Merial

Merial

Best known to cat and dog lovers as the makers of the Frontline and Heartgard, Merial was the animal health unit of Merck, Sanofi, and now Boehringer-Ingelheim.
Here, I honed my project management, product development, and business analysis skills in over a decade with the Information Systems department.
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

The MBA program was the intellectual spark that ignited my passion for business. Concentrating in Finance, Marketing, and International Business, I discovered that the analytical rigor required in the tech industry is also highly relevant in a high performance business environment like the Scheller MBA.
Kiva

Kiva

As a Kiva Fellow, I split my time between rural Kenya, Nairobi, and New York City.
In the field, I was embedded with Kiva's Field Partners and visited their farmers in Western Kenya to help evaluate their operations and the impact of their microloan. In the office, I focused on improving Kiva borrowers onboarding process to maximize their chances of success.
One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund

At One Acre Fund, I focused on professionalizing business operations for the Uganda program which had just recently graduated from the pilot phase and moved into the core program.
I regularly visited our field staff and customers to understand their challenges. Back in the office, these observations helped me to devise policies, procedures, services, and teams to lay the groundwork for program expansion.
Zepz

Zepz

At Zepz, I focused on reducing the cost for immigrants to send money home through our Sendwave and WorldRemit products
My core responsibilities included cross-functional program management to replatform and consolidate legacy transactional systems post-merger, operations enablement to reduce cost and improve user experience through efficient internal systems, and partner integrations and market expansion to increase our reach.-

My Values


If something is important, I prefer to take initiative, rally the right stakeholders, and act decisively. In the face of uncertainty, I avoid analysis paralysis by creating contingency plans for potential risks and quickly getting buy-in so we can move quickly and build momentum.


There is never enough time to do everything you want to do and people are continuously making requests. I constantly evaluate what are the most critical things I should be doing to achieve my goals and make tough choices about balancing what is most important, urgent, and impactful to the organization.


I see my role as empowering others. That means removing blockers, actively listening, and creating structures where people can thrive. I prioritize transparency, fairness, and trust in how I manage teams and collaborate cross-functionally.


Data provides the building blocks of major decisions.

For example, at One Acre Fund, we were considering a trial of mobile money payments to enable Ugandan farmers to make loan repayments from their phone and we needed to determine where to conduct the trial. An initiative like this is a complex undertaking because it is a fundamental shift in the program's strategy and operations and has many moving parts.

Using the balance scorecard framework to evaluate the capacity and needs of internal and external stakeholders helped us to identify both the pilot program locations and hone in on the key factors to success. Later in the project, the wide band of uncertainty around program growth was a major barrier to making a meaningful NPV analysis so Monte Carlo simulation was used to provide probabilistic estimates. All of this analysis was made possible by pulling in internal data from disparate sources.


I approach operations like a product: test, measure, iterate. Whether launching a new process or responding to failure, I ground decisions in data and continuous improvement. I welcome feedback as fuel for growth—both mine and the team’s.


I believe that well-designed systems bring clarity to complex processes, reduce noise, and enable teams to focus on what matters. Whether it’s a dashboard, a policy, or a workflow, my goal is to simplify complexity into something usable and scalable.

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I'm based in the New York metropolitan area and remain eternally grateful for the opportunities I've had to help create lasting social impact in East Africa.

I'd love to connect via LinkedIn or email listed below.