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Ronda Pierce

Ronda pierce I am an IT Release Manager for IQVIA, a human data science and Clinical Research Organization, in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. I have a MSc in Information and Knowledge Strategy from Columbia University. My Sister Cities of Durham, North Carolina-Arusha, Tanzania Committee membership started in 2012. I attended my first Arusha Committee meeting and was asked to lead a Cyber Exchange between our local high school in Durham and a secondary school in Arusha. The Cyber Exchange project ran successfully between 2012 to 2016. I coordinated with the Durham Water Treatment and Water Soil departments to provide student programming ...

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Jim Donovan

jim donovanEntrepreneurial CEO and Global Business Leader in Sustainability and Impact Investment; Strategic advisor to international organizations, businesses and governments on Public Private Partnerships, Sustainability, Environmental Social and Governance and Assurance. In the 1990s, he worked for Lehman Brothers and Daiwa Securities, until the founding of  ADEC Innovations in 1996. From its establishment, the company has grown into a global enterprise with 18 operating companies, 4,100 employees and presence in 16 countries across 6 continents. Today, ADEC Innovations is one of the leading players in ESG assurance, promoting sustainable ...

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Stephen T. “Tim” Quigley, Jr.

Stephen T. “Tim” Quigley, Jr. has served in a variety of senior executive positions in private industry, NGO corporations, the federal government and international organizations over the past fifty years. He has extensive experience in business development, strategic planning, international relations as well as project and organizational leadership and management. In the past 20 years, Mr. Quigley Chairman/CEO, NPG Productions, Inc., has previously been Chairman/CEO, Azores TV and PIN TV Holding Group, President/CEO, Silicon Valley Defense/Space Consortium, Managing Director/CEO, Silicon Valley Global Trading Center, Executive Director, Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley and Program Director, Green Challenge California. A thirty one year career naval officer, aviator and veteran, Mr. Quigley was the Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station Moffett Field, one of the nation’s 10 major high technology federal and space agency installations which is located in Silicon Valley. His previous senior Department of Defense positions included serving as: Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Department of the Navy, responsible for developing national service strategies from defense industrial conversion and military base closure issues, and; as Executive Assistant to the Commander in Chief, NATO Southern Forces Europe and Commander in Chief, US Naval Forces Europe. Mr. Quigley is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a former Course President (1991-92) at the NATO Defense College. He has been awarded numerous distinguished community service and military decorations. Tim currently serves on a number of business, civic and NGO boards of directors.

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