Samasource

Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits.

Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. As an undergraduate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights.

Leila is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold and TEDIndia Fellowships, and serves on the San Francisco board of the Social Enterprise Institute. She is a former Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Program on Global Justice and the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University.

When she’s not running Samasource, Leila blogs on Social Edge and tries to keep up with her Twitter account. She holds a B.A. from Harvard.

Elizabeth brings over 20 years of global operations experience from Zuora, eBay, Providian Financial (now Chase) and American Express.

As an Advisory Board Member and the Vice President of Customer Operations at Zuora, she helped lead the organization from initial startup to the market leader in online subscription management. While at eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, Elizabeth was responsible for overseeing worldwide billing, payments and collections operations. During her tenure, she was the driving force behind the implementation of the most advanced billing, payment processing & collections systems in the ecommerce industry. Elizabeth also held several executive positions at both Providian Financial and American Express proving her leadership in Customer Management & Operations.

Elizabeth holds a BA from Yale University and a MBA from Cornell University. While at Yale she received the Branford College Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Community. She also received the Henny Wittink Marketing Prize for top marketing student while at Cornell.

Victor brings more than two decades of sales management experience in communications, hardware, and software sales environments with proven success in building high performance sales organizations at start-ups and turnaround companies, which has resulted in four acquisitions. Prior to Samasource, Victor served as senior vice president of sales at data center infrastructure and energy management software platform company Power Assure. Previous to Power Assure, he served as vice president of sales at Evault, which delivered storage software, software as a service (SaaS), disaster recovery, and email compliance services. Seagate acquired Evault in January 2007. Victor’s track record for growing sales and increasing customer retention also encompasses his senior level positions at Axcient, MFN, NorthPoint, WinStar, and Allnet. He holds a B.S. in Finance from CSUC.

Claire leads Client Services and Marketing, helping Samasource clients with reliable and cost-effective business solutions using a known crowd on the latest distributed work technology.

Prior to Samasource, Claire was Director of Virtual Agent Acquisition at LiveOps, and also worked in rural Vietnam with ADAPT to combat human trafficking on the Vietnam/Cambodia border. As a management consultant with Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), she led client teams at large technology companies, focusing on sales performance and strategic planning, and helped several non-profits with large-scale operational growth.

Claire holds a BA with departmental honors from Columbia, an MA from the University of London, and an MBA from Stanford.

Jill joins Samasource after four years of investor relations consulting for tech IPO clients including Riverbed Technology and Aruba Networks.

She is a Peer Support Volunteer for the Shanti Project, and is enthusiastic about combining her work and volunteer experience to analyze new business opportunities for a social enterprise.

Jill holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, and in her free time enjoys exploring the great outdoors.

As Director of Development at Samasource, Rosalyn Mahashin is responsible for building relationships and partnerships that help Samasource connect more people living in poverty to dignified jobs.

Rosalyn previously conducted research on information technology and international development trends for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative. A seven-year Google veteran, Rosalyn served as a product liaison for AdWords, coordinated B2B and B2C marketing campaigns, and managed global employee engagement and grant-making initiatives for Google Grants, Google’s largest in-kind product donation program. She previously consulted for the Martinez Foundation, GreatNonprofits, Literacy Bridge, and Vittana.

Rosalyn holds an MPA with honors in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington and a BA in Communication from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a GO-MAP Fellowship, Eben Tisdale Public Policy Fellowship, and Google Alumni Impact, Google Luminary and Stanford Community Service awards.

Jen is responsible for leading Samasource’s efforts and expansion in East Africa.

Prior to Samasource, Jen was Vice President, Head of India Research Operations at Gerson Lehrman Group, leading GLG’s global research operations center in Gurgaon, India.  Before GLG, she evaluated and managed technology solutions, projects and partnerships for the franchise headquarters of Keller Williams Realty International in Austin, Texas.  Jen started working in technology with EDS (now HP) at the headquarters of A.T. Kearney management consultants in Chicago, IL.

She holds a BA in Anthropology, Sociology & Ethical Studies from Albion College.

After more than ten years in the private sector, Patricia joined Samasource to lead Delivery and Work Center Management, merging her business experience with her passion for social mission.

Prior to Samasource, Patricia co-founded a VC-funded online start-up in China. She was also an experienced advertising operations director at an online advertising company, and a strategy consultant at Swander Pace and Co.

Patricia’s travels around the world have taken her through South America, Southeast Asia, and parts of Tibet and Western China, where she understood that global poverty required innovative, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

She enjoys painting, dancing, scuba diving, hiking and traveling in her spare time. Patricia holds a B.A. from Stanford in International Relations and Economics.

David brings over 10 years of experience developing technology solutions to Samasource.

Prior to Samasource, David was a technical lead at Alexander Interactive, where he worked on projects ranging from startups to enterprise e-commerce systems. David got hooked on using technology for social good while working on the Donorschoose.org platform. In 2009, he founded Idealistech.org and worked with several social enterprises in Brazil.

David earned a degree in Computer Engineering from McGill.

Alex manages design, user experience, and visual communication on the Samasource technology platform, the Samahub, as well as our other platforms.

He has worked on projects for UNFPA, the State of Vermont, and non-profits at the local and international level. Alex brings a passion for the integration of design with social impact, with experience across interactive and traditional media.

In his personal time he enjoys reading, printmaking, traveling, and dreaming. Alex graduated summa cum laude from Champlain College with a B.S. in Graphic Design & Digital Media.

Jenni joins the Samasource delivery team as an Account Manager after spending two years working in the private sector.

Prior to joining Samasource, Jenni was an Analyst at investment bank Barclays Capital, providing capital raising services to clients predominantly in the municipal government sector. Jenni’s other experience includes working for NERA Economic Consulting, where she served as a Research Associate in the Antitrust and Competition Policy group.

Jenni holds a B.A. from Stanford University in Economics. When she’s not in the office, Jenni loves to hike, speak Spanish and learn about new places and cultures – preferably all at the same time!

Alyssa joined Samasource in December 2010 after five years working for San Francisco non-profit, City of Dreams, as the Administrative Coordinator.

Alyssa is responsible for keeping the Sama office running smoothly as well as managing our CEO’s busy schedule. Alyssa holds a BA in Multicultural and Gender Studies from California State University, Chico.

A lover of food, the outdoors and animals, when Alyssa’s not taking care of the Sama staff, you can likely find her cooking up new vegan recipes, camping or volunteering at the Farm Sanctuary.

Nila joined the Samasource team after a 10 week associate program. She now works as a Field Operator based out of the Nairobi, Kenya office.

Prior to Samasource, Nila worked in microfinance as a Kiva Fellow in Uganda and Kenya. She also lived and worked in Zanzibar, Tanzania as the project coordinator on a Johns Hopkins University study on family planning. Nila graduated from the University of Florida in April 2010 with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in African Studies. She was a research assistant at UF’s Center for African Studies.

Nila speaks Tamil, Swahili, and conversational Spanish. She loves to travel, and most recently was lucky enough to go gorilla tracking in the Rwandan rainforest and play with lemurs in Madagascar!

Seamus is responsible for the accounting and finance functions at Samasource.

Prior to joining Samasource, Seamus had worked as a Controller at HopeLab Foundation. He has worked in Finance at many large companies in the Bay Area including Visa, The Gap, and The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Seamus has a BA in Economics and is currently completing his Executive MBA thesis from San Francisco State University.