Haze/Mantel Global Industries Website Archive/Executive Bios

Born in Geneva, David has Swiss and English dual nationality. When he was young, David Bloomfield travelled a lot, following his parents who both worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation.

**Fluent in Spanish before the age of four, he can now speak 12 national languages and 27 dialects**, mainly from South America, Africa and South Asia. Contact with so many different cultures and peoples, combined with the education given to him by his parents, has forged his firm belief that the world is one and undividable.

He received an engineering degree from The Steven Biko University summa cum laude in 2023 and an MBA from The Beijing Institute for Economic Research in 2025.

David Bloomfield had always been a firm believer in the need for humankind to find other sources of energy than oil and gas, and he predicted the energy problems that occurred at the end of the first decade of the XXIst century.

Struck by the tragic death of his parents during a mission in Namibia, he founded Mantel Solar Energy in 2031 with his best friend, Henry Carrington Jr., son of Henry Carrington Sr. - US president from 2035 to 2043. He would later say that he founded the company with the hope that his parents teachings would never be forgotten.

Based in Austin, the small company that would later become **Mantel Global Industries** was relocated to Geneva, Switzerland after the assassination of the Carrington family at Camp David in 2020.

David Bloomfield was elected Man of the Year by the World Corp Press Association three times in a row from 2021 to 2023. His efforts for the resolution of the India-Pakistan conflict made him eligible to the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2021.

He has been married to Anna Carrington since 2041. They live with their three children, four dogs, two cats and an undisclosed number of other pets near Geneva.

**The most famous Indian child actress**, Indira played in more than 150 Bollywood movies from 2013 to 2023, amongst which more than 50 attracted over 200 millions spectators in India.

She turned her back on a promising acting career in 2023 to become a journalist, explaining her sudden change of career **by the brutal confrontation with reality** she had when visiting one of the poorest districts of Calcutta during the shooting of her last film. That day, she realized someone had to speak out for these people.

She graduated in journalism from the **Bombay University of Arts and Science in 2028**. A long time reporter and the first woman to have presented the evening news on the India Popular Information Channel, Indira Gashman joined Mantel Global Industries as VP of Communication in January 2047. She was set the mission of organising and overseeing the creation and launch of Mantel Television Live Network, of which she also is the Chief Operating Officer.

Her book "From Fiction to Reality: How I Almost Got Lost in Bollywood" is still the number one best seller in India and Pakistan since its first publication in 2030.

Born in Mexico, son of Alejandro Castillo (former Mexico City mayor, and president of Mexico from 2033 to 2048), **Carlos Castillo joined Mantel Global Industries in 2042** to oversee the group's reorganisation, which he successfully achieved in early 2047.

Before joining the Mantel group, he was **General Corporate Account Officer** of the Mexico National Trust from 2030 to 2038. During his office, he oversaw the buyout of the SouthWest American Bank, earning him the title of "Raider of the Year" from Economic News Magazine in 2037. Granted American citizenship after the 2045 Coup d'Etat in Mexico, he was CEO of the United SouthWest and East American Bank from 2040 to 2042, when he resigned after having met and talked with David Bloomfield for just one hour.

**He graduated in finance, audit and financial law from Paris' Ecole d'Economie et de Finance Stratégique in 2013**. An excellent golfer, he won two Masters in 2025 before choosing to focus on his professional career. He nevertheless remains a feared opponent during Mantel's Corporate Golf Tournament held each year in The Cape.

His book about deregulation and tax abolition, "How They Are Killing Our Industry", was the starting point for import-export tax abolition by the World Economic Counsel in 2041, thus **giving a brand new impetus to worldwide commerce and finance.**

"The Man that Never Sleeps", according to legend, was born in Sweden. Ex world-class hacker at 15, **it was he who uncovered the European Union Social Security scandal in 2033**. Exiled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution in 2034, he was cleared and rehabilitated in 2037 and made the first European Honorary Citizen in 2039. By then he was already a legendary figure on the Internet, having founded his videogame company, Diamonds At Zero - or DAZ - in 2035. His first game, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Golden Sands, was an instant hit, reaching the 10 million-player mark in 2041.

**A complete autodidact**, Lars Hensson began toying with any and every electronic device he could put his hands on when he was six years old. At 12, he activated an online server and defied the hacker scene to break through its security measures. The White Box, as the server was quickly named, still stands unforced on the Internet.

Lars presented himself at David Bloomfield's doorstep in 2041. He was already providing server subsystem solutions to the Mantel Global Industries Program for the Next Encounter, and he wanted to know more about the group behind this initiative. **David Bloomfield appointed him Creative Officer at Mantel Global System**, letting him "play" with an annual $2 billion budget to improve the way Mantel Global System approached and solved problems. By 2045, Mantel Global Systems had gained more than $5 billion thank to Lars' actions, which had caused a radical shift of views within the company.

Always keen to recognise talent when he sees it, **David Bloomfield appointed Lars Vice President of Business Development in 2046**, a position through which he helped reorganise the Mantel Group, always thinking two moves ahead of the competition.