Meet The Board Of Directors
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Mr. Aditya Singh is currently enrolled in Honors in Business Administration at the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada. He is specializing in sales and marketing, and brings to the board extensive international sales and marketing experience. As a sales executive at Ambitious Pens Pvt. Ltd., India, he helped the firm increase revenues from Rs. 80,000 to Rs. 320,000 within a period of four months. As a marketing manager for McCoffee Russia, based in Moscow, he increased his brand’s market share by 15% within four months by redefining the firm’s marketing strategy, for which he received the MacCoffee Employee of the Year Award. In 2009, Mr. Singh established Being Social, a non-profit business with a mission of teaching communication and networking skills to socially uncomfortable Canadian youth. His team helped over 120 recent Canadian immigrants transform themselves within a period of four months. He is also the co-founder of Ride Ignite (http://www.facebook.com/l/c0104;rideignite.com/demo), a web-based Carpooling service for Canadian college and university students, which will be launched in May 2010.
Mr. Singh will be working in the Marketing department of Reliance India over the coming summer. He is dedicated to giving back to the community, and was the recipient of 2008 Lieutenant Governor General’s Community Volunteer Award (Ontario, Canada) for devoting over 1600 hours to the province of Ontario between 2006-2008. His major purpose in life is to establish a non-profit Entrepreneurship Institute in a third-world country, the mission of which will be to develop business leaders who think globally, act strategically and contribute to the societies within which they operate.
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Mr. Tyrone H. Thomas is an original member of the Board of Directors.Mr. Thomas is a graduate of Hunter College in New York City, where he received his bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies. While in New York, Mr. Thomas worked with the New York Public Interest Research Group on consumer affairs and affordable housing issues. Following his work with NYPIRG, he was a fellow in the office of New York State Senator Liz Krueger also working primarily on issues relating to housing.
Mr. Thomas is currently pursuing a Juris Doctor at the University Of Illinois College Of Law. There his scholarship focuses mostly on the areas of Real Estate Law, Private Wealth Management, and Bankruptcy Law. In his professional and academic career Mr. Thomas was selected as a Public Scholar and was a McDermott Will & Emery Fellow in Civil Litigation He brings to the board an interest in the legal issues involving Prvate Wealth Managment and Bankruptcy law.
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Mr Edwin Larry Youmsi is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering with minors in Business management and Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. Alongside with his studies, Mr Youmsi has been working part-time with the Kinder Morgan CO2 Company located in Houston Texas. He has been actively involved in the reciprocal compressor maintenance as well as in the optimization of the gas recompression process.
Mr Youmsi has also been involved with Habitat For Humanity, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide green and energy-efficient homes to low income families at a low price. Mr Youmsi has been volunteering in helping HFH in optimizing the design of the floor plans that support a green HFH home, designing a cost efficient HVAC system to sustain the homes in Texas weather, designing attic and selecting cost effective sustainable insulation alternatives. Mr Youmsi has a strong interest in the energy industry, Politics, Business and Finance. He intends on pursuing an MBA in Finance, Business and Public policy.
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An alumnus of Trinity College and the Urban Fellows Program, Alex Henry has just co-authored a chapter with Raymond Baker on cross-cultural interpretation for a volume of essays about the Islamic world, which he is currently expanding into a book to be published by Routledge. His research developing a theory of cross-cultural interpretation included 6 months in Cairo funded by the Carnegie Corporation.
As a graduate student at the University of Chicago this fall, he will apply his theory of cross-cultural interpretation to issues in economic development, and once he has his MBA, put it to practical use in the field of microfinance. Raised in New York City, Alex's travels have brought him all throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, including Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
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