- Shared expertise spanning from tech and governance to product strategy.

- Led North and South America Risk Execution/Solutions with teams in Austin, Dublin, Singapore, and Brazil. - Safeguarded over $50 million in revenue and led day-to-day operations to ensure timely execution of KPIs and OKRs, providing both technical and subject matter expertise to 13+ direct reports.- Led Solutions Team to deliver risk control, new products, workflow incubation, creative solutions, and risk prevention analysis, including Machine Learning and AI products to global stakeholders.- Product Managed and identified opportunities to improve processes, workflows, protocols, and policies at scale to reduce risk.- Served as primary point of contact for ensuring global alignment and provided ad-hoc solutions support to multiple stakeholders in Product, Policy, Engineering, Legal, Strategy, and Sales.- Drafted a report for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to inform and regulate on advertising and tech policy. - Collaborated with stakeholders and U.S government to safeguard user data through a focused on governance, data protection policies, and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. - Led teams through two organizational restructures with 0% turnover.

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- Developed and implemented organizational Business Development (BD) processes and Strategic Planning that dramatically increased annual grant wins from $23M to $90M over 1.5 years.- Oversaw all BD work across three departments and as part of the Senior Management Team. Routinely managed teams of up to 10, including senior staff and consultants.- Identified, evaluated, and developed new business and strategic Public-Private partnerships and proposals, including with Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Southwest Airlines.- Developed and led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the organization.- Developed BD pipeline, contracts, knowledge management, communications, budgets, and talent acquisition.- Led capture efforts and proposal teams to win new business by drafting and overseeing proposal narratives, logic models, risk analysis, key personnel, recruitment, work plans, M&E, and all annexes.- Program Design, Proposal Writing, and Intelligence Gathering: Successfully submitted multimillion-dollar winning proposals and budgets for USG funding, including USAID, USDA, DOS, and USDOL in Latin America. o Project Countries: U.S, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, Indonesia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the Caribbean. o Project Themes: governance, economic development, public-private partnerships, energy, agriculture, food security, education, capacity building, media, youth advocacy and employment, child protection, human trafficking, gender-based violence, labor rights, blockchain technology, and cultural exchanges. - Built and strengthened strong donor cultivation with U.S and foreign government donors.

- Business Development: Designed and wrote concept papers, proposals, scopes of work, grant agreements, roll-up and detailed budgets, Cost/Price Analysis, RFAs, technical capacity and program risk assessments, field consultant contracts, briefings, press releases, and quarterly project reports for USG funded projects.- Planned and conducted advocacy including panels of experts and briefings, bringing regional human rights defenders to D.C and connecting them to key stakeholders on Capitol Hill, DOS, and OAS. - Served as liaison between field offices, D.C headquarters, and USG donors. - Provided programmatic training and support including financial, logistical, administrative, research, writing,- Program Design and Management: simultaneously administered a USAID and two US Department of State DRL multimillion-dollar grants in Ecuador and Guatemala, including 17 subgrants on economic development, disaster relief, civil society capacity building, and women’s empowerment.- Designed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools, tracking mechanisms, work plans, project milestones, disbursement plans and deliverables to monitor the project’s progress on meeting goals and forecast objectives in compliance with USG donors and Freedom House. - Conducted field visits to monitor and evaluate project implementation and impact, conduct research for future program design and meet with NGOs, CSOs, government officials, vulnerable indigenous populations, and academic partners.

- Business Development: Directed the marketing, communications, and strategy teams for effective media engagement and advertising campaigns, increasing sales by 35%.- Developed and implemented annual marketing budgets for high-end luxury brands including Chanel, Patek Philippe, and Chopard.

- Conducted extensive independent research leading to the 20-page report “Casos Comparativos de mención a terceros por Comisiones de la Verdad;” a comparative analysis of different Truth Commissions, their processes, decisions, outcomes, and lessons learned, which was later used to make delicate decisions pertaining third party involvement.

- Conducted field research in the rural outskirts of Colombia on violent conflict, corruption, and factors that impede economic prosperity. Analyzed the peace process and challenges encountered between the government, the paramilitary, and the FARC. - Performed qualitative research and interviewed victims of war violence, internally displaced people, demobilized FARC, civil society, NGOs, and Colombian government representatives leading to a 52-page Georgetown University published thesis on violent conflict in Mexico and Colombia that stems from grand corruption.

- Business Development: led fundraising campaigns, wrote grants, and promoted organization through social media outlets.- Published weekly features for global news sites MediaGlobal and UNEarth News and managed websites.- Covered the General Assembly, Security Council, and other UN high-level meetings. Conducted research, analyzed reports, and conducted interviews with Ambassadors and the President of General Assembly.

- Co-managed the coordination and execution of the release of the 2013 Creative Economy Report at the UN, including media engagement.

- Analyzed political issues and articulated viable solutions with the campaign and community organizations to increase visibility and name identification by collecting data and coordinating community events.

• Researched potential international markets for tidal-energy services and presented the results • Translated magazine articles into Spanish and worked with a team to develop the company’s social media