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Leadership Profiles
Rupert Douglas-Bate, Chairman
Rupert has been an aid worker since 1989 when he went to
live and work in East Africa. Since then he has worked all
over the world, developing a responsive and multicultural
style of leadership, based on mutual respect coupled to systematic
decision-making.
Aid workers by definition have to be flexible, for example
he has been a water and sanitation engineer, a shelter coordinator,
an agricultural supplies officer and a logistician.
During 1994 in Bosnia, he realised there was a critical need
for maps to help:-
- aid workers find the victims
- victims find the aid
- make the outside world accountable towards helping in
a humanitarian context (this also being an issue to do with
democracy)
So he set up Aid for Aid, which has now been transformed
into the successful British non-government organisation known
as Map Action. It rapidly and successfully deploys specialist
map-makers from the UK, in event of a disaster.
In 2003 he went to Stanford University and together with
some friends, built a technology for capturing humanitarian
data and making maps, in near-real time and the project won
a prize, all credit to his team. Afterwards his team
encouraged him to set up Global MapAid.
Global MapAid is an American non-government organisation
(501 c3), which trains local personnel in their own countries
to make humanitarian maps. These local personnel make maps
of poverty issues before a disaster and are also able respond
in the event of a disaster. GMA has developed a method of
making these teams financially self-sustaining.
Here are some references awarded against contracts that Rupert
carried out before the humanitarian mapping buzz took over.
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Stephanie Race, Director Marketing
and Development
Stephanie has over 20 years of results oriented management consulting
and systems integration experience working with clients to develop
their product portfolio, brand marketing and supply chain strategies
to support consumer insights initiatives as they look to globalize
their operations. Stephanie was a Partner at Accenture, Founder of
Commerce Net Services and gained her corporate technology experience
with leadership roles in the Supply Chain and Emerging Technology
practices of Oracle Corporation and Andersen Consulting.
With a deep passion for developing solutions that benefit human beings
in need while centering on environmental stewardship, Stephanie has
been working to commercialize remote sensing technology for risk
management and sustainable development. In collaboration with NASA
since 1996, she conceived and built solutions using satellite based
earth observation data to analyze the economics of agriculture, land
use, infrastructure, and water for the financial services and insurance industries.
Having worked with consumer products companies and retailers to
baseline the carbon footprint of their products, supply chains and
infrastructure, develop product sourcing practices that support
sustainability and develop consumer education and awareness programs
for healthy lifestyles, her work is resulting in a sustainability
index bringing transparency to the impact that the everyday products
we consume have on our planet.
A graduate with honors from University at Albany, State University of
New York School of Business, she is a Visiting Professor at Carnegie
Mellon in the Computer Science Department and teaches courses in
Industrial Management & Logistics at Tsinghau University in Beijing
China. Currently pursuing a PhD at Lulea University of Technology in
Sweden, Stephanie is working to complete her thesis focused on
Mitigating the Risks of Global Climate Change.
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Michael Fleishman, Director Finance
and Administration
Michael earned a BS degree in geophysics from UCLA and an
MS degree in geophysics from Stanford University. As an undergraduate
he published results of research on the near-Earth space environment,
and his NASA-supported Master's thesis focused on radar satellite
observations of Earth's crust. While at Stanford he joined
Global MapAid and utilized his background in GIS, GPS, and
satellite imagery in helping develop GMA's prototype mobile
mapping system. The project won a top prize in the Business
Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
In recent years Michael has assisted GMA with hardware/software
purchasing, recruiting, finances, incorporation in California,
and obtaining federal 501c3 non-profit status.
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Jeffrey Tew, Director
Technology
Jeff is a Technical Fellow and Group Manager of the Global
Manufacturing Strategy and Planning Group, in the Manufacturing
Systems Research Lab of General Motors. As a senior executive,
he specializes in Research and Development for manufacturing
logistics.
Exploiting mathematics, Jeff saves organizations time, money
and materials. He has strong international connections in
academic and corporate sectors, including Consolidated Freightways,
Schneider Logistics, Georgia Tech University, Oregon Graduate
Institute, Stanford and Tsinghua University in Beijing.Prior
to General Motors, he was the director of Logistics Engineering
at Schneider Logistics, Inc. Earlier, he was a Senior Systems
Engineer at Consolidated Freightways, Inc. and an Adjunct
Associate Professor of Computer Simulation at the Oregon Graduate
Institute.
Jeff was also a member of the faculty in the Industrial
and Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. In recent
years, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Supply Chain Management
at Georgia Tech University and a Visiting Professor of Industrial
Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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