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Clemens Piffl (Austrian) works at Healthy Cities Group (Lima, Peru) as Strategy and Business Developer to support their expansion phase and accompany the restructuring of the business plan and budgeting.

My background

University of Liechtenstein: MBA in Entrepreneurship. 4 years of professional experience as marketing, business and IT consultant.

Patricia Griffin (USA) works at Bridge International Academies (Nairobi, Kenya) as Operations and System Manager to enhance operational systems, policies and procedures to ensure the efficient rollout of "school in a box".

My background

Ross School of Business at University of Michigan (USA): MBA Entrepreneurship & Operations Management. 7 years of professional experience as an engineer in manufacturing/quality in the US auto industry.

Steven Lee (USA) works at Shonaquip (Cape Town, South Africa) as a Business Development Consultant to update business and marketing strategies to expand their reach and to grow their ability to work collaboratively to deliver more services.

My background

INSEAD MBA / Singapore & France. 7 years experience as marketing and communications manager; Co-Founder of Wheel Wishers Non-Profit Organization (Kenya).

Andre Lottersberger (Swiss) works at mothers2mothers (Cape Town, South Africa) as Legal/Strategy Consultant to advise senior management on structural and strategic initiatives and to assist the organization with the expansion into new countries.

My background

University of Zurich (CH) and University of Cape Town (South Africa): lic.iur./LL.M. 10 years of professional experience as attorney-at-law in commercial law firms and legal counsel/director in international wealth management at UBS (Zurich/Singapore).

Vivian Lee (Taiwanese-American) works at Rags2Riches (Manila, Philippines) as Operations Manager to enhance management processes, optimize supply chains and establish governance procedures to facilitate the international rollout of their products.

My background

Northwestern University, Evanston (USA): B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences and Economics. 5 years of professional experience as an operation consultant.

Dana Guzman (Colombian) works at Rags2Riches (Manila, Philippines) as International Sales and Marketing Strategist to define and implement strategies to increase the sales of their products to a wider/international customer base.

My background

Externado de Colombia University (Colombia) and Columbia University (USA): Graduate Studies in International Business and Trade. 6 years of professional experience as international sales strategist and co-founder of the agency for international business development Dedalo based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Nadine Haegeli (Swiss) works at Educate Girls (Mumbai) as PR & Communications Consultant to define and implement a communication strategy, which supports the organization to scale their model from rural Rajasthan to a national presence.

My background

University Bern (CH) - degree in Economics, Sociology, Media Studies.4 years professional experience as PR & Communications Manager with media agencies in Berlin (DE).

Anne Andrews (American) works at Operation Asha (New Delhi) as a Management Consultant to establish systems, policies and processes to enable the organizations national and international expansion.

Washington University St. Louis (USA) - law degree. 4 years professional experience as Associate Attorney (Berman Fink Van Horn (USA); advised for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs

Verena Schuler (German) works at Aangan Trust (Mumbai) as a Communication and Strategy Consultant to develop and implement a communications strategy that assists the expansion of Aangan and to scale-up Shakti one of Aangan's programs empowering girls and young women, from Mumbai to other parts of the country.

My background

M.B.A. from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (DE), Ph. D. from the Carl Ossietzky University Oldenburg (DE). 6 years professional experience in Sustainability Communications, Reporting and Corporate Sustainability Strategy and Management at BMW (DE).

Sarah Lee (Canadian) works at Driptech (Pune) as a Business Development Consultant in International Business Development, Manufacturing/Value Chain and Agricultural Extension.

My background

McGill University, Montreal (CAN) - M.S. in Integrated Water Resource Management, Bioresource Engineering. 5 years professional experience; worked in West Africa in agriculture and forestry at a village level and coordinated a tree growing competition at a national level.

Jessica Martin (USA) works at Driptech (Mountain View, USA) as a Global Business Development Consultant to build organizational capacity at the Driptech US headquarter to facilitate the international rollout to India and China.

My background

Fairfield University (USA): International Studies and Economics degree. 3 years of professional experience in investment strategy at Bank of America.

Tom Triglone (AUS) works at Greenoil (Jaipur) as a Business Strategy Manager to put in place operational and reporting systems and processes to allow GreenOil to go through their expansion phase.

My background

University of Western Australia, Perth (AUS) - Electronic Engineering degree. 9 years of professional experience (project management, consulting and 3 years business development with village community cooperatives in Guatemala).