VP of Strategic PartnershipsVOTO Mobile
Rebecca is VP of Strategic Partnerships at VOTO Mobile, a fast-growing social enterprise with offices in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Zimbabwe, India, the US, and Canada (with more coming soon!). VOTO's platform allows partners to distribute and collect information from the 3 billion people living in emerging markets through their mobile phones. VOTO specializes in evidence gathering and behavior change communication, using interactive voice calls (including IVR) and SMS, instantly reaching across language, literacy, and geographic barriers. In the three years since its launch, the platform has been used by more than 500 organizations, and 40 countries reaching more than 3 million unique users. VOTO has the infrastructure to connect with any mobile phone on the planet. Some of our most active users include the World Bank, UNICEF, the Center for Global Development, Innovations for Poverty Action, Facebook, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Prior to joining VOTO, Rebecca was Associate Director at FSG, where she advised Fortune 500 companies, International NGOs, and private foundations in strategy and evaluation. She holds a graduate degree from the University of Oxford (MSc., African Politics), where she was a Weidenfeld Scholar. She is based in San Francisco.