Board of Directors

	Brizio Biondi-Morra holds a PhD in Business Administration from Harvard University and a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in Italy. He is currently the President of AVINA, Chairman of FUNDES, a foundation promoting small and medium-sized enterprise development in Latin America with offices in 10 countries, and Chairman of INCAE, the leading Latin American business school with campuses in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Former Director of executive programs at Arthur D. Little´s management institute, he was founder and President of ICC, a chemical and printing company with headquarters in New York. He was previously a marketing strategist for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Europe. He is author of the book "Hungry Dreams" for Cornell University Press, Editorial Siglo XXI and Nicaragua’s Central Bank.
	Sibylle Feltrin has worked as an executive assistant to Peter Fuchs in the AVINA Foundation and in VIVA Trust. As a former business analyst, her job was to evaluate the Foundation’s projects. In VIVA Trust, she is responsible for certain institutional activities. Sibylle is also accompanying a number of projects of AVINA Stiftung Schweiz and some activities related to the founder. Prior to joining AVINA, Sibylle worked for several years for the Swiss Reinsurance Company as a Credit and Surety analyst, responsible for France, Central America and Venezuela. During this period, she lived in Brazil for two years. Sibylle is a simultaneous interpreter graduated from the Zurich Interpreting School, and she speaks five languages. She is married and a mother of two children.
	Antonio Espinoza is a Paraguayan businessman active in livestock breeding, real estate and other fields. He is a Director-member of the Fondo EcoEmpresas investment committee, a risk capital fund for investing in sustainable ventures, based in Washington D.C., U.S.A. He has carried out diplomatic missions abroad as Paraguayan Ambassador to Great Britain, Sweden and Norway. He does community service and union work, and is the Director of the Paraguayan-American Cultural Center, the Melody Foundation, the Initiative for Research and Transfer of Sustainable Farming Technology (INTTAS) and the Paraguayan Cooperation and Development Foundation. He is a member of the AVINA Asunción Supervising Council, the VIVA Advisory Committee, and the Managing Council of the AVINA Foundation. A Nuclear Engineering graduate from the University of Manchester, he has carried out graduate studies in Architecture at Harvard University. He is married to Diane Espinoza, with whom he has two children.
	Andreas Eggenberg. Grupo ECOS manages two boutique Private Equity / Investment Funds (Ecos Sustainable Equity Fund, Inc. and Ecos Forestry Fund Inc.), both with an investment focus in Latin America in small and medium sized companies with growth potential, and active in sustainable development, cleantech, renewable energy and sustainable forestry. Mr. Eggenberg is a Swiss national, Political and economic scientist graduated from the University of Lausanne, Business Administration, management and executive management specializations at the Universities of Munich, UCLA, Kellogg and INCAE. Previously, he served as Executive Director Amanco Agricultural Solutions, leading irrigation systems provider in Latin America based in Brazil. Before that various executive positions at Grupo Nueva and Amanco in Argentina, Costa Rica and Guatemala, including Regional Head Amanco Central America and Carribbean. Before this, Mr. Eggenberg was Senior VP at Volkart Brothers Holding, and Executive Director at Green Cross International. Mr. Eggenberg is married, fluent in Swiss German, German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, he was President of Fundes Guatemala and member of the local INCAE Council and local BCSD; is Board Member of BCSD Panama, Advisory Board Member of the World Water Forum Mexico, and of the IDB Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Washington; and Member of the faculty at SustainAbility, London.
	Anamaria Schindler co-President of Ashoka, has accumulated a wealth of experience working in the social sector in Latin America, particularly in the area of human rights. She has been an AVINA partner in Brazil since 2002 and was instrumental in building the Capoava Alliance among AVINA, Ashoka, Ethos and GIFE. Born in Germany, Anamaria was brought up and lives in Brazil, and she holds Brazilian citizenship. Anamaria is married and has one son and one daughter. At Ashoka, Anamaria supervises the Business-Social Bridge Programs as well as the Business-Social Bridge Practice Group. Prior to assuming her current role as co-President in 2006, she was Ashoka's International Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships. Anamaria has a master's degree in sociology and a doctorate from the University of Sao Paulo. Over the course of a decade, she worked as a researcher and research coordinator in the area of human rights and violence in various public and private study centers in Brazil, including the Studies on Violence Group (Núcleo de Estudios de la Violencia) at the University of Sao Paolo. In 1996, Anamaria formed part of the Ashoka Brazil team which developed and launched the Training Center for Social Entrepreneurs (Centro de Competencia para Emprendedores Sociales) in alliance with McKinsey & Co., a model which Ashoka has since replicated internationally.
	Sean McKaughan is AVINA's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and member ex-officio of its Board of Directors. He began working in AVINA in 1998, and was one of the key architects of the strategy and implementation of its program in Brazil. Sean has been working in the field of Sustainable Development for the last 15 years in connection with institutions such as the World Bank, Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas Aplicadas (IPEA), the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade. Regional Manager of AVINA's operations in Brasil for five years, Sean took on the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO) for AVINA in 2006. In January 2007 he was named CEO. Sean holds a Master of Science degree in Community and Regional Planning and a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is married, has two children and has been living with his family in Rio de Jaineiro since 2001.