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Andree Sosler
Andrée joined Potential Energy in 2009 as its first full-time employee. Andrée has a decade of experience in poverty alleviation and economic development and has worked in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. As Program Associate at the Trickle Up Program, she oversaw grassroots microfinance projects in Haiti, Benin, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Uganda. Andrée was also an Associate at the OTF Group, a strategy consulting firm that advises organizations, countries and regions on competitiveness. Based in Kigali, Andrée contributed to OTF’s work advising the Government of Rwanda on private sector development and led the firm’s projects in Republic of Congo and Angola. Andrée earned an MBA from The Wharton School, and an AB in Development Studies from Brown University.
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Evan Walden
Prior to co-founding ReWork, Evan worked as an account manager for Dow Chemical, managing a $3.5M territory and increasing sales by over 30% in his first year. Evan has also consulted with a variety of socially responsible start-ups, assisting them with business planning and strategy. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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Kalimah Priforce
Kalimah Priforce is a social entrepreneur with a vision to change the lives of underprivileged children, those who live in poverty ridden areas. Kalimah wants to expose these kids to the digital world and e-commerce helping them cultivate their professional image and establish successful careers; He has made it his mission to provide these resources to these kids.Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, he established his first computer company when he was 17, now he turned his entrepreneur and mentorship experience towards developing innovative and technology based solutions for bridging the gaps in education for the less fortunate. Next was his venture to propagate his ‘our kids, our future’ mission. He was 22, the Thurgood Marshall Club of America, a youth-led venture between the Gallup Organization, the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise, and the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund which reached out pre dominantly to black majority institutes offering leadership programs. “It takes a digital village to raise the 21st century child. Closing the technology gap begins with our most promising upstarts – today’s at-risk youth” Following this, Kalimah co-founded Qyeno labs together with other socially conscious people in 2010. The idea was to provide career guidance in the form of a gaming platform, where students can earn merit badges and rewards by reaching certain milestones in their career path. Mentoring from real professional is also available through video chats or scheduled meetings and the students get a chance to learn the insider’s scope of fields they are interested in, get internships and scholarships also. Under the Qyeno labs program, they have launched a “STEM4girls” – encouraging girls from minority and poor schools to take part in the science and technology ventures and Caeerrsters launched in 2011, which matches kids with the right career path for them and provides them a platform to get information, form discussion groups and
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Peter Scott
Peter Scott (CEO)is considered one of the world’s leading experts in cookstove commercialization. He has trained producers in over 20 countries to set up for-profit stove businesses. In 2006, he received an Ashden Award for designing and promoting Institutional cookstoves in Southern Africa. In 2010 he was chosen as one of the Top100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine.
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