Mobilizing Technical Assistance to Catalyze Inclusive Markets
Friday, April 17, 2015
Session Description
Which key actors should support the critical technical assistance required to develop a promising market before it’s commercially viable? Using real scenarios from current efforts in the emerging smallholder finance sector, session contributors will create a model for incentivizing value chain actors—including farmers, corporate, government and philanthropic stakeholders—to make market-building investments. Attendees will also discuss how to price and finance investments as they evolve over time.
Time & Location
Time:
11:45 - 13:00, Friday, April 17, 2015
BST
Location:
SBS, Classroom 2
Speakers
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Delegate
Senior Advisor, Global Development Incubator
Tom is a Senior Advisor at GDI, where he works directly with rural enterprise development efforts. Tom focuses on GDI’s incubated initiatives in this space: ISF Advisors, Aceli Africa, the Rural & Agricultural Finance Learning Lab, and the Council on Smallholder Finance (CSAF). This includes the development and application of products and services for small agricultural enterprises, including finance, digital technology, and education. His efforts aim to make the economics of environmentally sound, community-led rural enterprise development sustainable.
Previously, Tom was a Partner at Dalberg Advisors where he led a strategy consulting portfolio that included efforts such as comprehensive investment/market entry analyses of global and regional commodity markets; the development of public-private partnerships across a host of those markets; the commercialization of agriculture technologies; and the design of innovative financing mechanisms in frontier markets. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Aceli Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, and EarthEnable, based in Kigali, Rwanda. Tom holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and a BA in government from the University of Notre Dame.
