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United States

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Kisumu, Kenya, Ke

Afrimatrix is a leading supplier of market research and professional development programs. We pride ourselves on excellence across all of our engagements and work towards building trusted advisor status with our clients.We work in more than 75 countries, with an emphasis on hard-to-target sample in emerging markets. All of our qualitative and quantitative work is done in house by seasoned research and consulting experts.

MifugoHela is a fintech starup focused on digital payments and trader security in the Northern Kenya livestock sector. My role was to guide investor strategies, connect the dots between our banking partners, livestock traders, and partner organizations, and to build out a multi-year roadmap for reaching hundreds of thousands of traders across Northern Kenya and move towards a larger pan-African roadmap rapidly.

Nairobi, Nairobi, Ke

Great produce, fair prices, reliable last-mile delivery. Farmula uses proprietary techniques to accurately predict fair market prices ensuring that farmers receive fair compensation for their inputs and our clients receive high quality, fresh from the farm produce at excellent bulk prices. Farmula is rolling out a covid-19 B2C offering to help ensure that families can obtain their food stock needs by delivery produce and goods safely, quickly, and at below market prices.My work with Farmula includes corporate strategy,go-to-market advisory services, and business development and relationship building. Additionally, I provide general relationship management services with potential Farmula investors, clients, and consumers.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

The Wadhwani Foundation has a well laid out path towards large-scale, high-value job creation internationally, with an emphasis on emerging market economies. We aspire to globally empower millions and thus transform the individual, their family, and generations to come and are currently operating in 19 countries, including 8 countries in Africa. My specific charge is to manage the Entrepreneurship as well as the Opportunity programs for the East Africa region. I work with a team of Program Managers, Trainers, and Strategists to implement proven entrepreneurship training programs for Africa's next generation of leaders. This entails developing an ecosystem to support entrepreneurial and job skills trainings and support programs through universities and colleges, community organizations, incubators and accelerators, co-working spaces, and government partners.

East African Social Ventures (EASV) is a social enterprise organization working in the sustainable and equitable economic development space. We exist to meet dual goals of creating attractive investor ROI as well as large-scale job creation and economic development for bottom-of-the-pyramid African workers. Our focus on sustainable business management, including an extremely strong commitment to worker’s rights and community involvement, will shift the conversation and expectations of fair employment and compensation practices in the East African agribusiness and social enterprise sectors. Currently we’re focused on agribusiness, specifically large-scale, modernized poultry farming. East Africa’s quickly growing middle class means that the demand for higher-quality protein sources is currently far outpacing supply and as such presents a tremendous opportunity for social enterprise organizations to revolutionize the agribusiness industry in a more economically and socially just manner – which is exactly where EASV steps in. EASV isn't an outside organization looking to change an economic problem - key leadership and board positions at EASV are held by East African citizens. When you are the community you serve, inclusion is simply how you do business. www.easocialventures.com

Cognition is a full-service boutique market research agency specializing in bridging market research and management consulting functionalities across B2C and B2B intelligence needs. As a Partner in the firm, I was charged with business development, serving as the firm’s lead quantitative analyst, client relationship management, and oversight of junior and mid-level team members. - Managed a 16-country B2B IT recycling tracking study, including development of executive dashboards to disseminate KPI metrics across the clients’ senior management team. - Pitched & won 6 month, 3-phase mixed qual/quant engagement around a new consumer technology launch. - Developed & led Cognition’s Strategy Implementation Workshops. - Merged modern data science techniques with traditional market research methods.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

IDC is the world’s largest technology market consulting firm. I managed IDC’s largest survey-based consumer electronics research program, covering consumer technology research in 26 countries worldwide. I also served as IDC’s in-house market research methodology expert, providing on-the-ground and virtual training in market research techniques to IDC analysts across the globe. - Managed syndicated and custom research engagements in the US and worldwide, with a large emphasis on emerging markets. - Member of the Global Research Advisory Committee, providing methodological expertise to IDC programs and analysts worldwide. - Frequent speaker at key industry events such as CES, Directions, etc. in the US and globally. - Managed and grew multi-year 6-figure relationships with leading tech firms including Microsoft, HP, Sony, AMD, Toshiba, Seagate, Western Digital, OPPO, AT&T, Verizon, Activision, etc.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Managed all aspects of Kelton’s west coast quantitative research projects from proposal development to final deliverables. Managed custom research engagements for clients in the FMCG, retail, entertainment, and NGO industries including brands such as Vans, Forever 21, Wynn Hotel, LA Jewish Community Center, Green Giant, etc. - Pitched & won $170k consumer segmentation study to the Wynn Hotel, resulting in more tailored entertainment package offerings to Wynn Hotel guests. - Built & managed Kelton’s west coast quantitative research team. - Worked extensively with the Vice President, Qualitative Research to develop the best in mixed-methods research solutions for Kelton clients.

ORC was North America’s premier political polling and forecasting organization and provides both B2C and B2B custom market research solutions. I served in the position of Senior Marketing Scientist, leading marketing analytics projects across B2B and B2C consulting engagements. Worked across industries including pharma/healthcare, tech, education, CPG, retail, and advertising. - Managed Houghton & Mifflin’s build out of new data-centric approach to JIT (Just In Time) textbook printing & delivery for Houghton & Mifflin nationwide. - Pitched and won market research projects for Medtronic, Pfizer, and other medical and pharma industry clients. - Collaborated with VP & C-level executives across the organization to develop new productized ORC research offerings.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Socratic Technologies provides custom research & brand consulting engagements for a variety of clients across B2B and B2C industries and manages their own internal respondent panels. I was promoted twice in one year, including skipping a traditional Manager-level title entirely, from Associate Analyst to Director, Research Sciences. Ultimately moved to Chicago from SF to support the growth of the Midwest and East Coast practice. - Launched new division of the company, Socratic Analytics, to provide premier advanced analytics solutions for Socratic’s clients. - Project management, advanced statistical modeling, and deliverables for clients including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Blackberry, Golf Magazine, Yahoo!, Allstate, Johnson & Johnson, Hyatt, Toyota, etc. - Partnered with sales executives to prospect and win new projects, including 6-figure segmentation studies.

Oversaw all operations including finance, patient advocacy, compliance, logistics, and strategy for MMDS, San Francisco's first medical marijuana delivery service. MMDS served only legitimate medical clients - patients with HIV/AIDS, Cancer, MS, and Glaucoma primarily - and existed to fulfill a pressing need in the midst of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. My role as Executive Director was to ensure that MMDS operated fully within the framework of California's Proposition 215 law, and that our focus remained on providing medicine to patients - this required a deep understanding of the emerging legal framework MMDS was operating in as well as a vision for organizational planning, operations, and corporate and brand strategy. I oversaw a large team working across marketing, legal, strategy/expansion, operations, and supply chain functionalities. Our work ultimately became a guiding force in the city-wide implementation of compassionate access to medical marijuana for bay area residents with serious medical issues.

Executive Mba, Business Administration

Bachelor'S, Mathematics