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Dwight Wilson
CEO
dwight@oneroof.com

Starting with his Peace Corps service in rural Chile and Honduras
(1981-1983), Dwight has spent twenty-five years working in the field of
international development in the public, NGO, and now private sectors.
Between 1985 and 1993, with two Seattle-based NGOs, he helped create youth
leadership, environmental protection and citizen diplomacy initiatives in
Africa, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Central America.  In 1993, Dwight founded
EarthCorps, a youth service and environmental restoration program
headquartered in Seattle that has provided long-term training for hundreds
of environmental leaders from over fifty countries. It was through Earth
Corps that Dwight became colleagues with several men and women from
developing countries who co-founded World Corps with him in 1998.  World
Corps provided training for young adult entrepreneurs in rural areas of
India, Mexico, Kenya, and the Philippines to create Internet telecenters.
In 2005, Dwight and other World Corps colleagues transformed the NGO into
OneRoof, a San Francisco-headquartered C Corporation.  A graduate of Yale
University, with a degree in history, Dwight lives in Berkeley, California,
with his wife and son..

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Eric M. Spector
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
eric@oneroof.com
Eric served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, from 1968 to 1970, in a development program aimed at aiding small businesses in creating jobs, first in Medellin and later in Bogotá. Subsequently he worked for a Latin American development company (ADELA) in Peru, and then worked in Mexico, Venezuela, Sweden, Denmark, Tanzania (and the US) as a McKinsey & Company consultant on diverse assignments, including marketing strategy, operations and organizational design. As an entrepreneur, he later founded and ran several businesses, including a firm that sold over $100 million in products direct to US consumers, a web-based restaurant reservations service, and a consulting firm that developed and licensed online outreach and fundraising tools for nonprofit clients (including Save the Children). A graduate of C.C.N.Y. with a B.A. in Political Science, he also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Eric lives with his wife and two sons in Kensington, California.

Miguel Raimilla
Vice President
miguel@oneroof.com

In 1992, Miguel founded CasAzul, an NGO based in his native Santiago, Chile, where he developed the first volunteer program for Chile's national parks -- a program that has become a model for several other South American countries. In 1996-1997, Miguel developed the first program model for a youth conservation corps in South America, with assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank. He worked in the Seattle headquarters of World Corps from October 1999 through July 2002, when he moved to Mexico to oversee the Mexico pilot. He is now developing OneRoof’s e-learning and distance education platform, a service that soon will be a central piece of OneRoof's network. Miguel has worked for more than 15 years in capacity building and community development at the grass-roots level in Latin America, and collaborates with many tele-center networks around the globe. A graduate of Universidad del Pacifico in Chile, with a degree in graphic design and architecture, Miguel lives in El Cerrito, California, with his wife and son.

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Jennifer Ellingson
Senior Associate
jennifer@oneroof.com
Jenni brings experience in policy analysis and government affairs as well as a background in international development issues. Jenni comes to OneRoof from the New York Mercantile Exchange, where she conducted political, legislative, and regulatory analysis related to futures trading, and served as a government liaison. Jenni was selected for a year-long program at the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in Washington, DC in 2001, and subsequently worked as an environmental policy analyst and project manager at Computer Sciences Corporation in Alexandria, VA, where she supported federal clients including EPA offices on emergency response planning, Clean Air Act enforcement, Superfund, and other programs. Jenni is a graduate of Brown University with concentrations in development studies and in international relations. She also studied in Cameroon with the School for International Training, conducting research that later informed her honors thesis on gender and civil society. Jenni has lived in San Francisco since 2005.

Derek van der Schroeff
Derek van der Schroeff
Business Analyst
derek@oneroof.com

Derek has worked in a variety of capacities focused on public service, international relations, and intelligence analysis.  Most recently, he conducted investigations for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services in San Francisco, providing actionable business intelligence for clients. Previously, Derek spent five years in government work in Washington, DC, first as an aide to U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, and later as an intelligence analyst for the Threat Analysis Section at the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Headquarters.  In 1998, Derek lived and worked in the countryside of Paraguay with several international NGO's providing assistance to rural communities on sustainable forestry and agricultural practices, nutrition issues, and economic development.  In his downtime, Derek dabbles in the culinary arts and was an award-winning server and consultant in fine-dining establishments. He holds a BA degree in international relations from Brown University, is an accomplished cook, and avid runner and swimmer.  Derek is a native speaker of Dutch, and also speaks Spanish, and a hint of Japanese. Derek hails from the Seattle area and joined OneRoof in August 2006.

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Praveen Kumar
Managing Director,
OneRoof India
praveen@oneroof.com

Praveen has ten years' experience in coordinating community development work in the predominantly poor neighborhoods of Chennai as a founder of the Youth Social Service Movement and later with Exnora International as a project officer. At Exnora, he led the formation of community-based youth groups in various parts of Chennai, and he co-founded the India Conservation Corps. He also served as project director of the solid waste management program at the Koyambedu Market, Asia's largest perishable goods market complex. Praveen received his Master's degree in Gandhian Thought from the University of Madras, and he served in EarthCorps in 1996. Since 2000, he has managed the World Corps India program with his wife Deepa Anandakrishnan and lives with her in Chennai.

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Deepa Anandakrishnan
CEO, OneRoof India
deepa@oneroof.com
Deepa has extensive experience managing business, environmental and community development initiatives in the southern India states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Between 1994 and 1998, she worked with Exnora International, a non-governmental organization where she implemented various programs concerning solid waste and clean waterways management. In 1996, Exnora sent her to spend six months in Seattle with EarthCorps. Upon her return, she co-founded the India Conservation Corps and directed a pilot program in 1997 that brought together young adults from across India to work together on environmental restoration projects in Chennai. After working at McKinsey in Chennai, she started the World Corps India program in 2000 with her husband and fellow Program Co-Coordinator, Praveen Kumar, and they have spent much of the last four years living in Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh state, site of the first World Corps training program and Internet telecenters. Deepa has a Master’s Degree in Public Management from the University of Madras.
   
 
   

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