Seasoned international affairs executive with experience managing multi-continent operations in diverse organizations both at strategic and internal management levels with demonstrable knowledge and solid understanding of current global, geopolitical and economic issues with specific focus on Ukraine and operational experience across Eastern Europe and Central America. Leveraging a legal visa-based employment program to create economic opportunities for more than 40,000 legal visa holders and refugees to earn via seasonal employment opportunities in support of US food security interests through domestic, wild-harvest seafood production in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. These efforts have helped to empower a nascent middle class across Eastern Europe and Central America. Lifetime programmatic earnings repatriations exceed $425M USD, with remittances to Ukraine exceeding $100M USD.