Douglas Pond
Director of Volunteer Partnerships
- Role
- Co-founder & Senior Agricultural Value Chain Advisor at Avc Global
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Douglas Pond
An accomplished and results-driven BUSINESS & MARKET DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE with global and domestic expertise in business development, strategic partnerships, relationship development and management, funding source identification, donor/corporate relations, non-profit fundraising, and proposal development. Leverages strong interpersonal and lateral leadership skills to grow and create new revenue streams for corporations and non-profits. An innovative and top-performing leader who enables an organization to exceed its goals. Areas of focus include: economic empowerment, financial sustainability, blended capital funding models.
Experience
Co-founder & Senior Agricultural Value Chain Advisor
Jan 2016 — Present · Houston, TX, US
AVC Global is building an agricultural mobile application platform that will be a catalyst to transform currently fragmented markets into tighter agricultural value chains by uniting rural smallholder family farmers in India with multinational buyers; and agronomy, business training, financial and input service providers. This will increase market access by creating value for all stakeholders to meet the growing demand for food and create pathways out of poverty for the farmers.
Education
Southern Methodist University
B.S., Economics / Finance
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
MBA, International Business
Skills
- Management
- Team Building
- Emerging Technologies
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Executive Management
- Financial Analysis
- Structured Finance
- Commercial Banking
- Micro Finance
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Due Diligence
- International Business
- Investments
- Africa
- Leadership
- Emerging Markets
- Managerial Finance
- Banking
- Business Development
- Risk Management
- Finance
- Microfinance
- Credit
- Financial Modeling
- Management Consulting
- Strategic Partnerships
- Strategic Leadership
- New Business Development
- Capital Markets
- Foreign Investment
- Economics
- International Management
- Financial Risk
- Asset Management
- Investment Banking
- Partner Management
- Financial Management
- Social Responsibility
- Private Equity
- Business Strategy
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