Experience

Viamo - improving lives via mobile

• United States
• Information Technology and Services

• Chief Delivery Officer & Co-founder (In addition, Exec Director of HR March 2018 - Dec 2021)

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  Representation and leadership of Viamo in Francophone Africa, Anglophone West Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, including current operations - DRC, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Madagascar, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Haiti, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, India - and programme expansion. Executive leadership for Talent and Human Resource management, March 2018 - Dec 2021. Representation and leadership of Viamo in Francophone Africa, Anglophone West Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, including current operations - DRC, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Madagascar, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Haiti, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, India - and programme expansion. Executive leadership for Talent and Human Resource management, March 2018 - Dec 2021.



Human Network International

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Director, West & Central Africa

  • Aug 2015 - May 2019

  Representation and leadership of HNI in West & Central Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, DRC, Mali, Niger, Senegal) Representation and leadership of HNI in West & Central Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, DRC, Mali, Niger, Senegal)



Marie Stopes International Senegal

• Interim Country Director, Senegal

  • Jan 2015 - May 2015

  Leadership during a period of change, driving organisational development in a programme emerging from start-up phaseTurnover: £1.5m  Clients: 100,000  Team members: 70

• Deputy Regional Director, South Asia

  • Jun 2013 - Jan 2015

  Strategic support to programmes across four countries (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam) protecting 8m couples from unwanted pregnancy annually.Turnover: £15m  Clients: 6m  Team members: 1,400

• Interim Country Director, Malawi

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Specifically appointed to provide leadership and direction of a complex programme at a critical time during a period of significant funding.Turnover: £7m  Clients: 1m  Team members: 500, plus 250 community based health workers

• Director of European Strategy

  • May 2012 - Dec 2012

  Selected as a high performing Country Director to serve in MSI’s commercial division for 6 months, forming part of the leadership team of one of the largest sexual and reproductive health services in Europe generating over £30m income annually.



Options Consultancy Services Ltd

• Technical Manager, Innovations for maternal, newborn and child health

  • Feb 2012 - Apr 2012

  (Secondment) Responsible for the programmatic design of six Innovations for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Kenya, together with oversight for management and inception activities. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Secondment) Responsible for the programmatic design of six Innovations for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Kenya, together with oversight for management and inception activities. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.



Marie Stopes International

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Country Director, Burkina Faso

  • Aug 2008 - Jan 2012

  Established a successful new MSI country programme, delivering national impact on the sexual and reproductive health of the population of Burkina Faso within start-up phase.

• Programme Support Manager, Africa and Latin America

  • May 2003 - Jul 2008

  Provided programmatic support to MSI programmes in: Malawi, Mexico, Madagascar, Nicaragua and Bolivia, including business analysis, guidance on programme strategy, proposal development, project management and external representation. Designed the Mexico City programme, now a surplus-generating MSI programme.



Poli-Association for Integral Community Development (PADIC)

• Interinstitutional Coordinator

  • Feb 2001 - Dec 2002

  Coordinated 20 public, not-for-profit and private organisations providing responses to unmet need in health, education and economic development in a peri-urban community of Irapuato, Mexico. Coordinated 20 public, not-for-profit and private organisations providing responses to unmet need in health, education and economic development in a peri-urban community of Irapuato, Mexico.



Europe Online

• Luxembourg
• Telecommunications

• Managing Editor, Living in France magazine

  • Sep 1998 - Aug 1999

  Managed content, journalists, advertising, production and distribution of Living in France quarterly magazine for Anglophone expatriates. Managed content, journalists, advertising, production and distribution of Living in France quarterly magazine for Anglophone expatriates.