Management Team

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Management Team

Digital Divide Data was established in Cambodia through a partnership between an international team of advisors and local Cambodian leaders with a wide range of proven experience in the business, non-profit, and social entrepreneurial sectors.

We hire talented workers from some of Cambodia's most disadvantaged groups - such as the disabled, land mine victims and women - and provide them with opportunities that are not normally accessible to them.

Digital Digital Divide Data operates as a self-sustaining co-operative, with all profits reinvested in the business to provide fair salaries, ongoing training and healthcare for its employees. Almost all of DDD's staff donate their invaluable time, energy and resources on a volunteer basis. DDD is grateful for their tremendous efforts.

Phnom Penh Office

Kann Kunthy – General Manager who is holding Bachelor Degree from University of Management and Economic in Human Resource Management in late 2005 and high Diploma of English from Pannasastra University of Cambodia in early 2003. He had two year experience of English teacher at private institution before joining DDD Phnom Penh in July 2001 as operator where he had been promoted to Assistant Team Leader and Team Leader on the next consecutive year. In October 2003, Kunthy was promoted to be Branch Manager for Battambang office, Cambodia and had spent his time there until November 2005 where he became General Manager of DDD Phnom Penh office. Beside that Kunthy has also been accepted for eight month scholarship in Japan on corporate management where it is involving with in class lectures, study tours, companies visit as well internship in global success Japanese companies such as Hitachi, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd, NTT where Human Resource System and practices are shared through lecturing as well as On the Job Training and other means of learning.
Keo Socheat – Client Services Manager who started his carrer in Phnom Penh where he worked as an Operator and then a Team Leader for 2 years. In 2003, he was promoted to Branch Operations Manager and attended 3 months of Mangement Training. He is also currently in his third year of study at the Institute of Management and Economic and hopes to earn his degree in 2006.

Battambang Office

Im Sopheap, Branch Manager – Pursuing her BBA degree in a local university called University of Management and Economics majored in Human Resources Management. She will get her BBA degree by 2009. Sopheap started her career at DDD as operators in early 2004 in one of DDD rural area offices then was promoted as Project Leader in the same year. In November 2005, Kann Kunthy, former Battambang Branch Manager left to take his new role as country manager in Phnom Penh office, Sopheap had tried her best with another dedicated Project Leader to manage the office to be sustainable. In June 2006, Sopheap was promoted formally as Branch Manager.

Vientiane, Lao Office

Mai Siriphonphanh – Regional General Manager. Mai Graduated from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and received her MBA in December 2002. She joined the management training in DDD Phnom Penh in July 2003 and came back to her country to set up the new DDD office in December 2003. In July 2004, she participated in a mini-MBA program called Global Social Benefit Incubator organized by the Santa Clara University for humanitarian ventures. Her business management knowledge, teaching approaches and leadership skills give her the great strengths in motivating and engaging staff to attain the organizational goals.
Davone Bounpheng — General Manager. Davone is holding two degrees in education area, Bachelor of Education in 2000 from the National University of Laos and Master of Educational Management in 2003 from Flinders University, Australia. She has interest in tourism, Information Technology and skills development for the nation human resources. Davone had worked for National Human Development Reporting Project on the theme of International Trade and Human Development, funded by the United Nations Development Program for two years before Joining DDD Vientiane office at the beginning of 2007 as a General Manager.
Souphalak Souksavath — Finance Director. Souphalak graduated from the Business School of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia in 2003. From 1998 to 2000 she worked for the UNDP project at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in Laos, managing accounting for SMEs, marketing and training for a European Union bank-training project at the Central bank of Laos. She now leads the finance team for Digital Divide Data and is also a Global Knowledge Partnership East Asia Regional coordinator.

North America Based

Jeremy Hockenstein – Chief Executive Officer. Currently a strategy consultant for non-profit and profit entities, Jeremy was trained as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company. Jeremy also served as the Chief Operating Officer at a non-profit, Harvard Hillel, where he helped catalyze and lead an organizational transformation to implement a new strategic program plan. Jeremy earned his BA from Harvard and his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Matthew Utterback – Vice President, Business Development. Bridging the gap between profit and non-profit worlds, for the past ten years Matt has focused on building revenue and sustainable growth in high-technology ventures and educational institutions. His career began at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Insitute in Budapest . He then became the Program Director at the MIT Entrepreneur ship Center . In 2000, he joined Flag ship Ventures, a venture capital and venture creation partner ship , where he was on the founding team of a new software company, Affinnova, Inc. Before joining DDD, Matt played a key role in building Affinnova from a raw startup into a successuful, growing company by securing Affinnova's first clients - all Fortune 100 companies. Matt earned his BA from Oberlin College and an MA From Central European University.

Alumni

Reed Wotiz – Director. With a background in Computer Science and several years of experience at Deloitte Consulting, Reed drove DDD’s efficiency and productivity through the development of IT-related processes, tools, and human capital development. Reed is currently pursuing his MBA at the McCombs School of Business, and managing the Internet start-up, Bdub Online Marketing, which he founded in '04.

David Wright – Operational Capacity Director. David spent 9 months driving financial sustainability and strategic planning across DDD's regional offices. Prior to this, David worked in management consulting in New York; his nonprofit experience includes Maasai Education Discovery in Kenya and the United Nations in Cambodia. Currently, David is pursuing a JD-MBA at Northwestern University.

David Paulson – Financial Capacity Builder. Using his four years of experience working with nonprofit organizations as a public accountant, David worked with the accounting and finance department to create effective accounting policies as well as building cash management and financial analysis capabilities. David is currently pursuing his MBA in International Management at Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

Paul Htay – Sales Operation Coordinator. Paul served as the liason between client relations in the US and operations in Asia. Paul is Burmese, and received undergraduate degree in Physics from King College, Tennessee. Paul worked with DDD for over 2 years in operations, and has a great deal of experience in translating our operations staff on client specifications, ensuring quality, tracking project progress and delivering end products.

Edward McLean – Managed Digital Divide Data's UK business using expertise from his prior marketing consultancy and management roles in London, Paris and Stockholm. With a BA in Management he has produced a number of European strategy conferences and written on business issues for organisations including the French Chamber of Commerce.

Kathryn Lucatelli – Kathryn was trained in negotiation and mediation skills from Boston's Mediation Works program. She earned a BA degree from Earlham College and has extensive experience working with non-profits within the Bahá'í religion.

Portman Wills – Before assisting DDD, he divided his time between designing enterprise applications for large corporations (Freddie Mac, Microsoft, InPhonic) and providing technical advice to small non-profits (Virginia Dance Marathon, The Cavalier Daily, World Links). He studied economics, mathematics, and computer sciences at the University of Virginia.

Gordon Peters – Gordon holds degrees in Religious Studies and Economics from the University of Virginia. He supported Mai in founding and developing the DDD office Vientiane, Loas.