Management Team

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.

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.

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.

Bridging the gap between profit and non-profit worlds, for the past ten years Matt has focused on building revenue and sustainable growth in high-technology ventures and educational institutions. His career began at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute in Budapest. He then became the Program Director at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. In 2000, he joined Flagship Ventures, a venture capital and venture creation partnership. He then joined the founding team of Affinnova, Inc., a Flagship Ventures portfolio company as Director of Business Development. He played a key role in building Affinnova into a successful, expanding company, by securing Affinnova's first clients-- all Fortune 100 companies. Matt earned his BA from Oberlin College and his MA from Central European University.

Philippe first joined DDD in April 2009 to take the lead on capacity building in DDD's Battambang office, and in late 2009 he stepped into the role as Finance Director. Prior to this he spent eight years working for Hewlett Packard as a Senior Analyst and Internal Auditor in France, Hong Kong and Singapore. Additionally, he has served as a business consultant and analyst for Cisco Systems, the French Canal+ and others. Philippe also volunteered his time as a Finance Manager for the French non-profit Sourires d'Enfants that works to create kindergartens for ethnic minorities in Vietnam. He has an MBA from Clemson University, SC.

Kunthy earned his Bachelor's degree in 2005 in Human Resource Management from the University of Management and Economics, and a High Diploma of English from Pannasastra University of Cambodia in 2003. He worked for two years as an English teacher before joining DDD Phnom Penh in 2001 as an Operator before being promoted to Team Leader. In October 2003, Kunthy was promoted again, this time to the position of Branch Manager for the Battambang office in Cambodia, where he remained until November 2005, when he became General Manager of DDD's Phnom Penh office. Kunthy was awarded a scholarship to study corporate management for eight months in Japan, including an internship at Hitachi, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd, NTT, completed in early 2008.

Sopheap started her career at DDD as one of the first 10 operators when the Battambang, Cambodia office first opened in early 2004. She was promoted to Project Leader later that year and in June 2006, Sopheap was formally promoted to co-acting Branch and Operations Manager for the Battambang office. Soon after, she was formally promoted to the position of General Manager. She was a participant in an INSEAD Social Enterpreneurship program in Singapore in late 2008 and recently received her BBA in Finance and Accounting at the University of Management and Economics, Battambang. This fall, Sopheap also completed the final section of an 18-month Mini-MBA course organized by DDD-Portland State University. She was a 2009 International Ford Motor Company Fellow and participated in the three-week Fellowship program in New York City this past June. Her committment to DDD's work is based on the powerful impact that the organization has had in her own life.

Prior to becoming general manager, his management experience started from multinationals bank and FMCG industry where he got to learn from so many different type of management in multicultural background and experiences along his career path. Active by nature, he likes to get around, meet people and do different things. He always involved in several projects at once in order to keep his mind stimulated. He reads, writes and talks constantly. Adaptable and inquisitive. Open to new ideas and experiences. Always responds positively and works hard in order to maintain their respect. In northern Laos, he owned a small agriculture sustainable community project which try to help and bring the sustainability awareness to the people living in the fragile river land banks.

Hetal Patel joined DDD in April 2008. During his first few months at DDD, he collaborated with the staff to successfully restructure Operations and Project Management in the Phnom Penh office resulting in higher efficiency and the ability to deliver more complex, profitable projects. Before joining DDD, Hetal spent most of his career consulting in New York City working on enterprise-wide implementation projects for clients such as AIG Investments, Deutsche Bank, and Gaurdian Life Insurance, amongst others. In late 2007, he left New York City looking for a unique career challenge and an organization where he could make a social impact, which is how he found himself at the doorstep of DDD in Phnom Penh. Hetal graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Philosophy.

Prior to joining DDD, Tip worked in France as a software engineer developing multi-tier applications for large clients throughout Europe. He spent his last year in Europe as a system and test engineer in collaboration with IBM, Accenture, and Thales Transports for the Danish Travel Card system. In 2007, Tip realized that he wanted to put his international work efforts towards a greater social good and joined DDD to utilize his technology experience to help disadvantaged youth in Cambodia. In his work with DDD, Tip fulfills a childhood dream of helping his country of origin, Cambodia, through capacity building for a new generation. He started at DDD in late 2007 in the role of software and IT capacity building in PNH, while also helping in project management and operations. His role has now expanded to Regional Director of IT. Tip holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Houston.

Rady joined DDD in September 2009 with a passion for social mission work and to human resource development. Rady has almost twenty years of HR management experience in both the corporate and public sector with multinational organizations such as Plan International and PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC). Prior to joining DDD as the Regional Director of HR and Social Mission, Rady served as Managing Director at E&S Consulting in Cambodia, where he remains on the Board of Directors. Rady is a member of several professional networks, including the Cambodian and Vietnamese HR networks, PwC-Strata-Job Evaluation, Thailand's Hay Group, and UK SHL. Rady holds an MBA from Preston University and Business Graduate Degree in Human Resources Management from Swinburn University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.