Emily Thorpe is a Deputy Director, Enterprise Business Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She possess expertise in project management, cross functional team leadership, business process, management, business analysis and 15 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I had the pleasure of working with Emily as a part of managing the technical project portfolio for Intellectual Ventures. Together, we were able to develop dicipline and approaches to managing many complex operational and technical initiatives for the organization within each of our respective portfolios. Emily is a strong operations excellence resource, and is a tremendous strategic asset." and "I worked with Emily while at WaMu. Emily is a very effective and intelligent Project Manager. She is able to effectively manage cross-functional efforts and provides a level of thoroughness not found in all managers. Emily is also a very dedicated employee and puts the effort in to get the job completed. I highly recommend Emily for any project management role."