Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Dole Packaged Foods CMO Rupen Desai Is Helping To Change Our World

We live in an unequal world. The divide between food and feed, educated and uneducated, obesity and malnutrition, the damage to planet we leave behind for our children is growing day by day. These inequalities have been created systematically. And will need to be undone systemically, as well.

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rupen Desai.

Rupen Desai is the Global CMO at Dole Packaged Foods, a company that believes everyone should have equal access to nutrition and wellness, delivered in a positive and sustainable way. He co-founded TS/28 to partner with organizations and help them thrive in the conscious economy. He is a strong advocate of the responsibility a purposeful business and creativity have towards society, communities, and the planet, as well as shareholders. Prior to Dole, he was Edelman’s Vice-Chairman across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. During this time, he led Edelman’s Women’s leadership network for the region and was a board member at…