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Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi County, Kenya

Supporting IPS portfolio companies' strategy with initial focus on Farmer's Choice, the largest meat processor in East Africa.

Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Supported founder and Head of Ops with planning, performance management, field operations, quality control, and sales operations. Degas currently finances 25,000 farmers in Ghana, supplies major Ghanain and MNC companies with maize and soy, runs a large regenerative agriculture program and is developing AI for agric.

Nairobi County, Kenya

Advised founders of multinational rurally distributed poultry company operating across 6 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (including Ethiochicken, Uzima Chicken, Premier Poultry and Prestige Poultry), producing and distributing over 40 million chicks annually.

Nairobi, Kenya

Venture-backed agricultural fintech startup providing individual loans to 200,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya and Zambia - Designed and led Access to Subsidized Fertilizers program to help farmers register for, afford and access government subsidized fertilizers, including partnerships with county governments and launch of new credit products - Built.

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

Nigerian diversified food and agriculture company with ~$2 billion in annual revenue- Pioneered nationwide program to transform wheat production in Nigeria and reduce food imports and pressure on currency- Convened landmark partnership between the food industry, Central Bank of Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, domestic and.

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

Advised Indian agricultural seed company looking to enter the Ethiopian market.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Seconded by World Food Programme to Ethiopian government agency, co-founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Led department of 80 people with budget of $6 million to improve the impact and efficiency of ATA’s projects with smallholder farmers, through teams covering Evaluation & Learning, Planning & Reporting, Communications.
• Launched and operationalized new Delivery Unit team embedded in the Ministry of Agriculture
• Led recruitment of over 35 people to establish and rebuild teams
• Revised numerous project designs and distilled learnings from closed projects
• Started the Women’s Development Initiative and redesigned the Risk Committee

Seattle, USA

Advising the Agricultural Development team. Assessed impact of private sector investments to date, and developed strategy for improved collaboration with the private sector. Overhauled data management for broader investment portfolio.

Researched the state of agricultural extension systems in Nigeria and Bangladesh for USAID Developing Local Extension Capacity project, and published paper on the results: Nigeria: In-Depth Assessment of Extension and Advisory Services

Various

Traveled in South Africa, Rwanda, DRC, Kenya, Ethiopia and Japan. Worked on an organic farm. Volunteered on the Bernie Sanders US presidential campaign.

Pune, India

Previously COO, VP of Market Development, Director of Business Development for venture capital-backed agtech startup. We covered 28,000 acres with low-cost high-return drip irrigation, improving the lives of over 100k people through 2015, primarily in India.- Led and successfully closed sale of company to Jain Irrigation, the 2nd largest drip irrigation.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Developed distribution partnerships and managed technical integration for early stage mobile money startup Telepasti.

New York And Mexico City

Worked with financial services firms, nonprofit and government clients in the US, Mexico, Central America, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Nigeria to plan and implement new strategies and operational improvements:- Led first phase of economic development strategy for a national government, including sizing potential impact of government interventions - Designed.

Armonk, New York, United States

Analyzed credit quality of $5 billion of securitizations of aircraft and containers in Global Corporate Structured Finance division of bond insurer, and presented to the CEO.

New York, New York, United States

Drafted legal documentation and managed deal closings for $50 billion of structured debt offerings of banks and insurance companies at top 5 corporate law firm. Managed Prisoners’ Rights Project with Legal Aid Society.

B.S., Management Science

Studied at Beijing University, Associate Advisor to freshmen, Varsity Crew

Mia, International Finance & Policy

- Teaching Assistant (awarded to top 3% of class) for International Capital Markets - Research for Moody’s Investor Services analyzing.

Education record

Education record

Education record