Jim Fruchterman

Our Team

Nithya Ramanathan
CEO & Co-Founder
Martin Lukac
CTO & Co-Founder
Kevin Arts
Vice President, Operations & Finance
Andrew O’Keefe
Senior Manager for Business Operations & Finance
Amanda MacArthur
Head of Strategic Partnerships & Communications
Hannah Mills
Senior Program Manager, Vaccines
Nelima Otipa
Senior Program Manager, Impact
Anita Sircar
Head of Operations, India
Susan Njenga
Head of Product
Ednah Kiome
Director, Emerging Products
Lucas Howell
Engineering Director
Nagham Sabah
Accountant
Noelle Sernett
Operations & Finance Analyst
Erin Ross
Communications Director
Nikhil Patil
Program Support Specialist
Erick Mgonda
Technical Account Manager
Patience Mfune
Country Manager
Edward Gakuru
Global Expansion Manager
Hosea Kintu
Senior Customer Operations Manager
Nassem Mohammad
Customer Support Manager, Hardware
Paul Mwarabu
Customer Support Specialist
Sushanta Pradhan
Customer Success Engineer
Audrey Lukela
Impact Consultant
Geofrey Gundah
Country Manager
Shaji Malik
Country Manager
Tisaye Kalua
Impact Consultant
Anant Kumar
Associate Warehouse Coordinator
Anurag Mishra
Logistics Coordinator
Dharmendra Pratap Singh
Manufacturing and Development Manager
Jill Moraa
Product Manager
Tom Mehoke
Senior Data & Visualization Specialist
Brian Moenga
Software Engineer, Front-End
Chris Combs
Software Engineer, Back-End
Colin Groark
Software Engineer, Front-End
Innocent Kithinji
Software Engineer, Back-End
Terence Honles
Principal Software Engineer
Terry Chern
Senior Software Engineer, Back-End

Board Of Directors

Nithya Ramanathan
CEO & Co-Founder
Martin Lukac
CTO & Co-Founder
Anish Aswani
Board Chair
Managing Director, Florac
Emily Bancroft
CEO, VillageReach
Yacine Diop Djibo
Founder & Executive Director, Speak Up Africa
Jim Fruchterman
Founder and CEO, Tech Matters
Rupesh Shah
Vice President of Product Management, Granular
Moz Siddiqui
Director of Partnerships, WHO Foundation
Asher Waldfogel
Serial Entrepreneur

Advisory Board

Dr. Seth Berkley
Former CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Deborah Estrin
Associate Dean and Professor, Cornell Tech
Laura Hattendorf
Senior Advisor, Mulago Foundation; Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Radhika Malpani
Founder, Google Images; Former Senior Director, Eng @ Google
Frank Nagle
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
Wendy Prosser
Senior Technical Officer, Immunization Center, JSI
Russ Siegelman
Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Ryan Vinyard
Hardware Startup Consultant
Vinitha Watson
Founder, Zoo Labs

Jim Fruchterman

Founder and CEO, Tech Matters

Jim is a serial tech and social entrepreneur who has proven how technology can change entire fields in the social sector. He was the founder and CEO of Benetech for nearly 30 years, delivering large-scale change in partnership with hundreds of organizations as part of social enterprises addressing education, disability, human rights, and the environment. In addition, he has advised hundreds of diverse social enterprises on the use of technology and data.

Previously Jim founded two successful for-profit Silicon Valley tech companies in the machine learning/artificial intelligence field and is an active angel investor in and board member for several companies. Jim has been widely recognized for his social change work, including being selected as a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award, and the Caltech Distinguished Alumni award.