Our Team

Africa Bridge’s US office is located in Oregon. Our Tanzania field office is located in Tukuyu, a small village in the Rungwe District. Meet our dedicated staff and board members below:

Tanzania Staff

Empowerment Facilitators

U.S. Staff

Board of Directors

• Barry Childs, Board Chair /Founder of Africa Bridge, Retired, Abbott Laboratories
• James Lindsay, Vice Chair /Sustainable Investment Professional
• Don Schmidt, Treasurer /Retired Partner, Hoffman, Stewart & Schmidt CPAs
• Mark Whiteley, Secretary /Customer Advisor at the Financial Ombudsman Service
• Jenny Bloom /Retired High School Counselor M.P.A./M.Ed
• Frank Brennick Jr. /Lawyer, Elevance Health
• Michela Calabrese /Sales Executive Tradin Organic
• Samuel Marete /Economist, Gatsby Africa
• Baraka Mtunga /Techpreneur software engineering, UhuruOne 
• Lwitico Mwalukumba /Medical Doctor in Tanzania, Masoko Village MVC
• Shelby Nelson /Retired Chief Technology Officer, Mosaic Microsystems LLC
• Andrew Papandreadis /Founder, Entrepreneur, Volunteer, Pantheon Advisors LLC
• Daniel Nilsson Sjolander /Venture Capital Investor, New System Ventures
• Ben Pettigrew, Board member Emeritus, Past Board Chair/ Co-Founder & COO/CFO SaludNow
• Ashish Shah /Consultant Shah Patel & Company / Suntrek Investments Limited
• Andrew Temu /Consultant, Development Economics, Diligent Consulting LTD

Africa Bridge Tanzania Board

• Alfred Mwakasangula | Retired Ward Councilor for Kisondela Ward, Region Government, Agriculture, Farming 
• Gerald Mgaya | Entrepreneur, Agriculture Business 
• Baraka Mtunga | Techpreneur software engineering, UhuruOne 
• Kenneth Lema | Medical Doctor Government and Private, TZ
• Lwitiko Mwalukumba | Medical Doctor in TZ; Masoko Village MVC
• Max Clary | Founder Organic Route NGO in Uganda
• Kelvin Mosha | TZ Lawyer
• Angel Mwakasangula | Student in Tanzania