Leadership and Executive Management
Board of DirectorsMicroCredit Enterprises is governed by a distinguished board of directors with extensive business and public service experience. Eighty-five percent (85%) of the board of directors are Guarantors and all board members serve on a pro bono basis. The board of directors is listed below. Company affiliations listed for informational purposes.
Dan BrunnerFormer CEO, Affordable Health Care Concepts. Former General Counsel, Office of Special Health Care Negotiations, Governor's Office, State of California. Former Director, Legislative Office, Western Center on Law & Poverty. Chairman, Board of Directors, Sacramento Theatre Company. Member, Board of Directors, Sacramento KVIE and Legal Services of California. Sacramento, California.
Laura DeVereManaging Director, Zeno Holdings. Former Chief Financial Officer, Law Cypress Distributing Company. Silicon Valley Liaison, Twinning (Dutch venture capital initiative of the Netherlands Foreign Investment office). Former Managing Director, Bibit Global. Member, SV2 International Microfinance Affinity Group. Los Gatos, California.
Christopher Dunford (for Freedom from Hunger) President, Freedom from Hunger. International speaker and writer on village banking, integration of microfinance with health education, impact evaluation and poverty measurement at conferences and in publications of The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, CGAP, Global Health Council, Microcredit Summit, Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network, Journal of Microfinance, Small Enterprise Development and several U.S. universities. Davis, California.
Jonathan C. Lewis Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson (pro bono) Chief Executive Officer (pro bono), MicroCredit Enterprises. Partner, Hudson Heights Partners. Former Managing Chair, Ambassadors Council, Freedom from Hunger. Former President, Academy for International Health Studies. Founder, International Health Summit. Member, Advisory Boards, Global Philanthropy Forum, International Center for Corporate Accountability and the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Read The Lewis Ledger. Davis, California.
Eric McCallum Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Arctic Wire Rope and Supply. Member, Board of Directors, Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission, Alaska Investment, Green Star Alaska, and Great Land Trust. Anchorage, Alaska.
Roger Widmann (for Oxfam America) Former Principal, Tanner & Co., Inc. Senior Managing Director for Investment Banking, Chemical Banking Corporation. Former Managing Director, First Reserve Corporation. Senior Moderator, The Aspen Institute. Former Chairman, Lydall, Inc. Former President, March of Dimes of Greater New York. Member, Board of Directors, Third Century Fund of Brown University and Oxfam America. Member, Board of Directors, three NYSE companies. Larchmont, New York.
Susan Cornell Wilkes (for Oswald Family Foundation)President, Adventures in Giving, Trustee, Peter C. Cornell Trust and Director, Oswald Family Foundation. Former Managing Director for Philanthropy, Family Financial Strategies Inc. Co-author, “The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism”. Founder, internationally- acclaimed Up With People Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Executive ManagementMicroCredit Enterprises was founded by a team of pro bono retired and semi-retired business, legal and civic leaders. Today, a combination of compensated staff and volunteers serve the organization with pro bono executives pledging as much as 80% of their workweek to MicroCredit Enterprises.
The senior management team is listed below. Company affiliations listed for informational purposes.
Jonathan C. Lewis
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson (pro bono) Chief Executive Officer (pro bono), MicroCredit Enterprises. Partner, Hudson Heights Partners. Former Managing Chair, Ambassadors Council, Freedom from Hunger. Former President, Academy for International Health Studies. Founder, International Health Summit. Member, Advisory Boards, Global Philanthropy Forum, International Center for Corporate Accountability and the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Read The Lewis Ledger. Davis, California.
Kyle R. Salyer
Executive Vice President
Former Regional Manager, Mexican Association of Rural and Urban Transformation (Chiapas, Mexico). Former MicroCredit Enterprises Management Fellow. Masters of Business Administration, University of California at Davis, Graduate School of Management. Fluent in Spanish. Menlo Park, California.
William G. Way
Chief Operating Officer (pro bono) Former Managing Partner, Accenture Phoenix, Arizona, including Accenture postings in Japan and England. Member, Board of Directors, Phoenix Art Museum, Asian Arts Council and Whitman College. Member, National Advisory Committee, Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University. Phoenix, Arizona.
Annette Bousquet
Chief Financial Officer
Former Financial Analyst, Bank of America, Business Consultant, Asha Veza of New York, Bosnia and Calcutta and Economic Development Consultant, Kudumbashree, State Poverty Eradication Mission, Government of Kerala, India. San Francisco, California.
Gary M. Ford
General Counsel (pro bono) Principal, Groom Law Group. Former ERISA Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Former General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Charter Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Washington, DC.
Dawnie M. Andrak
Senior Vice President, Development (pro bono)
Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Capitol WebWorks, LLC. Community activist and civic leader for Orange County Trauma Society, Inc., Californians Against Waste and California Voter Foundation. Sacramento, California.
Rowland Hobbs
Senior Vice President, Communications (pro bono) Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, DMD. Former Senior Managing Director, RF Binder Partners, directing the marketing practice for Eli Lilly & Company, Hunter Douglas, and Johnson & Johnson. Former Senior Vice President, Ruder Finn. New York, New York.
Sarah Marie Martin
Managing Co-Director, Guarantors Council (pro bono)
Managing Director, Credit Suisse, Financial Sponsors Group, Investment Banking division. Former Investment Banking Analyst, Equity and High Yield Capital Markets Groups, Credit Suisse. New York, New York.
Gregg Schoen
Managing Co-Director, Guarantors Council (pro bono)
Former Director, Private Client Services Group, Bear Stearns & Co. Former Principal in Charge, Los Angeles office of Alex. Brown and Sons and San Francisco office of Cowen and Company LLC. Vice Chair, Board of Directors, San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Former Chair, Board of Directors, Continuum. Palm Springs, California.
Lorene Arey
Managing Co-Director, Guarantors Council (pro bono)
President, The Clara Fund. Former head, Worldwide Corporate Communications, Cisco Systems. Member, Board of Directors, Count Me In for Economic Independence, Women’s Edge Coalition and Unitus. Los Altos Hills, California.
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Dan BrunnerFormer CEO, Affordable Health Care Concepts. Former General Counsel, Office of Special Health Care Negotiations, Governor's Office, State of California. Former Director, Legislative Office, Western Center on Law & Poverty. Chairman, Board of Directors, Sacramento Theatre Company. Member, Board of Directors, Sacramento KVIE and Legal Services of California. Sacramento, California.
Laura DeVereManaging Director, Zeno Holdings. Former Chief Financial Officer, Law Cypress Distributing Company. Silicon Valley Liaison, Twinning (Dutch venture capital initiative of the Netherlands Foreign Investment office). Former Managing Director, Bibit Global. Member, SV2 International Microfinance Affinity Group. Los Gatos, California.
Christopher Dunford (for Freedom from Hunger) President, Freedom from Hunger. International speaker and writer on village banking, integration of microfinance with health education, impact evaluation and poverty measurement at conferences and in publications of The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, CGAP, Global Health Council, Microcredit Summit, Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network, Journal of Microfinance, Small Enterprise Development and several U.S. universities. Davis, California.
Jonathan C. Lewis Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson (pro bono) Chief Executive Officer (pro bono), MicroCredit Enterprises. Partner, Hudson Heights Partners. Former Managing Chair, Ambassadors Council, Freedom from Hunger. Former President, Academy for International Health Studies. Founder, International Health Summit. Member, Advisory Boards, Global Philanthropy Forum, International Center for Corporate Accountability and the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Read The Lewis Ledger. Davis, California.
Eric McCallum Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Arctic Wire Rope and Supply. Member, Board of Directors, Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission, Alaska Investment, Green Star Alaska, and Great Land Trust. Anchorage, Alaska.
Roger Widmann (for Oxfam America) Former Principal, Tanner & Co., Inc. Senior Managing Director for Investment Banking, Chemical Banking Corporation. Former Managing Director, First Reserve Corporation. Senior Moderator, The Aspen Institute. Former Chairman, Lydall, Inc. Former President, March of Dimes of Greater New York. Member, Board of Directors, Third Century Fund of Brown University and Oxfam America. Member, Board of Directors, three NYSE companies. Larchmont, New York.
Susan Cornell Wilkes (for Oswald Family Foundation)President, Adventures in Giving, Trustee, Peter C. Cornell Trust and Director, Oswald Family Foundation. Former Managing Director for Philanthropy, Family Financial Strategies Inc. Co-author, “The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism”. Founder, internationally- acclaimed Up With People Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Executive ManagementMicroCredit Enterprises was founded by a team of pro bono retired and semi-retired business, legal and civic leaders. Today, a combination of compensated staff and volunteers serve the organization with pro bono executives pledging as much as 80% of their workweek to MicroCredit Enterprises.
The senior management team is listed below. Company affiliations listed for informational purposes.
Jonathan C. Lewis
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson (pro bono) Chief Executive Officer (pro bono), MicroCredit Enterprises. Partner, Hudson Heights Partners. Former Managing Chair, Ambassadors Council, Freedom from Hunger. Former President, Academy for International Health Studies. Founder, International Health Summit. Member, Advisory Boards, Global Philanthropy Forum, International Center for Corporate Accountability and the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Read The Lewis Ledger. Davis, California.
Kyle R. Salyer
Executive Vice President
Former Regional Manager, Mexican Association of Rural and Urban Transformation (Chiapas, Mexico). Former MicroCredit Enterprises Management Fellow. Masters of Business Administration, University of California at Davis, Graduate School of Management. Fluent in Spanish. Menlo Park, California.
William G. Way
Chief Operating Officer (pro bono) Former Managing Partner, Accenture Phoenix, Arizona, including Accenture postings in Japan and England. Member, Board of Directors, Phoenix Art Museum, Asian Arts Council and Whitman College. Member, National Advisory Committee, Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University. Phoenix, Arizona.
Annette Bousquet
Chief Financial Officer
Former Financial Analyst, Bank of America, Business Consultant, Asha Veza of New York, Bosnia and Calcutta and Economic Development Consultant, Kudumbashree, State Poverty Eradication Mission, Government of Kerala, India. San Francisco, California.
Gary M. Ford
General Counsel (pro bono) Principal, Groom Law Group. Former ERISA Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Former General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Charter Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Washington, DC.
Dawnie M. Andrak
Senior Vice President, Development (pro bono)
Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Capitol WebWorks, LLC. Community activist and civic leader for Orange County Trauma Society, Inc., Californians Against Waste and California Voter Foundation. Sacramento, California.
Rowland Hobbs
Senior Vice President, Communications (pro bono) Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, DMD. Former Senior Managing Director, RF Binder Partners, directing the marketing practice for Eli Lilly & Company, Hunter Douglas, and Johnson & Johnson. Former Senior Vice President, Ruder Finn. New York, New York.
Sarah Marie Martin
Managing Co-Director, Guarantors Council (pro bono)
Managing Director, Credit Suisse, Financial Sponsors Group, Investment Banking division. Former Investment Banking Analyst, Equity and High Yield Capital Markets Groups, Credit Suisse. New York, New York.
Gregg Schoen
Managing Co-Director, Guarantors Council (pro bono)
Former Director, Private Client Services Group, Bear Stearns & Co. Former Principal in Charge, Los Angeles office of Alex. Brown and Sons and San Francisco office of Cowen and Company LLC. Vice Chair, Board of Directors, San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Former Chair, Board of Directors, Continuum. Palm Springs, California.
Lorene Arey
Managing Co-Director, Guarantors Council (pro bono)
President, The Clara Fund. Former head, Worldwide Corporate Communications, Cisco Systems. Member, Board of Directors, Count Me In for Economic Independence, Women’s Edge Coalition and Unitus. Los Altos Hills, California.
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