Management Team

Jeremy Hockenstein is co-founder and CEO of Digital Divide Data (DDD), an award-winning social enterprise pioneering its field. 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.

Cynthia joined DDD with a mandate to expand our service offerings and upgrade our systems and infrastructure. For the four years prior to joining DDD she lived in the Philippines, serving as the head of operations first for SPi Global (a content BPO) and then as COO for the pre-press and publishing specialist Datagrafix, Inc. Prior to joining SPi, Cynthia held leadership positions at Cornelius & Associates, Inc., Copernus, Inc. and LexisNexis. She has a degree in Computer and Information Sciences from The Ohio State University, as well as an MBA in International Business from The University of Dayton and a certification in Project Management from PMI Institute.

Lak returned to DDD, and her native Laos, upon completing her MBA at Portland State University. Prior to seeking her MBA she ran the finance office of DDD for 5 years. She is a graduate of the Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She has worked for the Laos Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare UNDP project, managed accounting for small and medium enterprises, run projects for the European Union Bank at the Central Bank of Laos, and served as the Regional Coordinator of the East Asia Global Knowledge Partnership. While she treasured her time in Portland learning she is thrilled to be home with family, both at DDD and in Laos.

In early 2011 Lori Silverstein, a 30-year veteran content and publishing executive, joined DDD as Chief Sales Officer. As such, she focuses on growing DDD's sales and client relations around the world. Before coming on board with DDD, Lori spent six years as Vice President, Business Development, Publishing, for SPi Global, a leader in Content Business Process Outsourcing. There her work involved targeting, corporate publishing, Information providers, content aggregators and STM publishers. Prior to joining SPi, Lori held numerous business development and management positions with several global media organizations including Ziff Davis, CMP, IDG, and McGraw-Hill. Lori is a graduate of The Ohio State University, is married and has two children.

A co-founder and former Board Chair, Michael is Chief Development Officer 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.

Amolo is the Managing Director of Digital Divide Data Kenya, DDD's inaugural African venture. Amolo came to DDD from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she held a position as Deputy Director in the Financial Services for the Poor team in the Global Development Program. As Deputy Director she worked to improve scale, range and impact of financial services available to the poor in developing countries. Prior to her work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Amolo worked in Kenya, her native country, where she was the COO of the Trust for African Rock Art. She also was a co-founder of Africa Online, East Africa's first internet provider, still operating in eight countries. Amolo holds a B.A. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University.

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.

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.