Board of Directors and Leadership

Sarah Degnan Kambou, Chair and Director

Sarah Degnan Kambou is an intrapreneur with leadership experience directing gender equity and social justice initiatives in Africa, South Asia, the UK and Europe. Her technical areas of expertise encompass sexual and reproductive health and rights, youth development, and tech for good. She advises corporates, multilateral agencies, and civil society organizations.

Dr. Degnan Kambou is the immediate past President and CEO of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Prior to ICRW, Sarah lived in Africa, managing population and development programs for Care International. She launched her career at the Boston University School of Public Health, where she co-founded the Center for International Health. Sarah is a member of the Board of Directors of Capital for Good, Global Impact, and Kalanidhi Dance. She serves on advisory boards for Pathfinder International, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Connecticut, and Uplevyl.

Sarah earned her PhD in International Health Policy and her MPH from Boston University, and her BA in French from the University of Connecticut.

Erin Kenny, Vice Chair and Director

Erin Kenny is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Seattle where she specializes in helping clients develop service strategies and customer solutions. With more than 20 years of experience, Ms. Kenny has helped multiple organizations launch new products and business lines and improve customer service and user experience. This includes extensive work with social sector organizations to deliver impact in the areas of education, global development and global health. Among her many projects, she has helped launch an EdTech start-up; developed a global initiative focused on financial inclusion; and is working with a client to create a new state level education agency.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Kenny was a senior manager at Amazon.com, responsible for developing merchant solutions and building product selection, including the early launch of Amazon Payments, used products, and the apparel store.

Ms. Kenny earned a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She has served on boards for Girls on the Run Puget Sound and Lakeside School.

Christin Cardone Mcclave, Treasurer & Director

Christin Cardone McClave is an accomplished Senior Executive, Advisor, and Board Member with more than 20 years of success across the manufacturing, supply chain, consumer products, and automotive industries.

She is the founder of UNIFI Coaching, a coaching and consulting firm in the areas of Talent Management, Competency Development, Culture Change, 360 Feedback, Employer Branding, and Succession for Mid-market, privately held, and PE firms. Her broad areas of expertise include business process redesign, corporate culture alignment, performance management, and strategic planning. Christin held a leadership position as the Chief Operating Officer for Cardone Industries where she led a successful M&A integration process of the largest global acquisition in the companies' history. She has also served as the Chief Operating Officer for Cardone Industries and she led a revitalization of all people and culture initiatives, restructuring, recapitalization and company-wide digital transformation. CARDONE is a global sustainable manufacturer of automotive parts for the aftermarket with over 5000 employees. She also developed the e-commerce business team which grew to $35M in 3 years under her leadership.

Prior to her role as Chief Operating Officer, Christin additionally led as the Chief People Officer for Cardone Industries. She led the company to a successful exit in 2019 and is now coaching and consulting for various companies who need transformation and streamlined synergy with their "People, Process and Technology" strategy.

Christin obtained her Master of Science in Management from Boston University as well as a Bachelor's of Science in Global Business from the University of Alabama. She has been on the board of CARDONE Industries, World Vision USA, and AXIS.

Jennifer Huff, Director

Jennifer Huff is a Senior Director, Global Supply-Rare Disease at Pfizer. In her current role, she is responsible for the life cycle planning of several key brands including upcoming new modalities.

Over the past 25 years, Jennifer’s career path has spanned quality control in testing laboratories, complex network supply chain operations, and product lifecycle management. She is passionate about

vaccines and equitable access to healthcare for women and children in developing countries and looks for ways to promote them both at work and through volunteering. She has spent time as part of Pfizer’s Global Health Fellows in India working with Save the Children on a Stop Pneumonia campaign and continues to donate her time serving on boards for local and global non-profits.

Jennifer and her husband Greg own and operate a Bed & Breakfast, The Essex Inn, in lovely Tappahannock, Virginia and are opening a restaurant in May 2023 called 1710 Tavern.

Nathaniel Heller, President

As Vice President and Managing Director of Geneva Global and Global Impact, Nathaniel oversees all of Geneva Global’s client-facing work as well as all advisory services across the combined organizations.

Those services range from supporting philanthropists as they identify priority areas for investment, including potential co-funders and implementing partners; developing operational strategies to execute high-impact philanthropic programs; running programs in high-need geographies; and supporting mission-driven organizations with their resource mobilization efforts.

Prior to joining Geneva Global, Nathaniel served as an Executive Vice President at Results for Development (R4D), where he oversaw many of the organization’s technical teams aimed at strengthening health, education, and nutrition systems in low-income countries. He originally joined R4D as a managing director, leading the organization’s work on citizen engagement and governance reform in countries. In both roles, Nathaniel spent significant time on strategy and work plan formulation, partnership development, thought leadership, and resource mobilization across the international development philanthropic spectrum.

Earlier in his career, Nathaniel co-founded and led Global Integrity, an international non-governmental anti-corruption organization working in more than 100 countries to strengthen government transparency and accountability safeguards. From 2017 to 2019, he co-chaired the Open Government Partnership (a multi-stakeholder partnership spanning governments and civil society) and was the catalyst behind the creation of the OpenGov Hub, the world’s first thematic co-working space focused on open government issues. He began his career working at a non-profit investigative journalism organization (the Center for Public Integrity) and at the US Department of State.

Nathaniel holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and completed his graduate work at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is currently a member of the Fast Company Executive Board and serves on the boards of directors of IREX, Development Gateway, World Bicycle Relief, and the Partnership for Transparency Fund.