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Leadership Profiles
Rupert Douglas-Bate, Chairman
- USA & UK charities
Rupert has been an aid worker since 1989
when he went to live and work in East Africa. Since then he
has worked all over the world, developing a responsive and
multicultural style of leadership, based on mutual respect
coupled to systematic decision-making.
Aid workers by definition have to be flexible,
for example he has been a water and sanitation engineer, a
shelter coordinator, an agricultural supplies officer and
a logistician.
During 1994 in Bosnia, he realised there was a critical need
for maps to help:-
- aid workers find the victims
- victims find the aid
- make the outside world accountable towards helping in
a humanitarian context (this also being an issue to do with
democracy)
So he set up Aid for Aid, which has now been
transformed into the successful British non-government organisation
known as Map Action. It rapidly and successfully deploys specialist
map-makers from the UK, in event of a disaster.
In 2003 he went to Stanford University and
together with some friends, built a technology for capturing
humanitarian data and making maps, in near-real time and the
project won a prize, all credit to his team. Afterwards
his team encouraged him to set up Global MapAid.
Global MapAid is an American non-government
organisation (501 c3), which trains local personnel in their
own countries to make humanitarian maps. These local personnel
make maps of poverty issues before a disaster and are also
able respond in the event of a disaster. GMA has developed
a method of making these teams financially self-sustaining.
Here are some references awarded against
contracts that Rupert carried out before the humanitarian
mapping buzz took over.
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Stephanie Race, Director Marketing
and Development - USA charity
Stephanie has over 20 years of results oriented
management consulting and systems integration experience working
with clients to develop their product portfolio, brand marketing
and supply chain strategies to support consumer insights initiatives
as they look to globalize their operations. Stephanie was
a Partner at Accenture, Founder of Commerce Net Services and
gained her corporate technology experience with leadership
roles in the Supply Chain and Emerging Technology practices
of Oracle Corporation and Andersen Consulting.
With a deep passion for developing solutions that benefit
human beings in need while centering on environmental stewardship,
Stephanie has been working to commercialize remote sensing
technology for risk management and sustainable development.
In collaboration with NASA since 1996, she conceived and built
solutions using satellite based earth observation data to
analyze the economics of agriculture, land use, infrastructure,
and water for the financial services and insurance industries.
Having worked with consumer products companies and retailers
to baseline the carbon footprint of their products, supply
chains and infrastructure, develop product sourcing practices
that support sustainability and develop consumer education
and awareness programs for healthy lifestyles, her work is
resulting in a sustainability index bringing transparency
to the impact that the everyday products we consume have on
our planet.
A graduate with honors from University at Albany, State University
of New York School of Business, she is a Visiting Professor
at Carnegie Mellon in the Computer Science Department and
teaches courses in Industrial Management & Logistics at
Tsinghau University in Beijing China. Currently pursuing
a PhD at Lulea University of Technology in Sweden, Stephanie
is working to complete her thesis focused on Mitigating the
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Michael Fleishman, Director Finance
and Administration - USA charity
Michael earned a BS degree in geophysics
from UCLA and an MS degree in geophysics from Stanford University.
As an undergraduate he published results of research on the
near-Earth space environment, and his NASA-supported Master's
thesis focused on radar satellite observations of Earth's
crust. While at Stanford he joined Global MapAid and utilized
his background in GIS, GPS, and satellite imagery in helping
develop GMA's prototype mobile mapping system. The project
won a top prize in the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial
Students.
In recent years Michael has assisted GMA with hardware/software
purchasing, recruiting, finances, incorporation in California,
and obtaining federal 501c3 non-profit status.
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Jeffrey Tew, Director
Technology - USA charity
Jeff is a Technical Fellow and Group Manager
of the Global Manufacturing Strategy and Planning Group, in
the Manufacturing Systems Research Lab of General Motors.
As a senior executive, he specializes in Research and Development
for manufacturing logistics.
Exploiting mathematics, Jeff saves organizations
time, money and materials. He has strong international connections
in academic and corporate sectors, including Consolidated
Freightways, Schneider Logistics, Georgia Tech University,
Oregon Graduate Institute, Stanford and Tsinghua University
in Beijing.Prior to General Motors, he was the director of
Logistics Engineering at Schneider Logistics, Inc. Earlier,
he was a Senior Systems Engineer at Consolidated Freightways,
Inc. and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Simulation
at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
Jeff was also a member of the faculty in
the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg,
VA. In recent years, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Supply
Chain Management at Georgia Tech University and a Visiting
Professor of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University
in Beijing.
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Chris Killer, Director
Technology - UK charity
Chris comes from a technical background,
earning a MEng in 2003 in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Bath.
With a passion for maximising the functionality
of new technology, and a natural problem solver, he is keen
to apply his skills towards collating knowledge and maximising
it's impact in the area of humanitarian work.
In addition to working as a development engineer
and a science teacher, he has been a researcher in innovation
at the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre,
in the UK, with publications in that field soon to include
a PhD thesis. He is also currently working on the development
of an innovative new braking system, reputed to revolutionise
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David Rutter, Director
Survey - UK charity
David is currently employed as a Quantity
Surveyor in the British construction industry. In 2006 he
graduated from Bath College with a BTEC Higher National Certificate
in Construction. He then decided to further his education
by studying a B.Sc honours degree in Quantity Surveying and
Commercial Management part-time at the University of the West
of England.
He has a great desire to help people in the
developing world to work their way out of poverty. He recognises
that the key to successful economic development is the introduction
of self-sustaining infrastructures. Therefore, after finishing
his studies he is planning to visit Africa regularly to help
out on mapping and building projects for needy people.
David's skills are particularly unique as
they involve a combination of practical and academic abilities.
With 10 years experience working within the construction industry
for various contractors, his commercial and technical experience
will be useful for reconstruction projects in disaster zones
throughout the world. |
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