Eyk Van Otterloo
Chairman

Richard Dreiman
President and CEO

Eric Howell
Board Member

John Owens
Board Member

Susanna Mudge
Board Member

Ashraf W. Rizk
Board Member

Martha Verrill Schlager
Board Member

Barbara Teele
Board Member

Rose-Marie Van Otterloo
Board Member

Mr. Van Otterloo is a private investor and a founding member of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Company, an investment management company in Boston. He also supports local and international organizations in education, medicine, and the arts through his service on the boards of the YMCA, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Science Museum, and the United World Colleges. Before GMO’s founding in 1977, he managed investments at Phoenix Mutual Life Investment Company and Keystone Custodian Funds. Mr. Van Otterloo studied economics at Amsterdam Municipal University (Netherlands) and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. A member of the GMO Board and of the Chemonics Board since 1999, he became the majority shareholder for Chemonics in 2006.

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Richard Dreiman, President and CEO

Mr. Dreiman became Chemonics' President and Chief Executive Officer on April 1, 2006. He joined Chemonics in 1992 to manage an eight-year enterprise development project in Morocco. Prior to his promotion in June 2005 to executive vice president, Mr. Dreiman served as Senior Vice President for the firm's Europe and Eurasia division. He also supervised one of the firm's most successful projects — the $78 million Jordan AMIR Program. Before joining Chemonics, Mr. Dreiman managed a large market-development program in Africa involving business and private sector development, investment and export promotion, and small- and micro-enterprise promotion. He also has been a reporter and editor for a major French science magazine based in Paris.

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Eric Howell, Board Member

As chief financial officer, Mr. Howell is responsible for corporate financial planning and management. He joined Chemonics in 2005 as a director in the Europe and Eurasia region, overseeing projects in Kosovo, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Prior to working for Chemonics, Mr. Howell served as chief of party for a land privatization project in Ukraine and a privatization project in Belarus, and worked as an investment banker for Salomon Smith Barney in New York and Hong Kong.

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John Owens, Board Member

Mr. Owens has served as chief of party for the Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) project in the Philippines since 2001. A lawyer with more than 21 years of experience in microfinance, he has also worked in Jamaica, the eastern Caribbean, Bolivia, and Peru. His areas of expertise include the planning, designing, and implementation of microfinance services. Over the years, he has managed several USAID projects and was recently appointed to the International Advisory Board of Mobile Money Transfer.

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Susanna Mudge, Board Member

Since joining the firm in 1992, Ms. Mudge has focused on strategic private sector development and sustainable natural resource management. After seven years of service as senior vice president to the firm’s Latin America and Caribbean Division, she was promoted to executive vice president in June 2005. Since January 2009, she has served concurrently as the senior vice president of the firm’s Asia division. Ms. Mudge sees quality project management as "inextricably linked to business success because that is what differentiates us and makes us competitive." Raised in Latin America, she began her career as a regional development and tourism specialist for the Organization of American States, then consulted on marketing and investment projects in Latin America and elsewhere.

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Ashraf W. Rizk, Board Member

Mr. Rizk was Chemonics' President and CEO April 2002 to April 2006. Before this, he was the firm's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he had held since 1990. A Chemonics employee since 1982, Mr. Rizk has led the firm's activities in the Middle East and Asia and managed Egypt Local Development II, the largest decentralization development project in the world at the time. Before joining Chemonics, Mr. Rizk was senior auditor for an Egyptian accounting firm and oversaw CARE programs in Egypt.

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Martha Verrill Schlager, Board Member

Ms. Schlager runs her own executive search and consulting firm, MVSA, LLC., based in Washington, D.C. She conducts senior level executive searches for leading colleges and universities and non-profit organizations around the country and internationally. Ms. Schlager previously held senior positions at A.T. Kearney and Korn/Ferry International. She brings an outside perspective to the board and previously served as chair of The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, U.S. Ms. Schlager is currently chair of community service at the National Presbyterian School and on the board of Georgetown University Hospital’s Department of Pediatrics.

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Barbara Teele, Board Member

Barbara Teele was married to the late Thurston F. Teele, Chemonics' founder, and has been with the company for 27 years. An educator by profession, her experience also includes working for one of the national political parties and serving as director of a public affairs program for the American College of Nuclear Physicians. Over the last 15 years, she traveled to many countries as a representative of Chemonics and hosted many social events for visiting international dignitaries in the United States.

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Rose-Marie Van Otterloo, Board Member

Rose-Marie Van Otterloo is an investor and a philanthropist. Trained as a social worker, she currently serves as president of the Van Otterloo Family Foundation, which she and her husband, Eyk, founded in 1997 to support community, education, and arts groups, particularly those that help urban, disadvantaged, or developmentally disabled youth. Mrs. Van Otterloo serves as a senior associate at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is vice president of the board of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She is also on the board of the Holderness School in New Hampshire and the Guadalupe Center in Florida. She joined Chemonics’ board of directors in 2008.

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