Lynley Mannell, Mba Email & Phone Number

Canada

• Market Systems Development | Access to Finance | SME Growth | Technical Assistance | Investment
• Managed the development, delivery, and execution of advisory and implementation engagements for a variety of international and national clients;
• Led strategic plan development, market assessments, learning briefs, and more for programs around the world.
• Developed and delivered trainings related to access to finance, market systems, cross cutting sectors, entrepreneurship, SME growth and bootstrapping, and more.
• Facilitated ±$20,000-150,000-sized investments to entrepreneurs from international high-net-worth individuals, local operations of international programs including revising service delivery strategy for a business.

East Java, Indonesia

• Program Management | Economic Growth | Market Systems | DFATThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)-funded, AUD $80 million PRISMA-2 project is one of the largest market systems development (MSD).
• Led the team in mapping industry trends, conducting analysis on internal and external data and developing innovative business models to support private sector-led growth in the Indonesian agri-finance and technology.
• Developed 12 new private sectors partnerships, 13 new social impact projects also called MSD interventions (5 despite COVID-19) and grew the team 4x (from 3 to 11);
• In adapting to COVID the program reevaluated strategy, approach and targets. I was able to lead my team to pivot some partnerships so they could quickly adapt and weather the financial storm that resulted.

East Java, Indonesia

• Access to Finance | Economic Growth | Private Sector Investment | Team Leader | Market Systems | DFATSAFIRA was a finance-focused MSD program among a four-program suite collectively called ‘AIP-Rural’. Accomplishments:
• Managed to completion the DFAT-funded, AUD$4 million program to increase incomes of marginalized groups by 30%;
• Took the program from 0% to 160% of incomes increased within two years by revisiting market constraints to growth, mobilizing the team and operationalizing a new strategy to utilize finance in increasing production;
• Pivoted a focused strategy for small scale micro-finance and coached the team to see opportunities in various models, including agent-based models, digitalization, and incorporating SMEs.

Remote

• Blended Finance | Social Impact | Economic Growth | Business Growth | Private Sector | DFATBPP is a technical assistance facility focused on joint impact projects between public and private sectors which currently.
• Supported the development and evaluation of business plans for shared value initiatives in Cambodia and Laos for private and non-profit sector partnerships to ensure value for money and sustainability of various.

Kigali, Rwanda

• Impact Investment | Program Management | Small Business Growth | Technical Assistance
• Managed a pipeline of £100,000 allocated for impact investment including scouting potential enterprises, deal support, investor relations, and technical assistance of entrepreneurs pre and post-investment;
• With the success of the first fund and 5 investments of patient capital still supporting the businesses today, this paved the way for 2 larger funds to be developed;
• Engaged in extremely diverse sectors including fintech, renewable energy, fashion, agriculture, logistics, etc.

Kigali, Rwanda

• Business Plan Review | Small Business Growth | Entrepreneurship | Mentorship | Investment
• Supporting business plan competitions as a judge and mentor, working with entrepreneurs post investment.

Kigali, Rwanda

• Economic Growth | Impact Investment | Blended finance | Program Management | FCDO
• Implement and manage a complex UK Department for International Development (DFID now FCDO)-funded, £10 million, quasi-MSD program to support economic development in Rwanda;
• Incorporated blended finance for equity and convertible debt investments into 5 seed stage businesses and managed a team of technical assistance to support the businesses;
• Directed and guided the portfolio of high-growth social impact businesses, advising on business strategy, impact, sustainability and marketing plans, as well as program leadership, HR, and donor reporting.
• Supported the delivery of high-level events to support partnership development with UK investors.

Rwanda, Malawi, Ethiopia

• Finance | Technical Assistance | Malawi | Ethiopia | Consultant | UNCDF
• Trained ±200 bright young people in financial education training of trainers (ToT) on rural financial products on behalf of financial institutions in Rwanda, Malawi, and Ethiopia.

Bujumbura, Burundi

• Private Sector Development | SME Development | Program Management | Burundi | BZ
• Initiated and managed a US $5 million, 5-year, country-wide program from the ground up including negotiating and contracting with six local partner organizations to strengthen the Burundian private sector by supporting.
• Hired and managed local staff, responsible for all program progress, administration, operations and donor reporting.

Kigali, Rwanda And Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Partnership Management | Consulting | Organizational Development | Framework | RM | CIDA
• Tailored and implemented an end-to-end partnership development framework across Rwanda and Ethiopia;
• Engineered annual review systems, program execution procedures, selection, M&E, and strategic planning for partner organizations in Rwanda and Ethiopia;
• Working within a CIDA-funded (Canadian Development Agency now Global Affairs Canada (GAC) project to bring business expertise as consultants into the program management side of VSO operations.

San Francisco, California

• Business Development | Private Sector | Stakeholder Engagement | Project Management
• Promoted from Service Coordinator to Business Development Associate within eight months and was relocated from Toronto to San Francisco;
• Provided strategic support to Regional Sales Director and backstopped for five global account executives;
• Built and maintained solid relationships with 15 of top 100 Fortune-500 companies;
• Collaborated on high value projects including various international proposals for programs across 25 countries, 12 languages and worth up to US $25 Million.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Project Coordination | Business Development Support | Client Engagement
• Supported the implementation of global service contracts for large multinational client base
• International project operations from headquarters in North America

Toronto, Canada

Community Engagement | Coordination | Legal Aid Clinic | Data Entry

Toronto, Canada

Development Goals | Research | Reaching Development Targets | SPSS | Data Entry

Honours Bsc, Cultural Anthropology & Psychology

Masters, Project Management

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Certificate, Managing Global Initiatives, Strategy & Execution