DEEP DIALOGUES with Stewart Pearce
Zoe Kalar is the Founder and CEO of WeAre8, who as an entrepreneurial powerhouse, has spent her life dedicated to building businesses and technology, that address global problems in a way that supports people and the planet. Starting MM Communications at the age of 21, Zoe evolved it to over 100 people and 4 offices across Asia Pacific, before successfully selling the company to Omnicom in 2000. Zoe has subsequently built 3 successful businesses across the world, spanning media, data, and consumer tech. This includes founding and leading a NY based global media data aggregation business - Standard Media Index - which fueled decisions for the world's largest media and finance companies, and which gained her instant recognition by Forbes. Zoe is now the futures architect behind “WeAre8” - a social ecosystem that enables advertisers to reach millions of people, in the US, UK, India & Australia, with a mission to transform peoples lives by giving a dollar a day to 800 million people. This healthy evolution of social media is now supported by the world's leading advertisers and gives every validated ‘8Citizen’ a centralized wallet and safe environment to share, and so make positive impact in the world each day. Zoe is passionate about information technology that supports people, addressing their economic imbalances, and helping people to discover the power of their voices, individually and collectively so making a major positive impact in the world. Zoe’s headline catchphrase is that ‘we are stronger together.’ https://www.weare8.com/