USADF Management & Staff

Office of the President

Lloyd O. Pierson, President and CEO   bio

Staff
Michele M. Rivard, Special Assistant to the President
David Blaine, Performance Management Advisor  
Cynthia Philips, Legislative Advisor
Jennifer M. DeSimone, Press Secretary                         

General Counsel        
Doris Mason Martin, General Counsel
D. Annette Adams, Deputy General Counsel

Management and Administration        
M. Catherine Gates, Director of Management and Administration
       and Chief Human Capital Officer
Franklin Gunn, Contracting Officer
Corwin Kirby, Contract Specialist
Miguel Guzman, Contract Specialist (T)
Christian Carter-Kurant, Contract Specialist (T)
Wendy Carver, Business Operations Unit Coordinator
Andrew MacDonald, Management Analyst
Sandy Hagans, Human Resources Specialist
Chevella Talbert, Senior Human Resources Assistant  
Erica Moorer, Buisness Operations Assistant (T)
Justin Smith, Senior Administrative Assistant
Sean Beavers, Administrative Assitsant/Receptionist (T)

Internal Audit Division
Ellen P. Teel, Auditor

Field Operations
Rama Bah, Regional Program Director                                                    
(Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Mali, Mauritania,Senegal)
Tom Coogan, Regional Program Director                                           
(Botswana, Nigeria, Swaziland, Zambia)
Christine Fowles, Regional Program Director
(Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda)                                                 
Paul Olson, Regional Program Director
(Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Niger)
Kim Ward, Regional Program Director
(Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania)           

Scott Alexander, Program Analyst                                                                   Saidu Amara, Program Analyst
Julia Blue, Program Analyst
Bryan Cimorelli, Program Analyst                                                                   Jennifer DeSelm, Program Analyst
Ion Ghetie-Rotaru, Program Analyst
Mabumba Issa, Program Analyst
Marian Mahmoud, Program Analyst
Joseph McMahan, Grant Specialist

Ken Beigel, Organic and Natural Products Specialist
Diane White, Chief Strategist, Buyer Linkages Program  

Finance Division
William E. Schuerch, Director of Financial Management, Strategic Planning, and Evaluation
Phyllis C. Volin, Field Administration Officer
Setha R. Lim Honma, Accounting Technician
                                                                                                                   Monitoring and Evaluation Division
Cheryl Jones, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
Eric L. Hyman, Economist

Management Division
Larry P. Bevan, Chief Information Officer                                                         Jeannette Whitfield, Grant Database Manager                                           

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