Yasmin Saadat joined SEAF's Board of Directors in 2019, bringing more than three decades of experience in development economics and investing in emerging markets. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity at Southern Methodist University where she...
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Agnes Dasewicz joined the SEAF board in 2018. She has more than 20 years of experience in private equity and impact investment. Currently, as part of the inaugural Fellowship cohort at the Rockefeller Foundation, Agnes is working to scale up investment into underserved...
Bert van der Vaart is the Co-founder and CEO of SEAF, leading SEAF’s global operations, including fund launch efforts, and also serves as a member of SEAF’s Global Investment Committee. Bert co-founded SEAF in 1989, when it was known as the CARE Small Business Assistance...
Michael Levett serves as a trusted advisor to a variety of institutions and enterprises, creating and supporting policy-and-program initiatives often at the intersection of private enterprise and public and social sectors. He brings unique domestic and frontier market expertise in business, media, and non-profit domains...
Javed Hamid joined the Board of SEAF in 2013, and was elected Chairman in 2016. Currently serving as a Senior Advisor to the International Executive Service Corps, Javed spent the majority of his career at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group....
Pierre Ferrari has 35 years of business experience ranging from large consumer packaged goods organizations such as Coca-Cola (Senior VP, Coca-Cola USA) to smaller businesses. His career is best characterized as having successfully introduced a wide variety of products, marketing and financial approaches that have...
