Speakers - Keynote
Stephen M. Moody
Stephen M. Moody is the Senior Advisor for Food Technology for the USAID Office of Food for Peace. He provides the agency with advice on formulation, development, processing, and packaging technologies for new and existing food products for humanitarian assistance and emergency feeding programs. Stephen also assists with the development of technical requirements for the procurement and evaluation of food aid commodities, and serves as the co-chair of the Food Safety and Quality Control Working Group of the Food Aid Consultative Group. He received a MS in Food Science from Kansas State University in 2000. Stephen is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists and The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa. He is also a senior member of the American Society for Quality, and holds dual certifications as an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor and ASQ Certified Quality Engineer. In his previous position at the Natick Soldier Research Development & Engineering Center, he led a diverse group of scientists and engineers involved in the development and improvement of military rations for the Department of Defense. Stephen retired from active duty in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps after 24 years of service. Among his many positions was that of Food Safety Officer for the U.S. Army Central Command in the Persian Gulf where he was responsible for the inspection and approval of local sources for food and bottled water in East Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Speakers - Plenary
Khawaja Adeeb
Khawaja Adeeb is the Deputy Director, Commodity Management Unit of Save the Children’s HQ in Westport, Connecticut. Adeeb leads field office commodity management reviews, develops and implements tools and standards for managing and monitoring commodity budgets and coordinates with CO and HO staff in all areas of commodity management operations, with a particular focus on risk management through regular trainings and commodity management performance reviews. In the course of commodity reviews he plans and delivers commodity management training and provides further training support for new and/or expanding programs. He also represents SC externally at the FACG Commodity Management Working Group and other forums.
Before joining SC, Adeeb worked at CARE for 30 years in various capacities in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and at CARE-HQ in Atlanta in the Food Resources and Coordination Team, providing support to country offices, developing staff capacity and partner NGOs in the areas of food and non-food resource management.
Adeeb has extensive experience in program development and management, partnership and capacity building, strategic planning and coordination, disaster preparedness planning and response management, post disaster rehabilitation and commodity monetization.
In 2001 Adeeb received an award from USDA, Kansas City presented by the Director of FFP/W recognizing his "exemplary performance in enhancing the integrity of the U.S. Government foreign food aid program."
Jehangir Khan
Jehangir Khan is a member of the Programs team at Plan Canada. As a Food Security Advisor, he plays an important role in guiding, strengthening and supporting Plan Canada and Plan’s global capacity and expertise in programming food security initiatives. He is also responsible for proposal development, policy and research development, and public engagement initiatives. Additionally, he works closely with Plan’s Emergencies Response Team to design initiatives that provide solutions to hunger and malnutrition.
Jehangir has more than 10 years of managerial and technical experience at the international level in rural development sector, including roles with the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. He has also consulted on projects funded by the Asia Development Bank and Swiss Development Corporation. In these roles, he has honed his expertise and interest in the areas of food security, rural development and livelihoods, agriculture, national resource management, watershed management, disaster risk reduction, emergency response and rehabilitation, capacity building, socio-economic research and needs assessment.
Jehangir is fluent in English, Pashto and Urdu and holds a PhD in International and Rural Development from the University of Reading, UK.
Selina Prem Kumar
Selina Prem Kumar currently serves as the Sri Lanka country director for World Concern. She works with disadvantaged and marginalized communities, planning, implementing and monitoring development and disaster response programs, supporting up to 32 national staff through innovative training programs, mentoring and capacity building initiatives. The program staff assisted over 30,000 war evacuees in the final stages of the North Sri Lankan conflict to provide transition to safer areas and continues to serve the IDPs north of Trincomalee. Ms. Prem earned a degree in Rural Development and Leadership Training at St. Xavier University, Philippines and presently registered for an Australian MBA program in Sri Lanka. She is fluent in English, Tamil and Sinhala.
Asma Lateef
Asma Lateef serves as director of the Bread for the World Institute. Ms. Lateef is responsible for implementing the Institute’s analysis and education on policy issues related to domestic and global hunger and poverty, including the domestic nutrition and anti-poverty programs, U.S. development assistance, aid effectiveness and reform, agriculture and trade policy. Ms. Lateef has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland and 18 years of experience in public policy. In 2003, Ms. Lateef led Bread for the World’s campaign on global poverty reduction and the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). She co-chaired a national coalition on the MCA for three years. Prior to becoming Institute Director, Ms. Lateef was Director of Policy and Programs at Citizens for Global Solutions. She has also worked for the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Ross Lohr
Ross Lohr is the founder and executive director of NTC (www.NewtonTanzania.org), a non-profit organization connecting classrooms in the United States and Tanzania through cultural exchange and improving educational opportunities for children in Tanzania. Ross is also the co-founder of Project Repat (www.ProjectRepat.org), a social-enterprise t-shirt company supporting local markets and funding development initiatives in East Africa. Originally from Newton, Massachusetts, Ross received a BA in economics and psychology from Boston University and is pursuing an MA in sustainable international development and an MBA in non-profit management from Brandeis University's Heller School of Social Policy and Management.
Juanita Rilling
Juanita Rilling joined the Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) as Director after working 26 years in the U.S. Senate and 6 years in the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). Juanita’s Senate service includes 13 years on the professional staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee where she co-authored the Foreign Operations Subcommittee bills and reports and shepherded them into law. Juanita left the Senate to serve OFDA as a Disaster Operations Specialist for six satisfying years, and then returned briefly to the Senate, contributing as a Director of staff and programs under the Senate Sergeant at Arms. Juanita served on a number of Response Management Teams (RMTs) in OFDA, earning awards for the Gujarat Earthquake RMT, the Kosovo RMT, the Southern Africa Floods RMT and the El Nino Working Group. She rows competitively and has won over 60 medals in local, national and international regattas. Juanita graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English literature. She is thrilled to work with CIDI’s talented team and looks forward to expanding CIDI’s reach and impact in support of optimal public participation in international disaster relief and recovery.
Dr. Paul Robinson
Dr. Paul Robinson, World Concern’s Director of International Health Programs is a physician and public health professional with 21 years of US and international experience in health program designing, planning, budgeting, implementing, managing and monitoring and evaluation. His current responsibility include technical management of health programs, developing program partnerships, proposals, reports and presentation; mentoring and training staff. His work experience includes positions with Care, John Snow, the American Red Cross, Plan International, UNICEF and Northrup-Grumman’s Global AIDS program. Paul has his medical degree (MBBS) from Chittagong Medical College, his Masters’ Degree in Theological Studies (MTS) from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and his Masters’ Degree in Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins University.
Joe Ruiz
Joe Ruiz, Humanitarian Relief Program Manager for The UPS Foundation, manages Corporate Grants for The UPS Foundation and oversees the UPS Humanitarian Relief Program. Joe is responsible for efforts to enhance the disaster preparedness and response capabilities of the humanitarian community through key partnerships in the public and private sector that can benefit from UPS’s logistical expertise and financial resources.
Joe oversees logistical, financial and in-kind support for UPS humanitarian relief efforts. He also oversees the UPS Logistics Emergency Team (LET) loaned executive program with the United Nations Global Logistics Cluster, to prepare and deploy UPS logistics responders to support the World Food Programme’s response to natural disasters. Since 2007 UPS has deployed responders and services to LET initiatives in Indonesia (2007), Myanmar (2008), Haiti (2008), Philippines (2009), Padang (2009), Haiti (2010) Pakistan (2010), and Japan (2011)
Joe has been with UPS for 23 years, serving in various capacities including Pacific Region Communications Manager and Southeast Region Employee Relations manager before joining The UPS Foundation in 2007.
Joe supports the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Disaster Assistance and Recovery Working Group for the Business Civic Leadership Center and manages the UPS Neighbor to Neighbor Program that provides a platform for UPS employees to contribute over 1 million hours of volunteer service each year. Joe volunteers on weekends as a youth baseball coach.
Anastasia L. Thatcher
Anastasia L. Thatcher is the Senior Manager, Accenture Development Partnerships. In 2010, the Catholic Health Association initiated a project to study how its member organizations could best alleviate suffering in the developing world through a responsible medical surplus donation program with efficient, environmentally conscious mechanisms. The project was funded by a grant from the Gerard Health Foundation and conducted for CHA by Accenture Development Partnerships. The initial research was phased to understand the perspectives and needs of three key stakeholder groups: 1) CHA-member hospitals and health systems that donate medical surplus, 2) medical surplus recovery organizations that collect medical surplus from hospital donors and redistribute this surplus to many beneficiaries, and 3) beneficiary organizations that deliver health care to the poor in the developing world. This presentation will discuss the research findings and recommendations.
Barbara Joan Wallace
Barbara Joan Wallace is the Vice President for Membership and Standards for InterAction. Ms. Wallace is responsible for promoting InterAction’s strategic engagement with the leadership of member organizations, developing long-range plans for membership development and expansion and building a strong U.S. NGO community. She also serves on the Independent Sector Membership Committee, the Board of PM4NGOs, and on the Charity Navigator Advisory Panel.
Lori Warrens
Lori Warrens is the executive director of PQMD. She is a strategic-minded executive with a respected career inspiring non-profit leaders, their partners and workforces to translate vision into groundbreaking programs. Ms. Warrens is best known for developing 2-1-1 – an easy to remember telephone number that connects people across North America with important human services and volunteer opportunities in their community.
Speakers - Topic & Working Group Sessions
Taina Alexander
Taina Alexander is the Program Manager of Membership and Standards for InterAction. Ms. Alexander is responsible for strengthening membership relations and developing membership expansion and recruitment strategies. She is the lead staff person working with members onInterAction's PVO Standards and manages the members' compliance through InterAction's Self-Certification-Plus process. She directs the work of InterAction’s Gifts-in-Kind Working Groupand coordinates and supports the quarterly Membership and Standards Board Committee meetings. Prior to joining InterAction, in 2007, Ms. Alexander worked in Cairo, Egypt as a Program Manager for CSA - Community Services Association. In Uganda, she worked for a local micro-finance organization and before that for a FINNIDA-funded Agro-Forestry project in Guatemala. In Nicaragua, Ms. Alexander worked for the Finnish and Norwegian Embassies in various programmatic and operational roles. In the United States, she worked for seven years at the United Nations in New York as a Public Information Officer and Conference Services Officer. Ms. Alexander is multilingual and has a wide range of international exposure and experience, having lived and worked over 20 years in developing countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Jennifer Brenner
Jennifer Brenner, associate director for grant compliance at World Vision, has more than ten years of public and private accounting experience. Jennifer provides guidance to World Vision on not-for-profit accounting and financial reporting and compliance issues. Her experience with not-for-profits includes domestic and international accounting, tax compliance, and gifts-in-kind issues, among other areas. She is a licensed CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner, and received her B.S. degree in accounting from Central Washington University. Jennifer holds memberships in the AICPA, Washington Society of CPAs, and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and is a member of the AICPA not-for-profit expert panel.
Andy Barnes
Andy Barnes is the director of food security for Food for the Hungry. Barnes started his international career in Haiti after college and worked there for seven years in reforestation and agriculture. He then returned to the US and obtained a PhD in Forestry from Auburn University in 1992. After grad school he served for 3 years as a forestry professor at Alemaya University, in eastern Ethiopia and then for 3 years as FH/Ethiopia’s Program Director where he directed a wide range of relief and development programs. Barnes was FH/Ethiopia’s Country Director from 2004 to 2008. In 2008 he returned to the US and became FH’s Director of Food Security where he provides technical and administrative backstopping for US Government-funded food security programs and for the development of new programs.
Gregg Capin
Gregg Capin has over thirty years of experience managing accounting, audit, and advisory services for a wide range of not-for-profit organizations both nationally and internationally. He is a partner in the Atlanta office and serves as National Director of Business Development. Prior to joining the firm in 1979, he served for five years as the accounting and trust manager of the Great Commission Foundation of Campus Crusade for Christ. In addition, he served in accounting, management, and systems development roles for advertising, computer systems, and construction businesses. He holds a B.A. degree from Azusa Pacific University. For many years, Gregg has participated in policy decisions on accounting for not-for-profit organizations. He serves on the AICPA Nonprofit Organizations Expert Panel and is Chair of the AICPA Not-for-Profit Organizations Audit Guide Revision Task Force. He is a member of the recently formed Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee. He serves as chair of the Evangelical Joint Accounting Committee (EJAC), publisher of the Accounting and Financial Reporting Guide for Christian Ministries. With extensive experience, Gregg frequently speaks on not-for-profit accounting and auditing, planned giving administration, exempt organization tax, and other topics at conferences and seminars. He has conducted training within the firm, for industry groups and conferences, and for the AICPA and State CPA Societies. He is a member of the AICPA, Christian Leadership Alliance, and the Georgia CPA Society.
Andrew Crawford
Andrew Crawford, the director of Global Commodity Resourcing (GIK) for Food for the Hungry (FH). Andrew began serving in ministry with FH in 2006 as the Director of Global Commodity Resourcing/ GIK, and presently leads the effort to identify and strategically integrate key commodities within the framework of FH's long-term development programming. He is directly responsible for the health and performance of non-cash resource-focused partnerships, and directly oversees the defined commodity support of FH's Emergency Disaster Response efforts. Previously, Andrew worked in a variety of leadership roles with The Salvation Army in Europe and the US, and spent 7 years in management with Abbott Laboratories. He served as co-chair of InterAction's GIK Subcommittee during the revision of IA's GIK Standards, and has recently been elected to FH's International Council. Outside of work, Andrew passionately enjoys participating in his church's music ministry, coaches recreational soccer, is a "BBC Masterpiece Theater" devotee, and enjoys life most when it is experienced together with his family.
Wayne de Jong
Wayne de Jong is Director Disaster Response & Rehabilitation at the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC). Previously, Wayne was Vice President of International Programs & Strategic Partnerships at Habitat for Humanity Canada for nearly five years. From 1996-2005 he was Director of CRWRC-Cananda. He has also served as Director of Finance at Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) in Malawi and Ethiopia and as Controller of OXFAM Canada in Ottawa. Wayne is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Guelph, with minors in agricultural economics and international development. He lives with his wife Marcia in Hamilton, Ontario, where they attend Immanuel Christian Reformed Church. They have three grown children.
Brent De Rosia
Brent De Rosia is the Assistant Controller for both World Vision International and World Vision U.S. He leads the reporting and compliance efforts and business solutions group at World Vision. Brent has over 17 years of experience in the consulting and accounting, focusing on controllership, treasury activities, tax, business intelligence platforms and innovative business solutions. He holds an MBA and bachelors degree in accounting.
Robert "Marc" Fulmer
Robert "Marc" Fulmer recently was named Director of Aid & Relief / Special Projects with Pilgrim, a Ugandan-based NGO with programs in public health, education, agriculture, public health, aid & relief. He worked from 2003 – mid 2009 as the Chief Operations Officer of Agathos Foundation, a faith-based non-profit dedicated to raising orphans and relief (food, medicines and medical equipment). During his time with Agathos Foundation, Mr. Fulmer oversaw the programs growth from $400,000 in 2006 to over $30 million dollars in 2009. The growth is largely credited to the development of the Agathos Food Relief Program, and the Agathos Medical Relief Program, both of which now operate through Agathos Aid & Relief, a program of Pilgrim and on-the-ground partnerships in Kenya, South Africa, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mr. Fulmer also is a director and partner of Thain Boatworks, Inc. of Everett, Washington and a founding board member of Earthwise Ventures, committed to Heartfelt Investments in Africa. He serves on the board of Persecution Project Foundation and Earthwise Holdings Kampala.
He is a native of Washington State born in Yakima 1950 to Jack and Betty Fulmer. Prior to entering missions work he was an entrepreneur in the construction industry. He closed M2 Construction in March of 2003 to devote full time attention on the Agathos Foundation. He and his wife, Mae, have four adult children and one granddaughter. The Fulmer’s are active members of Damascus Road Church in Marysville, Washington.
Dave Genzink
Dave Genzink, after being raised in Holland Michigan, Dave graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Engineering and later from Aquinas College with a Masters degree in Management. Dave together with his wife Deb worked in Community Development in Haiti from 1975 to 1980 and then helped Haitians adjust to their new country in South Florida in the early 80s. After spending 15 years in management at Genzink Steel, Dave joined Partners Worldwide in 2003 as Director of Operations. Dave’s passion is facilitating entrepreneurial solutions to poverty.
Christy Getman
Christy Getman is currently the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at Lutheran World Relief. Having joined LWR in July of 2011, she is charged with providing strategic leadership to LWR’s efforts to better demonstrate measurable impact of its programs. With over thirteen years of experience in the field of international development and humanitarian aid, Christie has worked both as a project manager and as an M&E specialist, both in field and HQ-oriented roles. Prior to LWR, Christie served as the Head of Programs for the American Red Cross Tsunami Recovery Programs, for three years in Sri Lanka and two years in Thailand. While with Winrock International, Christie played a key role in developing their monitoring and evaluation systems and spent time at both headquarters and based in West Africa, working on agriculture and civic engagement programming. She has a BA from the University of Richmond in International Studies and Leadership Studies, an MA in Anthropology from George Washington University, and in 2009 completed a professional certification program in Sustainable Environmental Management from UC Berkeley.
Barry Hall
Barry Hall is the director of program support for Samaritan’s Purse and leads a gifted team that handles logistics, training, staff card and SP’s incident management structure. At age 20, Barry began a 12-year career in the residential building business in Raleigh before being called into full-time, vocational ministry. Barry joined New Life Ministries in 1987, where he served as Team Leader, Personnel Director and Logistics Coordinator for 8 years. At New Life Ministries, teams traveled all over the US, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, sharing the gospel with children through musical theater productions. Barry joined the Samaritan’s Purse team in November 1995 as Logistics Coordinator. In 1996 he became the Regional Director for Eastern Europe and CIS (Former Soviet Union), handling all SP projects in that region, including SP’s Bosnia and Kosovo responses.
Kevin Horrocks
Kevin Horrocks studied business at Gordon College, a Christian liberal-arts school, in Wenham, MA. Following years working in production management, purchasing and warehouse management, Kevin found his passion in logistics. That passion, experience and a strong desire to serve others, led him to join Samaritan’s Purse as Logistics Manager in May 2011. Prior to May, Kevin was part of the management team overseeing customer service, sales, supply chain and transportation for railroad track component manufacturer Pandrol USA in Bridgeport, NJ.
Jeff Jordan
Jeff Jordan has held senior management roles with overall programmatic responsibilities, including Senior Vice President for Programs at the Catholic Medical Mission Board ($285+ million), and Chief Operating Officer of Constella Futures ($75 million annual revenue) as well as for USAID multi-year global projects, including Acting Director of the $100 million Health Policy Initiative (2006-2007), Deputy Director of the POLICY I and II Projects (1995-2001). He has also served as lead for development activities, including Chief of Program Development, International Relief and Development and Vice President of Program Development and Operations at the Futures Group International. Mr. Jordan’s technical experience spans both domestic and international applications, primarily in HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and reproductive health, including program development, policy communication and constituency building, institution building, and applied policy research and analysis. Mr. Jordan is has been active in international gender issues, and was formerly the Chair of USAID’s Inter-Agency Gender Working Group. His practice areas include policy analysis and presentation training, participatory policy processes through civil society networks, GIS applications of health survey data, work on demographic linkages to related sectors including the environment and food security, and gender. Current responsibilities at the Catholic Medical Mission Board include ensuring the health systems strengthening components within all service delivery, capacity-building and supply chain aspects of the CMMB portfolio globally. Early in his career, Mr Jordan also spent two years as an educational missionary in Seoul and Pusan, South Korea. He has also worked extensively in Hiati beginning in the mid 1990s. Other field applications include work in Benin, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, India, Ivory Coast Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine and Zambia. Mr. Jordan speaks French. He holds a BA in Economics from Davidson College and an M.P.A. in International Development for the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Trevor Knoblich
Trevor Knoblich is the Program Coordinator for Emergency Response at Lutheran World Relief in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2010, he led a global quality and accountability evaluation of LWR’s GiK program, including interviews with more than 4,500 recipients and 30 Lutheran leaders, as well as an electronic survey of more than 25 global partners and 1,000 U.S. Lutherans.
Trevor also serves as an advisor within LWR on compliance with international quality and accountability standards, including the Humanitarian Charter, Sphere minimum standards, and Humanitarian Accountability Partnership principles. He received his B.S. in Communications and Biology from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH in 2004.
John T. "Jock" Menzies
American Logistics Aid Network president John T. “Jock” Menzies is Chairman of The Terminal Corporation, of Baltimore, Maryland. A past chair of the Central Maryland Chapter of the American Red Cross Jock’s experience securing supply chain resources after Hurricane Isabel led him, post Hurricane Katrina, to work with supply chain industry associations as they established the American Logistics Aid Network to support business engagement in meeting relief agency needs.
Rob Smith
Rob Smith is CEO of Earthwise Ventures and president of Thain Boatworks Inc., both of which work with a consortium of African and American companies in order to launch a boat manufacturing company in Uganda to help bring ferry service to Lake Victoria. He is a strong advocate for good business and sound working infrastructure as solutions to poverty, as opposed to most forms of aid. Smith is active in the Christian not-for-profit sector. He founded the Agathos Foundation, which recently merged with Pilgrim, a Ugandan-based Christian relief and development organization. He is on the boards of various African relief and development organizations.
William H. Sunderland
William H. Sunderland has a diverse background including industrial sales, sales management, the development of sports ministry partnerships in the USA and Asia, and sales consulting. In the mid 1980’s, Bill was National Sales Manager for Glascoat, a nation-wide distributor of reinforced plastics raw materials.
During the next fourteen years, Mr. Sunderland was involved in a variety of international ventures. He and his wife lived in Korea for three years and coordinated the evangelistic outreach surrounding the 1988 Olympics. From there he put together various strategic plans concerning church based activities that utilized sports and recreation. During this time he was able to place over twenty professional athletes in seven countries. This experience led to his involvement in developing joint ventures and strategic alliances in China, Taiwan, and Papua New Guinea.
He was involved in negotiating the licensing agreement between London Fog and their Chinese partner, a 1500 home development project in Papua New Guinea, and a joint venture between HJ Heinz and its Star-Kist Seafood division and the government of Papua New Guinea.
As Manger of Sales and Marketing for a mid-size contract manufacturer in Silicon Valley, Bill developed and implemented a dynamic sales and marketing strategy helping to turn around the sales program from four years of no growth to a 25% year over year growth rate.
He is now with visionSynergy, a ministry which seeks to accelerate world evangelization among the neediest and most unreached by empowering the global Church’s commitment to Kingdom collaboration. The small team of associates at visionSynergy assists in the development of collaborative, working networks within the global Church. Bill currently consults Earthwise Ventures in East Africa.
Susan Talbot
Susan Talbot serves as co-chair of the InterAction GIK Working Group which is currently revising the IA GIK standards. She also serves as board treasurer of Accord. She has served on the Accord GIK Affinity Group since its inception in January 2006 and had a leadership role in the development of the revised 2009 AERDO GIK Standards. Susan joined World Concern in 2005 and has managed the GIK program since 2006. Susan holds an MBA in International Development from Hope International University and a BA in Business Administration from Northwest University
Jacinta Tegman
Jacinta Tegman is the Senior Director of International Operations at World Concern, a Christian relief and development organization based in Seattle, WA. Jacinta has over two decades of ministry experience having served as a missionary and later as an associate pastor at a large church in Edmonds, WA. In her time at World Concern Jacinta has worked with churches, individuals, and large foundations who have a desire to make a difference in some of the most needy and difficult places on the planet. In her current role, Jacinta oversees the international staff ensuring that the mission of World Concern, to relieve human suffering in the name of Christ, is expressed in word and deed.
Randy Valentine
Randy Valentine is the Director of HISG's Business Development Initiative Network (BDIN) and Business Partners in Action (BPA). The BDIN has identified 10 key components necessary for successful community transformation through the training and development of entrepreneurs. BDIN has launched in 7 African nations and is looking to launch in 6 more nations in the Middle East and Asia in the next year. BPA helps to identify and vet sustainable business opportunities around the globe and then matches those opportunities with investors and venture capital funds that desire to use their resources to make a difference in poor communities. Randy has a broad range of experience in for-profit and non-profit organizations, including McAfee.com, TiVo and Focus on the Family. As the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility has been steadily gaining momentum, HISG has engaged in projects with business professionals who want to emulate HISG's model for transforming communities.
Stacia Vong-Hogeterp
Stacia Vong-Hogeterp has been with World Vision Canada for nearly 13 years and is currently the Team Leader of the Resources-in-kind unit within the Resource Development and Collaborative Innovation Department. In this position, Stacia is responsible for providing overall leadership and management for World Vision Canada’s acquisition of donated resources-in-kind and effective and quality programming, including food aid programming and environment and climate change. Stacia also has experience in developing and managing strategic partnerships such as private corporations, institutions, foundations, and other non-governmental organizations.
Carol Wylie
Carol Wylie joined World Vision in 2007 as the director of product movement and in 2010 became director of GIK operations. Carol’s career prior to World Vision included operational leadership roles in truck manufacturing and distribution, following her six-year career with the Air Defense & Logistics units in the US Army. In addition to Carol’s extensive work in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of operations, she holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and a Master of Science degree from Chapman University in Human Resource Management.
