Board of Trustees
His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle - Selassie Haile Selassie
PhDr Don Marco de Guadamillas Y Cortes
Mr. Peter Yip
Mr. Matt Goss
Dr. John F. Mueller
Mr. Sandro Monetti
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His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie
His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie is the Grandson of HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and is currently President of the Crown Council of Ethiopia, a position he has held from 1993 until now.
Prince Ermias has been a strong voice for peace and reconciliation in his homeland and throughout the world. He has sponsored full college scholarships for Ethiopian students studying in the United States of America.
He has created the Water Initiative for Africa (WIA), which has helped to develop technologies which can bring pure water to all Africans to eliminate vulnerability to water-borne diseases.
He has met with political, religious, and cultural leaders around the world to advocate for preservation of Ethiopia’s cultural heritage. He has most recently sponsored a fundraiser to help renovate Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa. http://www.ethiopiancrown.org/
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His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, together with the North American Supporters of the Renovation and Development Committee of Holy Trinity Cathedral, invites you to help him raise funds for the restoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
You can donate to the Crown Council’s renovation campaign at https://gofund.me/5553e593
We have currently raised over $35,000 towards our $100,000 total. Donations of any size will make a difference.
PhDr. DON MARCO DE GUADAMILLAS Y CORTÉS
Vice Chairman of the Casa de las Guadamillas Family Office, Managing Director of Rivergold Consulting, Ambassador of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, and Grand Chancellor of the Orders of the Imperial House of Brazil. Strategic Networker, Executive Searcher, Business Developer, highly decorated Expert, also in Historical Institutions, Royal Houses, and Chivalric and Dynastic Orders.
Marco is the direct descendant of the esteemed De Guadamillas Family, representing one of Spain’s most ancient noble houses. The Casa de las Guadamillas was founded in 1206 by Juan de la Mata as a house for the Trinitarian Order and formally recognized by Papal Bull in 1209.
The first documented family member to take on the house’s name and prove nobility was Juan Sánches de las Guadamillas, who served as Royal Huntsman to King Juan II of Castile in 1390. By the 18th and 19th centuries, the family had become a major landowner in Spain.
Today, the Guadamillas legacy is preserved and strategically managed through a discreet off-public Family Office, under the leadership of Marco’s father, Prof. Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Francisco José de Guadamillas y Cortés, the current Head of the House. Marco serves as Vice Chairman of this institution. which focuses on private banking, investments, and business development.
In the professional sphere, Marco is a passionate Founder and Managing Director of a premier executive search and business development firm, tailored for senior executives and experts operating across Europe and North America. His firm engages in discreet and strategic partnerships with hidden champions, major enterprises, and governmental institutions.
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In his role as Introducer and Ambassador for the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, he is furthermore deeply committed to connecting visionary entrepreneurs and innovative start-ups with a select network of professional investors and Family Offices across multiple industries. Acting as a strategic bridge between sectors, he forges powerful alliances to drive growth and transformation.
Mr. Peter Yip
The wonderful story of Bellefontaine Switzerland.
Peter Yip, the creator of the Edelgen® complex, founded Bellefontaine in 2006, in Henniez, Switzerland. Bellefontaine has made an exceptional journey from a single local Swiss shop to one of the world’s most exclusive beauty brands.
Peter Yip, a great esthete from an important Hong Kong family, grew up surrounded by art. Since early childhood, Peter Yip grew familiar with the beauty of women by admiring the paintings of his father, the artist, Mr. Ping-Sum Yip. Their perfect harmony made him dream about eternal youth. As a result, he became interested in cosmetology.
Peter Yip had been living in Switzerland for more than forty years, and during this time he had won renown in the cosmetics world by establishing prestigious Swiss brands all over the continent of Asia. Passionately intrigued by the thousand-year-old properties of traditional Chinese plants and fascinated by the wealth of flora that surrounded him in Switzerland; he was driven by a holistic notion: a global, total approach to beauty and youth.
“If only we could create the antidote to skin aging,” he often thought. A synergetic bridge between science and nature. We would call it Bellefontaine, the spring left unaffected by time.”
And like a true visionary, he endeavored to conquer the anti-aging Holy Grail, by combining the most precious plants and their rarest essences.He made an investment in Swiss laboratories that housed the newest and most cutting-edge technologies which enabled him to undertake long and ultra-sophisticated research programs. This was what gave rise to EDELGEN® complex, an exceptional antioxidant and soothing formula that is contained in all Bellefontaine cosmetics.
https://bellefontaineswitzerland.com/ch/en/brand-history
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Mr. Matt Goss
Matt Goss was the youngest artist to sell out and headline Wembley Stadium to a crowd of 77,000 with his band ‘Bros’. They also played a record 19 consecutive nights at Wembley Stadium, and hold the record for selling out London’s O2 arena in just 7 seconds. Their debut album ‘Push’ went platinum 7 times and earned 13 top 5 hits, remaining in the UK charts for a staggering 84 weeks.
During his career, Matt has had the honor of performing for her majesty the Queen and Princess Diana, as well as recently performing in front of 50,000 people at London’s Hyde Park with the BBC Big Band Orchestra. Matt has been in the music industry for 30 years and has performed in some of the world's most prestigious venues including The Royal Albert Hall, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, and The London Palladium to name a few.
Currently residing in Las Vegas, where Matt has been a headliner for ten
years, performing to over half a million people in that time at The Palms,
Caesars Palace, and now at his current residency, The Mirage. He’s part of
an exclusive club of British singer/songwriters to headline in Las Vegas for
such a long period of time, amongst the likes of Sir Elton John and Sir Rod
Stewart.
Mr. Chaker Khazaal
Chaker Khazaal is an award-winning Palestinian-Canadian author, reporter, public speaker, and Executive Chairman of the New York-based firm OBCIDO Inc.
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Born in 1987 as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, Mr. Khazaal grew up in the Bourj el Barajneh camp in Beirut. At a young age, he participated in several local plays and starred in the film Sugar of Jaffa. He later immigrated to Canada. As one of four recipients of the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award in 2005, he studied at York University in Toronto, graduating in 2009 with a B.A. in international development studies.
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Khazaal, an advocate for refugees and aspiring young writers, is a strong, engaging, and savvy communicator. He has been invited to speak at organizations, corporations, and governments worldwide, including the UN, Google, Meta, and national parliaments, as well as being regularly featured addressing and hosting global conferences. He has published six novels: Confessions of a War Child trilogy, Tale of Tala, Ouch!, and Arikaz.
In 2022, he became a columnist for Arabian Business magazine, writing about trending global issues and geopolitics.
In 2024, he was appointed President of the Women’s Humanitarian Organization (PWHO) in Lebanon, an NGO founded by his late mother, Dr. Olfat Mahmoud. In this new role, he digitalized the organization to reduce its environmental footprint in operations and launched scholarships in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Marketing for people in vulnerable communities. A key focus of these initiatives is engaging more female participants in technology fields, aiming to address the gender gap in AI and digital marketing.
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He was named Esquire’s Middle East Man of the Year 2015, and in 2016, Khazaal was ranked first by Arabian Business Magazine in the 100 Most Powerful Arabs Under 40. In the same year, he was presented with the Mentor Arabia Award by Queen Silvia of Sweden and Prince Turki Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. In December 2017, he was awarded the Global Trailblazer honor, alongside Arianna Huffington, by the New York-based NGO Bridges of Understanding. In 2024, ITP Publishing enlisted him in the next generation of leaders shaping the region: 30 Under 40. Inc. Magazine included him as well in its list of 51 Powerful Middle-Eastern Businessmen You Should Know.
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He currently resides in Europe, where he is working on a new novel while remotely leading OBCIDO Inc. and PWHO. In addition, he serves as a consultant for various global projects in technology, media, and education.
Dr. John F. Mueller
With two highly rated television documentaries to his name, Dr. John F. Mueller is a historian, heraldist, and fundraiser, Director of Studies in History at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and a member of the Royal Historical Society. London, UK.
After writing his Ph.D. on Jewish commercial families in Germany before the Second World War under Professor Sir Richard Evans at the University of Cambridge, John has embarked on a portfolio career in philanthropic fundraising and expanding his research and teaching. However, his passion is heraldry which he pursues in any spare moment.
John and his historic research featured in two television documentaries. A highly-rated German public television documentary in April 2019 and a three-part documentary on the TESCO founder Sir Jack Cohen broadcast in June 2021 on Channel 5 in the UK. He is now writing a book on the same subject, The Kaiser, Hitler, and the Jewish Department Store for Bloomsbury Academic, due out in 2022.
His heraldic work includes designing new coats of arms, identifying historical ones, and producing heraldic stationery, porcelain, and other everyday items. In addition, he is a supplier of all things heraldic to royalty, aristocracy, clergy, and universities.
In his spare time, John is a trustee of the largest independent sheltered housing scheme in London. In addition, he has worked as a professional fundraiser for the University of Cambridge. He has volunteered for several charitable organizations, including the Order of St John, the LM Kendon Settlement, the League of Mercy, and organizations of the Church of England.
Of Anglo-German parentage, John’s work and life span the European continent. He is a member of the Academia Melitense and a founding fellow of the Anterior Austrian Institute. Now, he is most humbled to be made an honorary member of the Royal Society of St George, California.
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Mr. Sandro Monetti
Sandro Monetti, a royal correspondent for CNN, is a multi-award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster.
Dedicated to mentorship, community, and creating opportunities for all, his leadership of New Talent programs for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has won global acclaim. Sandro has also lectured around the world, helping students in a range of subjects reach their full potential.
A friend to the stars who has interviewed all the biggest names in the world, his autobiography Confessions of a Hollywood Insider was a 2022 Book of the Year nominee.
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Also a media consultant to various high profile individuals, this Beverly Hills-based Brit uses his experience and contacts to advise and guide reputation management and media coaching.
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With a string of successful plays and books behind him, Sandro recently directed his first documentary movie, the acclaimed Tech to the Future, showcasing amazing innovations of today which will make the world of tomorrow a better place.