Mark Sevier Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, MD, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Led an internal adaptive management group, improving project efficiency, effectiveness, and partnerships.
• Co-designed an industry-wide adaptive management initiative, enhancing market system activity outcomes for implementers and donors.
• Secured over $100M in new business as lead writer and proposal lead.
• Managed and mentored private sector specialists, driving strategy design and project implementation.
• Spearheaded the organization-wide private sector engagement strategy across corporate and public sector donors.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Provided private sector engagement and market systems support to a $150 million portfolio of projects in Bangladesh, Ghana, Mozambique, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Tajikistan.
• Designed and spearheaded ACDI/VOCA’s organization wide private sector engagement strategy
• Developed private sector engagement tools for projects and new business teams to effectively co-design and manage partnerships with the private sector
• Co-developed and led a private sector engagement training series.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed a network of 150 acceleration providers, investors, and commercial agribusinesses valued at $200M total revenues.
• Led a team of 5 to strengthen commercial agribusiness capacity in emerging markets by 20%.
• Owned a $50M portfolio in emerging markets, resulting in $65M in sales and reaching 1M+ smallholder customers.
• Facilitated capacity building and training to achieve an additional $20M in capital to be secured by companies.
• Connected 30 organizations to acceleration service providers, commercial investors, and programs partners.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Negotiated and managed a $40M portfolio of public-private partnerships and monitored milestone-based payments.
• Oversaw subaward and USAID Mission relationships, addressing challenges and complying with reporting requirements.
• Communicated the value proposition of programs to donors, investors, and other partner stakeholders.
• Mentored 2 partnerships specialists in designing, negotiating, and managing investments in commercial agribusinesses.
• Directed a large portfolio in Mozambique at $17M and secured a $10M extension from USAID to invest in private partners.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Discovered priorities, partnership opportunities, potential grantees, and stakeholders for 50 companies in 17 countries.
• Drafted and negotiated 11 grant agreements valued at $2M each, securing investments in less than 6 months.
• Collaborated with 4 missions on the design process, including Malawi, Mozambique, Ukraine, and Benin.
• Streamlined internal procedures to gain a 20% time savings, and developed budgets, scopes of work, and fixed price contracts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Controlled a $10M portfolio of sensitive agriculture development projects in 3 countries in Asia and Africa.
• Created proposals, technical reports, and budgets to support the new business development process and attain 300% growth.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Kabarole, Uganda

Washington D.C. Metro Area