Working with General Mills Leadership, Co-founded, led and scaled an internationally recognized, private-sector model that utilizes the know-how and expertise of seven leading global food companies to deliver remote technical assistance to Africa based food companies in more that a dozen countries.
Since inception, PFS has helped thousands of African food companies, who employ tens of thousands of employees, provide markets for millions of small holder farmers, serve hundreds of millions of consumers with billions of safer and healthier meals.
Built and managed dozens of complex and longstanding ecosystem partnerships that accelerated and amplified our work including 10+ year partnerships with USAID, TechnoServe & Root Capital.
Fundraiser
Raised more than $100M in philanthropic and investment capital to support and fuel our work from businesses, high net worth individuals, public entities such as USAID and major foundations like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Volunteer Mobilizer
Recruited and mobilized thousands of corporate volunteers from 50+ countries and averaged 90%+ volunteer satisfaction scores and Net Promoter Scores of 55+ over last 5 years.
Global Leader
Built diverse, happy, high performing team from nine countries and three Continents.
Board Builder
Built and mobilized high functioning, diverse, long-standing board of C-level Fortune 500 executives.
Innovator
Launched successful Gap Financing Fund for African food clients that is successfully making loans at a ticket size of $50k+/- that the market and other impact investors are not making.
Recognized for innovation and leadership with Ashoka and BushFellowships – through these Fellowships received graduate degree and training from both University of Oxford/Saïd Business School. (Organizational Leadership Diploma) and Georgetown University (Executive Coaching Certification).
