Team Category: Board of Directors

Yacine Djibo founded Speak Up Africa in 2011 to discover and implement effective, sustainable solutions to the most challenging problems facing the African people. Focusing on strategic communications, policy, and advocacy, Speak Up Africa is dedicated to collaborating with African leaders and citizens to take on issues such as malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and sanitation

Moz Siddiqui joined the Nexleaf Advisory Board in April of 2023. Moz has experience in strategic partnerships and specializes in innovation at the forefront of global health and development, adapting disruptive innovations such as drones, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain to accelerate progress against UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Rupesh currently leads product management for Granular, the software arm of Corteva Agriscience, a leading agricultural company. Rupesh has 20+ years of product experience striving to solve important customer problems by developing deep customer empathy and working closely with design, engineering and data science to design and build innovative software and data products for end users. Previously, Rupesh held leadership

Jim is a serial tech and social entrepreneur who has proven how technology can change entire fields in the social sector. He was the founder and CEO of Benetech for nearly 30 years, delivering large-scale change in partnership with hundreds of organizations as part of social enterprises addressing education, disability, human rights, and the environment.

Emily Bancroft is a global leader in systems change, dedicated to transforming health care delivery to reach everyone. As CEO and President of VillageReach, she works with a global leadership team to guide VillageReach’s programming and partnerships to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care.  Emily is recognized for her expertise in supply

Anish Aswani is a Managing Director at Florac and in late 2016 established Florac’s North American operations with offices in Los Angeles. Florac is an investment vehicle whose purpose is to exclusively invest the funds of the Meyer family (a branch of the Louis-Dreyfus family – historical shareholders of the Louis Dreyfus Group). Prior to