Ailea Sneller

Ailea Sneller combines the business savvy of an entrepreneur, the creativity of a writer, and the leadership instincts of an executive in the service of the global community. A self-proclaimed "proposal geek," Ailea is passionate about the art and science of designing beautiful programs and winning transformative new business. As a business development and project management professional, she has ten years of experience in US Government contracting and international development, providing oversight of portfolios valued at up to $44 million. Ailea is known for effective management of time, people, and resources to turn big ideas into powerful results. She can apply her boundless positive energy to build you a leading-edge business development practice, run your high-stakes programs with efficiency and aplomb, and help nurture a culture of innovation among your best and brightest teams. As a leader of complex projects and winning proposals in countries around the world, her work covers a spectrum of technical areas in democracy and governance, youth engagement, organizational capacity building, and ICT for development. Ailea is a community-oriented team player who takes pride in mentoring and motivating her teams with an approachable and optimistic management style. When you work with Ailea, quality is key, pragmatism prevails, and fun is mandatory. When she's not executing killer business development strategies or saving the world one grassroots NGO at a time, Ailea can be found creating and playing games - both tabletop and digital, hiking and biking around the mid-Atlantic region, and chasing her two small, adorable children to the nearest playground.