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Berkeley, California, United States

As a boutique consultancy focused exclusively on tackling the global energy access deficit, Catalyst helps clients navigate the complex energy access landscape, untangling the diversity of business models, technologies, and financing structures that can be leveraged to scale up power solutions for households, businesses, and institutions. Our team has decades of combined experience as energy access practitioners, including at respected organizations such as the World Bank, SolarNow, d.light, S&P Global, EarthSpark, Bboxx, SolarWorks, Engie Energy Access, EcoEnergy, and Mobisol. Visit us at www.catalyst-advisors.com

Berkeley, California, United States

PAYGo Lab is a game-changing innovation that improves credit management and portfolio monitoring capacity across the off-grid solar industry. The Lab’s team of seasoned experts works collaboratively with companies to understand the root causes of credit management challenges, and develop a comprehensive, actionable plan. We help build systems, tools and capabilities to sustainably manage a portfolio at scale, including the design of a self-learning customer credit scoring tool.

VentureBuilder is catalyzing a new generation of Africa off-grid solar enterprises. We provide early-stage equity in the form of cash and enterprise development services (EDS) to African-owned and-managed solar businesses, focused on building capabilities, processes and systems around our strategic support pillars: strategy & leadership, corporate finance, operations, and consumer credit.

Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, And Berkeley, Ca

• Conceptualized idea and assembled founding team to deliver household energy access via off-grid solar energy in West Africa.• Launched Côte d'Ivoire's first PAYGo solar offering.• Led fundraising with institutional and angel investors, and developed partnerships with key industry players.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed the Lighting Africa program, providing strategic leadership to the joint World Bank/IFC team, and identified new ways to catalyze market approaches to delivering off-grid energy access:- Leveraged $5 million of program resources with over $80 million of World Bank financing (Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, DRC, Uganda); additional project pipeline established in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Sudan.- Scaled up program to support solar home systems and pay-as-you-go approaches.- Supervised preparation of flagship market trends report, in partnership with BNEF.• Managed high-profile, large-scale renewable power generation projects in central and west Africa (Inga 3 HPP, Lom Pangar HPP, Adjarala HPP, Kribi Power).

• Oversaw investment portfolio of $2 billion in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.

Yaounde, Cameroon

• Ran country office with 40 staff and $2 million annual budget.• Managed $800 million portfolio of lending and analytic activities.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led community recovery programming in the Central African Republic and Burundi.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Jointly managed preparation of community development projects in Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome, Albania, and Guinea; $250 million cumulative financing.

Kampala, Uganda

• Managed study abroad program that combined traditional coursework with field-based learning into a rigorous academic program for students from American universities. • Oversaw program administration, including program budget and supervision of 11 staff.• Program theme was rural development.

Botswana

• Ran day-to-day operations of semester-long, field-based study abroad program for U.S. undergraduate students. • Program theme was conservation and ecology.

Ophir, Co

• Managed operations of burgeoning start up non-profit organization that offered innovative volunteer programs in India.

Ophir, Co

• Managed operations of burgeoning start up-non-profit organization that offered innovative volunteer programs in India.

Master Of Arts (Ma), International Relations And Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)