Beth Gertz
Director of the GSMA mWomen Programme
Before joining GSMA in 2012, Beth was a Global Portfolio Manager with The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. Prior to that, she worked in the U.S., Europe and South East Asia as a strategy consultant, primarily with The Boston Consulting Group. She has helped corporate, government and non-profit clients to refine their strategies, strengthen operational effectiveness and realize impact through partnerships.
Beth earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and BA from Northwestern University. Originally from Chicago, she currently lives in London.
Sarah Crampsie
Programme Manager, GSMA mWomen
Sarah was a founding member of the GSMA mWomen concept at the GSMA in 2009 and is now the GSMA mWomen Programme Manager. She drove the successful research and launch of the report ‘Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity,’ produced in partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, at Mobile World Congress 2010. She now works closely with our Working Group of mobile operators and development partners to implement the projects on the ground that will enable us to achieve the mWomen goal of closing the mobile phone gender gap. As part of this endeavour, she’s supporting the creation of products and services that women in the developing world want and need.
Dominica Lindsey
Senior Manager of Research Strategy and Evaluation, GSMA mWomen
Dominica joined the GSMA mWomen Programme in 2012 as Senior Manager of Research Strategy and Evaluation. She has performed research, strategy development and project management for a variety of corporate and non-profit organisations.
Most recently she was an independent consultant to the COO of VisionFund International, a microfinance subsidiary of World Vision. Prior to this, Dominica spent five years as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, working with a variety of clients across the charity, healthcare, financial, media, consumer goods and energy sectors. She has also conducted research for WWF Cameroon, led a social research project in Western Java and supported a microfinance charity operating in India and Nepal.
Dominica graduated from Oxford University with a BA in Geography and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management.
Julia Burchell
Knowledge Manager, GSMA mWomen
Julia is the GSMA mWomen Knowledge Manager, leading the programme’s knowledge sharing initiatives as well as having a strong project management role in the team’s event production. She joined the GSMA mWomen team as Programme Coordinator in 2010, where she supported the launch of the programme and the creation of the mWomen.org website. Having represented organisations across the telecommunications, utilities, accountancy and law industries previous to this, she brings a strong background in corporate communications to her work.
She holds a first class honours degree in English from The University of Nottingham and an MA in Writing from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Max Cuvellier
Commercial Programme Manager, GSMA mWomen
Max is a Commercial Programme Manager for the GSMA mWomen Programme, providing technical advisory and overseeing grants to operators and development partners.
Before joining the GSMA, Max worked for the Orange Group’s Technocentre for Emerging Markets, first as a Project Manager on Customer Base Management-related topics based in Amman, Jordan, then as the team’s Business Development/Strategic Marketing Manager in Paris, in charge of identifying opportunities for new innovative products and services for the Group’s 20+ AMEA affiliates. He has previous experience with Altai Consulting where he was a Telecom Strategy Consultant, contributing to projects for Roshan (Afghanistan) and Asiacell (Iraq). His first work experience was with Apple as part of the EMEA Product Marketing Team in London.
Max holds a Master’s Degree in Management from HEC School of Management (Paris, France) and in International Management from ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain).
Mahesh Nayak
Business Analyst, GSMA mWomen
Mahesh is a Business Analyst at the GSMA mWomen Programme, supporting the team’s efforts to stimulate action among operators and other ecosystem partners in developing world markets. Prior to joining the programme, he was with 4C Associates, a boutique management consultancy providing cost transformation advice to large private and public sector clients in the UK and in Europe. He has previous experience of working at an Angel Investment firm and a management consultancy providing strategic and operational support to Microfinance Institutions.
Mahesh pursued a Masters in Management degree at London Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from University of Delhi.
Elisa Minischetti
Programme Coordinator, GSMA mWomen
Elisa is the GSMA mWomen Programme Coordinator. Before joining the GSMA, Elisa worked as an intern at the social enterprise WomenCraft in Ngara, Tanzania, where she contributed as Grant Manager and Budget Analyst. Prior to that, Elisa worked for Europe Direct, Forli’, Italy, as a European Trainer and covered roles at the Italian Consulate and at a shipping firm in Germany.
Elisa holds a Master’s Degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in International Economics and Conflict Management. This degree was a complement to her MA in International Security and Politics from University of Bologna and BA in Political Science and International Relations from University of Siena.
Elsa Said-Armanet
Commercial Programme Manager, GSMA mWomen
Elsa is a Commercial Programme Manager for the GSMA mWomen Programme, providing technical advisory and overseeing grants to operators and development partners.
Before joining the GSMA, she worked in the U.S., Europe and Asia for leading technology and consulting companies including LivingSocial, Samsung, McKinsey and Sony, in business development, strategy and software engineering positions. She has helped companies design innovative mobile phone products and online platforms, launch global integrated marketing campaigns, form strategic partnerships with internet, media and telecom corporations as well as refine their strategy to achieve market leadership.
Elsa earned an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania (where she was a Diane & Rober Levy Fellow) and an MSc. in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Strasbourg.
Priya Bhandari
Commercial Programme Manager, GSMA mWomen
Priya is a Commercial Programme Manager for the GSMA mWomen Programme, providing assistance and overseeing grants to operators and development partners.
Prior to this, she worked as a salesperson for Goldman Sachs and BP in their energy derivatives businesses for 6 and 3 years respectively. Her clients included transportation companies, utilities and industrials from across Europe and she advised them on their hedging strategies and provided them with solutions to manage their risks. Most recently, she did an internship at Dalberg, a strategy consultancy focusing on the development sector. During this time, she worked with a social enterprise in India to define their expansion strategy and secure a grant for this purpose.
Priya has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in Social & Political Sciences from Cambridge University.
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