Staff and Management Team

Phone number: 1-866-481-3696
Mark Abbott Director of People	markabbott@ewb.ca ext. 236
Ward Alsop Fundraising & Communications Manager	wardalsop@ewb.ca ext. 239
Eli Angen Program Leader, Corporate and Professional Engagement	eliangen@ewb.ca ext. 242
Kyle Baptista Creative Director	kylebaptista@ewb.ca ext. 241
Clement Bourgogne 2012 National Conference Chair	clementbourgogne@ewb.ca
Megan Campbell Co-Director, Southern Africa Water and Sanitation	megancampbell@ewb.ca
Catherine Denis Manager, Junior Fellow Program	catherinedenis@ewb.ca
Sarah Flanagan Office Administrator	sarahflanagan@ewb.ca ext. 240
Ian Froude Advocacy Program Co-Leader	ianfroude@ewb.ca ext. 238
Ashley Good Venture Leader, AdmittingFailure.com	ashleygood@ewb.ca
Sarah Grant Co-Director, African Programs	sarahgrant@ewb.ca
Ashley Hardill Finance Manager	ashleyhardill@ewb.ca ext. 223
James Haga Advocacy Program Co-Leader	jameshaga@ewb.ca
Anna Hopkins Director, Chapter Development	annahopkins@ewb.ca ext. 246
Mike Kang Co-Director, Malawi Water and Sanitation	mikekang@ewb.ca
Francis Kung Director, Technology/IT	franciskung@ewb.ca ext. 231
Genevieve MacIntyre Executive Assistant	genevievemacintyre@ewb.ca ext. 228
Boris Martin Co-Director, African Programs	borismartin@ewb.ca
Wayne Miranda Leader, Rural Agriculture Ghana	waynemiranda@ewb.ca
George Roter CEO	georgeroter@ewb.ca ext. 226

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Mark Abbott | Director of People

Mark Abbott graduated from mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia and then spent fourteen years working his way up from junior mechanical engineer to mechanical manager and finally Director of Marketing. Along the way he became a registered professional engineer in BC and Alberta, completed an MBA and obtained his CMA and PMP designations.

Mark initially joined the Vancouver Professional Chapter of EWB on a volunteer basis in 2007 and steadily increased his involvement, focusing on workplace engagement and later helping to progress EWB's fair trade work by becoming one of the founding members of a new sister organization called Fair Trade Vancouver. During the fall of 2010, Mark completed a Professional Fellowship with EWB's Rural Agriculture team in Ghana. He returned to his consulting job after the placement for a few months before deciding to take the leap and join EWB fulltime as the Director of People.

Ward Alsop | Fundraising & Communications Manager

Ward brings more than a decade of private sector experience to EWB, with specialization in advertising, marketing, branding and communications. He's worked with multinational organizations, national and regional organizations in the professional services, financial services, consulting and consumer packaged goods industries and non-profit sectors. Ward elected to refocus his career on more meaningful work after living, and working in Cape Town for two years.

Ward has joined EWB as the fundraising and communications manager, driving strategy and execution on various campaigns to raise funds and introduce EWB to new audiences.

Eli Angen | Program Leader, Corporate and Professional Engagement

Eli first got involved with EWB when a friend volunteered him to be VP Events at the University of Calgary chapter in 2003. Since that fateful fall he has been a chapter president, a volunteer in Tanzania and Zambia in 2005, Fundraising Director for the 2007 national conference, and Junior Fellow Support Staff for Southern Africa in 2008. Interspersed amongst his various EWB roles, he was a project manager at a small consulting company and a large pipeline company in Alberta.

Eli has now rejoined EWB as the program leader for corporate and professional engagement. In this role he is responsible for strengthening and building EWB's corporate engagement and fundraising, and supporting and empowering EWB's city networks and professional community.

Kyle Baptista | Creative Director

Kyle is someone whose passion for development is contagious. He first became involved in EWB during his third year at the University of Windsor as one of the founding members of the school's EWB chapter. He quickly became a leader within the chapter, deploying his energy and media skills to attract new members. In 2006, he was the chapter's first Junior Fellow, a role that sent him to Ghana to contribute to the micro-enterprise sector in the country's impoverished Northern Region. Upon his return he took on the role of chapter president and dedicated himself to connecting chapter members to his experiences overseas. After his term as chapter president, Kyle decided he wasn't quite done with EWB, and began working with the communications portfolio in the summer of 2007, designing national outreach materials as a volunteer. He joined the national office as a communications intern in the fall, and joined EWB's staff in January 2008 as a Communications Coordinator. In January 2008, Kyle was named an EWB Volunteer of the Year.

Kyle now spends his time as the Creative Director at the EWB office, creating the look and feel of all our communications, fundraising, and outreach campaigns, and providing support to design and fundraising throughout the organization.

Clement Bourgogne | 2012 National Conference Chair

Clement first got involved with EWB during his first year at the University of Ottawa. In 2006, Clement took part in the Junior Fellowship program and spent his summer working in Mali in collaboration with the Multi-functional Platform program. Upon his return, he took the lead as chapter president for two consecutive years, connecting learning and development knowledge for students at the University of Ottawa.

Clement now works in consulting engineering, specializing in energy efficiency and Green Buildings. During his short time away from EWB, he has organized several major professional conferences for various organizations. Clement is also involved with Professional Engineers Ontario as an executive of the Ottawa chapter, with the Ottawa chapter of Canada's Green Building Council and is also a devoted volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club.

He brings back his professional experience and passion for development to EWB as volunteer chair for the 2012 National Conference.

Megan Campbell | Co-Director, Southern Africa Water and Sanitation

Megan first became involved in Engineers Without Borders working as one of EWB's first employees, an administrative intern role she took with the organization while still in high school. After a few years she became involved with the University of Waterloo chapter while studying Systems Design Engineering. In 2006, Campbell travelled to the Philippines as a SCALA Junior Fellow, working to improve computer literacy among disadvantaged youth. For the past two yeras, she's worked with EWB in Malawi on monitoring and evaluation of water projects, and now she leads the water point functionality team in Southern Africa. In January 2009, Megan was named an EWB Volunteer of the Year.

Catherine Denis | Manager, Junior Fellow Program

Catherine has been involved with EWB for over five years, beginning when she was a systems design-engineering student at the University of Waterloo. After going overseas with EWB as a short-term volunteer in 2006, she returned more inspired than ever to share EWB's innovative approach to poverty alleviation in Africa. Cat spent this past year as a long-term volunteer in Burkina Faso, and has now returned to take on the role of Junior Fellowship Program Manager.

In this role, Cat is working with leaders from our chapters across the country, helping to prepare them for the four months they will spend in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi or Zambia.

Sarah Flanagan | Office Administrator

Sarah Flanagan a crucial part of the administrative team. She works in a variety of different areas of administration within the national office. Some of her responsibilities include overseas sending logistics, logistical support for returning volunteers, management of office facilities and supporting the rest of the national office team with the logistics of various projects. Sarah comes to EWB with a very diverse background. She has worked with children (big and small), acted in plays, has a typing speed of 60 words per minute, has gritted her teeth working retail, and most recently, she worked at the Ministry of Education.

Ian Froude | Co-Director, Advocacy

Ian started his involvement with EWB in 2005 when he joined the new chapter at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Throughout his involvement Ian has been in a variety of roles starting with VP Member Education and moving on to be VP Communications, a Junior Fellow (Ghana) in 2006, a Chapter President, and finally in 2009-2010 one of the co-chairs for the EWB national conference. In 2008 he interned at the National Office building resources for member learning, and contributing to the Junior Fellowship Program through volunteer learning facilitation and in evaluation of the program.

Ian graduated in 2010 from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering. In his role, Ian works to support our university chapters across the country, manage the team running EWB's youth engagement programming, and support fundraising representatives across the country. In the other half of Ian's role he works with EWBs advocacy team working on engagement of MPs, citizens, and the media.

Ashley Good | Venture Leader, AdmittingFailure.com

Ashley launched AdmittingFailure.com in January 2011. Since then she has driven the project forward as Managing Director. The site is part of the growing movement to address the lack of transparency in international development and focuses specifically on changing the perception of failure from something negative to something that is fundamental to an effective organizational learning culture where innovation is fostered and embraced. Her work is centered around helping sector leaders "fail forward", and understand how to use failure to increase the effectiveness of aid.

Before launching AdmittingFailure.com, Ashley worked for a year in Cairo at CEDARE, the Coordinating Centre for the United Nations Environment Programme, two years as an environmental and management systems consultant in Vancouver with Environmental Resources Management, and a year in Northern Ghana on the Engineers Without Borders agribusiness team. She also acted as Director of Content and Communications for the 2011 Engineers Without Borders National Conference.

She has a BSc. in Environmental Science from the University of British Columbia.

Sarah Grant | Co-Director, African Programs

Sarah first joined EWB at University of Saskatchewan where she received a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After graduating in 2004, Sarah chose to go work with EWB in the Philippines where she spent two years. She returned to Canada for one year before coming back to EWB, this time to work in Ghana, in West Africa. There, Sarah was responsible for leading our Agriculture team, who was working to make Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture top in its class.

Now Sarah is working out of the Toronto National Office, where she is co-Director of EWB's Agriculture Programs. She works on EWB's strategic direction in Africa, as well as working directly with the leaders of each of our teams to help frame what these programs will look like in five years. Sarah loves working beside so many wonderful leaders, and combining their talents and energy to accomplish great things.

James Haga | Co-Director, Advocacy

As Director of Advocacy at EWB, James Haga is focused on working with members across the country to improve Canada's international development policy. James's key responsibilities include coordinating our political engagement activities, raising awareness in the public about our policies towards developing countries and advancing EWB policy recommendations.

Having spent much of his youth abroad, James has developed a deep and lasting commitment to internationalism and human development. In 2006-2007, he worked for an educational development NGO in Kenya. Following his return, James discovered EWB and hasn't been able to shake it yet! During the summer of 2008, James interned at the EWB national office, working on a Fair Trade strategy.

James is also passionate about local poverty issues - having worked with an addictions and mental health agency in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for 5 years. In 2009, James graduated from Simon Fraser University with a degree in International Studies.

Ashley Hardill | Manager, Finance

Ashley's previous experience with not-for-profit organizations and her interest in development work has guided her to EWB. She holds a CA designation and a Bachelor of Economics and Accounting from Wilfrid Laurier University (2005). Her previous work and volunteering experience was specialized in auditing and financial management of not-for-profit organizations. Ashley is passionate about community development and has experience working within Vancouver's local downtown eastside community.

Ashley holds the role of Manager of Finance and works with the operations team in providing support for EWB's Canadian and African programs. Her responsibilities include providing financial support to both the National Office and to chapters across the country.

Anna Hopkins | Director, Chapter Development

Anna became involved with Engineers Without Borders at the University of Alberta in 2006. While she had a friend in engineering that had been persuading her for a few months, the real reason for attending her first EWB meeting was that she had joined another globally-minded student group that wanted to emulate EWB's activities and approach, and sent her there as a mole. After attending two meetings, she realized that it made no sense to try to build a student group to do all the same things EWB was already doing well, and jumped head first into the chapter and the Calgary conference.

Anna graduated from the U of A in 2009 with a Political Science degree, and worked in Ottawa as a Parliamentary Intern for a year after a short stint as a Social Change Fellow with EWB. Upon completing the internship, she decided to take on the role of Co-Director of Chapter Development and Advocacy. Anna works closely with chapter leaders to help them achieve their ambitions and support their work, while contributing to our advocacy campaigns and strategy - which helps keep her political spark alive.

Mike Kang | Co-Director, Malawi Water and Sanitation

Mike has been involved with EWB since 2006. He has volunteered extensively, helping to organize the Bridging the Gap conference in Vancouver, as well as taking on the role of Chapter President. He graduated from UBC with a degree in Engineering Physics and soon after was headed to Malawi as one of our African Programs Staff.

Mike is Co-Director of EWB's Water and Sanitation Team in Malawi. Here, EWB is working with development organizations and local government partners to improve access to clean water for some of Malawi’s most rural communities.

Based in the capital city of Lilongwe, Mike is leading the BILD program (Building Institutional Leadership in Districts) which focuses on improving the technical and management capacities of the local government. This EWB-developed program works directly with local leaders and institutions, building their management capacity and advocacy skills, as well as their overarching organisational systems.

Francis Kung | Director of Technology/IT

Francis has shown an incredible amount of drive and commitment to EWB since 2003, when he first became involved at the University of Toronto. He held various roles at the chapter, running the School Outreach Program, as VP Operations, co-President, and as a mentor to later Executive teams. In 2005 he was an intern at the National Office, helping develop many of EWB's IT systems, and continued as a volunteer on the IT team after the summer. In 2006 he was selected as a EWB volunteer of the year.

Francis graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in electrical and computer engineering, specializing in both computer software and electrical power systems (an eclectic mix...!). As part of his studies he did a 16-month co-op term with Red Hat Canada, working on the open-source Java project. Since June 2008, Francis has been the Director of Technology at EWB. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the development, maintenance, and support of EWB's IT and online systems.

Genevieve MacIntyre | Executive Assistant

Genevieve was first drawn to the bright orange EWB booth at the University of Windsor, while studying English Language and Literature. She held several positions with the University of Windsor Chapter such as VP Communications, VP Education, and Chapter President. Genevieve's interest in EWB stemmed outside the school-year and she was an intern at the National Office in Summer 2006, working in various roles and coordinating a large-scale outreach event on the streets of Toronto.

Genevieve is George Roter's Executive Assistant. She keeps him organized and on top of their game. Genevieve's knack for organization, penchant for writing, along with her love of grammar and spelling, increases George's effectiveness making sure he has all the details.

When Genevieve isn't minding the master schedule, this bubbly personality is around the office practicing her French or asking others what they need help with.

Boris Martin | Co-Director, African Programs

Boris' focus is on Market Facilitation Organizations and Farmer Based Organizations Capacity Development. He manages programs in Burkina Faso and Zambia.

Boris holds a PhD degree in Engineering from McMaster University earned between 2002 and 2007. During his studies he served as president of the EWB McMaster chapter, and he founded and chaired the first Global Citizenship Conference at McMaster, which has mobilized close to 400 students and community members every year since.

Wayne Miranda | Leader, Rural Agriculture Ghana

Wayne has been a member of EWB since January 2005, contributing consistently to the University of Waterloo chapter. In 2007 Wayne arrived home from his short-term volunteer placement with Engineers Without Borders and already he was eager to return to Africa.

"I knew I wanted to move back to Africa after leaving the first time and feeling like I had unfinished business," Wayne says. "There was so much work to be done, and I needed to find a way to return and contribute."

After graduating from Waterloo with a degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Wayne did just that. Wayne has now been in Ghana for well over two years, and has recently taken on the role of Team Lead for Ghana's Rural Agriculture team.

George Roter | CEO

George co-founded Engineers Without Borders (EWB) as a movement of engineers driven to create meaningful and lasting opportunities for Africans by tackling the root causes of why poverty persists.

EWB focuses on enabling bottom-up innovation in African organizations, which allows these institutions to prototype, pilot and scale impactful programs. EWB has sent over 500 staff and volunteers to sub-Saharan African to work on agriculture, rural infrastructure and water and sanitation programs. EWB's 50,000 members and 3,00 active volunteers across the country work to promote the idea that lasting change in Africa will stem not from charity, but from helping foster opportunity.

Among other awards, George has been awarded the Young Leaders Award from the Public Policy Forum (2007), an Action Canada Fellowship (2004) on public policy, in addition to being named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 (2005).

George holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo (1999) and a Bachelor of Applied Studies (Honorary) from Seneca College (2009).