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Leadership1. Executive team
David G. McAfee
President and CEO
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David G. McAfee is the President and CEO of Human Network International (HNI), an organization he co-founded to increase access to critical development information for vulnerable groups in the developing world using information and communication technology. Mr. McAfee has over 18 years of development experience beginning with the United States Peace Corps in the Republic of Gabon from 1991 to 1994. Mr. McAfee became the Rwanda Country Representative for Population Services International (PSI) , the world's largest social marketing organization in 1996. Mr. McAfee moved to Madagascar in 1999 to launch PSI 's public health activities as Senior Country Representative, a post he occupied until 2004 when he returned to Washington as PSI 's Regional Director for Southern Africa. Mr. McAfee supervised PSI 's work in eight Southern African countries: Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland with an annual operating budget in excess of $80 million.
Mr. McAfee co-founded HNI in 2007 with his brother, Professor Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT Sloan School of Management. Mr. McAfee moved with his family back to Madagascar in 2008 to launch Human Network International's first bidirectional information exchange pilot projects. David McAfee has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago . He is married and has two young daughters who enjoy the company of lemurs.
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2. Board of Directors
Andrew McAfee
Board Chairman
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Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself - the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.
He coined the phrase "Enterprise 2.0 " in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee's blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati ).
McAfee's book on Enterprise 2.0 will be published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal.
In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the "100 Most Influential People in IT ." He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world.
McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management , and a fellow at the Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society .
He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.
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Brian Williams
Vice Chairman
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Mr. Williams has over 14 years experience in a variety of cultures and geo-graphical regions in several areas of development including HIV/AIDS, democratic governance, post-conflict and humanitarian assistance.Mr. Williams has held important positions within the United Nations for more than eight years. From October '04 to October '08 he has held the post of United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS ( UNAIDS ) Country Coordinator for Myanmar. In this post, Mr. Williams coordinated UN agency activities on HIV for Myanmar, and built partnerships across NGOs, civil society and government to expand the response to AIDS in Myanmar. From Jan '02 to Sept '04 Mr. Williams held the post of Executive Officer, Office of the Director for Country Response and Unit Leader, Management Support Unit for UNAIDS , based in Geneva, Switzerland. In this post, Mr. Williams advised the Director and assisted conceptualization and implementation of Department strategies. From February -December 2001, Mr. Williams was the Adviser for International Partnerships with UNAIDS , based in Geneva Switzerland. In this position, Mr. Williams managed relations between UNAIDS and selected private sector partners (Coca-Cola) and facilitate the development of a private sector IPAA policy. From March 1999 - March 2000 he was the Chief Technical Advisor on the Governance Program for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and UNDP based in Burundi. In this post, In collaboration with the National Coordinator, supervised UNDP 's governance programme dealing with: i) civil society, ii) the rehabilitation of Burundi's traditional village mediation and justice institution, iii) anti-corruption activities, and iv) strengthening of the justice system and the protection of human rights. Earlier work included humanitarian and democracy building posts and consultancies in Rwanda, Cambodia and Afghanistan with a variety of agencies including USAID, CIDA, International Rescue Committe and CARE International.
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Alex Miller
Board Secretary
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Mr. Miller is guardian ad litem coordinator for the Minnesota Judicial
Branch. The guardian ad litem provides courtroom advocacy to children
in child abuse, neglect and other family court matters.
Mr. Miller has received a Judicial Branch Excellence Award for his service on organizational and advisory committees responsible for database development and management; automated time and billing
programs; risk management and organizational strategy. Mr. Miller is particularly interested in the application of IT for service delivery to rural and remote locations. Mr. Miller has completed the University of Arizona Telemedicine Course and is piloting projects to integrate telepresence into guardian ad litem casework. He also teaches the investigation and report writing curriculum for the state guardian program. In addition to his guardian ad litem work, Mr. Miller is a Rule 114 certified mediator. Prior to joining the Minnesota Judicial Branch, Mr. Miller was a litigation partner at Gessler, Hughes and Socol, a mid-sized Chicago, Illinois law firm. Mr. Miller holds a J.D.. cum laude from St. Louis Univeristy, where he was an Eberle Scholar and Am Jur award winner in Environmental Law, Federal Jurisdiction and Administrative Law. He graduated summa cum laude from St. Louis University with a Bachelor's Degree in Latin and Classics.
The Millers live on Sorella Farms, a 40 acre organic farm in Southwest Minnesota. Sorella is dedicated to sustainable management, using only on-farm inputs for hay, livestock and vegetable farming. Vegetable production is focused on raised-bed, minimal tillage and intensive cultivation. Mr. Miller is interested in the potential for broader application of such principles to grain farming, particularly SRI.
Mr. Miller is a member of GRAIN , The Society for Conservation Biology and The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
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Lisa Simutami
Board Treasurer
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Lisa Simutami is PSI's Senior Regional Director for East Africa, a post she has held since October 2009. Previously, Lisa was PSI's Senior Director for Contracts, Procurement and Logistics. Lisa's career at PSI began in 1997 with PSI's Social Marketing Program in Zambia, where she served as the Marketing Associate.
In 1999, Lisa became the Country Representative for PSI Rwanda. She was responsible for 85 paid staff and 10 volunteer staff, annual budget of $2.9 million, strategic planning and management of all operations including fundraising, evaluation, training, commercial distribution, procurement, finance, and contracting. Her accomplishments include: securing $4.7 million in new funding from USAID, DFID and KfW, increasing efficiency by creating a new organizational structure and improving internal communication, increased sales in all product areas, and designing and implementing a youth center, which has now been replicated throughout Rwanda.
Lisa returned to PSI headquarters in 2002. Because of her aptitude in financial management, the CFO asked Lisa to establish a new position in the finance department that would be the link between the country programs financial needs and the PSI corporate accounting department. Lisa served as the Financial Services Manager for one year before being asked to become the Director of the Procurement and Logistics department. Before joining PSI, Lisa was Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon and an Associate Program Officer at Family Health International (FHI). She has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from North Carolina State and she studied Intercultural Management at the School for International Training.
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Toby Kasper
Board Member
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Toby Kasper has been involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS for fifteen years, initially with youth and community groups in the United States, and, for the past seven years, internationally. He worked for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in South Africa, where he was responsible for advocacy and managed the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in three government primary health care centers, before becoming a regional technical advisor for MSF in southern and central Africa. Subsequently, he joined the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as one of its first fund portfolio managers. He conducted negotiations of multimillion dollar grant agreements through deliberations with high-level political leaders (including presidents, ministers, and ambassadors), ultimately being responsible for 18 grants worth US$190 million, primarily in southern Africa. Over his two and a half years there, he transitioned to being responsible for developing the organization's operational policies, working closely with the Global Fund's Board and senior management in producing policies that govern the numerous aspects of the organization's work, including its basic financial management structure and performance-based funding system. He then worked for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) as the project manager for the Global Task Team on Improving AIDS Coordination Among Multilateral Institutions and International Donors, a high-level process in which senior officials from government and civil society developed proposals for improving the multilateral system's response to HIV/AIDS (which have since been adopted by the Boards of UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Global Fund, among others). He is currently the Country Representative for Population Services International in Botswana. He has recently completed a Master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was awarded a prestigious Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship for academic excellence, public service achievement, and leadership. He has published internationally in journals such as The Lancet, AIDS, and Transparency International 's Global Corruption Report.
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Philip DesAutels
Board Member
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Philip DesAutels is Principal Academic Strategist with Microsoft's Public Sector team where he is focused on projects and partnerships that help build the technology workforce of the future. Philip
also supports Microsoft's work with NGOs, NFPs and international organizations in the area of workforce development and education. Recent projects have involved the United Nations, World Bank, FIRST Robotics, Robin Hood Foundation, and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance.
Philip has been with Microsoft for six years, previously working as Director of Academic Evangelism, and Product Manager for Web Services.
Outside of Microsoft, Philip is a researcher at the prestigious Luleå University of Technology in Sweden where he is focused on exploring the the unintended consequences of technology on the environment, society and the individual. Philip is the author of a number of academic articles, and has presented as an invited speaker at numerous conferences and institutions. Before joining Microsoft, Philip was founder and CTO of Ereo, an content-based image search service, Chief Scientist at Excite, a researcher in the Technology and Society Domain of the W3C at MIT, a systems Architect at John Hancock and a process re-engineer at IBM.
Philip has B.S. And M.S. degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer polytechnic Institute and is a graduate of the North Bennet Street School's artisan program in preservation carpentry. Philip served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan where he installed some of the regions first open email infrastructure, worked on Microcredit and developed programs to enable women's small business development. He serves on numerous boards and advisory committees for community organizations including the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Library, Human Network International, and NCIIA. He is married and lives in Boston and Washington, D.C.
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