Donald R. Mickelwait is Chairman and CEO of Experience International, Inc. He founded Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) and was its CEO for 30 years. Mr. Mickelwait is an agriculture sector economist who has had extensive experience designing projects for USAID. 20 of these have been funded for a total of more than $500 million. They have dealt with economic growth, agriculture and rural development, entrepreneur and enterprise development, and natural resource management. He provides management oversight to the ongoing USAID-funded EI contracts in Pakistan. Mr. Mickelwait has also been involved as investor and manager in private agribusiness projects in hydroponic herbs (eastern US), tilapia hatchery and grow out (Thailand), halyconia flowers (Hainan, China), wholesale and retail high-end coffee (Indonesia), bamboo/wicker furniture (Indonesia and eastern US), bed and breakfast inns (California), hybrid maize seed production (Thailand), and agribusiness consulting companies (Asia). Mr Mickelwait holds advanced degrees in economics from the University of Oregon, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the George Washington University. He is based in Bangkok and travels extensively throughout Asia.

Geoffrey Quartermaine Bastin, Managing Director of Foodworks Company Ltd (Hong Kong), is a professional economist with 25 years’ experience in the agricultural sector, including commodity trade and agribusiness investments. He has worked in 34 countries, specializing in financial and economic analysis and the valuing of agricultural sector investments in relation to their costs. Mr. Bastin led a 15-month contract to design and implement a snack-food project in China for a major US company. He currently directs the feasibility study of buffalo-milk production units in Punjab, Pakistan, for a Qatari investment company. He was the senior economist on EI’s project design of a grain improvement project in Uzbekistan. He is the senior technical advisor to the Competitiveness Support Fund in Pakistan, under the auspices of the Ministry of Finance. In this position, he has conducted feasibility studies of fish exports from the port of Karachi, and of light industrial manufacturing, horticulture investments, and wheat production. Mr. Bastin holds an advanced degree in economics from Oxford University and is based in Bangkok.

Eugene (Tony) Babb is EI’s Founder-President. He lived in Asia for 14 years, residing in Afghanistan, Laos, Jordan, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Mr. Babb was a career officer with the FAO, and held senior staff positions with USAID. He led development teams in the Philippines, Pakistan, and Cambodia, and was Team Leader of EI’s Uzbekistan Grain Improvement project for the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Babb was a senior technical advisor to Iraq’s agricultural sector, designing and proving the efficiency of minimum tillage technologies for dryland wheat production in northern Iraq. He is currently the director of EI’s agriculture sector development component, an estimated $30 million part of the Livelihood Development Program for FATA (north) in western Pakistan. Mr. Babb holds degrees in agricultural husbandry and agricultural economics from California Polytechnic State University, and an advanced degree in Development Economics from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

Henry C. Harmon is a food marketing and cold chain specialist with long-term assignments supporting agricultural development in Grenada (Eastern Caribbean), Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, where he has lived for the past eight years. While with Winrock International, he designed a highly successful bank guarantee program in Indonesia that increased the funds available for private sector cold chain investments to preserve high-value exports—such as seafood and horticultural produce. He is the founder of Caswell’s Coffee in Indonesia, which has five outlets selling premium fresh-roasted coffees, and an active and growing wholesale business. Mr. Harmon designed private sector investments in Asia and the Middle East for Castle and Cooke Foods, and FMC. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Bali, Indonesia, and travels extensively in Asia. He will be available with EI beginning in 2009.

Robert W. Resseguie is a manager of agricultural development programs who has had USAID direct-hire experience in Vietnam, Laos, Zaire, Thailand, the Philippines, and Egypt. After retiring from USAID, he led teams as Chief of Party in Laos, Cambodia, Macedonia, and Afghanistan, and has accepted consultancy assignments in the Sudan, Grenada, and Kosovo. Mr. Resseguie provides agricultural development management services to EI’s Livelihood Development Program for FATA, and makes regularly scheduled visits to support the local implementation teams. Mr. Resseguie holds degrees in agricultural economics from Cornell University and the University of Vermont, and speaks Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and French. He lives in New York State.

Marcelo Eduardo Suarez is EI’s Information Technology specialist. He provides consulting services to the two ongoing EI projects in support of FATA development in Pakistan, supports the EI website and internet remote servers, and manages two remote and web-enabled servers holding monitoring and evaluation databases. Mr. Suarez designs software programs in Filemaker 9 professional, the off-the-shelf platform of choice for project M&E relational database systems. He is well versed in the use of Geographic Information Systems. Between 2003 and 2007 he was the IT Manager for the $105 million ARDI project in Iraq, supporting the main offices and five remote locations with the full range of wireless LAN/WAN and VSAT technologies. In the period 2000-2003, he served as systems administrator on DAI projects in Afghanistan, Bolivia, South Africa, Armenia, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru Ukraine, Ecuador, Lebanon, and Jordan. Mr. Suarez travels regularly to Asia from his home in Bolivia.

John M. Buck, a founder of Development Alternatives, Inc., joined EI as Director and Manager in 2003. He oversees the Bangkok office support to short-term consultancies and long-term implementation projects. Mr. Buck communicates regularly with staff members based overseas, and provides the written documentation that allows EI to obtain and manage its ongoing contracts. Mr. Buck holds a degree with high honors from the University Michigan and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Guillerma (Emma) Durst is EI’s financial manager, having come from many years’ employment with DAI. She has worked on the special accounting requirements of development projects in the Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, and the USA, with donors that have included USAID, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and various United Nations agencies, as well as independent NGOs. She has a degree in Business Administration in Accounting, is a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines, and lives in Bangkok