Board of Directors

Yemisi Ransome-Kuti 

Ms. Yemisi Ransome Kuti is the founder and recently retired chairwoman of the Nigerian Network of Non-Governmental Organizations (NNNGO), the first organization of its kind in Nigeria to bring together civil society organizations. NNNGO has worked since its formation in 1992 to affect a harmonized agenda for third sector development and its influence in the national framework. In the early 1990s, Ms. Ransome-Kuti established ’Girl Watch,’ an organization aimed at educating young Nigerian girls from poor backgrounds. In 2006, she was appointed a Civil Society advisor to the World Bank. Ms Ransome-Kuti is also a leader in the charge for Nigeria to meet its Millennium Development Goals and to eradicate poverty.

Lily Rubin

Lily works at the Corporate Executive Board as an Associate Director for Corporate Strategy and Global Development. In the past she served as an Independent Consultant to the Board of Trustees at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and worked in the Social Sector Office with McKinsey & Co. for 4+ years, where she focused on economic development strategy. Lily developed proprietary knowledge, conducted rigorous research and analysis and served clients on topics ranging from low-carbon economic development planning and job growth in fragile states, to improving the effectiveness of development aid. Lily studied political economy and international economics as an undergraduate at both Tulane University and the University of Cambridge, she also holds a M.A. in International Commerce and Policy. Likes: International Travel, To Do Lists & Kung Fu Movies. Dislikes: Cucumbers.

Clara Chow

Clara Chow is the President and CEO of Generation Enterprise. Her inspiration for what would become Generation Enterprise came as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, when she met a Nigerian activist working with street youth in Lagos who wanted to build a microfinance bank targeting homeless, unemployed, and unemployed youth. Her moment of obligation came when she realized that traditional microfinance was not enough to get these youth off the streets; they had access to cash through informal jobs and criminal activity, but needed a safe place and structured way to develop skills, change their mindsets, and build sustainable businesses that would create jobs for themselves and other "unemployable" youth in their communities. Borrowing and remixing ideas from her Wharton and StartingBloc classes, experience as a Toronto Youth Cabinet and United Way student executive, and McKinsey consulting projects, Clara developed a model for investing in youth with no fixed address, no work expereince, no guarantors, and no collateral. Clara continues to lead GEN's international management team from the Stanford campus in sunny Palo Alto, where she is pursuing an MBA. Previously, she served as senior manager at Hearst Innovation, a project manager at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania and Sciences Po Paris's Programme International. Clara has held fellowships at the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, the Institute for International Public Policy, and the Humanity In Action human rights program in Amsterdam, and served as a board member of the Canadian International Peace Project, a nonprofit expert advisor of Catchafire, and a team member of the educational startup Univercities.

Orin Hasson

Orin Hasson is a Program Officer, Access & Markets, Agricultural Development, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He manages grants related to agricultural markets and commercialization of new products for smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia. He also oversees team priority projects for the Deputy Director of Access & Markets. In the three years prior to joining the agriculture team Orin worked with Geoff Lamb on the Policy and Government affairs team focused on innovative finance and development economics. Before coming to the foundation Orin spent a brief stint at the Public Sector Infrastructure unit at Goldman Sachs. Earlier he worked for a year in Afghanistan helping implement a large cash-for-work irrigation program in the East of the country and analyzing the financial needs of Afghan small enterprises nationally. Orin has also worked in Turkey and has designed, implemented and evaluated international development projects for USAID, the World Bank, DfID, the ADB and the EBRD. Orin holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from the Department of War at King’s College London and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Muyi Aina

Muyi Aina, MD MPH PhD leads the development and management of Solina Health’s global portfolio of projects and partnerships. He is a seasoned management consultant and public health professional with several years experience in healthcare, management consulting and international health. His client work covers health systems broadly, including public and private health systems in developed and developing countries, insurers, providers, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, as well as global health institutions.

Prior to founding Solina Health, Dr. Aina was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, a leading global management consulting firm. Prior to joining McKinsey, Dr. Aina worked with University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he conducted international health and clinical research and helped set up and implement AIDSRelief, a multi-country antiretroviral treatment program funded by PEPFAR.

Dr. Aina received his medical degree from University of Ilorin in Nigeria, and holds an MPH in International Health from Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition, Dr. Aina earned a certificate in vaccine science and policy from Johns Hopkins.

Kevin O’Donohue

Kevin O’Donohue joined BC Partners, a leading European buyout firm, in January 1991 to establish the New York office for the purpose of managing investor relations. He served as a Managing Partner responsible for Investor Relations, and he was also a member of the firm’s investment committee. His other experience includes investment banking with Merrill Lynch in the US, consulting with McKinsey in Hamburg, and brand management with Jacobs Suchard in Bremen. He has an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley. Kevin retired in December 2009, and is currently facilitating academic research in the PE industry, specifically on performance data with an emphasis on sources of value creation; alignment of economic interests in partnership agreements; and effective governance mechanisms, particularly the role of LPAC..