Team Biographies

Daniel Cothran, MPH, Co-Founder

Mr. Cothran will serve as the company’s Director of Product Development. In this capacity, he will facilitate and direct communications between the in-country staff and U.S.-based technical advisors. Mr. Cothran received his MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked in India as the recipient of an Innovators grant from the Deshpande Foundation and is a Project Officer for AIDSTAR-One at John Snow, Incorporated.

Bryon Zandt

Mr. Zandt earned his BS from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill. While a student, he helped found the non-profit Nourish International, and worked as the organization’s Director of Marketing & Technology after graduation.  Mr. Zandt is currently working on a startup named Pokeit, which offers statistical analysis tools to online poker players. He is a consultant for LiV.

Rashmi Agrawal

Ms. Agrawal holds a BE in Engineering from the University of Mumbai. She is currently a first-year MBA student at Wake Forest University with finance and consulting as career concentrations. Prior to business school, Ms. Agrawal worked with as SAP Consultant with Larsen & Toubro Infotech. She has extensive consulting experience with companies such as Chevron and P&G and has lived in Cape Town, and California.

Jessica Feingold, MPH, Co-Founder

Ms. Feingold received her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and focused her studies in sexual and reproductive health and social enterprise. She is a two-time recipient of the Innovators grant from the Deshpande Foundation, an India-based private family foundation that funds social enterprise incubation in the Sandbox region of northwest Karnataka. Ms. Feingold has served as the NYC Co-Director of the social enterprise Dance 4 Peace. With Dance 4 Peace, she led fundraising, business development, and social impact assessment of the organization, earning honors as a semi-finalist in the Global Social Venture Competition.  Currently, she is a Women’s Health Associate at Global Health Strategies, a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on communications and advocacy around issues in global health.

Lauren Westervelt, Co-Founder

Ms. Westervelt will earn her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will complete a graduate certificate in social entrepreneurship at Kenan-Flagler Business School in May 2011. Ms. Westervelt has extensive experience working and travelling internationally. In 2008, Ms. Westervelt worked with Soluciones Comunitarias, an internationally recognized company noted for introducing the micro-consignment model to improve the lives of the rural poor. In this position, she trained and supported small-scale entrepreneurs in Guatemala. Most recently, in her position with Ipas, an international NGO that supports women’s sexual and reproductive rights, she was responsible for developing a draft toolkit for health professionals aimed toward improving young women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services globally.

AJ Twombly

A.J. Twombly graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 2000, with a B.A. in English.  In 2001 A.J. began working at the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee until the fall, when she joined the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer.  During her time at State A.J. served in Istanbul, Turkey; Kabul, Afghanistan; and at the United Nations in New York.  In 2009 A.J. resigned and began pursuing an MBA at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.  Following her graduation in May 2011, she will be joining Goldman Sachs in New York.

Meng Li

Ms. Li holds a BA in Economics from Smith College and is currently a second-year MBA student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill focusing on marketing. Prior to business school, she worked for The Whelan Group, a consulting firm in New York City that provides fundraising strategy and business planning services for nonprofits. After graduation, Meng will be joining Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies as an Associate Brand Manager.

Don Ware

Mr. Ware holds a BA in Mathematics with a concentration in finance from the University of Virginia. He is currently a first-year MBA student at Wake Forest University where he is studying finance and business analytics. Prior to business school, Mr. Ware worked with the Clark Builders Group. He has extensive travel experience as he has traveled to 40 states and 22 countries.

JD Brannock

Mr. Brannock earned his BS in Physics from the University of North Carolina. He has nearly three years of experience working with small startup ventures in various stages of development. He was a founding member and shareholder of Syzgy Optics, a technology-based company founded under the new Carolina Express License. He will attend the Michigan Ross School of Business in the fall to study entrepreneurship.

Twitter:

Cothran: @Dan4QoL
Zandt: @Bdizzz
Feingold: @JessFeingold
Westervelt: @LWestervelt
Ware: @donaldware

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