I am constantly humbled by how many extraordinary people and organizations care deeply about our planet's wild places, and are stepping up philanthropically to help safeguard them. As our planet faces this decisive decade for nature, I have the honor of connecting these people to those wild places that most need their help, so that they can make a tangible impact on wildlife conservation efforts.

Led an award-winning African environmental nonprofit with high growth, despite the COVID pandemic, to achieve multiple conservation accomplishments.• Strategy: Set innovative new strategy to expand the organizational mission, and undertook conservation projects of global significance. "Strategic" is a Top 5 strength-finder skill.• Development and Fundraising: Passionate fundraiser singlehandedly grew revenues by over 400+% in three years. • Grants: Successfully secured multiple 6 and 7-figure grants.• Major donors: Identified, qualified, cultivated, and solicited major and planned gifts from individuals, corporations, and foundations valued at over $8 million.• Capital campaigns: Designed and initiated a $30M capital plan.• Planned giving: Designed and launched a new legacy program.• Programming: Notable organizational projects include managing 500,000+ acres of protected area, initiating a new 283,000-acre conservation corridor, accomplishing the first great ape survey in a biodiversity hotspot, and pioneering better ways to rewild gorillas.• Scaling: Grew staff on payroll by 363% over 3 years.• Partnerships: Grew organizational collaborations with significant partners, resulting in major funding opportunities and growth. • Operational Excellence: Our rapid programmatic growth rate was supported by financial, IT, and ops systems growth to match. • Finance: Focused on multi-year fundraising to stabilize the organization’s finances. Overhauled the budget and accounting system and undertook the first audit.

Founded and managed an industry-leading and award-winning business coaching organization that uniquely equips small businesses and entrepreneurs in building their dream businesses and achieving six-figure incomes. • Channel & Partner Expertise: Built a network of business coaching partners in 26 locations across three different countries over the course of eight years. This included prospecting cold leads, signing them up as partners and nurturing them to build the network from scratch.• Business Consultant and Expert: Consulted with over 261 small businesses during the last 8 years within the areas of strategy, business development, marketing, pricing, and scaling. • Business Sales: Achieved sales of $1.872 million in $8,500 consulting and coaching products since 2013. Researched, identified and nurtured new prospects, including cold calling. • Strategic Planning: Sought after strategy expert with a flair for big-picture planning, and synthesizing a clear strategy within a complex environment. Strategic is a Top strength-finder skill. • CRM Proficient: Specialized in developing Infusionsoft strategy and campaigns to automate CRM management, operational delivery, and marketing objectives. • Content Management: Designed, wrote and built a complex content platform for training and supporting entrepreneurs. This content platform was licensed and sold for over $1 million.• Negotiation

Program Manager (2006 – 2009)Led talented teams of technical architects and project managers in delivering extremely complex and sensitive global client-facing engagement and transition projects ranging in value from $250M to over $1B. Managed and mentored global project teams, built and nurtured cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and influenced executive leadership teams. • Cultivated positive relationships with team members working on a highly-complex client deal in a 100% travel environment and instituted group dinners to encourage self-care and conflict management strategies. • Advanced project communications with stakeholders across many complex and large-scale technical projects. • Rescued a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars by increasing face time with the client executive team, understanding various grievances, and consulting with the IBM technical team to implement solutions. • Played a key role in securing a $1B deal with Xcel Energy.Technical Architecture Manager (2001 – 2006) Oversaw company-wide Lotus Notes architecture initiatives during a period of rapid global company growth. • Facilitated over 100 candidate interviews in one year to secure talented Lotus Notes Architects.• Streamlined the hiring process by engaging contracting and recruiting firms and training staff in conducting effective screening. • Finalist as one of 12 IBM-wide Senior Technical Staff Members for work on adapting and deploying emerging business technologies. Global Process Leader (1997 – 2001)Advanced Helpdesk and Change processes by supporting global process standardization, coordinating new tool development processes, and reengineering IBM’s business processes across the world.

Directed numerous prestigious research, development, and reorganization projects for Fortune 50 companies. Worked directly with key clients including IBM, Microsoft, Siemens Nixdorf, and Hewlett Packard. • Designed and led the implementation of the first Helpdesk in South Africa for Microsoft.