CHASTAIN MANN

Chief Executive Officer

Chastain has been working in international health for 25 years, with more than 10 years of that time implementing programs in sub-Saharan Africa. A former Foreign Service Officer, Chastain has worked for bilateral and multi-lateral agencies, as well as for large and small non-profits. In her 11 years at Population Services International (PSI) Chastain served as the country director in Togo and Uganda, where she designed and implemented social marketing and franchising programs in HIV, reproductive health, malaria, and child survival. In each place, with a team of more than 100 local staff, Chastain developed marketing and communications strategies for health products and services, as well as monitoring and evaluation, sales and distribution, franchising, and advocacy approaches. As PSI’s VP for Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Chastain led a team that created fund raising strategies to raise more than $4 billion over 6 years.

More recently, Chastain worked with Woman Care Global as President of Programs, where she led fund raising efforts as well as program implementation, with a focus on improving the value chain for reproductive health commodities. Chastain’s inspiration for starting Mann Global Health was to bring together some of the world’s leading experts in measurable, effective health programming, and share their talents with global health clients.

JESSICA LATHREN

Operations Manager

Jessica is a thought-leader in private sector marketing, and an experienced team leader. During her 15-year tenure at IBM, she worked exclusively in global partner marketing, collaborating with many of the world's largest and most notable technology firms to launch value-added business solutions in a variety of industries, including healthcare and government. Her responsibilities spanned multiple geographies and lines of business. Her areas of expertise include project management, communications, operations management, marketing strategy, asset development and event planning. Jessica leads operations support at Mann Global Health.

JENNIE AYLWARD

Senior Associate

An advocacy and policy expert, Jennie ensures that global health programs benefit from supportive, evidence-based public policies, and robust investment. Jennie has an extensive background in public health advocacy and policy, having led these efforts at PSI and at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), where she was Director of Advocacy and Policy. A legislative specialist by training, Jennie worked in a professional lobbying firm earlier in her career, and as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. Jennie has contributed to advocacy efforts around both communicable and non-communicable diseases with clients including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her skills in strategic planning, communications, and coalition development complement her global health subject matter expertise.

ZAHRA AZIZ

Senior Associate

Zahra Aziz is a nonprofit management and communications strategist, brand builder and advisor to executive teams and boards. As a consultant she has guided sector leaders and board members through leadership transitions and change management processes. She has advised on business and advocacy strategy, built large-scale communications and marketing plans, and brokered numerous partnerships in the sexual and reproductive health sector. Previously, she served as the founding communications director for Family Planning 2020, where she led the creation of the FP2020 brand after the landmark 2012 London Summit on Family Planning. Zahra also drove communication efforts behind EngenderHealth’s award-winning WTFP?!, Where’s the Family Planning?! Campaign, and UNFPA’s first iteration of the Safe Birth, Even Here campaign to prevent maternal deaths in humanitarian and fragile settings. Zahra holds a MSc. in Strategic Communications from Columbia University and is currently pursuing an MLA in Management, with a nonprofit concentration, from Harvard University.

Hanna Baldwin

Senior Associate

Hanna is a development specialist comfortable working with all levels of field staff, technical experts, boards of directors, donors and government agencies. She has over 20 years of experience in leading projects and organizations in the public health space in Africa. In her 18 years with Population Services International, Hanna has served in wide range of positions gaining expertise in project management, systems development and managing organizational change, budgeting and budget management, public/private partnerships, social franchising, and supply chain management. She has MSc Econ from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland. Hanna has lived in East Africa for over 15 years and for the last ten has called Uganda her home.

Andrea Bare

Senior Associate, Senior Advisor with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Andrea has 20 years of consulting experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology product development and commercialization. Her expertise spans healthcare payer systems, as well as therapies for both communicable and non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and oncology.

A dedicated market researcher and commercialization consultant, Andrea has considerable experience in the private sector. Prior to transitioning to global public health, Andrea led a wide variety of consulting engagements for private sector clients such as AstraZeneca, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis. She is adept in conducting qualitative research and working with stakeholders across the spectrum, from product design/development, to funding and investment, through to healthcare delivery. Andrea is deeply committed to market understanding as a means to advance global health outcomes through strategy development and investment. She has extensive experience in research project planning and execution including instrument design, data collection/analysis, and generation of actionable and insightful recommendations. During her 13 years with the bioStrategies Group she established the firm’s payer consultancy and, subsequently, led a team at Xcenda in conducting primary and secondary healthcare stakeholder research.

Andrea is a Senior Advisor with the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI), where she partners with donor, consulting and implementing organizations to analyze global health markets and advance private sector solutions. During her tenure with WDI, she has worked with Gavi, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition and USAID on market dynamics projects and advisory assignments.

Julie Becker

Senior Associate

Julie Becker is a results-driven strategist and tactician with over 25 years of experience managing and implementing health programs in low- and middle-income countries in the public, nonprofit and private sectors. She brings insight, pragmatism and technical knowledge to the design, implementation and evaluation of health service and advocacy programs, as well as preparation for the introduction of new products. She is recognized and called upon for her broad networks in global health and deep programmatic expertise, particularly in women’s health, HIV and immunization. Julie has a history of developing innovative programs and partnerships. She also has extensive experience conducting in-country and global stakeholder consultations and evidence reviews, and distilling results to inform strategy, define priorities, articulate vision and common objectives, and identify concrete next steps.

Katherine Bliss

Senior Associate

Katherine Bliss brings her expertise in the social sciences, international relations, and program management to her work supporting clients focused on improving health and development outcomes worldwide. Trained as a historian of Latin America, Katherine spent the early part of her career teaching at the university level and publishing books and articles on gender relations and public health reforms in 20th century Mexico before pursuing post-doctoral work in population and development studies and shifting her professional focus to global health. As a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State, she led work on environmental health and supported the development of foreign policy approaches to pandemic preparedness. During her time with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, Katherine oversaw a multi-program project on the influence of the BRICS countries on the global health agenda and directed efforts to better link the WASH and health sectors at the policy level. Her recent projects have examined donor country engagement with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and how lower-middle income countries in Central America and West Africa are experiencing the transition away from Gavi support. Katherine is an accomplished writer, speaker, and facilitator recognized for bridging diverse communities and integrating the complexity of multiple perspectives into her work.

DANA BOS

Senior Associate

Dana Bos brings 25 years of expertise in designing, implementing and evaluating capacity building and leadership/management development programs for the nonprofit and private sectors. An expert facilitator, she also has conducted over 100 workshops, strategy sessions, focus groups, project kickoffs and team development sessions. She has deep experience with organizational, team and individual assessment as well.  

Dana has worked around the world, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and SE Asia. She has worked both as an internal resource and as a consultant with domestic and international organizations in small, mid-sized and large enterprise settings. She is known for her ability to connect with others and develop practical solutions and approaches that succeed in complex, fast-moving environments.

Christopher Brady

Senior Associate

Chris is a global health professional with more than 30 years of experience in program design, management, strategic planning, marketing and impact evaluation in the reproductive health arena. From 1993 to 2004 he worked with PSI overseeing a diverse portfolio of large-scale programs in Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean. Chris has a specialized focus in social marketing, organizational development, behavior change communications and market dynamics. He also served as the Director of Programs at Direct Relief International for three years and spearheaded numerous emergency response projects following the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Chris has worked with a diverse range of governments and donors, including DFID, USAID, KFW, BMGF, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, PAHO, UNFPA as well as various social investors/corporate social responsibility projects. Chris currently works as an independent consultant from his home in California, spending approximately half of his time as a technical advisor with Palladium’s Health Markets and Behavior Change practice unit. Chris speaks Spanish and French.

Nirali Chakraborty

Managing Partner, Insight Metrics

Dr. Nirali Chakraborty has over 10 years of experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, and is a managing partner at Insight Metrics. Her work currently focuses on the evidence-based design of performance metrics, and their deployment. Dr. Chakraborty uses a combination of rigorous research and a keen awareness of the dynamics of data collection and use to work with organizations and governments to select and employ appropriate measures. While at Population Services International, she oversaw the quality and dissemination of their reproductive health related research internationally, and has conducted studies in numerous countries. Dr. Chakraborty has published over 15 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of health and measurement topics, and is fluent in French, and conversant in three Indian languages.  She received her PhD in International Health, with a concentration in Health Systems, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Insight Metrics improves the lives and wellbeing of underserved individuals around the world by helping organizations in the social sector measure performance, harness the power of their data, evaluate the impact and efficiency of their programs, and increase accountability through smart data use. To ensure programs and managers have the critical information they need to measure and maximize their impact, we support organizations across the monitoring and evaluation continuum, from conceptualizing a theory of change and results framework, to metric development, research, and data use strategies, in order to build a culture of evidence-based management and strategic decision-making. We believe that data is key to program and organization success, and so we prioritize producing easy to use and actionable information that will inform program improvements in real-time, support evidence-based management, and strengthen advocacy efforts. We have experience working with individuals, small businesses, small and large nonprofit organizations, and government ministries to successfully develop and implement measurement initiatives that strengthen management capacity and organizational impact.

Alamelu Dev

Senior Associate

Alamelu is an organizational development and human resources professional with over 17 years experience in partnering with organizational leaders to address their talent needs. Over the last decade Alamelu has held key roles in HR and talent development and successfully developed organizational capacity both at headquarters and the country offices of PSI and FINCA. Prior to her roles in international development, Alamelu worked as a strategic HR consultant in the private sector. She is the co-founder of RISE, a global HR and Talent Development consulting firm that strengthens HR departments and develops organization talent. Alamelu has travelled considerably across Africa and Asia for work. She holds an MBA in Human Resources & Information systems and is a certified facilitator in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality instrument.

Bita Diomande

Associate

Bita has 10 years of experience working on projects in Africa and Asia, in both the public and private sector. She has worked on projects for the World Health Organization, UCSF RCTP-FACES, PATH, FHI 360, Rocket International, and Vlisco. Her areas of focus are program management, organizational re-design, and new business development. She has experience designing and implementing organizational restructuring projects, setting up grants management and procurement departments, and launching new business models for private sector companies. Additionally, she launched and manages an e-commerce platform sourcing fair trade fashion to promote income generating activities for women in low-income countries. Bita holds an MBA from MIT Sloan where she majored in Enterprise Development. She is Ivorian-American, with working experience in India, Cote d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Holland, and the United States. She speaks French and English fluently.

LEIGH ANN EVANSON

Senior Associate

Leigh Ann brings more than 15 years of experience designing, implementing and monitoring public health projects, working for a variety of organizations including NGOs like the American Red Cross and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, as well as for-profits like Chemonics and JSI. She specializes in reproductive health and HIV prevention, with a passion for engaging marginalized populations and youth. She is a skilled proposal and assessment writer with a reputation for timely delivery of compelling text. Leigh Ann thrives in collaborative, multicultural settings and is an excellent trainer and facilitator. Other skills include organizational capacity building, and design of curricula, educational materials and job aids. She has worked across sub-Saharan Africa, with significant time spent in Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Togo, and Uganda. Leigh Ann is fluent in French.

Lisa Gihring

Senior Associate

Lisa Gihring is a strategic communications, strategic planning, and project design and development specialist with more than 15 years of experience working with domestic and international clients. Lisa specializes in helping NGOs and governmental agencies define and achieve their objectives through targeted communications programs. She has extensive experience in a wide variety of communications disciplines, including campaign development and implementation, media development and outreach, branding, crisis communications, internal communications, and change management. In addition to her communications work, Lisa is skilled in project design, development, work planning; capacity building; new business development; grants management; training and mentoring; and organizational assessments. At Chemonics International, where she spent 12 years in a variety of functions, she played leading roles in winning nearly $50 million in new business and helped to manage large USAID-funded projects. She has worked in a variety of technical fields, including health, agriculture, private sector development, and policy and governance. Lisa began her career in journalism and is a skilled writer and editor. She has worked on five continents, with long-term assignments in Russia and Moldova.​

Jane Gindin

Associate

After 10 years in publishing, corporate communications, and non-profit development, Jane returned to school for her master’s in international development. She started her new career at Chemonics, where she was one of the founding members of the project communications department and managed projects in the Asia Division. Jane started consulting in 2008 and led strategy, researched, and wrote technical proposals on various topics for more than 30 clients, including Feed the Future, health systems for HIV prevention and treatment, health care franchise, mother and child nutrition, and WASH. Jane helps clients identify the specific skill set they need and supports client teams with research, strategy, writing, substantive editing, and copy editing. Jane joined the international division of Management & Training Corporation in 2015, leading proposal research and development primarily in workforce development and vocational training. She then spent one year at CNFA, focusing on agribusiness, entrepreneurship, access to finance, and market systems. Jane returned to consulting in January of 2018.

Nicole Grable

Associate

Nicole is a behavioral designer, marketing strategist and business management professional with more than 15 years of experience working in both public and private sectors. Her work spans international markets including Africa and Asia. While her skills are transferable across global health areas, her focus has been in reproductive health; water, sanitation and hygiene; and noncommunicable disease. She draws on her private sector experience in global brand management and corporate sales and marketing to develop strategies to improve demand generation and increase adoption rates of global health products and services. An example of her work is the USAID publication “Strategies for Changing the Behavior or Private Providers.”

Rehana Gubin

Associate

Rehana specializes in global health law and policy. She is a policy, partnerships and strategic planning expert, with technical expertise in proposal and journal publications for health systems issues and for maternal and reproductive health. Most recently, she served as Jhpiego’s Senior Policy Advisor in its Technical Leadership Office, where she advised senior leadership on strategic planning, partnerships and global and national-level advocacy for policy changes. She also spearheaded and coordinated technical partnerships with USAID and corporate and foundation donors and other international NGOs. Before joining Jhpiego, Rehana practiced international business and human rights law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Washington, DC, and served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Justice Sharon Blackburn of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Alabama.

Sadie Healy

Associate

Sadie Healy is the CEO of Molloy Consulting. She brings over 12 years of experience working around the world to create and manage programs, improve organizational effectiveness, and develop strategic systems. She started her global health career with Jhpiego on the Maternal and Child Survival Program family planning team where she worked on a study assessing family planning integration at the facility level in India and Kenya as well as the Accelerating PPFP strategy meeting for 16 countries. Sadie has worked to improve supply chain management and training programs for safe surgery in over 20 countries in Africa and Southern Asia. She has experience in process improvement, designing corporate presence at conferences, and training others in evidence-based programming. Sadie holds a Masters in Public Health from George Washington University and a Social Work degree from Calvin College.

Sophie Hickling

Associate

Sophie has 19 years experience in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), with a focus on sanitation and hygiene promotion. She has worked with a variety of organizations in both development and humanitarian contexts. She is skilled in individual, team and institutional capacity development planning, strategy and implementation. Since 2011 Sophie has worked as a consultant with the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank, leading capacity development initiatives for rural sanitation in Africa and providing technical support to country commitment monitoring and sanitation action planning across more than 40 countries. Sophie has worked in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Haiti, Kenya, South Sudan, and Sudan.

Chris Jones

Senior Associate

Chris is a strategic leader, passionate in leveraging the private sector to empower the vulnerable to lead healthier lives. Chris brings fifteen years of international executive leadership experience in the design and execution of strategy supporting the delivery of life-saving clinical services, products, and marketing messages through the private sector. Chris was responsible for operations of country health programs in Central Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Kenya, where he honed skills and insight to get the most out of teams delivering impact. Annual budgets ran to $45 million per annum, supported by 250+ staff. Postings in Asia and Africa saw the launch and rapid scale up of innovative, sustainable programs improving malaria, reproductive health, child survival, and HIV/AIDS outcomes of at-risk populations. As PSI’s Global Network Catalyst, Chris focused on maximizing the value PSI delivered to Global Network Members. When not traveling the world on global assignments, Chris spends his days skiing, biking, hiking, and getting outside in the woods of North Idaho with his family.

Angelika Kobilke

Senior Associate

Angelika has over 20 years of experience in public health and has served as a technical advisor and country director and consultant in several sub-Saharan countries, working for organizations such as UNICEF, German Development Service, and Population Services International. She successfully managed a portfolio of complex, multi-donor funded programs, supervised contract compliance, and developed social marketing/behavior change communication programs and social franchising projects with a special focus on Total Market Approaches for reproductive and child health, family planning, STI/HIV, and malaria. She is skilled in applying formative research and has led market analyses and assessments that resulted in the successful launch of a variety of contraceptives, HIV testing services, and water treatment products. Angelika has extensive experience in leading multi-cultural teams of 50+ staff and strengthening their capacity through ongoing training, constructive supervision, mentoring, and strategic planning. Angelika is fluent in German (native), English, and French.

Kim Longfield

Senior Associate

Dr. Kim Longfield has more than 20 years of experience in global health and international development. Her areas of expertise include translating evidence into practice, stakeholder engagement, strategic advising and communications, research and evaluation design, and capacity building. She excels at presenting complicated information to a range of audiences and using evidence to inform decision-making. Prior to consulting, Kim served as Director of Strategic Research and Evaluation at Population Services International. Her work has been used to develop, monitor, and evaluate programs, analyze health markets, and advocate for standard measures across organizations. She is the author of more than forty publications and has worked in social marketing and social franchising, behavior change, HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and family planning, safe abortion, maternal health, child health, malaria, tuberculosis, and non-communicable diseases. She has on-the-ground experience in 36 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Central America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Kim has a PhD in Sociology and International Health and a MPH in International Health/Health Communication and Education, both from the Tulane University.

Evelyn Makena

Associate

Jessica is a thought-leader in private sector marketing, and an experienced team leader. During her 15-year tenure at IBM, she worked exclusively in global partner marketing, collaborating with many of the world's largest and most notable technology firms to launch value-added business solutions in a variety of industries, including healthcare and government. Her responsibilities spanned multiple geographies and lines of business. Her areas of expertise include project management, communications, operations management, marketing strategy, asset development and event planning. Jessica leads operations support at Mann Global Health.

Amy McInnis

Senior Associate

Amy has 15 years of experience in product marketing and health communications. She started her global health career at PSI, where she held various roles in Washington, DC and the field, working in operations, finance, program design and strategy, product management and grant writing. Amy led PSI's efforts to solicit funds from corporations such as Exxon Mobil and others, and managed those relationships and projects. In addition to her non-profit work, Amy spent four years at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, where she worked on iconic multi-million dollar brands such as Advil, Centrum and Emergen-C. Amy applies her marketing expertise to build small- to medium-sized brands in the public and private sectors, using a data-driven, analytical approach to identify and capitalize upon market opportunities. Amy's areas of expertise include: market assessment, new product launch, marketing strategy, advertising strategy and mix, marketing analytics, pricing, market segmentation, forecasting and demand planning, operations efficiency, distribution and corporate social responsibility.

Nora Miller

Associate

Nora Miller is a doctoral student in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on women’s health issues with an emphasis on sexual reproductive health, family planning, and maternal health outcomes. Prior to her doctoral studies, Nora worked with WomanCare Global as a Technical Advisor for a large USAID-funded family planning project in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, leading provider behavior change activities to increase uptake of new family planning methods. Nora holds a Msc. in Public Health from Harvard University and Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Joanne Moore

Senior Associate

Joanne is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of business development and project management experience. At Chemonics International, Joanne led and managed a team of 85 people in Washington and more than 300 people overseas across sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti. She was responsible for providing vision, leadership, and management to the region, including home-office and overseas operations, developing and managing annual business strategies and budgets for quality results and growth. As a business development director, Joanne and her team successfully tracked new opportunities, pre-positioned for upcoming bids, developed win-strategies and internal proposal teams, and provided quality assurance for all proposal efforts. In addition to her work with Mann Global Health, Joanne is partnered with Dr. Bob Malkin, the creator of the Pratt Pouch, to expand newborn access to antiretroviral medications that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV through Pratt Pouch Consulting.

Reid Moorsmith

Senior Associate

Reid Moorsmith has 15 years of experience in global health and livelihoods improvement. He has served in leadership positions in both technical and operational capacities, in West Africa and South and Southeast Asia, as well as Washington, DC. Across vastly different contexts, he established a track record for successfully building and leading teams to increase performance, cohesion, accountability, and morale. Reid also excels as a trainer and facilitator, in both high- and low-capacity settings. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Reid came to health through his expertise in ethnographic research. He was instrumental in putting consumer insight at the heart of program design at Population Services International. He has also been PSI's point person for market facilitation work in the Asia region, playing a key role in projects to improve market performance for long- and short-acting contraception, malaria, and sanitation across numerous countries in the region. In Liberia, Reid designed an innovative program that radically increased uptake of modern contraceptive methods by young women. During the West Africa Ebola crisis in 2014, Reid led PSI's regional response and co-designed the US government's biggest health communications intervention in Liberia. Reid conducted foundational research on gender relations in Myanmar and the decision-making processes of clients of commercial sex workers across numerous countries in South and Southeast Asia. Reid has provided technical assistance on strategy, market facilitation, program design and measurement, marketing, and research in over 25 countries.

Veronica Musembi

Associate

Veronica has over 20 years’ experience in health management in the areas of HIV/AIDS, Maternal & Child Health, Reproductive Health, Social Marketing, and Social Franchising. She worked with Population Services International for 15 years in various capacities and was the Deputy Country Director at the time of her resignation in 2011 to pursue a career in consultancy. Her core competences include health programs design, implementation, and evaluation, market landscape assessments using market systems approaches such as Total Market Approach (TMA) and Making Markets work for the Poor (M4P), private sector assessments, market research, and social behavior change communications. Veronica led the development of one of Kenya’s first successful social franchises in health - the Tunza Family Health Network - that is managed by Population Services Kenya and has over 300 private clinics offering diverse health services. As a health management consultant, she has provided a wide range of consultancy services to clients such as Population Services International, Cardno Emerging Markets, Jhpiego, Marie Stopes International, Abt Associates, PSI/Ethiopia, MOH/Ethiopia, Futures Group/Palladium, as well as international consultancy firms seeking to work with experienced Kenyan consultancies for assignments based in Kenya. Veronica has an MBA from the University of Nairobi and a BA in Psychology from the University of Baroda, India.

Palena Neale

Senior Associate

Palena has more than 25 years of experience designing and delivering organizational development initiatives including capacity and training needs assessments, coaching, restructuring, and systems and process reviews with partners in civil society, NGOs, the UN, governments, private sector, and academia. She has also worked for a range of international sexual and reproductive health (SRH) NGOs including Pathfinder International and IPPF, leading sustainability, capacity-building, and monitoring and evaluation initiatives, both locally and globally. During her 10 years within the UN system, she was seconded to HAPCO (National AIDS Authority) in Ethiopia. There, she worked in partnership with the Executive Director to implement a government-wide Business Process Reengineering initiative within the Ministry of Health to not only improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the ministry, but also to reinforce the HIV architecture including the national response to HIV and AIDS. Both in the office and in the field, Palena is adept at working with partners to identify organizational needs, and is a seasoned facilitator with refined research and analytical skills. She is adept at designing, delivering, and evaluating capacity strengthening interventions across a range of areas: team building, group dynamics, communication, leadership and mentoring, and employee engagement.

Palena has also published peer-reviewed research on gender and SRH, and has recently completed research on employee engagement in nonprofit organizations. She currently teaches a range of master’s level courses in management and leadership, team building, change management, strategic planning and human resource management in several prestigious ‘grandes écoles de commerce’ in Paris and also in the UK. Palena speaks English and French. She holds a Phd in Gender and International Politics, University of Aberystwyth, Wales, and an AACSB Endorsed Post-Doctoral Bridge to Business Programme, Grenoble Ecole de Management.

Josselyn Neukom

Senior Associate

Josselyn Neukom has 24 years of experience designing, leading and evaluating family planning, adolescent reproductive health, HIV prevention, harm reduction, maternal health, malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis and safe water/sanitation/hygiene programs in emerging markets. Her technical expertise includes data2action, social marketing, social franchising, social and behavior change and market facilitation, quality assurance, provider behavior change and community engagement. She has negotiated and led numerous public-private partnerships to facilitate market entry and access to essential health products including injectable and implant contraceptives, plastic septic tanks and low dead space syringes. An accomplished team leader, Ms. Neukom has built and led high-performing, multi-national teams to overcome public health and market development challenges in numerous country contexts. She has exceptionally strong analysis and written as well as interpersonal communication skills. Her credentials include degrees from Dartmouth College and Princeton Universities and multiple peer-reviewed publications describing evidence-based health programs she played a leading role designing, managing and evaluating.

Pam Norick

Senior Associate

Pam Norick has served as Vice President and Executive Director of Marie Stopes International (MSI) in the United States, a London-based, 40-year-old nonprofit organization providing contraceptives and reproductive health care in 37 countries. In addition to her expertise in nonprofit management, business development, and strategic and program planning, Pam has significant experience in corporate and marketing communications. Recently, Pam published an article in the New York Times, “Preventing teen pregnancy can be a matter of life and death,” on the dangers of teen pregnancy worldwide. Pam’s previous work includes managing a consultant group working on behalf of nongovernmental organizations focused on global health and development, and service as a Senior Legislative Advisor for nearly ten years in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. While working in Congress, Pam routinely managed negotiations with government leaders and representatives, UN agencies, officials from the US Departments of State and Defense and USAID, working extensively in Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Cate O’Kane

Associate

Cate is passionate about bringing like minded people together to do great things. After 12 years focused on consumer marketing for large multi-national companies across Europe and Asia, Cate moved to the non-profit sector and spent two years in Southern Africa adapting her private sector skills to the needs of the global health community. During this time as PSI Botswana’s Technical Director she collaborated with international and local governments, defense forces, private sector companies, and communications agencies to create programs and partnerships that supported both community and country health strategies, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS.

For the past six years, she provided strategic leadership as Director of Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy at PSI in Washington DC. During this time, Cate was instrumental in growing the organization’s corporate partnerships portfolio by 600% across key health areas and geographies for the organization: HIV/AIDS, Clean Water, Sanitation, Malaria, Non-Communicable Diseases, Women’s Health and Family Planning. She also mentored colleagues, at HQ and across the globe, in how to create and succeed in partnerships. Cate developed a series of fellowships between the NGO and the private sector to further opportunities for learning and capacity building between the sectors.

She is originally from the UK, has lived on four continents in the last twenty years and now calls a small island in the beautiful Puget Sound her home.

Aasha Pai

Senior Associate

Aasha has over 20 years of experience working for non-profit organizations and social enterprises with a focus on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and women’s empowerment. She started working on public health issues as a program manager for International Rescue Committee in Kenya covering Southern Sudan and Somalia in the 1990s.

She has spent most of her career working for Marie Stopes International. As Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, she provided direct strategic support to MSI’s country programs leading to significant expansion and improvements in quality, access, and sustainability. Aasha was heavily involved in MSI’s scale up of social franchising and the launch of medical abortion. She was instrumental in securing a number of significant bilateral and multilateral grants as part of sector-wide health approaches in Africa, as well as leading successful proposals for MSI globally. Recently Aasha led the relationship and engagement with a large private foundation, providing oversight of a US$140 million portfolio of contraception and safe abortion projects across MSI.  Aasha has worked closely with country programs in Africa and Asia, strengthening the technical rigor of their operations and client care.

Aasha’s areas of expertise are strategy; organizational development; mentoring and coaching senior leaders; and governance. She excels in inspiring and leading team members to deliver results. Aasha has extensive board experience having served on a number of non-profit boards  She is currently Board Director and Chair of the Program Committee for EMpower, the Emerging Markets Foundation, which focuses on improving the lives of young people, particularly education and SRH for girls.

Kari Points

Senior Associate

Kari has worked in global policy, human rights and advocacy for 12 years, both as a consultant and in nonprofit organizations. Trained in public policy, Kari was most recently Senior Policy Advisor at Ipas, a global reproductive rights organization, where she created and oversaw programs and conducted in-country research to enhance the enabling environment for women’s and girls’ access to safe abortion care in Malawi, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Kari also represented Ipas for five years as an advocate at major United Nations meetings on the status of women, and on population and development. Kari worked in Zimbabwe with Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe and the Musasa Project, the country’s sole organization providing direct support to gender-based violence survivors. Her technical expertise extends across the spectrum of global health, including meeting facilitation and training, writing, policy advocacy, partnership and coalition development, and qualitative research and interviewing.

Mark Radin

Associate

Mark Radin is a sanitation and hygiene and M&E specialist, who has experience in Africa, Latin America, and East Asia. His work with the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank included supporting the private sector to introduce new sanitation products to the Kenyan market, analyzing data to develop advocacy tools for promoting sanitation in all of Kenya’s counties, and developing lessons learned from the AfricaSan process by reviewing monitoring reports with data from more than 35 African countries. He previously worked with Mercy Corps on a hygiene promotion campaign in Zimbabwe and with the Jane Goodall Institute on a reforestation project in China. He speaks Spanish and Chinese.

Susan Rich

Senior Associate

Susan Rich is an accomplished public health leader with over 25 years of experience on family planning and reproductive health issues. She has an extensive track record of program success in Sub Saharan Africa, particularly Nigeria and Kenya. Susan has managed diverse teams for impact and has reported to US/AID and private foundations. Susan has coordinated donors and the private sector to mobilize resources at the country level. She is able to convene key stakeholders and raise awareness. Susan is both creative and entrepreneurial. Among her accomplishments: Susan revitalized the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation commitment to Family Planning by developing a five year $603 million strategy, including advocacy, contraceptive research and innovative service delivery. Also in her career, Susan raised the profile of critical issues, such as the shortage of global contraceptive shortages, and obtained support for research and advocacy that leveraged multi-million dollars in public and private support. Susan is available for program development, monitoring, and reporting, as well as developing advocacy and fund raising campaigns.

Grace Roache

Senior Associate

Grace has over 20 years experience in talent management and organizational development across the not-for-profit, public and private sectors. As an HR executive, Grace has supported employees globally, and she has lived and worked on three continents. Grace led the HR function at PSI for close to a decade where she established an effective talent management program and built a global network of HR professionals to promote best practices in over 60 countries. She is the co-founder of RISE, a global HR and Talent Development consulting firm that strengthens HR departments and develops organization talent. RISE supports HR strategy development and major change initiatives, including interim HR operational support, review of policy and procedures, and mentoring/coaching for mid- and senior-level HR staff. RISE talent development services identify skills gaps and help address them through management and leadership development programs. Currently completing an MSc in Psychology, Grace has an MA in Social Research and is certified in numerous psychometric assessment tools, including MBTI, CPI, OPQ.

Donna Sherard

Senior Associate

Donna is a health marketing and social behavior change communication (SBCC) specialist with more than 15 years of global health experience spanning a range of health areas – HIV, TB, family planning, adolescent reproductive health, nutrition and malaria. After nearly 10 years in private sector healthcare marketing in the United States, she moved to the non-profit sector and spent seven years in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda designing and managing health communication and advocacy programs, including a regional health communication project. Donna held senior leadership positions at PSI, including Deputy Director for HIV and TB. In this role she designed and led PSI’s global HIV strategy and provided technical assistance to SBCC and insight-driven product and service marketing interventions, including those for newly proven and emerging technologies (i.e. HIV self testing, voluntary medical male circumcision).  

Donna has deep experience in new business development, training and capacity building in SBCC, and social marketing, and has provided technical assistance to countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. Donna’s technical skills have earned her an international reputation as a social marketing and SBCC strategist and leader who can develop effective, market based strategies, design realistic plans for program implementation and build local staff capacity.

Paul Skorochod

Associate

Paul brings 20 years of domestic and international experience in finance, operations and strategy to the team. He started his career in the trading pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he honed his skills in financial strategy and uncovering and capitalizing on immediate opportunities. He also discovered his interest in training others, and co-founded a division focused on allowing traders to test their strategies before risking their own capital.

Paul worked in Swaziland for the National AIDS Council, managing relationships and programming with civil society players, government ministries, UN agencies and international donors. He worked closely with UNICEF to roll out a national program to provide shelter, food and education to orphans and vulnerable children; designed a pilot program to harness external medical expertise to spark a national male circumcision program; and secured funding for and trained staff in local NGOs in financial sustainability.

During the last decade, Paul has brought his expertise to the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors. He has worked for municipal and State governments, and managed projects in excess of $100 million per year. He has managed projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, as well as projects funded by utility customers. He provides expertise in securing funding, program design and implementation, and evaluation and monitoring. He has worked extensively with low-income households, providing not only capital improvements to their homes, but also providing the requisite education to create sustainable behavior change.

Brian Smith

Senior Associate

Brian Smith is a senior non-profit leader with broad experience building and managing diverse international development programs. He has twenty years of experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating market development and behavior change programs addressing global public health and environmental challenges. Brian holds Masters degrees in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and in English Literature from the University of Virginia.

Annik Sorhaindo

Associate

Andrea Sprockett

Managing Partner, Insight Metrics

Ms. Andrea Sprockett has expertise in the management of large cross-cultural teams and community engagement initiatives, and is a managing partner at Insight Metrics. She has experience overseeing a portfolio of international project partnerships, with a focus on development and implementation of performance metrics and use of data for operational and strategic decision-making. Ms. Sprockett is trained in human-centered design techniques and the application of user-centered approaches to assess and build organizational capacity to use data for management. She has experience designing training programs that actively engage clients in learning and knowledge application within their organization. Ms. Sprockett is fluent in Spanish and holds a Master’s degree in International Public Health from the University of Sydney, and a Master’s degree in Spanish Translation from Kent State University.

Insight Metrics improves the lives and wellbeing of underserved individuals around the world by helping organizations in the social sector measure performance, harness the power of their data, evaluate the impact and efficiency of their programs, and increase accountability through smart data use. To ensure programs and managers have the critical information they need to measure and maximize their impact, we support organizations across the monitoring and evaluation continuum, from conceptualizing a theory of change and results framework, to metric development, research, and data use strategies, in order to build a culture of evidence-based management and strategic decision-making. We believe that data is key to program and organization success, and so we prioritize producing easy to use and actionable information that will inform program improvements in real-time, support evidence-based management, and strengthen advocacy efforts. We have experience working with individuals, small businesses, small and large nonprofit organizations, and government ministries to successfully develop and implement measurement initiatives that strengthen management capacity and organizational impact.

Anne Williams

Senior Associate

Anne is a brand strategist and marketing communications leader with over 15 years’ experience in private sector brand management, including roles at Starbucks (VP of Marketing and Category for Evolution Fresh) and Procter & Gamble (multiple roles across Olay, PUR, Vicks, and Zest). Anne's specialities include brand positioning and architecture, marketing communications and multi-media activation, innovation strategy, new product development, consumer insights, group facilitation, and collaborative problem solving. Prior to embarking on a career in brand management, Anne held roles at Management Sciences for Health, where she provided technical assistance in information management systems in francophone Africa and Haiti. Anne holds an AB in comparative religion and French from Smith College and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Lucy Wilson

Associate

Lucy has over 15 years of experience in international development, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health. Her work includes designing and implementing outcomes-oriented monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans using complexity-aware techniques; advising teams on strategic planning and implementation; and supporting evidence-based programs and scale-up of best practices.

In addition to having expertise in business development and diversification, knowledge management, and project management, she is well-versed in research approaches from early stage product development through implementation science. Her areas of in-depth knowledge include sexual and reproductive health and rights, family planning, menstrual health, contraceptive development, and gender equality.

During her eleven years at FHI 360, Lucy served as the monitoring and evaluation lead for several large ($25M+) USAID- and Gates Foundation-funded projects, designing innovative, yet practical approaches to track results of research, advocacy, capacity building, and innovation activities. She also led the organization’s internal strategy work to expand its presence in the family planning field. In the nearly five years she led this work, revenue from family planning projects doubled.

She lived and worked for three years in several African countries. In 2016, Lucy was recognized as a leader in family planning by the Gates Institute’s “120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders” initiative.