PRESENTERS:

Eric Walker , VP, Corporate Services, PATH, and Chairperson of the Association of PVO Financial Managers has extensive experience working with USAID. Eric has worked for four different Private Voluntary Organizations that have received grants, cooperative agreements and contracts from USAID and numerous other funders. Eric has led many Association training workshops including our annual Indirect Cost Workshop, USAID Rules and Regs workshops, partnering, cost-share, and risk assessment, and Working with USAID. Eric's very approachable training style combines a broad range of experience and a practitioner's approach with a good sense of humor.

Carol Davis is the Controller of Project Concern International, a private voluntary organization delivering health services in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the areas of disease prevention, water and sanitation, food security, and maternal and child health.  Carol has worked in the areas of nonprofit organization funding, accounting, audit, and compliance for over twenty years.  Previous positions include CFO of International Foundation for Education and Self-Help, delivering education programs in Africa for over eight years, CFO of National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, and Program Officer for Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts, managing collaborative grantmaking and loan programs for nonprofit organizations.  Carol gained her Certification of Public Accountancy while at Coopers and Lybrand in Chicago , where she audited nonprofit organizations and governments for three and a half years.  She is an accountant with her heart in programs, having studied liberal arts and social work as an undergraduate at University of Texas at Austin , and having received her Masters of Business Administration at Simmons College in Boston .

Michael Walsh is the Director of Training and Member Services at the Association of PVO Financial Managers (APVOFM). He joined APVOFM after completing a 25 year career with the U.S. Government. Most recently, Mr. Walsh was the Chief Acquisition Officer and Director of the Office of Acquisition and Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Over his 22 years as a Foreign Service Officer with USAID, he has worked as a Contracting Officer in Dhaka , Bangladesh and Cairo , Egypt . He was also the Director of the Regional Contracting Office in USAID/East Africa in Nairobi , Kenya . Mr. Walsh has also worked in USAID/Washington as a Branch Chief in the Office of Acquisition and Assistance, providing support to the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) and the Africa Bureau. Mr. Walsh also served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Food for Peace. Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Walsh worked with the Brothers Brother Foundation. Mr. Walsh began his career in international development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines . Mr. Walsh is a proven leader of development-focused contracting and grant-making operations. He is skilled in working across organizations, linking programs with operations to produce optimum results. Over the course of his career he is noted for streamlining processes, leveraging information technology and developing the workforce through coaching and training.