In 2004, he raced the Tour d’Afrique, which involved cycling 11,720 kilometers in 99 days. He came third
in that tour against able-bodied cyclists. Then came three successive landmine awareness-raising tours:
Geneva-Zagreb, 2005; Tour de Suisse, 2006 and Geneva-Dead Sea, 2007, followed by Pacemakers Ride
Against Nuclear Weapons in 2008. Along the way, he connected with many cyclists (both able-bodied
and disabled), and reports in the media of his tours have made headline news in countries affected by
landmine issues.
He has been working with the Swiss foundation Geneva Call since 2007 as Programme Manager Near and Middle East. Geneva Call is a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting respect by armed non-State actors for international humanitarian norms in armed conflict, in particular those related to the protection of civilians. Geneva Call is focusing its efforts on banning the use of anti-personnel mines, protecting children from the effects of armed conflict, prohibiting sexual violence in armed conflict and working towards the elimination of gender discrimination.
Read more on: www.tourdarmin.ch
Switzerland’s Chantal Cavin is ready to compete at IRONMAN Switzerland in Zurich for the second time after a great debut race in 2013. For more than a decade she has been one of the fastest blind swimmers in the world, competing in three Paralympics before she became an IRONMAN. Cavin set numerous world records in the pool and celebrated several world championship titles, too. Now the 36-year-old has another goal: She wants to improve on her 12:06L58 finish at last year’s race.
The amiable woman from Bern, the Swiss capital, lost her eyesight in a sports injury at 14. Despite the accident she became a crawl and butterfly specialist. Although the professional swimmer went into three consecutive Paralympics as a favorite, she missed out on a medal. Both in Athens (2004) and in Beijing (2008) she finished fourth twice and took seventh in the 400 meters free final in London 2012, her last competition as a swimmer.
Cavin competed in Zurich as an age group athlete and finished with some impressive splits: a 1:18:45
swim, 5:34:41 bike and a 5:06:13 run. Cavin isn’t the only visually impaired participant racing at IRONMAN Switzerland.
Silvan Lutz, a twenty seven year old Swiss track and field
elite athlete has reached already several Swiss
Championship titles over the 400m distance and also
participated in two European Athletics Championships as
part of the Swiss 4x400m relay team.
After finishing a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration in 2016, he was searching for a new job which gave me the flexibility to combine sport with work and experience the business world. He found out about the Athlete Career Programme (ACP) for Swiss elite athletes and found an internship at The Adecco Group in Zurich with the support of the Adecco Switzerland ACP manager. Working now in a part time position for the Global ACP team, supporting them in several projects such as the 8th IOC ACP Forum 2017 in Beijing. Whilst he missed actively participating in the Forum, he qualified for the European Athletics Team Championships in Vaasa, Finland, where he represented Switzerland in the 400m and the 4x400m relay. The Swiss athletics team for the first time reached a third place and ascended to the Super League being among the 12 best nations in Europe.
Ellen Sprunger is a member of the Swiss 4 x 100 m relay team and a heptathlete. She qualified for the Olympiad in Rio 2016 and had competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's heptathlon event where she finished in 18th place. Despite having two operations last summer, she only just failed to qualify for the heptathlon, an achievement that is testimony to her strong will and rigorous training.
Under the Swiss Olympic Athlete Career Programme (ACP), Ellen Sprunger procured an internship through Swiss Olympic Athlete Career Programme, in a crowdfunding platform for sports projects ‘I believe in you’ where she also takes the role of ambassador. After the internship, she was taken on in a part-time position at the crowdfunding platform.
Simon Vögeli, a left hand handicapped track and field
athlete started sprinting in 2007. In his first year, he
competed the 100 and 200 meters.
After a good season, he went on training harder to
get better. In 2008 he ran the 100 meters under 12
seconds and the 200 meters under 24 seconds. Later
in 2008, he qualified for the Summer Paralympic
Games in Beijing. Unfortunately, he got banned from
competing at the Paralympics.
For the past ten years now, he has been competing in
track and field as well as sprint events. Simon is still
motivated and shares the same passion as he did
when starting athletics. Despite the disappointment
in Beijing, he never gave up and still believes that
nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself.
He is a PluSport ambassador since 2016 with the
main objective to make PluSport more popular in
Switzerland.
Nicolas is a 36-year-old wheelchair basketball addict
living in Aarau. He is very passionate about sports
and became a professional athlete, and now a
coach. He is also responsible for sports marketing at
Swiss Wheelchair Sports for the Swiss National Team
in wheelchair basketball.
He studied media and communication and worked
for the mayor of Zurich during his studies for an ERP
project and the UEFA EURO 2008 Host City Zurich.
This was the beginning of his involvement in sports
marketing.
After his professional career as wheelchair
basketball player for Lahn-Dill Germany in 2007 and
2008 and Santo Stefano Italy in 2009 and 2010, he
started working for PluSport and became the Sports
Manager for the Swiss Paraplegics Association in
2014.
He believes in changing people’s mindsets by
providing the possibility to experience inclusive
sports. Nicolas does a lot of workshops in this area and for most able-bodied people it is a life changing
experience, which breaks down barriers.
He will be one of the coaches of the wheelchair basketball workshop and will also serve as a guide
leading interested people through the fascinating Nottwil Paraplegics Centre.
Jess Markt, a US wheelchair basketball coach spent the last seven years inspiring and providing opportunities for communities within war-torn countries to experience the positive impact team sports has. Markt broke his back in a car accident during the summer of 1996 after his first year at the University of Oregon. Having been an athlete, playing basketball as well as competing on the University athletics team as a high jumper, wheelchair basketball became very important to him. In 2000, Jess was first introduced to wheelchair basketball when he attended a training session for the National Wheelchair Basketball Association team, the Portland Wheelblazers. He immediately fell in love with the game and has been playing and coaching ever since. In 2009 he received a request to coach a team in Afghanistan which gave him an opportunity to inspire others.
provide physical rehabilitation services including India, Palestine, Cambodia and South Sudan, kick starting similar programs for wheelchair basketball. As they work to grow the programs, they also remain vigilant for new opportunities to bring wheelchair basketball and other adaptive sport athletes in countries dealing with conflict and war.
Rodrigo Garza is a three-time Olympian
and Silver Olympic medallist from the 2008
Beijing Olympic Games with the Spanish
National Field Hockey team. He played
professionally for 15 years and studied a
Master’s degree in Business
Administration and an Executive MBA.
After his hockey career, he worked for
several companies as Marketing and
Sponsorship’s Manager until he joined the
Athlete Career Programme to support the
IOC ACP Outreach team for one year as an
intern. Thereafter, he was hired by The
Adecco Group in Zurich to work as Professional Staffing brands manager as well as a responsible for
global Sponsoring.
Desta Daniel Kebede was born in Switzerland in 1989. His father is Ethiopian, his mother Swiss. Desta Daniel Kebede grew up in Kloten, he discovered his great passion, playing hockey at the age of five. He entered the Sports High School Rämibühl a fifteen years where he also studied for his Matura (school leaving examination). He played for two years in the national league A-cadre at the Kloten Flyers and additionally participated in the U18 World Championship in Finland with the Swiss National Team. Due to his surgery which was only moderately successful he had to give up his ice hockey career. In 2009 he began his studies at the University St. Gallen, which he completed in the year 2015. For the young entrepreneur Desta Daniel Kebede it has always been clear that he will start up his own company one day and that his independence has something to do with his fatherland Ethiopia. He dedicated his Matura work to Ethiopian coffee – from cultivation to export, making the foundation of the company DDKgroup Ltd.
Urs Kläger has been working for Adecco Switzerland for
more than 25 years. He loves his job and works part time
as the Hotel & Catering Branch Director in St. Gallen,
specializing in job profiles needed in the hospitality
sector.
His passions are his family and friends, his hand bike and
his role as goal keeper for the Swiss National Uni hockey /
Floorball team. He recently came back from the Para-
Games in Breda, Netherlands where they played against
ten other nations and ranked 6th.
He is a paraplegic since 2002, due to an illness called
‘spina bifida’.
Urs likes showing people the meaning of being in a
wheelchair, being active in sport and being an example
for anyone with and without an impairment.
Attending the GS&ID is a pleasure and privilege for him.
Joëlle studied Human Movement Sciences and Sport at
the ETH in Zurich. In 2012 she finished the Master with a
Major in Exercise Physiology. During the Master thesis,
she started working with supplements investigating the
influence of caffeine and sodium bicarbonate on 1500m
performance in wheelchair racing elite athletes.
Subsequently, she started working on a PhD thesis
entitled “To use or not to use? – Dietary supplement use
in able-bodied and spinal cord injured individuals.” The
thesis investigated in several different research projects
ergogenic supplements such as caffeine, sodium
bicarbonate, vitamin D and beetroot juice.
Since receiving a PhD in the beginning of 2016, Joëlle
continued to work at the Institute for Sports Medicine at
the Swiss Paraplegic Centre in Nottwil as an Exercise
Physiologist and Sports Nutritionist.
A former 800m and 1500m runner winning over 30
medals at Swiss Championships on the track and in cross
country running, Joelle still enjoys running mostly every day or riding her mountain bike.
Patrick Juvet Baka is from the Ivory Coast. Since he
was very young, dancing and drumming were a part
of his life. In 2011, he moved to Switzerland and has
since worked as Zumba instructor, chorographer,
African dancer and musician.
He loves entertaining people and teaches in the
Zurich area in many different fitness- and dance
studios.
Patrick is excited and happy to support the Global
Sports & Inclusion Day with a powerful warm-up
Zumba programme to get everyone in the spirit of moving and enjoying sports together.
To learn more: http://patrickjuvetbaka.zumba.com/