CEO, Fiore Group
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Mr. Giustra is CEO of the Fiore Group, a private firm managing a broad portfolio of private equity investments and companies, specializing in natural resources, entertainment, art, food and lifestyle. Mr. Giustra's entrepreneurial success includes founding Lionsgate Entertainment, now one of the world's largest independent film companies.
Mr. Giustra brings an entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy to catalyze new ideas and innovations that can be scaled and shared. In 2007, he co-founded Acceso, a social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. Acceso manages agribusinesses in Colombia, El Salvador, and Haiti.
For over two decades the Giustra Foundation has supported innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing humanitarian and economic challenges -- focusing on women and children, health and education, homelessness and refugee resettlement. The Giustra Foundation is actively involved in the global refugee crisis by providing humanitarian aid, along with being the founding partner in the Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative.
In 2020, Mr. Giustra become co-chair of the International Crisis Group, a widely recognized independent, non-partisan source of analysis and advice to policymakers on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. He has been a trustee and supporter of the Crisis Group since 2005.