Board of Directors

Dina is a prominent entrepreneur and leader in the database industry and a member of the Board of Directors since January 2008. Dina brings a depth of experience in software and technology enterprises. She grew up in French Morocco and pursued a BS and MS in Computer Science from the Technion Institute in Israel. She then moved to the United States and became the first woman to achieve a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, meanwhile raising her two young children. Her career began in academia and she was Cornell University's first female professor in the College of Engineering. She later served as a visiting professor at Stanford University and it was there that she began her career in business. She attended DDD's 5-Year Anniversary celebrations in Cambodia in Fall 2006 and was so inspired by the impact she saw there that she decided to accept the invitation to join DDD's Board at the timing of her departure from SAP. Dina is looking forward to working with DDD on finding new business areas and is planning on applying her experience in software to "guiding DDD towards newer revenue models and new projects that will be more profitable."

A co-founder and former Board Chair, Michael is Vice President, Global Impact for DDD. Previously, he served as Program Officer in the Global Development Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Michael has also worked as a consultant on philanthropy and international development to other private foundations and individual donors and was a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University. Michael was the co-founder and Managing Director of Global Catalyst Foundation, the philanthropy arm of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he facilitated a seed grant to help launch DDD. Prior to this, he helped start the non-profit organization Schools Online to bring Internet access and training to more than 5,000 schools around the world. Michael holds a BA in Russian Studies from Yale University and an MBA and a Certificate in Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He's happy to be living in San Francisco again.

Dianne is the Director of the Western Regional Office of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network (MSBDC). She served as President and CEO of Doherty-Tzoumas Marketing, a full-service advertising and public relations firm based in Springfield from 1985 to1991. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of Downtown Springfield Marketing, an organization whose mission was to promote downtown Springfield. She has also served as New Business Director at a Hartford, Connecticut advertising agency. Active in civic affairs in the Greater Springfield area, she is a founder of the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts, an endowment to support women and girls, based on the values of the International Women's Conference in Beijing. She is a trustee of Bay Path College and a member of the Development Committee of the Community Foundation of Western Mass. Dianne is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and holds an MBA from Western New England College.

Jeremy Hockenstein is co-founder and CEO of Digital Divide Data (DDD), an award-winning social enterprise pioneering its field. Based in southeast Asia, DDD provides socially responsible IT outsourcing services to clients around the world while creating jobs and better futures for disadvantaged youth in those countries. For its business success and remarkable social impact, DDD and Jeremy have been recognized with the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship as well as awards from the World Bank Development Marketplace, the IFC Grassroots Business Initiative and the Global Knowledge Partnership. Among other media acclaim, Jeremy and DDD were profiled in Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat as his "favorite example" of a social entrepreneur's initiative. Prior to DDD, Jeremy worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and as an international nonprofit consultant. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in economics and earned an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

In addition to serving as CEO and Chairman of Genesis Financial Solutions, Irving is an investor, advisor, and a board member for a number of early stage companies. He also serves as a Trustee or Board Member for the St. Vincent Hospital Foundation, The Children's Institute, Oregon Entrepreneurial Forum and the Portland State University Foundation, among other foundations and non-profit institutions. He is Trustee of The Renaissance Foundation and a co-sponsor of an "I Have A Dream" class in Portland, Oregon. He holds two degrees from the University of Chicago.

Howard, now retired, spent most of his career at Applied Materials where he served as Corporate Group Vice President in various general management and operations roles - including the role of president of two of its major subsidiary companies. Applied Materials develops, manufactures, markets, and services integrated circuit fabrication equipment for the worldwide semiconductor and flat panel display industries. Howard played a significant role in growing the company's international operations-in Asia among other places - enabling the company to become the industry leader with over $8 billion in revenue. Prior to his years at Applied Materials, he worked for Johnson & Johnson and Consolidated Aluminum Corporation. He holds an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Seton Hall.

Jaeson Rosenfeld is one of DDD's founders and has a passion for international development and entrepreneurship. He is currently CEO of Whoopass Enterprises, a custom bobblehead company with operations in Mexico, Russia and China. He served as a consultant for McKinsey and Company for seven years and led several projects at the McKinsey Global Institute - McKinsey's economics research think tank - on issues such as foreign direct investment, offshoring and energy demand. Jaeson also has field experience in development: He started a non-profit organization to teach English in Sao Paulo, Brazil's favelas, and worked in the countryside of Mexico to help improve the operations of micro-lending institutions. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the London School of Economics.

Mai graduated from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, and was awarded her MBA in December 2002. She joined the management training in DDD Phnom Penh in July 2003 and returned to her native Laos to set up the new DDD office in December 2003. In July 2004 she participated in a mini-MBA program called Global Social Benefit Incubator that was organized by the Santa Clara University for humanitarian ventures. Her knowledge of business management and her leadership skills all contribute to her great success in motivating and engaging staff in attaining their organizational goals.

Based in Hong Kong, Mae Wang's deep financial and telecom experience spans over two decades and multi-continents. Her work focuses on the telecom industry and the emerging Asian technology sectors, particularly with regard to wireless and new media. After starting her career in finance and telecommunications, Mae was Managing Director for Deutsche Bank, was instrumental in establishing the Asia Java Fund, and is currently active in the alternative investment sector as senior advisor to two US based hedge funds and clients which have included The Blackstone Group and Paul Capital. She was recently Senior Advisor to Bain & Company and the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Focus Ventures. Mae holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.