Garron Hansen brings 20 years of international experience, including 15 years implementing both donor and U.S. Government-funded programs in Africa and Haiti. In his previous role as the senior global practice lead for the agriculture &…
Laura Glaeser
Chief of Party, USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network 7
Laura Glaeser currently serves as the chief of party for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) team. She is a food security, early warning, and livelihoods analysis expert with nearly 20 years of experience…
Asdrubal Negrete Lebette
Chief of Party, USAID Colombia Rural Finance Initiative
Asdrubal Negrete Lebette is currently the chief of party of the Colombia Rural Finance Initiative, where he works with banks, anchor firms, and producers to design and pilot innovative value chain finance mechanisms to help smallholders,…
Heather Joffe Reyes
Director, Latin America and the Caribbean
Currently the director of the Colombia Rural Finance Initiative, Heather Joffe Reyes is an international development practitioner with more than 15 years of experience in agricultural value chains, small business development, and rural development. In addition,…
Kirk Ramer
Chief of Party, USAID Agribusiness Development Activity (ADA)
Kirk Ramer has over 25 years of experience managing projects to promote agricultural and small-and medium-sized enterprise development in southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. He is currently the chief of party of the Agribusiness…
Marcos Moreno
Chief of Party
Marcos Moreno is the chief of party for the Feed the Future Bangladesh Horticulture, Fruits and Non-Food Crops Activity. He is an agriculture and youth development expert with more than 30 years of experience, including 20…
Melissa Gasmi
Senior Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Business Unit
Melissa (Scudo) Gasmi joined Chemonics in 2007 and brings more than 20 years of experience managing complex international development programs. Melissa served as team leader for Chemonics’ Tunisia Tax and Customs Reform Activity in Tunisia, chief…
Luis Chavez
Project Management Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Business Unit
Luis Chavez has over 30 years of experience designing and managing economic growth projects in Latin America and Africa. As a Chemonics home office project director, he is responsible for managing projects in the Latin America…
Katy Tchumburidze
Chief of Party
Katy Tchumburidze has 22 years of experience technical and high managerial expertise in value chain and private sector competitiveness interventions, entrepreneurship promotion and micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) development, business development services, and MSME financing.…
Catherine Kannam
Chief Operating Officer
Catherine Kannam is Chemonics’ chief operating officer. Prior to this role, she was the senior vice president (SVP) for Chemonics’ Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan region as well as the SVP for Chemonics’ Gender, Equality, and…
Joshua Leland
Vice President, Corporate Development
Joshua Leland is a distinguished development professional with more than two decades of progressive experience managing teams and driving growth. His expertise spans strategic leadership, entrepreneurial initiatives, and executive management in both headquarters and overseas roles.…
Philip DeCosse
Senior Director, Evidence & Learning
Philip DeCosse leads development and implementation for Chemonics’ applied research, evaluation, and learning agenda in the U.S. An agricultural economist, he brings 30 years of substantive experience as a development professional. In recent years, Philip led…