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.

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.”

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.

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 Operations and Customer Success Manager at SCOPEinsight, Sigrid brings nearly 9 years of experience in management and in social audit methodologies for supply chain parties to her role.

Sigrid has been working with a variety of international supply chain parties in several industries. She has been actively involved in various international working groups and participated in multiple supply chain and traceability assessments. Sigrid contributed to the development of schemes and is determined to find practical solutions that create transparency.

Sigrid’s motivation to work at SCOPEinsight is that she believes that commerce and sustainable development are intertwined. Transparency enables informed decision making, which is fundamental to achieve a positive impact throughout the entire supply chain.

Sigrid has a MA in Corporate Social Responsibility from the London Metropolitan University.

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 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 BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Antioch University.