CENTER ON BUSINESS AND POVERTY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- CEO, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Assistant Development Manager - Melbourne Quarter - at Lendlease
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Executive Director, Action Village India
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Managing Director, Belle Capital USA
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- CEO, Housing Ministries of American Baptists in Wisconsin
Carmen Porco is executive director of Housing Ministries of American Baptists in Wisconsin, a partner of American Baptist Home Mission Societies' (ABHMS) Community Outreach Ministries. An endowed chair has been named in honor of the Rev. Dr. Carmen Porco at the Center on Business and Poverty.
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Lecturer, Heyman Center, NYU
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Senior Staff Member at the NCEO
Job Titles:
- President of Metris Growth, LLC / Darrell Rigby, Director, Bain & Company
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Retired CEO, Mcfadden
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Partner, Northlane Capital Partners, LLC
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Managing Director, Impact Capital Advisors
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- General Manager, BorrowLenses, Shutterfly Inc
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Vice President
- Vice President, Engagement, Bader Philanthropies, Inc
Frank Cumberbatch is Vice President, Engagement, Bader Philanthropies, Inc. He has been a lobbyist, a Senior Assistant to the Mayor of Milwaukee, a candidate for Mayor, and part of management teams for several high tech companies. He has been a member of: the Wisconsin Regional Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of Wall Street Without Walls, the Board of Penfield Children's Center, and the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service. He is currently Board Chair of BizStarts, an organization that helps minorities start businesses.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- CEO and Founding Partner of Aequalitas Capital Partners
Geetha Tharmaratnam, the CEO and Founding Partner of Aequalitas Capital Partners, is an investment executive with 19+ years of experience in private equity, venture capital, development finance, impact investing and insurance in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. She has had a focus on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), gender lens-investing, healthcare and financial services.
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Greater China 's Country Manager for Russell Reynolds Associates
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder and Managing Partner, RLG Capital
Imruwa Demissie is Partner in charge of International Development and COO at Aequalitas Capital Partners. Aequalitas Capital Partners, is a impact investing and ESG advisory firm with a bold vision to create sustainable growth with accountable capital, and actions that make a more impactful, inclusive economy.
Isi completed her law degree at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and her postgraduate degree at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. She has worked in various in-house commercial roles, most recently within the Procurement section of the European Space Agency. She has also been involved in establishing and promoting technology enhanced learning and commercial processes at a family-owned school in Nigeria.
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Director of Community and Campus Relations, UW Credit Union
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- President, Gemini Investors
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- President, National Benefit Services, Inc
Job Titles:
- Vice Chairman
- Chairman of Cadence Innova
John Hoffmire is the Chairman of Cadence Innova, a change management consulting firm based in London. He sold an investment bank that he started to American Capital where he acted as Senior Investment Officer. After he finished his Ph.D. at Stanford University, he was a consultant at Bain & Company. John's major academic affiliation is as Research Associate at the Centre for Mutual and Co-owned Business, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. John holds the Carmen Porco Chair for Sustainable Business.
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Provost, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- CEO & Co - Founder, Weal Life
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Founder and CEO, Simbi
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Assistant Professor, Bentley College
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Emeritus Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business Dartmouth
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board for the Center on Business
Len Janeski is the Chairman of the Board for the Center on Business and Poverty. He was a Senior Project Manager with the Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center and has served as a team member with the Department of the Navy (Office of Naval Research)/University of Maryland Best Manufacturing Practices program. He has also served as the Director of the Business and Industrial Development Center at Kishwaukee College as well as a Business Specialist for the Small Business Development Center.
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- President and CEO, Laeta Inc
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Director, Morningside Private Investors
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Consultant, Morgridge Center for Public Service
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Managing Partner, DN Partners
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Integrated Health Solutions Manager, Pyramid Pharma
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- President of Metris Growth, LLC / Darrell Rigby, Director, Bain & Company
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- U.K. Managing Director, PFEEF
…Creative leader …Implementer of ideas …Loves collaboration & teamwork .…Does her research
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Self - Sufficiency Director, Monroe County United Ministries
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Director, Healthcare Management, University College London
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- President, Goldhirsh Foundation
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the International Board of Advisors
- Co - Founder, Affiniti VC
- Investor, Strategist, Advisor
Tara Sabre Collier is an early stage impact investor, strategist, advisor and speaker. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University (focusing on impact investment), strategic advisor to impact funds and development finance institutions and an angel investor in start-ups led by under-represented founders in USA, UK and Brazil.
Tom Harms started working with the Center on Business and Poverty in 2006 prior to retiring from Staples, Inc. where he was the VP of Human Resource Administration. Before joining Staples in 1998, Tom worked for CVS Pharmacy as a VP in Human Resources. Before that Tom spent his career in department stores as a Human Resource Manager/Director working for Marshall Fields in Chicago and Target Corporation (Dayton's and Hudson's divisions).