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Research Associate

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Known for being a team player who is cool under pressure, with great people skills; versatile organizational management and restructuring; international project management, and significant proposal development experience. Currently the Vice President of Corporate Operations for Panagora Group. Until September 2021, led finance and operations activities on the Global Health Supply Chain Program (GHSC-PSM) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Previously led a Digital Transformation corporate initiative team to design, build, and launch a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, transforming and automating key business processes and supporting 5,000 global staff to go paperless. Until July 2017, served as the Deputy Chief of Party on the USAID/E-PESO project, to support the Government of the Philippines in its endeavors to modernize their payment industry - reducing the dependency on cash and increasing the volume of electronic financial transactions ten-fold by 2020. Prior to this, served as Business Development Director and Operations Director in the Asia region, managing resources to grow and sustain the regional portfolio (2004-2015). Has a proven ability to manage diverse technical, administrative, and operational aspects of complex projects, proposals and key corporate initiatives. Field experience in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.