Matthew Chambers Email & Phone Number

United States; Kenya

Manage all investment operations of US, Philippine and African offices.www.chambersfederation.comRecipient of the US Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE)

• CODE Femmes is a women-led, survivor-focused manufacturing cooperative in eastern Congo making the world's best chocolate and jewelry from local & responsibly sourced goods. My responsibilities include:
• Advice on the organization's strategic direction and ensure that it is aligned with the organization's mission and values.
• Provide guidance and support to the executive director and other staff members.
• Advice on the organization's financial, legal affairs and international manufacturing quality control.

• Origins Innovations Labs is a women-led training mechanism empowering women with essential skills to participate in value addition chains. Through their comprehensive programs, women are equipped with the necessary.
• Provide guidance to shape effective training mechanisms for women joining value chains and right equipment and tools that the women need.
• Advice on compliance to local and international ethics
• Monitoring and evaluation champion: Establish robust frameworks to measure program impact and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure resource allocation and operations align with regulatory standards and best practices

• As a board member of Alliance for Responsible Mining,
• His expertise in Sustainable Market System Development allowed him to advise on strategies that fostered responsible and sustainable market systems for small-scale mining communities.
• He championed for Traceability and Compliance, advocating for and overseeing the establishment of traceability mechanisms to track the origin of minerals, promoting transparency and compliance with international.
• Assisted ARM in expansion into new territories and fundraising activities
• Participated along other board members in reviews and revisions of Fair Mine and CRAFT
• Contributed to their financial rehabilitation, ensuring their budget aligned perfectly with their needs.

• The Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge: The Amazon is a global call for innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs from all over the world to develop and implement solutions that address the environmental and social.
• Proposal Reviewer: Evaluate and assess project proposals for their viability and potential impact on addressing artisanal and small-scale gold mining issues in the Amazon.
• Subject Matter Expert: Provide valuable insights and guidance based on expertise in commercial viability and scaling, environmental conservation, and sustainable mining practices.
• Mentor and Advisor: Offer guidance and mentorship to selected participants in refining their solutions and strategies for implementation.
• Advocate and Ambassador: Raise awareness and promote the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge to encourage participation and support for the initiative.

Goma, DRC

• Recycle tribe is a social enterprise that finds value and purpose in discarded materials from the construction and shipping industries
• Matthew founded and led the social enterprise.
• The enterprise supported and empowered women by providing them with training and employment opportunities.

• (Update/Expansion)
• Recycle Tribe expanded to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Within the first two months of operation, Recycle Tribe DRC recycled over 5 tons of wood waste into stylish, eco-friendly furniture.

Goma, DRC

• Cocoa Congo was the first company to provide full value addition to locally grown cocoa beans in the DRC by creating the first bean to bar chocolate processing unit.
• The company's products were organic, fair-trade, single origin, artisanal, and hand-crafted.
• The company was entirely women- led. The women continue to this day to manufacture chocolate on their own as members of CODE Femmes

Bukavu, DRC (Congo)

• The fair Congo Initiatives was project that aimed to create a transparent, legal, and sustainable supply chain for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Matthew’s.
• Development of a formal route to Market for responsibly sourced Gold.
• Tested, Implemented and Refined 5 different donor funded due diligence and traceability systems and later combining the best of all of them, created a single system which operates in the DRC.
• Building relationships with key stakeholders, including government officials, mining communities, and buyers of ASM gold.
• Monitoring and evaluating the project's progress.

Nairobi

• Recycle tribe is a social enterprise that finds value and purpose in discarded materials from the construction and shipping industries.
• Matthew founded and led the social enterprise
• The enterprise supported and empowered women by providing them with training and employment opportunities.

Kibera, Nairobi Kenya

• Founded and directed a for-profit, woman-owned company that supports women in Kenya by financing, training, and empowering them to gain government contracts.
• The company handled everything from general supply to construction, and focuses on disadvantaged areas such as Kibera and the rural areas of Kenya.

United States

• Oversaw on behalf of Federal and Private Banking clients with over $2.5 billion in assets under management. Clients included: Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, FHA, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan Bank, Duestche Bank, Citibank.