·   Asmaa Jamil – President - Asmaa Jamil is the president of Global Business Services (GBS). Ms. Jamil has a distinguished 22-year career in the financial services, operation management, business training, recruitment and selection, customer service, reporting methodologies, strategic planning, fraud analysis, cultural research, risk management, project management, monitor and evaluation, business communication, workshop facilitation, database development and management, international business strategy, process analysis and improvement, and entrepreneurship business planning. She also has polished leadership skills, works well in team environment, is able to work with all levels of management as well as employees, appreciates multi-cultural environments, responsible and has the ability to follow through commitments and projects.

    As an entrepreneur, Ms. Jamil created GBS as a women-owned consulting group that serves the needs of developing countries in economic change. Within GBS, Ms. Jamil has consulted on diverse projects of United States (US) government grants from USAID or U.S. Department of State Citizen Exchange Bureau focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the University of Michigan Dearborn, American Arab Chamber of Commerce, Detroit Regional Chamber, and American Arab Women’s Business Council. Through these projects, Ms. Jamil has created and managed an applicant database for Yemen internship program in the US; co-developed entrepreneurship program for Yemen; co-taught entrepreneurship seminar for two weeks in Yemen; developed monitor and evaluation process for Yemen entrepreneurship program; created and managed an applicant database for MENA women program; recruited, selected, and interviewed women in the MENA region for internships/fellowships in the US; developed cultural program for MENA women and their respective hosts in United States; created programs for internships/fellowships for MENA women project; monitored and evaluated MENA women program; and monitored and evaluated an educational project in Libya. These projects have focused on entrepreneurship, educational programs, women in science and technology where the work has integrated preparing material of theoretical and real life business experiences.

    Ms. Jamil is also currently a Project Manager for Daimler Financial Services AG where she is responsible for the project master plan, risks, issues and actions, quality management, and executive reports to assess project issues and develop resolutions to meet goals and objectives. Ms. Jamil also maintains and monitors and evaluates the project’s progress and manages an integrated change control within project. In addition, Ms. Jamil also facilitates workshops focused on process development, creation of specifications, and gap analysis. Through this project, Ms. Jamil works with ITM, various vendors, and other company dependent projects to ensure effective operating mode. Ms. Jamil also assists leadership to promote clear and attainable project objectives for pilot implementation while working with project controller to manager all project budgets.   Consulting Project Details    (TOP)

·       Gerlinda Melchiori, Ph.D. – Senior Consultant - Following a successful career of various academic leadership positions at the University of Michigan, Gerlinda Melchiori has now served for 14 years as international consultant both for the University of Michigan/William Davidson Institute and several international consulting firms. She has carried out organizational development for institutions of higher education, research facilities, health care systems, and social and environmental organizations. Her clients included prestigious American private universities, such as Harvard, MIT and Boston University, public institutions, such as the several Big Ten universities, as well as worked for a variety of organizations in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and South America. Her specific expertise is consulting in all areas of domestic and international development of organizations, incl. administrative assessments and goal setting, fundraising and campaign strategies, corporate and foundation relations, as well as Board and staff development.

    Most recently (2006), her work concentrated on improving institutions in emerging economies such as the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan. A rather challenging assignment (2007) was serving for several months as interim rector at the leading International School of Finance and Business in Rwanda to initiate major changes needed to bring this university up to international standards, and serving this post-genocide country in its quest for developing sustainable businesses and services. She is currently working with clients in Austria (Life Sciences) and Germany (non-profit) on management and fundraising issues.

    Her international background, language skills and degrees in both business and higher education management, have made her an effective consultant in very diverse settings. As the author of various books on non-profit management and fundraising, she is a sought-after consultant on cross-cultural corporate and educational training.   Consulting Project Details    (TOP)

·        Laurie Landy – Senior Consultant - Most recently Ms. Landy was a Senior Advisor to the Emerging Markets Practice of BearingPoint Ltd. She was involved in a wide range of assignments connected with BearingPoint’s contract relations with USAID. She served as the BearingPoint Manager for two multi-faceted USAID Contracts for Serbia. Ms. Landy was also involved in BearingPoint’s large Contract in Iraq. Another important contribution was her initiation of BearingPoint’s Monitoring and Evaluation work. She was part of the team of experts for Emerging Markets’ Monitoring and Evaluation activities.

    Thus she has had the unique experience of working in a technical assistance management capacity as both a USAID Officer (on both the program and technical sides), and as a manager for a USAID contractor. She is thoroughly familiar with USAID rules, regulations and processes, and has had extensive experience designing, implementing and managing complex technical assistance programs for more than fifteen years.

    Prior to joining USAID Ms. Landy had fifteen years experience in the financial sector. She worked as an economist at both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and in the international departments of Commercial Banks in the U.S. and Canada. During the 1980s she was a member of the commercial bank rescheduling committee (London Club) for Yugoslav and Romanian foreign debt obligations.

    While working at commercial banks and USAID Ms. Landy traveled extensively to countries in Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union as well as to countries in the Middle East (Israel, Turkey) and Africa (Senegal, The Gambia).  (TOP)