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Tips from Andrew Martin, who has hired many people and founded several highly successful businesses and programs, the most recent being CommonKindness which empowers people to save money and help their favorite non-profits - at no cost to them.
Andrew Martin is Founding Chairman of CommonKindness. He has extensive experience creating successful US and international corporations. Andrew served as the founding chairman and former CEO of both SmartFood Corp. and Annie's Inc. SmartFood became a case study at Harvard Business School and was eventually purchased by Pepsico/Frito Lay Corp. Under Andrew's leadership Annie's Inc. acquired Raw Materials Corp. and Tamarind Tree Corp and was purchased by Solera Capital in 2002. Andrew serves as chairman of Kea Corp. Ltd., a New Zealand based investment management company. He is also chairman of the Tauroa Organic Education Trust, a 750 acre fully operational organic horticulture, sheep and cattle farm, wildlife preserve, and organic education land trust in New Zealand.
Andrew has been the founding director of numerous non-profit programs for the homeless, women, education and the environment. Some of these projects include the "Bottle Bag" program for the homeless, "Be-Green", an environmental awareness program, Support American Volunteer Efforts (S.A.V.E.), and Annie's Scholarship program.
Andrew has received multiple awards for philanthropy and service to the community. He has been a speaker on the subject of Human Rights, Business Formation, and Democratic Economics. In 2010 Andrew became Chairman of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Research Project.
