Board of Directors

A distinguished board of directors with extensive business and public service experience governs MicroCredit Enterprises. One hundred percent (100%) of the board of directors are Guarantors; all board members serve on a pro bono basis. In addition, the loan committee, which determines which MFIs receive MicroCredit Enterprises financing, is 100% comprised of Guarantors.

Karen Keating Ansara

Fund Advisor, the Ansara Family Fund at the Boston Foundation. Alumna of The Philanthropy Workshop West, Wellesley College, The Women’s Theological Center, and Andover Newton Theological School. Member of Oxfam America’s Leadership Council since 2003. Essex, Massachusetts.

John Ayliffe

Chairman and Co-Founder, 1to4 Foundation. Co-Founder, former Board Member and CEO of Precimed. Former Management Board at Greatbatch Medical. Lignières, Switzerland.

Dan Brunner

Former 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.

Darlene Daggett

Founder and Executive Director, Ikatu International. Former President, QVC U.S. Commerce. Board memberships include the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Peabody-Essex Museum and the Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation. Devon, Pennsylvania.

Christopher Dunford (for Freedom from Hunger)

Senior Research Fellow, Freedom from Hunger. Former 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.

Gary M. Ford

President and Chief Executive Officer, MicroCredit Enterprises. 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.

Sheila Leatherman

Research Professor, School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visiting Professor, London School of Economics. Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians. Senior Fellow, IHI, Advisor to Afghanistan for a national quality strategy through USAID/URC. Former research advisor, Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP). Former senior executive of United Health Group. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Gregory S. Ledford

Managing Director, Carlyle Group. Former Chairman and CEO of The Reilly Corp., Former Director of Capital Leasing, MCI Telecommunications. Adjunct Professor and Vice President of the Foundation Board, University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. Board memberships include Allison Transmission, Veyance Technologies and HD Supply. Washington, DC.

Jonathan C. Lewis

Chair, Board of Directors, MicroCredit Enterprises. Founder/President, Opportunity Collaboration. 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. 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.

William G. Way

Former Managing Partner, Accenture (postings in London, Tokyo and United States). Former Chief Operating Officer (pro bono), MicroCredit Enterprises. Board memberships include Whitman College, Tesseract School, Phoenix Art Museum (Chair), Asian Arts Council. Member, National Advisory Committee, Marriott School of Business. Director, two investment management companies. Phoenix, Arizona.