Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Award-winning Executive leader, Social Entrepreneur and Mentor with global experience at the intersection of business, technology and community value. A founder, fixer, and fast-tracker, my passion is developing big new ideas and making existing organizations better – always working to address big challenges and unlock market opportunities. Demanding and supportive team builder, internationally known for establishing and managing outstanding multi-lingual, multicultural teams, and building impactful programs and partnerships that engage leader companies. I know how to raise and manage resources, having mobilized and managed millions in financing/co-financing and made payrolls for over 20 years. My companies and initiatives build and maintain trust with clients and partners. Broad background from agtech to non-profit management, from CSR to emergency services to consulting, and experience working with some of the world’s largest and most important private, philanthropic and multilateral actors. Speak and work in 4 languages, global experience (80 countries). Soccer player/fan, musician (good enough, would like to be better), hiker/outdoorsman, adventurer.
Innovative consulting practice focused on new market entry, emerging technology, and corporate social responsibility strategy/project design. - Consulting leadership and team/coalition management for new market entry and multi-million dollar public-private tech/tech policy initiatives in agtech, health, waste management, and internet policy with focus on Latin America + Africa. - Developed, led and managed multinational team for work with Fortune 200 companies like Chevron, Motorola, ABInbev, Toyota, Oracle, AT&T; tech leaders like Verisign, .org, and major donors like World Bank, USAID, UN. - Expert in helping clients create sustainable leverage, mobilize community and employees and manage risk in high visibility projects. Project example: Design/management innovative Road Safety partnership in Nigeria, mobilizing over $17M, 10 major Private Sector firms, 3 government agencies, World Bank – model taken globally. Partnership still running nearly 20 years after inception.
Award-winning international software and data company connecting farmers with markets in Latin America and Africa. Agromovil’s unique app + messaging + analytics platform makes it easy for exporters, inputs suppliers, and banks to match with producers – so they can source goods, reduce waste, and track social impact. Agromovil technology and services enable anyone who wants to buy from, sell to or serve small producers at scale to reach them with targeted messages and services and make their supply chains simpler and more sustainable. • Partnerships with/funding from Google, Telefonica, USDA, Guinness, Toyota Mobility Fund, Davivienda and others • More than 15,000 tonnes placed for sale; over $16M in value; working with nearly 7,000 farmers and buyers in Colombia, Tanzania and Ghana • Raised over $1.5M in equity investment, partnership funding and grants to support product development and diffusion in Colombia, Tanzania, Ghana
Worked with Affiliate and Board leaders across North America, responsible for building out fundraising and communications functions and building strategic partnerships and alliances to help the Network grow its footprint and increase the more than one million hours of service offered each year to students across North America. Built/expanded relationships with key corporate leaders like Microsoft, developed impactful partnerships with YPO (Young Presidents Organization) and Telemundo - including the highly successful "Athletas Poetas" program that has provided national visibility to SCORES and SCORES poet-athletes on the Telemundo network across the country in the run-up to the World Cup.
Managing Director of America SCORES (www.americascores.org), a 30-year old non-profit Network providing unique, impactful afterschool soccer + poetry + community service programs in under-resourced communities. Starting as a legacy project of the 1994 World Cup with founding program DC SCORES (www.dcscores.org), the SCORES Network has served over 250,000 students in 300+ Title 1 schools across 13 cities around North America with hundreds of employees and over $10M in annual budget. America SCORES programs help keep poet-athletes stay in school and get better grades, building kids’ physical, mental and social-emotional health. • Joined as Interim Managing Director of the Network serving more than 20,000 students in 13 cities across North America after 5 years on Network Board, including on Executive Board • Re-launched America SCORES Network hub, including multi-city/multi-national communications and fundraising plan in the run-up to the 2026 World Cup
Founded with emergency services sector leaders like Dupont, LION Apparel, Rosenbauer and Holmatro, GESA built innovative programs to help global manufacturers – mostly located in the US and Europe – to better understand and respond to the needs of fast-growing markets in the Global South and partner with the donor community. • Designed and established the organization, achieving 501(c )3 status and building multi- year member budget support • Prepared market analysis, designed new market support strategies and ongoing dialogue to help companies better serve emerging markets • Mobilized volunteer international Advisory Committee of expert fire and emergency services practitioners from across Africa, Latin America and Africa, meeting monthly over 3 years to advise GESA companies and provide market insights
As part of the Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center, spoke and wrote on issues relating to ag sustainability, data and supply chain and the global role of smallscale agriculture. As one of the first agtech experts at the Center, helped build knowledge and focus on challenges and opportunities around agtech and the future of food and food security