Senior Management

Raj Kumar

President

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As Co-Founder and President of Devex, Raj has been profiled in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Forbes, and the Washington Post , where Devex was called the Bloomberg of foreign aid. Beginning as a student project while he was doing graduate studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, today Devex is a social enterprise that operates the world’s most popular international development website ( www.devex.com ) and has offices in five countries and a global staff of 100. Raj and his colleagues at Devex are working to make foreign aid more efficient. Prior to Devex, he co-founded a successful internet start-up, SmartPortfolio.com, which was sold to TheStreet.com in 2000. Raj was also Principal and Political Director of Penn Schoen Berland, the political consulting firm. He was a strategist for campaigns in the U.S. and around the world, including presidential elections in Venezuela, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Israel, and Ukraine (where he conducted exit polling during the Orange Revolution). Raj worked for the White House as a member of the national advance team for President Clinton. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a speaker and writer on issues of global development and social entrepreneurship, and appears as a guest analyst in the media. Raj graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, speaks Spanish, and has worked, studied, and traveled in more than 50 countries. He spent part of his childhood in Kerala, India, where he first became interested in international development, and now lives in Washington, DC with his wife Maria Teresa Kumar.

Kami Dar

Senior Partner

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Devex Co-Founder and Senior Partner Kami Dar spearheads the development of industry-leading services for Devex, drawing from experience in development consulting and information technology. Kami began his career as a consultant with American Management Systems, where he worked on deployment and training for a large-scale procurement system used by the U.S. government. As an international consultant, he later specialized in implementing management solutions for development programs. In that capacity, Kami designed and implemented a cutting-edge management system for the AMIR program in Jordan, a $58 million development project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. His success in bringing efficiencies to this project led him to co-found Devex in order to create similar efficiencies across the industry. Kami was named Dean's Fellow by Harvard University's international development program and holds a bachelor’s in science, technology and international affairs from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He speaks Farsi and French and heads up the Devex office in Barcelona.

Jason McNaboe

Partner

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As part of the team that founded Devex, Jason was previously Vice President of Design and Development, responsible for the design of the organization's industry-leading online recruitment and business development products. He led the effort to establish Devex as a leading brand in international development and develop the organization's marketing and communications strategy -- today the Devex global network includes 500,000+ international development professionals and over 1,000 donors, companies, and NGOs. Jason has more than 13 years of marketing, communications and online business experience. He has built strategic partnerships, designed integrated marketing communications campaigns, and worked with a wide range of organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations Foundation, Society for International Development, and Harvard Kennedy School. Before Joining Devex, he was Senior Project Manager at New York Digital Design (NYD2), a strategic communications boutique serving Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofit organizations, and startup Internet companies. He has extensive experience in television production, having produced and directed a series of well-received political advertisements featured in The New York Times. He has also worked on a number of broadcast television productions for 20th Century Fox Television and Sony Pictures Television, including "The King of Queens." Jason holds a degree in communications from McGill University and has worked and traveled in more than 30 countries.

Alan Robbins

Partner

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Devex Partner Alan Robbins is responsible for expanding Devex membership and other services around the world. He works closely with donor agencies, NGOs and companies to ensure Devex is effectively aiding in their own international development missions.

Prior to helping start Devex, Alan was with International Business-Government Counsellors (IBC), where he was Deputy Director of the Washington International Business Council. In that position, he provided information and advisory services for major multi-national corporations designed to assist them in their international business. He was also Deputy Director of the Executive Council on Diplomacy, a non-profit organization designed to foster understanding between the US government and civil society and the foreign diplomatic community in Washington.

Alan holds an master's in International Affairs (International Economics) from The George Washington University and a bachelor's in Political Science and History from Rutgers University. He serves on the Board of Directors as Vice President, Grants and Contributions of the International Consortium of Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM).