BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Peter Bond Vice Chair

Peter Bond is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Milestone, a boutique management consultancy based in New York City. He has over 20 years of Financial Services experience, supporting senior management teams in the investment banking, asset management, and private equity industries in the areas of Mergers and Integrations, Strategic Advisory, Outsourcing, Operational and Technology Transformation, Asset Divestitures, and Risk Management. Mr. Bond received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

Wilson D’Souza

Wilson D’Souza is a founding member and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Akoya LLC. Wilson D’Souza is a founding member and CTO of Akoya, a startup whose mission is to transform how consumers provide access to their financial data with increased security, privacy and control over their information. In this role, he is responsible for all product development, engineering, security, marketing, design, and client success.

He has over 25 years of experience in various industries leading technology and product functions with Fidelity Investments, MIT, Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo International besides others. He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Karnataka University in India.

Michelle Godette

Michelle Godette joined the GER³ board in March 2022. She has an enduring passion for community-led development that was informed by her nearly 26 years of on the ground experience in guiding and leading international development programs and operations across Africa, Latin American, the Caribbean, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, and the Middle East. Of those 26 years, nearly 17 years were spent living and working in Africa and Latin America. She is currently serving as the Peace Corps Regional Director for Africa.  

Michelle was Congressionally confirmed and Presidentially commissioned as a member of the US Senior Foreign Service and she has held several roles over her extensive Foreign Service career, most recently serving as Special Senior Legal Advisor to the USAID General Counsel. However, a true field person at heart, Michelle has most highly valued the opportunity to spend the majority of her international development career overseas, initially as a Senior Regional Legal Advisor in Southern Africa and in South America, and then for almost a decade, as Deputy Mission Director in Nigeria, followed by Mission Director for Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Madagascar.  

Michelle earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in French/Prelaw from Howard University in Washington D.C. and pursued additional linguistics studies at L’Université de Caen in Normandy, France. She has a Juris Doctor degree from American University Law School where her elective focus was international law. Before joining USAID, Michelle had a successful career as a prosecutor and family law litigator in the District of Columbia’s Office of the Attorney General.

Langdon Greenhalgh

Langdon Greenhalgh is the Managing Director of Global Emergency Group, a humanitarian consulting firm. As a professional international disaster management expert, Langdon has led humanitarian operations and consulting teams throughout the world since 1999. His most recent humanitarian consulting work includes an evaluation of Sida’s global humanitarian strategy, a UNICEF emergency supply chain review and development of a new Disaster Data Assessments Technology and Analysis project for USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. Langdon has served as team leader for the Red Cross and other organizations that’s included operational management responsibilities for responses to the Nepal Earthquake, Libyan crisis (Tunisia,) the on-going conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Tsunami (Indonesia), West Africa Food Crisis (Niger) and the Darfur Refugee Crisis (Chad). Prior to his work with the Red Cross, Langdon was Executive Director of Horizon Institute for Policy Solutions, a Virginia based non-profit think-tank.  Langdon completed his undergraduate work in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and received his Masters Degree in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School.

Nadia Mitchem

Nadia Mitchem is Principal at Fortify Consulting LLC, where she leverages her depth of applied knowledge in leadership, management, strategy and philanthropy to provide a range of custom services to her clients. Her unique blend of experiences with domestic and international, public and private sector organizations allows her to navigate a range of contexts. Nadia’s extensive work within humanitarian, disaster relief, healthcare, environmental conservation and political and higher education contexts has significant industry transferable value.

Nadia is the former National Executive Director for Volunteer Operations and Experience at ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where she built the enterprise infrastructure, processes and guidance to support and facilitate the participation of ALSAC volunteers nationwide. She also held progressive leadership roles, including interim Vice President, with the American Red Cross National Headquarters. During her Red Cross tenure, and throughout her career, she was able to successfully establish strategic alliances, manage teams and revitalize and scale national programs. She also secured revenue through corporate partnerships, disaster fundraising and individual major gifts.

She attended DePauw University and holds executive certificates in Systems Design Thinking (Cornell University) and Nonprofit Management (Georgetown University).

Daniel Osorio

Daniel Osorio is the Chief Executive Officer at Andean Capital Management. Mr. Osorio also serves on the Board of Directors of the Ubuntu Education Fund which is a non-profit organization that provides world-class health and educational support to the orphaned and vulnerable children of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Mr. Osorio began his career in 1997 at Salomon Brothers (a Citi legacy firm) in New York, and worked for Citi as a Director in their Emerging Market Fixed Income trading division until 2006. He traded Latin American external and local currency denominated debt instruments, focusing on the Andean region. Mr. Osorio has developed excellent private and public sector contacts throughout the region and is director


Team Members

Margaret Bacon Operations Director

Margaret (Bacon) Howard Operations Director

 
 

Jack Sell Operations Manager

 
Josephine Fox Manager, Talent Management

Josephine Fox Manager, Talent Management

Margaret has been part of GER3’s team since its inception in 2017, supporting GER3’s first project in response to Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. With significant program management, coordination, and administrative experience, Margaret has since deployed on a number of GER3’s global response and recovery operations, leading project teams both at the field and at HQ.

In addition to her work with GER3, Margaret has worked with GER3’s sister organization, Global Emergency Group, substantiating her experience in humanitarian operations and supporting a range of humanitarian consulting projects with the American Red Cross, WHO, the Caribbean Public Health Agency, USAID/BHA, UNICEF, and UNHCR. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Davidson College where she completed a major in French and Francophone Studies with a minor in Economics.

 

Jack is Operations Manager at GER3. He is currently based in Kyiv, leading GER3's response to the war in Ukraine. Jack joined the team in August of 2021, deploying to St. Vincent and the Grenadines to lead GER3’s volcano response and recovery projects on the island. Subsequently, Jack managed GER3's Hurricane Dorian reconstruction project in The Bahamas. He is now an integral part of managing GER3's operations both at HQ and in the field.

Jack received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy and Leadership from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Foreign Affairs from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.

 

With over 30 years of experience in diverse sectors of international humanitarian emergency and development, Jo Fox has significant experience working with various governmental, international, and non-governmental clients on humanitarian projects related to HR and surge management, evaluations and reviews, strategic planning, and training facilitation. Working previously within the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement and International NGO’s such as Oxfam and Greenpeace at both the field and HQ levels, Jo has worked in emergency response delivery and development, with a focus on HR and capacity building, operational and organizational knowledge management, and media and campaigning including policy, advocacy and strategic mobilization.

Jo grew up in the UK and has a BA Hons., MA in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

 

Peter Warker
Safety & Security Coordinator

 

Pete is the Safety & Security Coordinator at GER3. He joined the team in July of 2022. Pete served 36 years in the U.S. military and seven years as an International Safety and Security Advisor for USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance. He has led organizations in size from 500 to 3,000 personnel in deployed environments. Pete has worked in 30 countries in combat, training, and humanitarian operations. Pete’s first response for GER3 was as the Country Director for a Winterization Project in Ukraine.

In addition to his work at GER3, Pete works with GER3’s sister organization Global Emergency Group as a Training Facilitator.

Pete has a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Master of Science in Management from University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth KS, and Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.


Nickles Saintil

Project Manager, The Bahamas

Based in The Bahamas, Nick has supported a number of GER3's relief and recovery programs in response to Hurricane Dorian. He is currently leading GER3's home rehabilitation project in Abaco, focusing on supporting most vulnerable homeowners and building back better.

Nick has worked in the construction field for over five years and has strong experience in project planning, implementation and maintenance throughout The Bahamas. With a diverse skillset, he has held numerous leadership positions throughout the construction and building field, and more recently in the NGO sector where he has led a variety of programs focused on the reconstruction and recovery efforts for affected families in Abaco after Hurricane Dorian.

Nick is a licensed builder throughout the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and studied economics and the University of The Bahamas.

Hanna Tsvihun

Local Project Director, Ukraine

Anna is GER3's Local Project Director in Ukraine. She joined the GER3 team in 2022 as part of GER3's relief and recovery work in Ukraine. Based in Kyiv, Anna represents GER3 and supports the development of local partnerships and overall coordination of GER3's local recovery programming. Anna completed a Master’s Degree in International Law from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Dmytro Rudnichenko

Construction Supervisor, Ukraine

Olha Makarenko

Program Officer, Ukraine

Dmytro Rudnichenko joined GER3 team in 2022 as Construction Supervisor. His main responsibilities are project planning and construction supervision for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of households and social facilities in Ukraine.

Dmytro graduated from Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture and has 6 years experience as construction manager.

 

Olha joined the GER3 team in 2023 as Program Officer in Ukraine, focusing primarily on the winterization program in particular Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv oblasts.

She has had more  than 10 years of experience in the field of jurisprudence and significant work experience in the sphere of urban development and architecture.

In 2012, Olha received a Master's degree in law enforcement and law at the National University of the State Tax Service of Ukraine in Kyiv region.