Team

As Strategic Sales Manager, Adaku uses her in-depth industry knowledge to help clients identify the appropriate SCOPE assessments to fit their programmatic goals. Adaku has over 10 years of project management experience with expertise in strengthening agricultural market systems for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is also an entrepreneur and founded Meadow Foods, a Nigerian-based social enterprise that supports smallholder farmers’ professionalization by leveraging social contract and technology.

Adaku’s motivation to work at SCOPEinsight stems from the belief that SCOPE’s tools have the strong potential to unlock economic value to over 500 million smallholder farmers globally.

Adaku holds an MBA from TIAS School of Business and Society and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from the University of Port-Harcour.

Ardavan is a motivated and optimistic professional who is known for good skills in communication, business intelligence, and strategic planning. Ardavan’s professional experience in marketing, sales, and data analytics is supported by exemplary educational qualifications during MScs in engineering and business.

Ardavan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering and a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Azad University in Tehran, as well as a Master’s degree in Business Analytics from TIAS School for Business and Society in Utrecht.

As Administrative Operations Officer, Ariane supports the operations team to train assessors, prepare assessments, and make sure the SCOPEinsight client journey goes smoothly. Ariane is very familiar with the SCOPEinsight process, as she worked as a SCOPE assessor and a SCOPE quality controller for six years.

Ariane understands the importance of farmers and of SCOPEinsight’s assessment tools. She sees the whole process as very important to the growth of agribusinesses and the agricultural sector as a whole.

Ariane holds a Bachelor’s degree in agriculture from the National University of Rwanda.

Daisy brings several years’ experience in project management and coordination to SCOPEinsight. As a native Spanish and English speaker, she helps guide clients through a seamless assessment process.

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

She has a Master in International Relations from Webster University in Leiden, The Netherlands, and a Bachelor in International Relations with a Minor in Political Science and Government from Florida International University.

As Product Owner, Farzad Nia is responsible to ensure that SCOPEinsight has the tools and systems necessary to help our clients have an impact. He is also responsible for exploring ways to link SCOPEinsight’s system to other data sources or systems so that we can provide the most robust way to transform agricultural sectors. So, together with SCOPEinsight’s clients and partners, Farzan builds on an exciting vision of an improved ecosystem that facilitates a standardized global system to professionalize farmer organizations and agri SMEs.

Farzad brings over 11 years of experience to SCOPEinsight in managing, designing, and developing digital products. He also holds an MBA from Multimedia University in Malaysia.

What Farzad 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.”

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 a business analyst at SCOPEinsight, Thales creates dashboards and metrics, monitors key performance indicators, and generates reports and insights for the continuous improvement of data visualization, processes, and tools.

Thales’ motivation to work at SCOPEinsight comes from the ever-increasing amount of data the agricultural sector demands and offers, and with that, all the necessary tools and knowledge to process and analyze the data correctly. He firmly believes that the insights generated by the correct use of these data will result in better practices, more professionalism, and greater sustainability for agribusinesses.

Before joining SCOPEinsight, Thales worked in the continuous improvement segment of a manufacturing plant, facilitating Operational Excellence by applying concepts of the WCOM, TPM, and Lean Manufacturing methodologies.

Thales holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering from Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói and a Master’s degree in Business and Administration from TIAS Business School in Utrecht.

As Marketing and Communications Officer, Xoe makes sure the world knows about the achievements that SCOPEinsight and our partners are making. She is responsible for writing articles for the website and for social media outreach.

Xoe believes that finding ways to increase sustainability is the biggest challenge the world currently faces. She appreciates SCOPEinsight’s data-driven, systematic approach to facilitating change.

Xoe has a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Antioch University.