Technoserve

TechnoServe "is a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization that was founded in 1968 by Connecticut businessman Ed Bullard." Their website adds that "TechnoServe, at its core, is about growth. We help grow businesses and industries in the developing world. These growing enterprises generate more jobs, more income and thus more opportunities for poor people." 

In 2003 Aziz Choudry wrote that the TechnoServe representative for the World Agricultural Forum, Oren Whyche-Shaw, is "a former African Development Bank official, former USAID Regional Business Development Advisor, and Former Vice President of International Corporate Finance for Citibank. TechnoServe's donors include American Express, BP Amoco, Chevron, Chubb, ExxonMobil, JP Morgan Chase Federation, Microsoft, Mobil, Pfizer, Shell, as well as Cargill, Monsanto and Philip Morris, who are all on its Business Leadership Council. The USDA, USAID, World Bank and IDB are also donors." 

Funders (2007)
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE ($1,000,000+)
 * Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 * Google.org

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($500,000-$999,999)
 * Argidius Foundation
 * Ford Foundation
 * Kenya Pipeline Company Limited (KPC)
 * Rockefeller Foundation

Directors

 * Paul E. Tierney, Jr. - Managing Member, Aperture Venture Partners; Chairman, TechnoServe, Inc.
 * Bruce McNamer - President and CEO, TechnoServe, Inc.
 * Gerald Baldwin - Director, Peet's Coffee & Tea
 * Jennifer Bullard Broggini - Director, Kieger AG
 * Beth A. Brooke - Vice Chair, Ernst & Young, LLP
 * Michael J. Bush - President and CEO, Anchor Blue Retail Group, Inc.
 * John B. Caron - President, Caron International
 * David de Ferranti - Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow, the United Nations Foundation
 * James W. Donley - Chairman, Donley Communications Corporation
 * Peter A. Flaherty - Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Managing Director, Arcon Partners, LLC
 * Paul E. Francis - Policy Director, Spitzer 2006
 * Bruce Heerema - Chairman and Co-CEO, Heritage Lace, Inc.
 * Suzanne Nora Johnson - Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
 * Stace D. Lindsay - CEO, New England Portable Storage, LLC
 * Tim Mott - San Francisco, California
 * Roberto Murray Meza - President, FUNDEMAS, El Salvador; AGRISAL, El Salvador
 * James C. Orr - Managing Partner, James Orr Associates; Executive Director, Bretton Woods Committee
 * Alan Patricof - Managing Director, Greycroft, LLC
 * Michelle Peluso - President and CEO, Travelocity
 * Bonnie E. Raquet - Corporate Vice President, Public Affairs, Cargill, Inc.
 * Jerry A. Riessen - President, O.L.S. Energy
 * Brian Schofield - Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
 * Paul Soros - Paul Soros Investments, LLC
 * Judy Wade - Managing Director, Democracy Alliance

Advisory Council (2008)

 * Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.
 * Ian Davis
 * Christopher J. Dodd
 * James W. Donley
 * James A. Harmon
 * Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
 * Hamilton E. (Tony) James
 * Richard G. Lugar
 * Robert L. Lumpkins
 * Robert S. McNamara
 * Peter D. Sutherland
 * John C. Whitehead

TechnoServe Advisory Council (2010)
Accessed February 2010:


 * Ian Davis
 * The Honorable Christopher J. Dodd
 * James W. Donley
 * The Honorable James A. Harmon
 * The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
 * The Honorable James A. Himes
 * Hamilton E. (Tony) James
 * The Honorable Richard G. Lugar
 * Robert L. Lumpkins
 * The Honorable Robert S. McNamara
 * Peter D. Sutherland
 * The Honorable John C. Whitehead

Members

 * Gareth Ackerman, Dr. Peter Ackerman, Frances Ohenewa Ademola, Daniel J. Aguiar, José Agustín Espino, Charles A. Akinola, Alberta B. Arthurs, A. George (Skip) Battle, Keith Berwick, Kiandokht Beyzavi, Jeremy Block, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Titus A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Carol H. Bullard, Amy Bullard Davies, Marilyn Carr, Lori Owen Clauson, Peter A. Clauson, Michael T. G. Davies, Jacques de Jonge, Gregory de Sousa, James F. Dean, James W. Donley, Thomas J. Drew, P. Mark Drewell, Elizabeth Ebzery, Christiana Figueres, E. Peter Freer, Gerald Garbacz, Harriet C. Gerard, George R. Gerardi, Joseph B. Goodwin, Samir J. Habiby, Cynthia A. Hampton, Gary S. Hartshorn, Ulric Haynes, Jr., Alison Jones, Sanjay R. Kalavar, Robert K. Kaplan, Avinash Kaza, John D. Lange, Jr., Andrzej J. Lubowski, Rilwanu Lukman, Akinlawon Ledapo Mabogunje, Christopher Marais, James B. Mead, Thomas P. Melady, George L. Metcalfe, Louise Middleton, David C. Miller, Jr., Paul L. Miller, Jr., Margaret Mwangola, Bassey U. Ndiokho, Ladi Nylander, Kenneth Ofori-Atta, Christopher M. Parmentier, Robert Patterson, Kwevi Quaye, Peter Raquet, Romeu Rodrigues, Federico F. Sánchez, Ing. Otto Sauter, Gerald L. Schmaedick, Kenneth Schwartz, Benjamin E. Segal, Isaac O. Shongwe, Edward T. Shonsey, Halina Siemaszko, Eric Sillman, Teóflo José Siman, Lawrence H. Skromme, Charles Slaughter, Christopher Smiles, Jr., John Palmer Smith, Alfred C. Stepan, P. Kojo Thompson, Matthew Tierney, Ernest van Panhuys, A. Michael Van Vleck, Theodore S. Weber, Jr., Curtis R. Welling, Emily A. West, Piotr Wilkonski, Caroline Williams, Evelyn A. Windhager Swanson, Enrique M. Zamora, Francisco Augusto, Zelaya Ubeda

Contact

 * Web: http://www.technoserve.org

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