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 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
Alexander Fernando
Chief of Party, Smallholder Horticulture Outgrower Promotion project in Tanzania
Ali A. El-Saied
Senior Market Intelligence Advisor, Egypt
Avram E. “Buzz” Guroff
Senior Managing Director, Food Security
Banu Akin
Specialist, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness
Barry T. Elkin
Technical Director, Food Security
Charles Cox
VOCA Foundation Executive Director & President's Office Senior Advisor
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
Elena Nelson
Senior Technical Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development
Emmet Murphy
Chief of Party, Haiti
Fred Smith
Senior Managing Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development
Gevorg Adamyan
Managing Director, Agribusiness
Gitau Mbure
Deputy Chief of Party, Rwanda
Glenn Blumhorst
Managing Director, Community Development
Hugh Brown
Chief of Party, Community Action Program III in Iraq
James Dean
Chief of Party, Promoting Agriculture, Governance and the Environment project in Sierra Leone
Janice K. Stallard
Senior Technical Director, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness
Joe Welsh
Country Representative and Chief of Party, Ethiopia
John "Bick" Riley
Senior Technical Director, Agriculture-based Livelihoods
Ken Smith
Chief of Party, Russia
Lee Babcock
Technical Managing Director, New Business Development & Senior Private Sector Specialist
Luis Alberto Cuéllar
Regional Technical Advisor, Latin America
Maria Bina Palmisano
Director, Monitoring and Evaluation
Mark Freeman
Senior Director of Programs, President's Office
Michael Field
Chief of Party, Agriculture for Children’s Empowerment in Liberia
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 West Africa Resident Representative
Paul Guenette
Technical Managing Director, Agribusiness
Richard Hurelbrink
Chief of Party and Country Representative, Armenia
Robert Fries
Technical Managing Director, Financial Services & Integrated Rural Development
Robert Learmonth
Technical Managing Director, Community Development
Robert Rosengren
Chief of Party, Rwanda
Robin Wheeler
Chief of Party and Country Representative, 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
Ryan Larrance
Technical Director, Food Security
Sally Iadarola
Managing Director, Emerging from Conflict
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
Suliman Vaigna Kamara
Deputy Chief of Party, Livelihood Improvement for Farming Enterprises project in Liberia
Suzanne Berkey
Managing Director, Food Security
Suzanne Smith Saulniers
Community Development Director, Community Action Program III in Iraq
Terrence J. Ryan
Managing Director of Specialty Crops, Agribusiness
Thelonious Trimmell
Director, Agribusiness & Farmer-to-Farmer Programs