Adviser Sanjay Srikantiah has served as Trade Specialist at the United States Department of Commerce - BISNIS, where he responded to trade and investment inquiries in reference to Southern Russia, Siberia & Kyrgyzstan.

Adviser James G. Lykos worked as a Sales Team Trainer for Population Services International (PSI) in Kigali, Rwanda, where he conducted an assessment of the PSI/Rwanda sales force with an international team, consolidated and redesigned the distribution system for all PSI Rwanda products from 2,000 to 10 locations.

Achievements

• Conducted client focus group discussion which resulted in host organization piloting individual loan products and altering several aspects of its existing group loan products.

Gary Mutz, an international sales consultant and a recipient of the 2007 VEGA Service Impact Award and the Presidential Service Award has volunteered with VEGA programs in Morocco, Bahrain and recently in West Africa.

At the age of seventeen, Bolivian-born Long Term Business Advisor Gabriela Prudencio immigrated with her family to the United States. Among her memories growing up in Bolivia, where she led a comfortable middle class existence, one memory remains most vivid: walking with her father in the outdoor market, she caught sight of a seriously impaired man crawling along the street.