PRESENTERS:

Samantha Barbee, VP of Finance, Administrations and IT & Chief Financial Officer, joined IYF in January 2001, serving as Director of Operations before becoming CFO in January 2004.  Before coming to IYF, she worked as a senior associate at La Piana Associates, Inc, a firm specializing in strategic restructuring (a.k.a. mergers) for nonprofit organizations, and prior to that as Associate Director of the Nonprofit and Public Management Program and the Director of MBA Student Services at Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.  Samantha grew up in Costa Rica and received her undergraduate degree in government at Georgetown University .  Before moving to California to pursue an MBA from Haas, Samantha worked for a consulting firm that managed the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program of the United States Department of Justice. There she served as a Field Representative throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, and as the Country Program Director in Bogota , Colombia.

Milka Dinev has 25 years experience in the management of development projects, including administration, accounting and finance. In addition, she has programmatic experience in several fields, including sexual and reproductive health, family planning, environment, gender, food-aid and monetization of commodities, micro-enterprise, alternative development and agriculture, human rights and fisheries. As Pathfinder International's Country Representative for Peru and Ecuador , Ms. Dinev was responsible for providing overall strategic direction to Pathfinder's diverse family planning and sexual and reproductive health programs in Peru and Ecuador directly.  In addition, she provided technical assistance to Pathfinder programs in other regions, most recently in Angola , Egypt , Nigeria , and Bangladesh . She is currently serving as Director of ESD, providing leadership to project key initiatives in Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Involvement of Religious Leaders, Best Practices and other Health Initiatives and to activities in the following countries: Ethiopia , Guinea , Burundi , Kenya , Nigeria , Nepal , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Philippines , Tanzania , and Yemen . She has managed annual budgets for more than US$20 million dollars (as Deputy Director of CARE Peru), as well as bilateral programs for Cdn$15 million per year, as the CIDA Program Coordinator for Peru and Bolivia .  She provides management support, technical guidance and programmatic oversight to senior program managers. Ms. Dinev has demonstrated technical expertise in program design, strategic planning and program implementation. She also pursues diversified funding sources to implement innovative programs in expanding sexual and reproductive health services, integrated health services and adolescent-friendly services. Ms. Dinev has worked and secured funding from bilateral and multilateral agencies as well as private US foundations and corporations. Ms Dinev is considered part of the Senior Management Team of Pathfinder International and frequently participates in the preparation of institutional strategies and proposals. She speaks and writes fluent Spanish, English, French and Bulgarian. Ms. Dinev holds an MS in Business Administration with honors mention in Finance and Development Programs Management. She also holds a degree in Engineering and a Diploma on Gender Studies.

Daniel P. Doucette is a senior manager with fifteen years' experience administering grants and contracts from a wide variety of U.S. governmental and other bi-lateral and multi-lateral sources.  Since September 2004 he has served at Rainforest Alliance (RA) as the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations, providing oversight of the finance, human resources, information technology, legal and evaluation & research departments.  RA is a rapidly growing NGO with 240 staff (over half based outside of the US ), 18 office locations worldwide and funding from USAID (including cooperative agreements and IQC subcontracts), USFWS, UNDP/GEF, UNEP/GEF, IDB, and DEFRA.  Prior to joining RA, Daniel was Vice President of Finance at the American Cancer Society-Eastern Division.  He served as Budget Manager and Director of Strategic Planning at AFS-USA, the U.S. affiliate of the largest global student exchange program.  Also during his time in New York since 1996, Daniel worked in the corporate sector as Senior Financial Analyst for corporate finance at Bozell Group, a national advertising agency network and division of Interpublic Group of Companies, one of the largest worldwide advertising and media holding companies.  Based in Washington , DC , from 1990 to 1996, Daniel coordinated the accounting, contracting and field office back-stopping functions for Planning Assistance, working in the food security, public health and population planning sectors.  He also held the positions of Program Coordinator for Africa/Madagascar, Government Contracts Administrator, and Budget Manager at World Wildlife Fund-USA.  Daniel holds a Master's in International Economics and a Bachelor's in Latin American Studies, both from the Georgetown University .  He resides in Brooklyn , New York .