Jean is the CEO of Virgin Unite, the entrepreneurial Foundation of the worldwide Virgin Group. In her previous life, Jean lived and worked on five continents helping to lead successful mobile phone start-ups in South Africa, Colombia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the US. Jean has long explored the overlap of the business and social sectors. She was delighted when MTN of South Africa became a successful enterprise; she was even more delighted when someone's idea of a briefcase phone catalyzed thousands of new small businesses overnight. She has also been involved in the social and environmental sectors, having worked for the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife in Australia, and in numerous volunteer roles, including a stint as a VISTA volunteer where she worked with – and learned from - homeless teens in Chicago. In 2003 she was joint Managing Director of Virgin Mobile in Australia when she was asked to work with Richard Branson and the Virgin staff around the world to create Virgin Unite. The team works with Virgin’s two hundred businesses worldwide and other entrepreneurs’ businesses to help put driving positive change at their core. Virgin Unite also works with partners to create new approaches to social and environmental issues, such as a school of entrepreneurship for young people in Johannesburg, an entrepreneurial approach to rural health transport in Kenya and the incubation of global initiatives such as the Elders, the Disease Control Room in Sub- Saharan Africa and the Carbon War Room.