Corporate Responsibility Partners
"workplace wellness strategy for emerging markets"
Corporate Responsibility Partners - Who We Are
Abner Mason - Founder and CEO
(www.AbnerMason.com)
Abner created CRP in 2008 to help companies in emerging markets to improve employee health and
reduce health-care costs. Starting in Mexico, Abner has lead the effort to create the Workplace Wellness
and Prevention Council of Mexico. Abner currently serves as the Mexico Council's General Director. Before
creating CRP Abner was founder and Executive Director of AIDS Responsibility Project. Abner led the
effort to create CONAES and JaBCHA, the first business councils on HIV/AIDS in Mexico and Jamaica
respectively. He previously served as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
(PACHA) where he was Chairman of the International Committee. He was appointed to the Council by
President Bush in 2002. PACHA provides advice, information and recommendations to the President, and
the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding programs and policies to promote effective
prevention, treatment, research, and care of HIV disease and AIDS in the US and around the world.
Abner previously spent ten years in Massachusetts State government most recently serving as Chief Policy
Advisor to Massachusetts Governors Paul Cellucci (R) and Jane Swift (R). He also served as Governor
Cellucci's Undersecretary of Transportation and as Deputy General Manager of the Massachusetts Transit
Authority, the 7th largest in the US. Abner is a graduate of Harvard College.
Robert J. Kabel – Partner & Treasurer
(www.robertkabel.com)
Robert is an attorney and consultant with the law firm of Baker & Daniels in Washington, D.C. where he has
lived and worked for more than 30 years. Bob's represents clients in Washington on legislative and
regulatory issues. Internationally, Bob represents clients interested in establishing and expanding their
presence in Brazil, Mexico and other countries in Latin America. In Brazil, Bob was instrumental in the
successful extension of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program for trade with Brazil which
permitted American companies to import product duty free from Brazil.
Bob served as Legislative Director to Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind) and as a Special Assistant for
Legislative Affairs to President Ronald Reagan prior to entering private practice where he has represented
a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit clients for many years. He was appointed in 2006 to the
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS where he serves on the International Committee. Bob worked
with ARP in the development of CONAES in Mexico where his role was to secure high level introductions to
U.S. corporations with operations in Mexico to encourage their participation in CONAES. He also has
been active in Brazil on behalf of clients and instrumental in developing and implementing a plan for his firm
to open an office in Brazil. Bob currently chairs the Republican Party of the District of Columbia and is a
member of the Republican National Committee. Earlier, he served as Chairman of Log Cabin Republicans
and its foundation, the Liberty Education Forum. He is a graduate of Denison University and Vanderbilt
University and Georgetown University Law Schools.
Richard L. Tafel - Partner & Secretary
(www.thepublicsquared.com)
Rich Tafel has spent his career providing real world strategy to world changing causes. In 2010, he founded
Public Squared to offer public policy training to social entrepreneurs and non-profits. For the last seven
years, he provided policy strategy to non-profits around the world. In Africa he helped coordinate a strategic
response to the AIDS pandemic, while in Latin America he lead campaigns fighting discrimination. In
Mexico, Rich is a partner in Corporate Responsibility Partners, providing consulting to Fortune 100
companies seeking to improve employee health and wellness. In the United States, he has offered strategy
to America’s leading education and health care social entrepreneurs. He is a guest lecturer at Johns
Hopkins University on the Urban Health and Advocacy.
Rich is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School (1987) and is an ordained minister. In 1991, Rich was
appointed by Governor William Weld (R-MA) as Director of Adolescent Health for the state of
Massachusetts. Rich moved to Washington DC in 1993 to be the founding Executive Director of Log Cabin
Republicans and over the next decade he took the organization from obscurity to a household name in
American politics. Prior to creating Public Squared in 2010, Rich created and ran RLT Strategies where he
provided both personal and organizational strategy to over 60 clients. In 2008, one of his clients was
chosen as the Social Entrepreneur of the Year. From 2004 through 2006 Rich served as strategist for ARP
creating a plan for the delivery of CONAES. His work included training Mexican NGO’s, meeting with
corporations and producing a final sustainability plan. He has also worked on programs in Ecuador, Peru
and Guatemala. Rich is certified coach and a registered lobbyist. In 2001 he was voted by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten outstanding young Americans. In 1999, he authored “Party
Crasher” which was published by Simon and Schuster.
Our Mission
The mission of Corporate Responsibility Partners (CRP) is to help companies in emerging markets develop, implement and evaluate workplace
wellness programs that target the major causes of poor employee health and rising health-care costs.
Mexico Wellness Council
We have developed the Workplace Wellness Council of Mexico to provide companies operating in Mexico with innovation, best practices, and
leadership to improve employee health. With over 75 corporate members, covering 1 million employees and 5 million family members, the Mexico
Council is now the leading workplace wellness organization in Mexico.
Find Out How to Join the Workplace Wellness Council of Mexico, and Learn More About Corporate
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