19 results for author: VantagePoints Editor
Andrea Bednar Senior Advisor
Andrea Bednar is the CEO of PoP Associates, specializing in organizational integrity. Andrea works with clients to create structures and practices to help individuals, teams, and organizations operate consistently with their values. After 20 years as a performance consultant and master-certified coach, Andrea has designed and delivered leadership programs to thousands of businesses and teams. Her mission is to help leaders focus on and achieve results by operating based on their values.
Beverly Morris Armstrong Senior Advisor
Beverly Morris Armstrong is a Senior Advisor, Governance for PASS and a recognized expert in structuring government/foundation grants & contracts, reporting, compliance, governance, process improvement and foreign operations. She has served in senior financial and operational positions at organizations as varied as the American Bar Association, PBS, Pathfinder International, the American Cultural Center in Baghdad, and the Pacific/Asian American Mental Health Research Center at the University of Illinois. She has extensive experience in leading Finance, Treasury, HR, IT, Legal, Administration, and Compliance functions in both nonprofit and for ...
Cassondra Puls Advisor, Education
Cassondra Puls is PASS Advisor for Education. She currently serves as Research Manager for the International Rescue Committee's Education in Emergencies: Evidence and Action project. Previously, she was a founding member of PASS, where she built up PASS's core identity and communications channels, established VantagePoints, and fulfilled client work in education, public health, and fundraising. In addition to serving as a teacher, curriculum developer, and trainer internationally, she has conducted education-related research in the U.S. as well as in Turkey, India, Peru, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, and Sierra Leone. She has presented her findings at ...
Elizabeth Carlo Africa Director
Elizabeth Carlo is a founder and Managing Director of Noah Consultancy Ltd currently based in Rotterdam the Netherlands. As a development professional, she has over ten years’ experience in International Development, Governance, Democracy, Human rights development and Diplomacy in the United States, South Sudan and Europe with special focus on promoting sustainable economic and social development of vulnerable communities including institutional development.
At NOAH Consultancy Ltd, her success has been anchored on fundraising efforts for conflict prone areas, extensive work on program development, project implementation, monitoring and evaluat...
Veaceslav Pituscan Senior Advisor
Veaceslav Pituscan served as a career diplomat (1994-2016) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova holding the diplomatic rank of Minister-Counselor. As a Chargé d’Affaires a.i. (Acting Ambassador) and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in the USA, he provided essential contribution to the launch and implementation of the US-Moldova Strategic Dialogue. For more than 10 years, Veaceslav was dealing with European affairs, including the negotiations of the EU-Moldova Association Agreement, holding various positions such as Deputy Head of Mission to the EU in Brussels and ...
Maike Denda Director of Finance
Maike Denda is Director of Finance for PASS. She is a professional with over two decades of experience in administration, consulting and real estate, both in Europe and in the United States. She has served in various operational positions at businesses like Roland Berger Management Consultants and America Online, Inc. She is a founder of Capital Home Management, based in Great Falls, VA. Maike has a background in accounting, budgeting, cost control and treasury. She holds a master’s degree in business administration from AKAD University, Germany. She serves as treasurer on the board of the German Executive Roundtable Washington, D.C. (GER) and for ...
Rachael Beck Special Assistant to the President & CEO
Rachael Beck is the Special Assistant to the President and CEO of PASS. Previously, she interned at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, the U.S. Mission to NATO, and the Office of Stability and Humanitarian Affairs at the Pentagon. She has worked on programs to bring the Amber Alert system to Lithuania and send food aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan. She graduated from Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen School of International Affairs with a degree in International Affairs and Modern Languages. Her other past experiences include working as an English teacher in Shanghai, China, and as an administrative assistant in real estate.
Gokhan N. Mamur, M.D. Vice President of Programs
Dr. Gokhan Mamur is the Vice President of Programs at PASS. A pediatrician with 21 years of experience as a clinician, administrator, consultant, instructor, author, editor and child and family health advocate, his passion lies both in general pediatrics and newborn health. He has served as Newborn Department Director and members of breastfeeding, intensive care unit, hospital infection and blood transfusion committees. He is also an NRP trainer and lactation consultant. As an administrator Dr. Mamur has been commended by the White House and Department of State for ‘outstanding medical professionalism’ and Memorial Hospital in Istanbul for his ...
Solidarity in the Carpathian Region
Sándor Köles is a Hungarian-born sociologist, the President of the Carpathian Foundation, a founding member of the PASS Board of Advisors, and a member of the Berlin-based Robert Bosch Academy. He had been the Senior Vice-President of the International Center for Democratic Transition (ICDT), the main goal was to share and make applicable Central European experiences on democratic transition in a wider world. Previously, he had been the Carpathian Foundation's Executive Director, promoting cross-border and interethnic cooperation in the bordering areas of Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. He is the author and editor of books, ...
