Technical Experts
ACDI/VOCA's success is largely due to the talent, experience and commitment of its professional staff.
The list below is illustrative and only showcases full-time in-house experts. When appropriate we also draw from a database of over 14,000 consultants and volunteers.
Sort list by the following areas of expertise:
Agribusiness Systems Experts
Enterprise Development Experts
Financial Services Experts
Community Development Experts
Value Chain Approach Experts
Food Security Experts
Monitoring and Evaluation Experts
Gender and Development Experts
Avram E. “Buzz” Guroff
Senior Managing Director, Food Security & Specialty Crops Portfolio
Banu Akin
Specialist, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness Portfolio
Dinh Hai Lam
Chief of Party, Vietnam
Doug Anderson
Country Representative & Chief of Party, Egypt
Douglas Leavens
Technical Managing Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development Portfolio
Elena Nelson
Senior Technical Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development Portfolio
Emmet Murphy
Chief of Party, Haiti
Fred Smith
Senior Managing Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development Portfolio
Gevorg Adamyan
Managing Director, Agribusiness
Glenn Blumhorst
Country Representative, Bolivia
Hugh Brown
Chief of Party, Community Action Program III in Iraq
Janice Stallard
Senior Technical Director, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness Portfolio
John "Bick" Riley
Senior Technical Director, Community Development
Ken Smith
Chief of Party, Russia
Lee Babcock
Technical Managing Director, New Business Development & Senior Private Sector Specialist
Maria Bina Palmisano
Director of Monitoring and Evaluation
Mark Freeman
Senior Director, New Business Development
Nicholas Richards
Chief of Party, SUCCESS Alliance Phase II Program in the Philippines
Noubia Gribi
Middle East and North Africa New Business Director & Lebanon Business Linkages Initiative Special Business Advisor
Olaf Kula
Senior Technical Director and Resident Representative
Paul Forrest
Chief of Party, Central Asia Microfinance Alliance II
Paul Guenette
Technical Managing Director, Agribusiness
Robert Fries
Technical Managing Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development Portfolio
Robert Learmonth
Country Representative, East Timor
Robert Rosengren
Chief of Party, Rwanda
Robin Wheeler
Chief of Party, Liberia
Rosalynn “Pinky” Serafica
Behavior Change Communication Advisor, Sustainable Health Improvements through Empowerment and Local Development in the Philippines
Ruth Campbell
Managing Director, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness Portfolio
Sally Iadarola
Managing Director, Emerging from Conflict Portfolio
Scott Reid
Vice President, New Business Development
Stephen Collins
Chief of Party, Kenya Maize Development Project
Stephen Orr
Managing Director, Lebanon Business Linkages Initiative
Steve McCarthy
Senior Technical Director, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness Portfolio
Suzanne Smith Saulniers
Community Development Director, Community Action Program II in Iraq
Terrence J. Ryan
Managing Director of Specialty Crops, Agribusiness
Thelonious Trimmell
Director, Latin America & Caribbean Portfolio and Farmer-to-Farmer Programs