Team

As Strategic Sales Manager, John uses his open and professional style to help clients find the services and product that fit their needs.  Together with Marise and Pablo, John leads our efforts in connecting with our clients to create a common vision around farmer professionalism and therefore enhancing systems change. John comes from one of the largest agricultural (corn, soybeans and dairy) producing states in in the U.S. – Minnesota – and has a rich background in agriculture and trade in the Netherlands. His previous position as a program director and social entrepreneur for a sustainable agricultural and community development project in the Netherlands has facilitated his understanding of the challenges of balancing the capacity of mother nature with the demands of value chain players. John also brings years of experience working with a much larger suite of assessment tools (+100k completed assessments) and rolling out a nationwide effort to positively influence the child welfare system in the US by encouraging policy makers to require or prefer these assessment tools

The SCOPEinsight approach to helping clients transform the agricultural sector in emerging economies is what drew John to SCOPEinsight.

John holds a MSc. Political Science: Conflict Resolution and Governance from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Seattle University (2000).  His work and travels have brought him to many parts of the world (Siberia, Sierra Leone, Seattle) and so he feels right at home with his international client portfolio.

Sharon brings several years’ experience in project management and coordination from both Mauritius and the Netherlands to her current position as a Project Support Officer. She draws from her experience managing translation teams and linguistic assets across the world and within cross-functional teams to her work with SCOPEinsight’s clients. She is driven in improving customers’ experience by supporting them in the whole assessment and data collecting process.

Sharon is passionate about SCOPEinsight’s mission and appreciates that SCOPEInsight is dedicated towards a positive change in the agricultural market by empowering farmers.

Sharon has a bachelor’s in commerce in Tourism Management and Public Relations from the Curtin University of Technology Australia.

As IT Development QA Officer, Jem Kipgen is responsible for overseeing assessment processes and maintaining the IT systems that support the operational processes. He also developed the e-training methods for assessors and is experienced in managing e-trainings for different clients. Furthermore, Jem is responsible for data mining.

Before joining SCOPEinsight, he spent 10 years working in India and the USA, where he gained experience in project management, IT Web development and programming.

What Jem enjoys most about working at SCOPEinsight is the small, yet multicultural and experienced team.  Despite the challenges of the sector, he believes that “it is critical to keep pushing to highlight the difficulties that farmer organizations and the agricultural sector, and therefore by default, humanity faces. Modern problems require modern solutions and making sense (business intelligence) of all the data is a big step in that direction. “

SCOPEinsight has come a long way since I started and we still have a long way to go, this keeps me motivated.

Jem holds a BA degree in Computer Information Systems and Applied Economics from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota and an MSc in Business Administration, with a specialization in Finance, from TiasNimbas Business School in Utrecht.

As Marketing Director, Juliet is responsible for sharing our collective successes and amplifying our client’s good work. She is passionate about SCOPE’s mission to transform the agricultural sector and is committed to sharing this vision with everyone!

Juliet has been working in the nonprofit development field for over 20 years and in over 22 countries. Her experience ranges from program management and implementation to program development and reporting.  She is a skilled writer who is dedicated to using her talents toward positive change.

Juliet’s motivation to work at SCOPEinsight stems from the deeply held belief that the world doesn’t have time to waste in getting its food system to function optimally and evidence must be used to fuel programmatic decisions.

Juliet holds a Masters Degree in International Development and Economics from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Contemporary African History from City College of New York.

As Business Development Manager at SCOPEinsight, Pablo applies his several years of experience working with a wide array of customers in the financial sector to understand a client’s true needs. His prior experience includes his work at Crowe Horwath Gossler as a sustainability consultant where he assessed the impact of sustainability-oriented initiatives across clients’ departments and cross-functional teams so that they obtain a Social Responsibility Certificate (ESR).Pablo’s own father has inspired him to be idealistic yet practical and hardworking. What motivates Pablo to work at SCOPEinsight is that he can be the link that helps agribusinesses achieve partnerships to obtain long-lasting results for a greater benefit for society. Pablo holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University as well as a Bachelor of Science in Public Accounting and Finance from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Tessa van der Meiden is Office Manager at SCOPEinsight and its sister company NewForesight. She masters the skill of juggling the different needs and perspectives of our organizations as well as making sure we are all functioning optimally..

Tessa has been, for the past 15 years, working towards positive social impact. Before joining us at SCOPEinsight, she worked for over 6 years at an international not-for-profit organization that focused on making quality healthcare accessible and affordable for low- and middle-income countries. Tessa believes in the people behind the impact and finding opportunities to empower them.

Tessa studied Tourism Management at Schoevers in Amsterdam.

As Operations and Customer Success Manager at SCOPEinsight, Carolina brings nearly a decade of management experience to her responsibility of monitoring operations.  This experience is complemented by her personable demeanor and polyglot capabilities to foster relationships with clients and operational partners at the implementation level.

Her prior experience includes her work at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) as a project assistant where she provided outstanding project management backstopping to the Pacific region as well as in Eastern and Southern Africa by providing overall project monitoring, communication among stakeholders and organizing conferences.

Carolina’s work experience has taught her that “a plan always looks great on paper” but that the real challenge – and the one which fuels her passion – lies in maneuvering through project realities with the clients for whom she aims to create a successful journey.

Carolina ‘s personal background – being half Dutch and half Brazilian – has fueled her interest in international affairs.  Growing up, she spent a significant amount of time in Brazil, where, where access to clean water, nutritious food, and profitable and inclusive agribusiness was not always guaranteed for the majority of the population.

Carolina holds a MA International Relations & Human Rights from the University of Utrecht as well as a BA Political History & International Relations from University of Utrecht.

As Senior Technical Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist SCOPEinsight, Ben brings significant experience in applying statistical analysis and data science to a wide range of economic development challenges in Asia and Africa. At SCOPEinsight, he is responsible for finding answers to the bigger issues in agriculture.

Ben began his  career at the UN World Food Program (WFP) working in Pakistan & South Sudan where the agricultural potential is striking but the food system is fragile.  This led to his interest in sustainable agricultural economics. Spending 4 years with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) taught him a tremendous amount about local challenges in Nigeria, East-Africa and Cambodia. Curious to understand why so many good policies and investments were not being adopted or implemented, he leapt at the opportunity to work with the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture to support multi-stakeholder partnerships in the food and ag sectors.  In all of these contexts, he learned that data can be a valuable tool to break political gridlock, but only if it’s the right data to address the problem at hand. Ben regularly publishes perspectives on the African Ag-Tech industry online through LinkedIn – Pulse.

Ben holds a dual bachelor’s degree in mathematics and geography from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Masters Degree in International Economics from American University (AU).