|
Specialization |
Experience |
Herman W.M. Abels
Managing Consultant
Based in the Netherlands |
Institution Building
- governance & management
- business planning
- start-ups
Client Services
- beyond microfinance
- reaching the poorest
R&D
- policy development
- mapping & surveys
- platform building |
Twenty years as grant maker, senior consultant, investor, policy analyst, researcher and institution builder. Worked with and for donors, investors, banks, NGOs, MFIs and networks in well-over 30 countries, mostly in South and Southeast Asia and East, West and Southern Africa.
Particularly interested in the frontier areas of microfinance and building multi-sector partnerships to that end. |
Meera C. Balakumar
Associate Consultant
Based in the USA |
Client Services
- beyond microfinance
R&D
- mapping & surveys
- platform building |
Ten years track record of policy analysis and writing in small and medium enterprise development. Specializes in developing financial strategies for investment funds targeting emerging microfinance and SME markets. |
Thom G.J.M. van de Burgt
Associate Consultant
Based in the Netherlands |
Institution Building
- back office operations
- governance & management
- business planning
- start-ups
Client Services
- product development
- beyond microfinance |
Senior banker for nearly four decades with triple A rated bank. Extensive turn-around experience in emerging markets in Asia and Africa as banking consultant. Now specializes in investment and trust funds and building public-private partnerships |
Charles H. Gore
Senior Consultant
Based in the USA |
Institution Building
- governance & management
- back-office operations
- business planning
- product development
Client Services
- beyond microfinance
R&D
- mapping & surveys
- platform development |
Twenty years senior management experience in Africa with entrepreneurial development NGOs. Since, active in pioneering investment vehicles addressing the frontier areas in microfinance in the same continent, today mostly in the field of health and HIV/Aids related products and services. |
Delima Kiswanti
Associate Consultant
Based in Indonesia |
Institution Building
- governance & management
- business planning
- start-ups
- back-office operations
Client Services
- beyond microfinance
- reaching the poorest |
Fifteen years senior managerial position in commercial banking and microfinance. Track record in start-up MFIs in remote areas working with ethnic minorities. Network builder in small and micro-enterprise. |
Masrurul Islam
Associate Consultant
Based in Bangladesh |
Institution Building
- back-office operations
- business planning
- start-ups
Client Services
- product development
- beyond microfinance |
Twenty years of senior management in one of the largest NGOs in the world. Systems specialist in microfinance: procedures, manuals, staff training, products, back-office operations, management information systems. |
Hilde Janssen
Associate Consultant
Based in Indonesia |
Institution Building
- social impact assessment
Client Services
- reaching the poorest
- microfinance in relief
R&D
- policy development
- mapping & surveys |
Fifteen years experience as consultant in policy development, journalist and researcher. Today mostly involved in gender analysis, poverty targeting, social performance and credit delivery in post-emergency environments. |
Alejandra M. Libunao
Senior Consultant
Based in the Philippines |
Institution Building
- human resources development
- governance and management
- social impact assessment |
Twenty years experience in corporate social responsibility, institutional and human resources development across the globe. Today mostly active in resource mobilization, management coaching, staff training and facilitating private-civic partnerships. |
Stanley Mukkath
Senior Consultant
Based in India |
Institution Building
- back-office operations
- governance & management
- business planning
- start-ups
Product Development
- beyond microfinance
- reaching the poorest
- microfinance in relief
Policy Development
- mapping & surveys |
Twenty years experience working for community groups and international NGOs and ten years as owner –manager of a software solutions corporation. Specialized in overhauling (simplification and automation) of back-office operations but primarily interested in some of the frontier areas of microfinance: BSD and relief and rehabilitation. |
Bert-Jan Ottens
Managing Consultant
Based in the Netherlands |
Institution Building
- governance & management
- business planning
- start-ups
Client Services:
- beyond microfinance
R&D:
- policy development
- platform building |
Twenty years experience in regional economic development and building international economic linkages, with emphasis on biodiversity-derived products. Worked in many countries in four continents and currently mostly preoccupied in linking financial services to rural value-adding rural: rural enterprise finance. |
Tawanda Sibanda
Senior Consultant
Based in Zimbabwe |
Institution Building
- human resource development
- back-office operations
- governance & management
- business planning
- social impact assessment
Client Services
- product development
- reaching the poorest
R&D
- mapping and surveys |
Ten years management in major African MFIs and six years as consultant and credit rater. Today specialized in business development and resource mobilization with special focus on designing self-sufficiency strategies without giving in on social mandate. Quite specialized in application of ICT innovations in both front and back-office operations. |
Ricardo Wilson-Grau
Senior Consultant
Based in Brazil |
Institution Building
- strategic risk management
- business planning
- social impact assessment
R&D
- mapping & surveys |
Decades of practice as community development worker, project manager, educator, businessmen, manager, environmentalist and aid advisor in over sixty countries. All-round institution building consultant and pioneer of the strategic risk management approach. |
Zahid Elahi
Associate Consultant
Based in Pakistan |
Institution building
- business planning
- governance and management
- human resource development
- back office operations
Client Services
- reaching the poorest
R&D
- mapping and surveys |
Two decades of involvement in microfinance and enterprise, rural and tribal development as program manager, researcher, director-founder of a NGO, independent entrepreneur and consultant. Currently specialized in syariah and community banking with particular focus on remote areas. |
