Governance and Management — the key to performance

Hans B. Amell, Founder and Chairman

30 years experience as a global turnaround and change agent. Chairman and founder of Catalyst Acquisition group, a specialized buyout firm focused on turnarounds and rapid, confidential corporate divestitures. Hands-on global leader often asked to implement change from C-level positions. General expertise: value creation via people motivation, product creativity and customer focus. Functional/business expertise: marketing, globalization, P&L management, mergers/acquisitions, outsourcing, restructuring, advanced techonology, telecommunications, professional services.
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Leslie C. Haarup, Vice-Chairman

22 years experience as a financial services executive on Wall Street with firms including Steelhead Partners, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Barclays Capital, Bear Stearns, and Merrill Lynch. Domestic and international experience. Expertise: Dept capital markets, structuring, debt sales, cross marketing, client relations, raising and managing money.
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Priscilla S. Goldfarb, Senior Advisor

25 years experience start up and transition management for health-related charities, including hospitals, hospice and African health, as executive director, president, director of development and director of public affairs. Expertise: non-profit management, health and global health, development, public affairs, government relations.
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Susanna Sandoz, Field Force Senior Technical Advisor

25 years experience in international development in the Americas, Africa and Asia, including project management and engineering consultancies with UN agencies, bilaterals - CIDA, DFID, DANIDA, and international ngos - WaterLife, WaterAid, Plan International. Expertise: water and sanitation program design, budget, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, community participation, capacity building.
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Cynthia W. Massarsky, Program Director

20 years experience as management executive, including president of SocialReturns, creator and co-director of Yale/Goldman Sachs/Pew Charitable Trusts Partnership on Non-Profit Ventures, product and marketing manager of Scholastic, Inc., and vice president of New Ventures. Expertise: non-profit sector marketing and new business development, strategic and long-range planning, market analysis.
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Mayra Hernandez, Mexico Program Senior Advisor

12 years experience in project direction, including business development strategy, design, production of editorial, packaging, internet, corporate identity. Founding partner of Mexico City-based design firm Entrelinea. Trustee of Origen, an ngo that serves disadvantaged women. Expertise: corporate and ngo marketing in Mexico, Central America, and USA, multinational professional network, native Spanish speaker.
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Denise Gray-Felder, Communications Senior Advisor

30 years experience in all forms of communication management, including corporate communications, journalism, marketing promotion and non-profit organizations. Currently president and ceo of CFSC Consortium. Expertise: communications, public policy, public information, stakeholder capacity development, corporate diversity concerns.
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Danqing Li, China Program Advisor

10 years international business with multi-national firms Hewlett Packard and Wextrust Capital, including investment analysis, market research, management consulting, strategic relationship management. Fluent in Chinese and English languages. Expertise: Investment analysis, risk assessment, multicultural negotiations, business operations, business development, team performance.
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Michael Hokenson, Microfinance Senior Advisor

10 years experience in emerging markets and microfinance, including founder/managing director Minlam Asset Management, Inc. Analysis of microfinance institutions in India published in C.K.Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Expertise: Microfinance, creation and management of socially responsible investment products, investment analysis, management, marketing.
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Dr. Edward H. Currie, Scientific Advisory Board Chairman

25 years senior management experience in domestic and international business, including co-founder PC industry, cio Tritium Card Services, president Data Treasury Corp, president/ceo ImageSoft Inc., chairman/president/ceo Intersoft Corp, vice president product management Pertec Computer Corporation. Expertise: personal computer industry, biometric hardware/software, financial modeling, intellectual property, contracts.
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Dr. Stephen J. Martin, International Advisory Board Chairman

25 years experience in medicine, public health and polar exploration, including World Health Organization, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, clinical medical practice, North Pole/ Antarctica expedition leader, ocean sailor. Expertise: infectious disease epidemiology, including SARS, Avian influenza, expedition leadership.
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Jaime Syjuco, International Advisory Board Member

12 years experience in global ventures, including strategy consulting for Accenture's US business launch centers, performing investment manager roles for corporate venture companies and operating manager roles for startups and turnarounds in US and Asia. Founding principal in several social ventures and projects involved in microfinance, water, wind power, social justice and community entrepreneurship. Expertise: Venture investments, operations and management of startups and turnarounds, offshore business models.
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Jack H. Schwartz, Chief Technology Adviser

30+ years of experience as a hands-on enterprise software technologist executive and product team builder, researching, envisioning, innovating, planning, designing, implementing, managing, teaching and evaluating software/hardware systems tools, applications, and SDLC methodologies and architectures. Served four times as Chief Technology Officer in small to medium sized startups where he has led many teams and organizations to successful product delivery, revenue, market differentiation and funding.
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David W. Steketee, Internet Technology Advisor

10 years experience in web and software development, including president of Do More Consulting, enterprise architect at Merrill Lynch - Global Banking and International Technology, vice president product development of Provengo. Expertise: web-based software development and enterprise software design.
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