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.
Gary M. Ford
President and Chief Executive Officer. 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.
Jonathan C. Lewis Chair, Board of Directors, MicroCredit Enterprises. Founder/CEO, 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.
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
Chair, Board of Directors Chair, Board of Directors, MicroCredit Enterprises. Founder/CEO, 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
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 Business Finance Manager for EMEA Commercial Lending and Investment Banking, Bank of America, London and San Francisco. Economic Development Consultant, Kudumbashree, State Poverty Eradication Mission, Government of Kerala, India. Business Consultant, Asha Veza of New York, Bosnia and Calcutta. MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. San Francisco, California.
Gary M. Ford
President and Chief Executive Officer 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
Advisor to the CEO - Special Projects
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.
David Silberman
General Counsel (pro bono) Executive Vice President, Kessler Financial Services. Former Member, Brehoff & Kaiser, L.L.C., Former President, Union Privilege. Former Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO. Law Clerk, Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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.
Ayesha Wagle
Senior Vice President
Former Intern, Grameen Foundation Capital Markets and Advisory Center. Former Summer Associate, Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, Maharashtra, India. Former Associate, Morgan Stanley Fixed Income Division. San Francisco, 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.
Gary M. Ford
President and Chief Executive Officer. 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.
Jonathan C. Lewis Chair, Board of Directors, MicroCredit Enterprises. Founder/CEO, 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.
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
Chair, Board of Directors Chair, Board of Directors, MicroCredit Enterprises. Founder/CEO, 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
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 Business Finance Manager for EMEA Commercial Lending and Investment Banking, Bank of America, London and San Francisco. Economic Development Consultant, Kudumbashree, State Poverty Eradication Mission, Government of Kerala, India. Business Consultant, Asha Veza of New York, Bosnia and Calcutta. MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. San Francisco, California.
Gary M. Ford
President and Chief Executive Officer 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
Advisor to the CEO - Special Projects
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.
David Silberman
General Counsel (pro bono) Executive Vice President, Kessler Financial Services. Former Member, Brehoff & Kaiser, L.L.C., Former President, Union Privilege. Former Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO. Law Clerk, Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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.
Ayesha Wagle
Senior Vice President
Former Intern, Grameen Foundation Capital Markets and Advisory Center. Former Summer Associate, Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, Maharashtra, India. Former Associate, Morgan Stanley Fixed Income Division. San Francisco, California.
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